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`Photography 101
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`Fredo Durand
`MIT CSAIL
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`What do I know about good pictures?
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`• Not much: amateur photographer, wildlife, travel, portrait
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`I like equipment
`• I am a geek!
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`• Also I teach
`6.815 Digital and Computational Photography
`6.865 Advanced Computational Photography
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`Plan
`• Imaging
`parameters
`–Camera
`–Lighting
`–Software
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`• Equipment
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`• Improving
`your pictures
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`Slides are online
`• http://people.csail.mit.edu/
`fredo/
`• More material at
`–http://stellar.mit.edu/S/
`course/6/sp11/6.815/
`–http://graphics.stanford.edu/
`courses/#cs178
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`Imaging
`parameters
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`Fredo Durand
`MIT CSAIL
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`Imaging parameters
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`✦ Focal length
`• Sensor format
`✦ Shutter speed
`✦ Aperture
`✦ ISO
`• Noise, sensor size
`✦ Lighting
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`✦ Software
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`Focal length = field of view
`• zooming changes the focal length 24mm
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`50mm
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`135mm
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`Focal length = cropping
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`24mm
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`50mm
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`135mm
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`Focal length vs. viewpoint
`• Telephoto makes it easier to select
`background (a small change in
`viewpoint is a big change in
`background.
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`Perspective vs. viewpoint
`• Portrait: distortion with wide angle
`• Why?
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`Wide angle
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`Standard
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`Telephoto
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`Very wide angle: include but distort
`• Difficult lens to use because it includes so much
`• enables wide range of scales
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`24mm
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`18mm
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`16mm
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`Normal: neutral
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`55mm
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`50mm
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`50mm
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`Medium telephoto: isolate
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`95mm
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`110mm
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`110mm
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`150mm
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`Super telephoto
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`910mm
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`910mm
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`910mm
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`390mm
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`Focal length & sensor
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`• What happens when the sensor is half the size?
`– It’s like cropping!
`– The field of view is reduced by a factor of 2
`– The equivalent focal length for is multiplied by 2
`– Hence the so-called crop factor,
`and the notion of 35mm equivalent focal length
`• Most affordable SLRs have a 1.5 crop factor
`f
`d
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`½ s
`Film/
`sensor
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`pinhole
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`scene
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`http://www.photozone.de/3Technology/digital_1.htm
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`Consequences of smaller sensor
`• Different field of view
`for same focal length
`–hence the “crop factor”
`–a 100mm on a low-end
`SLR has the same field
`of view as a 150mm on
`a high-end one
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`pinhole
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`scene
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`f
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`d
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`½ s
`Film/
`sensor
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`• Larger depth of field
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`• Increased noise
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`Recap: focal length
`• focal length
`= field of view
`= cropping
`• depends on sensor size
`• zooming changes the focal length
`–wide angle : <35mm
`–telephoto : > 85mm
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`• difference between viewpoint
`and focal length
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`Exposure
`• Get the right amount of light
`to sensor/film
`• Two main parameters:
`–Shutter speed
`–Aperture (area of lens)
`+ sensor/film sensitivity (ISO)
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`Main side effects
`–motion blur
`–depth of field
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`Main effect of shutter speed
`• Motion blur
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`From Photography, London et al.
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`Effect of shutter speed
`• Freezing motion
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`Walking people
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`Running people
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`Car
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`Fast train
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`1/125
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`1/250
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`1/500
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`1/1000
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`Note: it doesn’t mean that shutter speed is proportional to the speed of the object. A
`photographer usually tracks the subject.
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`Slow shutter speed for motion blur
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`0.8s
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`Tracking & slow shutter speed
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`1/8
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`Slow shutter speed to get light
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`15s
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`Aperture
`• Diameter of the lens opening (controlled by diaphragm)
`• Expressed as a fraction of focal length, in f-number
`25mm
`– f/2.0 on a 50mm means that the aperture is
`– f/2.0 on a 100mm means that the aperture is
`50mm
`• Disconcerting: small f number = big aperture
`• What happens to the area of the aperture when going
`from f/2.0 to f/4.0?
`divided by 4 (square of f number ratio)
`• Typical f numbers are
`f/2.0, f/2.8, f/4, f/5.6, f/8, f/11, f/16, f/22, f/32
`– See the pattern?
