Click here to learn how-to back button focus with Canon Rebel T6i
This is very useful when you want to shoot multiple shots quickly without having to spend the precious times refocusing. For example, if taking a group shot, a shot with a child laughing, a portrait of a stationary person, a still life, where you want to keep some focus and are not changing distance you are from subject. Here are my notes, but I strongly recommend watching the video so you can see how to do it: Back Button Focus Tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18Ib1mhvjOA
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Click here for a good explanation of Split Toning in Lightroom with helpful example photographs.
The photograph above is Devon and Luke working as a team to blow a large vase. I played with split toning to put focus on mass of hot glass that all their attention is focused on. Click on this link to view fabulous photographs of Art Wolfe artwolfe.com/showcase/. “Art Wolfe is an artist. He works with all of the artistic elements . . . line, form, texture, composition, light and shadow and produces visual masterpieces…”—RWolfe is an artist. He works with all of the artistic elements . . . line, form, texture, composition, light and shadow and produces visual masterpieces…”—Robert Bateman“Art Wolfe is an artist. He works with all of the artistic elements . . . line, form, texture, composition, light and shadow and produces visual masterpieces…”—Robert Bateman
Yesterday, I took five hour online workshop called Photography as Art. He discusses the following visual concepts to help us open our imagination and the way we perceive nature. He gives us visual cues to train our eyes to see in different ways. He challenges us to rediscover our imagination on our journeys as artists.
Hurray. I just learned how to capture an on-line video that I'm watching on my Mac computer so that I can watch it again or pause it or revisit section I want to know more about. I wish I had known how to do this in the years I was teaching. Each day I am expanding my learning horizons.
Click to learn how to take action shots. See summarized notes below.
Click here to see entire article. Below summarizes key concepts:
1. 1. The Lightroom catalog file is a physical file on your computer 2. You can double-click a catalog to open it 3. Catalogs are cross-platform 4. You can store your catalog on an external drive if you use multiple computers. 5. If you use multiple catalogs, you can tell Lightroom which one to automatically open. 6. There’s an Optimize Catalog feature in the File menu This one sneaks by a lot of people. As time goes on, your catalog can become, for lack of a better word, less-optimized. That means things can slow down a little as you use Lightroom more. So it’s a good idea, that every couple of weeks you go to the File > Optimize Catalogmenu and let Lightroom optimize itself to help keep things moving along. Learn how to sharpen your images in Lightroom . Below is excerpt from article.
"The Sharpening Tool has four different sliders:
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