The second ever meeting of the UNT digital photography class seemed to bring great strides in progress for instructor and students alike. Topics included a review of the previous class meeing's highlights and general outline, followed by a demonstration of the image capture, downloading images off cards and workflow that leads to a satisfactory image to begin the Photoshop processes.
Capture included:
- flash versus ambient light
- Camera auto white balance versus manual white balance
- shooting with flash on manual white balance
- shooting wtih ambient light on auto white balance
Downloading included:
- using a firewire card reader
- controlling files on desktop
- archiving raw files immediately
Manipilation & Correction included:
- opening images with camera raw software
- camera raw color correction
- camera raw exposure correction
- conversion from raw to jpeg
- discussion of raw / jpeg / tiff benefits of each
Manipulation & Correction of converted images:
- Adobe Photoshop CS used in class demonstration
- sizing images for different uses
- cropping
- using curves to add or reduce emphasis
- black & white conversion methods
- Quadtone conversion
- using distort > diffuse glow
Assignment to be completed on following week was for each student to size down and e mail the instructor jpeg image.
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