What we talked about:<\/p>\n
Old cameras, different forms of cameras for different purposes. The modern digital camera. Single lenses reflex form to ground glass. Cameras also have electric images to present what the camera is looking at. Lots of functions and buttons to do different things.<\/p>\n
Photography club, meets on campus and just practices taking pictures. Derick is pretty cool and he took a lot of photos in a period of two years.<\/p>\n
How many megapixels do you need?
\nWeb for low res: .3 MP
\nNewspaper: 1.8MP
\nMost cameras end up around 20MP<\/p>\n
The light-sensing chips are pretty small. Lots of different forms of storage mediums and they are all very small. Use a lot of small memory cards so that if one breaks, you don’t lose all your images.<\/p>\n
Files formats\u00a0tif ( tag image file format )
\njpg ( joint pohoto experts group)
\nphg (portable network graphics)
\ngif (graphics interchange format)
\nRAW
\nDNG ( digital negative)
\nPDF ( portable document format)<\/p>\n
Most often we will work in jpeg and raw
\nFile naming format:
\nfirst
\nfirst_last
\nfirst_last_yymmdd
\nfirst_last_yymmdd_001<\/p>\n
DP & Storytelling naming\u00a0assignment
\nassignment_lastname
\nassignment_lastname_0X<\/p>\n
Metadata: automatic\u00a0date
\nfile size
\nshutter\/apperture\/ISO
\nlens and focal length
\nflash status
\nUser Meta Data
\nname
\ncopyright notice
\ncaption info<\/p>\n
File Compression \u00a0Lossless
\nTif, png, fig, bmp
\nSomething else
\njpeg and stuff
\nFile sizes are important<\/p>\n
Some cameras are getting very fast and have a lot of great features. Most are around 700 dollars. Having a lot of lenses is fun!\u00a0 For more information go to dpreview.com \u00a0Use the cameras different settings for the different situations you can be in.
\nThe screen on the camera usually shows you the different settings you have set up. The cameras have a bunch of cool buttons for doing interesting things. Basically play with the camera till you understand what everything does. The memory card is very sensitive. Use the cameras manual to get more specific information about the camera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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