This document provides tips and explanations for digital photography basics including ISO, shutter speed, aperture, white balance, lenses, camera settings, composition, lighting, and post-processing. It emphasizes changing perspectives, capturing details, thoughtful composition using rules of thirds and leading lines, proper lighting both natural and flash, and getting the subject engaged in an activity. It also lists affordable photo editing and storage/sharing options as well as ideas for using and displaying family photos.

2. - ‘Technical Overview’ in a Non-techy way
- ‘Cheater Modes’ and Why I am in love with them
- Seeing the Light (both natural and ‘ugly’ flash)
- Cassandra’s Top 10 List
- Post-Processing for Free and Cheap
- The Scary Reasons to backup your Images
- Get the Dang Images off of Your Laptop Sister!

3. ‘I have this fancy-schmancy camera and shoot in auto all of the
time with flash. Not very attractive images! I want to have
control of my camera and all of those freakin’ buttons’

5. In traditional (film) In Digital Photography-
photograph- ISO (or ISO measures the sensitivity
ASA) was the of the image sensor. The
indication of how same principles apply as in
sensitive a film was film photography – the
to light. It was lower the number the less
measured in numbers sensitive your camera is to
(you’ve probably light and the finer the grain.
seen them on films – Higher ISO settings are
100, 200, 400, 800 generally used in darker
etc). The lower the situations to get faster
number the lower the shutter speeds (for example
sensitivity of the film an indoor sports event when
and the finer the you want to freeze the
grain in the shots action in lower light) –
you’re taking. however the cost is noisier
shots.

6. ISO 1000/Lowlight ISO 200/Bright Sunlight

7.  The most basic way to define  The shorter the time left
shutter speed is the amount of open the “faster” the
time the shutter stays open. shutter speed. (stops
motion..) ex: 1/1000 of a
sec
 The longer its stays open
the “slower” the shutter
speed (shows motion) ex:
1/60th of a second

8. Higher Shutter Speed- Lower Shutter Speed-
Stop action (1/1000th sec) Shows motion (1/125th sec)

9.  The amount of light  The lower the number…the
more light (i.e., “wide
allowed to pass into the lens open=2.8)
(controlled by the
diaphragm Think pupils of  The bigger the number, the
your eye!) less light (“stopped down”
=16)
 Each ‘stop’ is letting in either
twice as much or half as
much light. (i.e., f/2.8 is
twice as much light as f4)

10.  Aperture determines Depth  The Lower the number…
of Field the more ‘shallow’ the
depth of field. (fuzzy back
ground)
 DOF-the portion of the
image that is in focus.
(‘fuzzy’ background vs. tack  The Bigger the number the
sharp) sharp/in focus the
background/image is

11. Lower Aperture=fuzzy Higher the f/stop-the more in
background focus the background/image
Lower the f/stop-the more
‘fuzzier’ the background (more
focus on the subject)

13. White balance is a camera setting that adjusts for lighting in order to make
white objects appear white in photos (temperature/Calvin scale)

14. Tungsten Setting Cloudy Setting

16. What are they and Why I LOVE
Priority Modes?
Aperture/Shutter Priority, is
a setting on some cameras that
allows the user to choose a
specific aperture/shutter speed
value while the camera selects a
shutter speed/aperture to match.
The camera will ensure proper
exposure.

17. Wide Angle, Telephoto, Fisheye
—Oh My!
Lens Focal Length* Terminology Typical Photography
21(-) mm Extreme Wide Angle Architecture
21-35 mm Wide Angle Landscape
35-70 mm Normal Street & Documentary
70-135 mm Medium Telephoto Portraiture
135-300+ mm Telephoto Sports, Bird & Wildlife
TIP: If you can only own one lens- 50mm 1.8, 1.4

18. What’s In My Bag??
(2) Canon 5D Mark ii
Canon- 50mm 1.4
Canon- 85mm 1.8
Canon- 24-70mm 2.8
Canon- 70-200mm 2.8
Tamron- 90mm 2.8 (macro)
Speedlites:
(2) Canon 580 EX 2
(1) Canon 480 EX
(2) Monfroto 12ft. Lightstand
Med Circular Reflector
Full Length Reflector
Video Light
TIP: If you can only own one lens- 50mm 1.8, 1.4

20. #1: Change Your Perspective!
• Commando Crawl

21. Change Your Perspective!
• Full Circle

22. Change Your Perspective!
• Way Up High

23. # 2: Its LIGHTS, Camera, Action!
For a Reason (aka: bad light =
sucky image)
• Facing Directly into Sun=BAD
• Diffused Light (Natural & Flash)
• An hour after dawn/hour before dark
• Open Shade is Your Friend
• Window Light=aahhhhmazing

24. # 3: De-Junk Your ‘Studio’

25. #4: Capture Them Doing What They
L-O-V-E (even if it means annoy big sister)

26. #5: Details, Details… (the little things that
change too fast!)

27. #6:No ‘Pickle in Middle’ (aka-thoughtful
composition rocks!)…
* Rule of Thirds

28. #6:No ‘Pickle in Middle’ (aka-thoughtful
composition rocks!)…
* Leading Lines

29. #7: Get Up In Their Grill
(aka: a long lens can be your bff)

30. #8: Include Their Environment

31. #9: Give Them Something to Do (even if
it means messy clean-up )

32. #10: Get Your Focal Point Right!

33. Focusing 101:
1.) Select Your Focal Point In-Camera
2.) Select Your Focal Point For Subject
*** Focus and Recompose Method

34. BONUS: FORGET THE
‘RULES!!!!’ (for a bit)

35. PICASSA
http://picasa.google.com/
PHOTOFILTRE
http://photofiltre.en.softonic.com/
GIMP
http://www.gimp.org/
PAINT-NET
Download located under DOWNLOAD heading:
http://www.getpaint.net/download.html
ULTIMATE PAINT
2.88 Freeware Addition: http://ultimate-paint.en.softonic.com/

36. • Costco
• DVD
• Picasa/Shutterfly/Snapfish
• SmugMug
• Removable Hard Drive

37. • Annual Family Album
Mpix.com
Photbookusa.com

38. • Canvas Clusters

39. • Large Canvas

40. • Child’s Gallery

41. • Mamarazzi Site
• Mamarazzi ‘Model Shoot’
• Light Factory Courses
• ‘Understanding Aperture’ Book
• http://www.digital-photography-school.com/
• Leave the Camera in Site and PRACTICE!