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`CSAI l
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`Depth of field
`• Pixel is an integral over a cone of light
`–Converges at focal plane
`–But blurs for other distances
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`sensor
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`lens
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`Point in focus
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`Object with texture
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`Depth of field
`• What happens when we close the aperture by two stop?
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`–Aperture diameter is divided by two
`–Depth of field is doubled
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`Diaphragm
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`sensor
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`lens
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`Point in focus
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`Object with texture
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`Depth of field
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`From Photography, London et al.
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`Is depth of field good or evil?
`• It depends, little grasshopper
`• Want huge DoF: landscape,
`photojournalists, portrait with
`environment
`• Shallow DoF: portrait, wildlife
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`Michael Reichman
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`Steve McCurry
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`Shallow depth of field: portrait
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`85mm f/1.2
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`Depth of field
`• It’s all about the size of the lens aperture
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`Point in focus
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`sensor
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`lens
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`Object with texture
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`lens
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`sensor
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`Point in focus
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`Object with texture
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`Depth of field & sensor
`• Nikon D3s: 36x24mm
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`Depth of field & sensor
`• Sony DSC-TX9: 6.17 x 4.55 mm
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`Small sensors=>large depth of field
`• http://www.mediachance.com/dvdlab/dof/index.htm
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`Exposure
`• Two main parameters:
`–Aperture (in f stop)
`–Shutter speed (in fraction of a second)
`• Reciprocity
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` The same exposure is obtained with
`an exposure twice as long and an
`aperture area half as big
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`– Hence square root of two progression of f stops
`vs. power of two progression of shutter speed
`– Reciprocity can fail for very long exposures
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`From Photography, London et al.
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`Reciprocity
`• Assume we know how much light we need
`• We have the choice of an infinity of shutter speed/
`aperture pairs
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`• What will guide our choice of a shutter speed?
`–Freeze motion vs. motion blur, camera shake
`• What will guide our choice of an aperture?
`–Depth of field, diffraction limit
`• Often we must compromise
`–Open more to enable faster speed (but shallow DoF)
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`From Photography, London et al.
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`Monday, May 2, 2011
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`From Photography, London et al.
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`Monday, May 2, 2011
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`From Photography, London et al.
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`Exposure modes
`• Aperture priority: A (My favorite, I use it 90% of the time)
`– Direct depth of field control
`– Cons: can require impossible shutter speed (e.g. with f/1.4 for a
`bright scene)
`• Shutter speed priority: Tv or S
`– Direct motion blur control
`– Cons: can require impossible aperture (e.g. when requesting a
`1/1000 speed for a dark scene)
`• Note that aperture is somewhat more restricted
`• Program
`– Almost no control, but no need for neurons
`• Manual
`– Full control, but takes more time and thinking
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`Sensitivity (ISO)
`• Third variable for exposure
`• Linear effect (200 ISO needs half the light as 100 ISO)
`• Trade sensitivity for noise
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`http://wiegaertnerfilms.com/tutorials/the-best-iso-settings-for-canon-video-dslrs/
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`Demo
`– http://graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs178-10/applets/exposure.html
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`Plan
`• Imaging
`parameters
`–Camera
`–Lighting
`–Software
`
`• Equipment
`
`• Improving
`your pictures
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`Monday, May 2, 2011
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`Light
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`Bad light
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`Bad light
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`Better light
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`Light
`• Control light
`–Time of day
`–Location, direction
`–Add light (flash)
`–Reflect light
`• Goals
`–Control contrast
`–Shape modeling
`–Story telling, art
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`Add light
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`Change location
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`Studio Lighting
`• E.g. 3-point lighting
`–Reduce dynamic range
`–Emphasize silhouettes
`=>3D cues
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`• Goals of lighting:
`–Manage dynamic range
`–Reveal shape, layout,
`material
`–Tell story
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`Bottom line
`• Don't get married on
`a sunny day!
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`Go in the shade
`• Light is more diffuse
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`Better
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`Bad
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`Overcast days are the best
`• Just don’t put the sky in the frame
`The weather conditions
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`The pictures
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`Other overcast-day pictures
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`Best time of day: sunset & sunrise
`• +/- 1 hour
`• “Golden hours”
`• Night photography: always near sunset/sunrise
`–because of nice diffuse light
`less than 1 hour
`Mid day:
`after sunrise/
`often not great
`before sunset
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`During sunset or
`sunrise
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`After sunset
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`less than 1 hour
`after sunrise
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`During sunset/sunrise
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`After sunset
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`• 10 minutes
`after sunset
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`Add fill flash
`• For harsh lighting conditions
`• Illuminate shadows with flash to reduce dynamic range
`• But set the flash to -1.5 or -2 EV
`(3 to 4 times darker than existing lighting)
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`http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-path=317&pq-locale=en_US
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`Without flash
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`With fill flash
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`Flash as the main light source
`Problems:
`–poor location,
`no shape modeling
`–small light source
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`–annoying shadows
`–often, too white compared
`to available light
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`Monday, May 2, 2011
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`National Geographic Photography field guide
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`Solution: bounce flash
`• Ceiling bounce:
`much better, more diffuse
`• Disadvantage: shadows under the eyes
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`Monday, May 2, 2011
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`National Geographic Photography field guide
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`Solution: wall bounce flash
`• Better shape modeling
`(light from the side),
`good lighting of the eyes
`• Disadvantage: walls not always white
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`National Geographic Photography field guide
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`Flash Diffuser
`• Two tricks:
`–diffuser illuminates the
`whole room, light is very
`diffuse but also illuminates
`directly
`–diffuser is orange and
`matches ambient light
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`Reflect light
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`http://studiostyles.net/location-lighting-techniques-finding-the-light/
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`Recap: Light
`• Control light
`–Time of day
`–Location, direction
`–Add light (flash)
`–Reflect light
`• Goals
`–Control contrast
`–Shape modeling
`–Story telling, art
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`Monday, May 2, 2011
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`Plan
`• Imaging
`parameters
`–Camera
`–Lighting
`–Software
`
`• Equipment
`
`• Improving
`your pictures
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`Monday, May 2, 2011
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`Software
`• Software adjustment can make a big difference!
`Before
`After
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`Here:
`exposure
`curve
`clarity
`vibrance
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`Software
`• Shoot in RAW for more flexibility
`• Photo management & lightweight editing
`–Lightroom, Aperture, Lightzone, Darktable
`–Fix white balance (make white white!)
`–Adjust exposure (e.g. brighter for snow scene)
`–Crop to improve composition
`–Manage contrast using the curve
`–Boost saturation (or vibrance) a little.
`–Add light to dark areas (fill light)
`–Sharpen a bit
`–Convert to black and white
`• Use Photoshop only if you really need to
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`White balance
`• Party name tags provide excellent white references!
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`Exposure correction
`• I told the camera to make the image 1.8 times brighter
`• Still too dark
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`Exposure correction
`• I told the camera to make the image 1.8 times brighter
`• I still had to brighten it in software
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`Crop
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`Manage contrast with the curve
`• Before curve adjustment
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`Manage contrast with the curve
`• After curve adjustment (a tad overdone)
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`Boost saturation or vibrance
`• Before
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`Boost saturation or vibrance
`• After
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`Fill light
`• Before fill light
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`Fill light
`• After fill light
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`Graduated filter
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`Before
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`Graduated filter
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`Darken sky
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`After
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`Brighten ground
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`Black and white
`• Helps when colors are distracting
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`Black and white
`• Often needs to boost contrast
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`Other useful tools/sliders
`• Black point
`• Recovery (to save clipped highlights)
`• Denoising
`• Clarity
`• Local adjustments and gradient
`• Vignetting
`• Optical aberration correction
`• Perspective correction
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`Organize, rate, delete
`• On a photo trip, I keep 1% of pictures
`–That’s also the rate of most pros
`–Yes, I shoot more photos than most people
`–But I also keep a lot fewer
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`Organize, rate, delete
`• My strategy: multipass algorith
`–Go through all pictures, and rate the OK ones 1 star
`–Go through the 1 star and rate the better ones 2 stars
`–Etc.
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`If you’re really good
`• Keyword your pictures
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`Software ++
`• Stitch panoramas
`• High-Dynamic-Range
`• Multiple exposures
`• Macro focal stack
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`Recap: Software
`• Shoot in RAW for more flexibility
`• Photo management & lightweight editing
`–Lightroom, Aperture, Lightzone, Darktable
`–Fix white balance (make white white!)
`–Adjust exposure (e.g. brighter for snow scene)
`–Crop to improve composition
`–Manage contrast using the curve
`–Boost saturation (or vibrance) a little.
