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Corner Kitchen
I am creating a web site for a new restaurant Corner Kitchen in Kapahulu. I had a meeting with the owners and they fed us lunch. I have to say the lunch was fantastic. I would go back and pay for my meal. A dining experience.
Equivalent Exposure
Cindy, Ernie and I went to the East – West Center on Presidents day to do an Equivalent Exposure shoot. This is to show you how you can change either the aperture or shutter speed and still capture the photo in the manner you want as your original. If you adjust the shutter speed to a faster speed you need to make the aperture smaller. Another example is if you change the aperture to a smaller aperture you need to make the shutter speed slower.
Here is a practical example of how it is best used. You take a photo in Program mode and you like the exposure but the background is too in focus. You want to blur the background some to what do you do. Well you check to see the setting of the original photo to find out that the photo settings were 1/60 sec, at f/16. You want to blur the background some so you may want to use an aperture of f/4 so what is the equivalent shutter speed? Well between f/16 and f/4 is four (4) steps wider (f/16 to f/11, f/11 to f/8, f/8 to f/5.6 and f/5.6 to f4 ) so you need to adjust the shutter speed three (steps) faster. Well 1/60 sec. to 1/125 is one step, 1/125 to 1/250 is the second step , 1/250 to 1/500 is the third step, and 1/1000 is the fourth step. Therefore you equivalent exposure is 1/1000 sec. at f/4.
Aperture steps:
f/1.4, f/2, f/2.8, f/4, f/5.6, f/8, f/11, f/16, f/22
Shutter speed steps:
15, 30, 60, 125, 250, 500, 1000
By the Way, most digital SLR cameras have two settings for the number of between stops on your camera. Most have 3-clicks and 2-clicks, which mean that between each full step is either three (3) or two (2) clicks. So between f/4 and f/8 there are three or two clicks to go from f/4 to f/8.
Here is one set of examples:
Lightroom Class
Sunset at Kakaako
Sunset at Kakaako
Lightroom Class
Tonight I will be teaching what I call the digital darkroom or better known as the digital workflow. The digital workflow is really several basic steps
- Downloading your photos – Developing the film roll
- Critiquing the photos – printing the contact sheet
- Editing the photos – Working in the darkroom
- Printing the photos – Printing the final copy
These are the basic steps which I teach but there are several other steps needed in any good workflow.
- Backing up your photos
- Formating the card
I don’t teach these steps because although are important it is really up to the individual when and how they are going to use these steps. Anyway hope to see you all in class tonight and remember this.
- A bad photo begets an OK photo
- An OK photo begets a good photo
- A good photo begets a great photo
- A great photo begets a WOW photo
- A WOW photo begets a WHOA WOW photo.
Happy picture taking day.
Lyon Arboretum
Ginger flower from Lyon Arboretum
The Beginning Photography and the Applied Photography classes visited Lyon Arboretum in Manoa Valley, Oahu this past Saturday. Even though Cindy and I were not able to attend the photo shoot here is a photo taken from the last time I was at Lyon Arboretum.
The ginger flower was nicely back lit from the sun when I captured this shot. For those who have never been to Lyon Arboretum it is a beautiful place to visit and have tons of fun taking photos of the area. There are some simple trails and some harder trails which you can hike and capture some really great photos.
Scott Kelby’s Photographers Code of Ethic
Several years ago Scott Kelby came up with a “Photographers Code of Ethics“. Even though I don’t really agree 100% with what he says it is good reading and really a good guideline to start from to come up with your own code of ethics.
Scott Kelby’s blog – Photographers blog by Scott Kelby, National Photoshop Professionals Associations.
Lightroom Killer Tips – Matt Kloskowski blog on Lightroom and photography.
Color Profiling Guide for Adobe Camera Raw 3
Eric Chan of Adobe has a great tutorial about about Color Profiling for Adobe Camera Raw. It might be a bit techie but it is great reading and there is something to learned to improve your color profiling between you, your camera, and Camera Raw or Lightroom.
Sorry
Sorry that it has taken so long. We will be working on getting KCSPhoto.org back online and resources will be added in the near future. In the mean time if you have suggestion as to content that we can add please feel free to contact us.
Makapuu Photo Shoot
Wide Angle shot from Makapuu Lookout
Well gang after a long absence the KCSPhoto.org site is back. We will be following a different format which is more of a blog site rather than a full blown site. Due to time restraints on my part this will allow me to update the site faster and more efficiently. I hope this will not bother you.
This past weekend on the 21st a small group of us went to Makapuu Lookout for a photo shoot. Here are a few photos which were taken from that photo shoot. Sorry for those of you who were not able to make the shoot but maybe you will be able to join us in September when we go to shoot the Blue Angels.
We had a fun time at the Makapuu shoot but the when we got there the skies were over cast. But even with the clouds hiding the blue skies the clouds gave a beautiful shot. We spent maybe and hour taking photos before deciding to leave to have an early an early lunch at Harbor Village Cuisne. We had a great Dim Sum lunch and thanks to Debra is was free to us because she paid for the lunch. Thanks Debra.
Anyway I hope that you will be able to join us at our next outing. Check this site out for the date and time of the shoot. It will be at Kaneohe Marine Corp Air Stating for the K-Bay fest. I will also be sending out emails to you who are on our list. Hope to see you all there.
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- Wide Angle shot from Makapuu Lookout
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- Makapuu as God opens the skies
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- Slight blurring of the water a favorite technique