Photography for geeks
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Photography for geeks
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#2Love it!
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#3Pretty awesome overall, one improvement would be to shoot the model in the focal length shot face on to better illustrate the big nose, no ears (too wide) and pancake face (too tele) effects
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#4Adding examples makes it better than other sites I've seen. I will share this with friends. Thanks!
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#5If anyone wants to move beyond using the "auto" setting on their camera (or phone), I would recommend the book Understanding Exposure by Bryan Peterson, the first edition of which was published in 1990:
* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/142239.Understanding_Exp...
The principles involved haven't changed much in the intervening decades; the current fourth edition was publish in 2016.
If all you have is a phone you don't have to get new equipment: just perhaps a third-party 'camera app' that allows you manual control of aperture, shutter speed, ISO/sensitivity.
Once you know how each of these settings alter the resulting photo you can use them to alter the composition of photos, which is a whole other craft.
Edit: seems recent smartphones have little-to-no adjustable camera settings.
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#6This is very well done for a new-to-photography audience. Will be sharing around to people who say all their things look like snapshots, what's up with that.
Great use of examples, except for one: kid on bridge.
> At the same time, it must be said that color and tone can be what separates a mediocre photograph from a memorable one. To illustrate, let's look at the potential evolution of this vacation shot deliberately chosen for its mediocrity...
Then the dynamism is removed by 'correcting' the dutch angle to horizon, the surprisingly good color balance is skewed off, and the whole thing gets that circa mid-2000s HDR look from Flickr and Shutterfly and the like where every photo got tone-mapped.
Underwhelming of an end result, especially compared to the later color and tone examples (e.g. kitchen superhero).
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#7If anyone wants to move beyond using the "auto" setting on their camera (or phone), I would recommend the book Understanding Exposure by Bryan Peterson, the first edition of which was published in 1990: * https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/142239.Understanding_Exp... The principles involved haven't changed much in the intervening decades; the current fourth edition was publish in 2016. If all you have is a phone you…
I think when you break down all the variables there is really very little to play with bc no phones have variable apertures.
ISO is basically a linear gain that's done on the sensor. As long as you aren't blowing out your photo and loosing information, it basically makes not difference if you do it in sensor or later while editing
So the only variable left is the shutter speed - which is basically directly dictated by the amount of light you have. You try to get as much light as you can without blowing anything out. This is how you get the most information. You can decrease it to get faster shots with less blur, at the cost of more noise
So it all boils down to basically one "slider"/variable between blur and noise
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#8What a great resource!
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#9If anyone wants to move beyond using the "auto" setting on their camera (or phone), I would recommend the book Understanding Exposure by Bryan Peterson, the first edition of which was published in 1990: * https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/142239.Understanding_Exp... The principles involved haven't changed much in the intervening decades; the current fourth edition was publish in 2016. If all you have is a phone you…
I think when you break down all the variables there is really very little to play with bc no phones have variable apertures. ISO is basically a linear gain that's done on the sensor. As long as you aren't blowing out your photo and loosing information, it basically makes not difference if you do it in sensor or later while editing So the only variable left is the shutter speed - which is basically directly dictated b…
> no phones have variable apertures.
Even my almost 5 years old Galaxy S9+ has aperture. Surely something better came out since.
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#10See also, Marc Levey (CS professor at Stanford specializing in computational photography) gave some good lectures at Google a few years ago on digital photography: