DIGITAL SLR COURSE
Introduction to DSLR Cameras
- Learning about Camera menus and its functions
- Understanding Various file formats like Raw, Tiff, Jpeg etc
- Mega pixel and resolution
- Full frame sensors and cropped frame sensors – Crop Factor
Exposure
- Understanding Shutter speed , Aperture, ISO relationships for creative images
- Controlling motion and depth of field while making images
- Exposure meters and choosing the best mode suitable for a situation
- Exposure compensation, Exposure bracketing and Exposure balancing,
- Histogram and its uses
- Color balance
Lenses
- Knowing about Zoom lenses, Fixed focal length lenses and their constructions
- Auto focusing and manual focusing
- Image stabilisation
- Choosing AF points based on the subject for best results
- Wide, normal and tele lenses – understanding how they control the perspective quality in an image
- Making razor sharp images
Light Awareness
- Quality of light – Hard and soft light and how they occur in nature.
- Choosing the best light for making images
- Direction of light – Understanding its effects for making interesting images
- Built in flash light and its creative usage.
- Flash bracketing and fill flash techniques
Effective Story telling
- Visualization and enhancing observation skills
- Study of visual elements like shapes, forms, texture etc
- Colors and their influence on a photograph
- Making mundane subjects look great in your images
- Art of composing an Image
- Conversion of Raw files through Lightroom / Adobe Camera Raw
- Tools that control your image
- Enhancing your images
- Sharpening
- Quality output for Prints and for web applications
