My experiences with photography class

I started off in landscape photography, and still do it, but circumstances have led me more into the portrait field.
You are talking about DoF. When shooting a person who is sharply in focus, but with a blurred background, that is a shallow DoF. The technique is known as bokeh.
Some models like that as they are the center of attraction.
Have you learned the rule of thirds?

 

RAW takes a lot of storage space but it keeps all the information. I keep my RAW images on a separate hard drive connected via USP. The move images to main drive for editing. Original is never touched so if I screw up an edit I can delete it and start over.

 

We don't use RAW.
We use lightroom classic. It's an adobe software product that is part of creative cloud suite that we use at uni.

 

Just learned the rule of thirds this week.

 

If you are using Lightroom, then you are using RAW as a file format.

 

Nah we are using jpg

 

It's what our teacher instructed us to use.

Will be doing some more stuff tomorrow in class.

 

strange. you have greater freedom to edit a RAW file than you do a JPEG.

 

We aren't using RAW because we aren't professional photographers. Just beginners.

 

Today's lesson was all about natural light, soft light and hard light, and reflectors

It was really interesting.

Some pics i managed to take were reasonably ok.
Some were just plain awful they came out too dark...

 

F stop isn’t shutter speed.
F stop is aperture opening size.
(Focal length/f=Aperture diameter)

it will influence shutter speed depending on selected priority mode. Modes A or S.

I think it is A gives you priority over Aperture (f/)
The camera does shutter speed.

S gives you priority over shutter speed (1/x)
The camera does aperture.

In both modes you can usually balance things out using ISO control.

Iso is basically noise in image
High iso (800+) really grainy
Low iso (100-400) silky smooth

depth of field.......
That’s a big one!
Depends on focal length/aperture and distance to target.
Generally speaking the closer you are to the subject, the shallower the depth of field.
Short focal length (10-35mm) have larger depths of field vs longer focal lengths.

see Cambridge in colour .com
I learnt a lot from this one site.

 

We use the words F stop to explain what aperture is
On my canon DSLR camera Aperture Priority is the F stop as it has the letter f in front of everything.
The lower the f stop the lighter the pic will be. The higher the f stop the darker the pic will be.

 

I said that because of this statement.
Which is misleading/incorrect.

F stop is not the shutter speed.

In aperture priority you select what depth of field you wish for the image (or conditions) and the camera automatically selects the shutter speed using its metering algorithm.
If the shutter speed is too slow for your desired setting, typically the iso is adjusted to get the shutter speed you wish for the image you would like to capture.

the f/stop is the aperture and is responsible for depth of field. (As well as light admission)
That’s correct. But not absolute.

somebody mentions the triangle above.
ISO/aperture/shutter. Probably the most important thing you will learn!

f/stop is usually described as fast and slow.
With f/2.8 being fast and f/8 being slow.
This is probably where people get confused with it relating to speed.

(sorry if it sounds bitchy!)
This really isn’t my intent!
It’s brief! It’s lunchtime!
I only get a short while!

photography is a great hobby/sport/skill
Xx

 

If memory serves me, each F-stop allows twice the light to enter the lens. For example, going from F11 to F8 doubles the light on the sensor. (MeAgain: Thanks for the images.) I read that 40 years ago, so it might not be correct.

 

My uni has paused classes for the time being due to the covid-19 virus running a muck around the globe.
So holidays are here from tomorrow onwards for about 3 weeks.

Took Rajah to the local doggy park and took some awesome pics there.
I will post a few of them up

 

40 year memory!

I struggle with yesterday......

 

Looking forward to seeing your photos.

 

I think with today's cameras, you can shoot much higher ISO than 800 before getting noise(grain). I can shoot ISO 3200 before noticing any noise.