Digital Photography Techniques Synopsis
The digital photography course discusses the basic technology behind digital photographs; the features to be found in modern digital cameras; the cataloguing of digital images; and how to edit your photographs to correct common faults. It does NOT claim to teach the art of photography.
The course comprises:
- Introduction to Digital Photography
- The digital view of the world
- Image resolution and colour
- Image storage and compression
- Knowing and Choosing Your Camera
- Optics
- Focus and exposure
- Mode controls
- Flash settings
- ISO speeds
- Tips for Better Photography
- Organising photographs
- Loading from camera
- Tagging, albums and finding images
- Storing and backing up images
- Editing Your Photographs
- Rotating, cropping, recomposing and perspective correction
- Selection
- Layers, adjustment layers and blending
- Fixes - red eye removal, brightness contrast and colour, cosmetic corrections
- Merging images
- Printing and sharing
The program used for editing in this course is the free program Paint.net.
PhotoShop Refresher Synopsis
This is a revision course for members who have completed the Digital Photography Techniques course.
It comprises the same material as the previous course but omits the first three major topics.
Different example photographs, and some variation from the methods of the previous course extend the student's experience.