Good morning, class.

Good morning, class. Class? Class!?

SHUDD-UP!!!!!

 

Thank you.

As you know your regular teacher Sister Rosetta Stone is on a small vacation. However she does send her love, and these fingerpaintings and dust cloths she's making.

I am your substitute teacher, Sister Mary Elephant.

Class, attention. Attention, class! Class?

SHUDD-UP!!!!!

Well, that's Cheech and Chong.

And by the way....Dave's not here.

 LOL - I got the stuff, open the door!

I loved Cheech & Chong on tape!

Shan

I have a question Shan, and this may not be the place to ask, so tell me to go elsewhere if need be.  In one of the lessons I think, perhaps somewhere else, someone said to 'make sure the camera was set at infinity'.  I realized I don't know what that means, at least I don't think I do.  I really learned about DOF in the first lesson, so what I have been doing is setting my f-stop to the highest # I could (within reason) and adjusting accordingly (SS & ISO) to get to "0" on meter.  I'm thinking I'm off base with that.  Is that worth a lesson or just a simple explanation?

Thanks,
Mary

 Hey Shan, here is a list that was posted previously. Some of these have already been covered.  

As part of the composition portion I'd like to see how to properly use angles for dramatic effect.

TheGirlNextDoor:

 

 

I see a couple missing that are frequent queries on the other sections of this forum:

 

Getting the exposure "right"...regardless of mode the shot is in, the camera (and sometimes the photographer are not foolproof).  In some conditions, any exposure "choice" results in sacrificing detail in some portion of the tone of the image...how to make the right call (dynamic range in the real world vs. what the camera can capture).

 

What is that hitogram thingy and how do I read it to know my next exposure will be dead on?  Is clipping highlight or shadow ever okay?

 

Ken, I would be happy to help on some of the above topics.  I would be useless at any discussions of portraiture, but the two above as well as several of the others would be fine.  Send me an e-mail if you would like a hand.

Great job on lesson 1!!!

Jim

 

Mary,

Quick Answer: Setting the [focus] on infinity means turning off auto focus and setting it for the farthest focal distance it has. Most lenses (SLRs, anyway) have markings that show how far away the subject is. At some point it will have an infinity symbol.

 I don't know if it is enough to do a tutorial on, what do you think?

Leigh -

Thanks for the list - I thought I had seen one!

I have a meeting in about 1/2 an hour, so I can't post the next one yet, but I will today!

Shan

I would like to have some more tricks up my sleeve for posing (like Becker's head shot stuff)...

 also I have a lot of trouble with color.  Everytime I post something on the critique page I am told that I need to do levels to adjust the color.  I do levels correction and I don't think it looks any better. 

I would eventually like a lesson on "So you've taken the picture...now what"  a step by step guideline on post processing. 

Oh something about white balance because that has been a problem with my pictures.  Really I just like having an assignment to shoot...without an assigment I always resort to shooting my pets and kids.

~neo

Well there are so many things that I want to learn more about.....I will just go with whatever you wanna teach me :-)

That said..... I need more pointers as to where to begin with the camera settings.... like what is the starting point for what kind of shots...and how to change those settings to get what result...kwim?

And post processing....wellllllllll................ since I don't have photoshop yet, most of the help is confusing me more....so I am open to all that as well.  Photoshop coming soon....maybe ..........   hehehehe

So, bring it on !!

and I am with neo........give me an assignment , that keeps me on task :-)

Looking foward to class!   Also, thank you very much for the link for the WB lens cap.  Toni

The Nerd Husband:

Quick Answer: Setting the [focus] on infinity means turning off auto focus and setting it for the farthest focal distance it has. Most lenses (SLRs, anyway) have markings that show how far away the subject is. At some point it will have an infinity symbol.

 I don't know if it is enough to do a tutorial on, what do you think?

Shan, I think you are right on  that (not lesson worthy of size), but i   do have a few questions I would like someone to help me understand about it, would it be too much of an imposition to PM you my questions  when they come up on this.  I feel so stupid about it.  Thanks for your time.

Mary

Shan, I'll be doing as much of the lessons as possible.  I'll probably be mia on portaiture stuff, but other than that...  Just wanted to say thanks for stepping up!

 Better watch out for officer Stedanko!

 Dave is back!

<lots of talking>

 Mr Stedenko is a narcotics officer.

<dead silence>

Very good class!

LOL

Officer Stedenko, you have a PM!

 My son has a CD with a rendition of the song from "Earache my eye". I laughed my butt off!

dah! dah! dah!,

dah! dah! dah!,

dah! dah!

Dave