Digital Photography Tutorials

Digital Photography Concepts and “In Camera” Settings        

           Understanding and Controlling Exposure

           The Zone System

           The Histogram

           Exposure and Digital Noise

           Tone Curves

           White Balance

           Sharpening

           JPEG vs RAW

           Bit Depth (8 bit vs 16 bit files)

           Color Space

 

 

 

 

 

Introduction

This section is composed of two parts.  Part I addresses concepts that you need to understand in order to get optimum results from your digital camera, and primarily covers the “in camera” portion of digital photography.  Part II is titled “From Camera to Print” and addresses concepts that you should understand in order to effectively “post process” your images, with emphasis on selecting the appropriate settings in your raw conversion software, and using Photoshop’s Unsharp Mask filter to prepare your images for display and printing.  Enjoy.

Digital Photography “From Camera to Print”      

Transferring the Image from the Camera

Camera Raw

Histogram

Color Space Selection

Bit Depth

Size

Resolution

White Balance

Exposure Adjustments

Advanced Tab

Basic Post-processing in Photoshop

Layers

Clone Tool

Image Size

Crop Tool

Advanced Photoshop Sharpening

Sharpening Theory  

Building and saving a Sharpening Action

Capture Sharpening

Creative Sharpening

Output Sharpening

Basic Printing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spirit of Photography

Keith and Rebecca Snell