Digital Photography and Photoshop

You will learn how to fully operate your digital camera and use the manual setting to get the correct exposure. The fundamentals in photography will be covered including understanding relationship between ISO, F-stops & shutter speeds to composition, depth of field to RAW vs jpeg quality settings.

We will compare different camera settings to understand best practice and look at how to deal with different light sources outdoors and indoors. Other areas covered will be composition and lenses, colour temperature and white balance, understanding light source ‘etc’.

In Adobe Photoshop the essentials of this complex but terrific editing software will be explained and simplified to gain the best results for your images. You will find out how to crop, change image size, save & print. We will explore how to change light & colour in both subtle and dramatic ways. We will cover how to select certain areas, collage and work in layers. Issues around the digital workflow, which includes colour calibration, printing & scanning, will also be discussed.