`–Add light to dark areas (fill light)
`–Sharpen a bit
`–Convert to black and white
`• Use Photoshop only if you really need to
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`Plan
`• Imaging
`parameters
`–Camera
`–Lighting
`–Software
`
`• Equipment
`
`• Improving
`your pictures
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`Equipment
`
`Fredo Durand
`MIT CSAIL
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`Choosing a camera
`
`✦ If you can afford it, get an SLR
`• bigger sensor = less noise in low light
`• bigger sensor = shallower depth of field
`• faster autofocus
`• more lens choice, higher optical quality
`✦ Do not worry about
`• megapixels - 6 is way enough
`• brand - they’re all good enough
`• body - they all have the same image quality
`✦ Worry about lenses
`✦ Worry about lighting gear (cheap and effective)
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`Lens quality varies!
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`source: the luminous landscape
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`Zoom vs. prime
`• The left image is with an expensive zoom
`• Still softer than the prime on the right
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`source: the luminous landscape
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`Online reviews
`• http://www.slrgear.com/reviews/index.php
`• http://www.dpreview.com/lensreviews/
`•
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`Equipment
`• Do get an SLR or mirrorless, compacts are too limited
`• Don't worry about brand (with a bias for Nikon/Canon/Sony)
`• Don't worry about the body, get the cheapest one
`• Worry about lenses
`– Zooms are convenient but quality can be a problem
`• Avoid large range (e.g. 18-200) they’re not bad when stopped down, but
`quality isn’t great at full aperture
`• Maximum aperture matters (the smaller the number, the better)
`– Get a prime in the 35-85mm range
`(cheap, high quality, wide aperture) 50mm f/1.8
`• Count $500 to 1k for basic configuration
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`Equipment: accessories
`• Good flash photography is very difficult!
`–Because you typically deal with 2 sources of light: flash
`and ambient
`–You need to get the exposure right for both!
`–You need to get the white balance right for both!
`• Get an external flash if you want to take “event” pictures
`– The built-in flash is only good for fill flash (in bright sunlight)
`– Use external flash, orient towards (white) wall/ceiling
`– Get a diffuser (omnibounce)
`– Get yellow gel (or diffuser) to match indoor lighting
`• Get a tripod
`– important for landscape, cityscape
`– get a good one: stability is important
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`Nikon
`Tends to be a tad cheaper
`• D3100 & D5100are good.
`D7000 if you want to be more
`serious
`• 18-70 or 17-55 f/2.8
`• 55-200 is surprisingly not so
`bad and super cheap
`• Get the new 50mm f/1.8
`(the old one won’t focus)
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`Canon
`• Rebel T3 or T3i for cheap options,
`7D if your bank account permits
`• If you get the kit lens, get IS
`• 17-85 or 17-55 f/2.8
`• 70-200 f/4.0
`(amazing lens)
`• 50mm f/1.8
`• 100mm f/2.8 macro
`(great also for portraits)
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`Mirrorless systems
`• e.g. micro 4/3, Sony Alpha Nex
`• Smaller
`• Autofocus not as good (contrast detection, not stereo)
`• Sensor not quite as good yet (smaller)
`• More depth of field
`• No optical viewfinder
`• Recommendation:
`–Sony Nex3 or 5
`–Panasonic GF2
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`
`Other brands
`Not as big a range, future not always clear (see Minolta), have been slower to
`get to digital SLR
`• Olympus
`– Good system, but smaller sensor
`• Pentax
`– Good entry camera
`• Sigma
`– Intriguing sensor (Foveon), limited system, noise is an issue
`• Fuji
`– One-trick pony (the sensor)
`– Nikon body
`• Sony
`– Pretty good.
`– Lens selection not as good as Nikon/Canon
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`Lighting
`• Cheapest way to improve your photo
`• http://strobist.blogspot.com/2006/03/lighting-101.html
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`
`
`It’s the light that counts
`• http://fstoppers.com/iphone
`• Photos taken with an iphone 3GS
`–and a lot of lighting equipment
`
`See also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o063wC_SNxo&feature=player_embedded
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`Cheap lighting-based setup
`• Cheap compact with a flash hotshoe
`–and a manual mode
`• Cheap lighting equipment
`(manual flashes)
`• DYI diffusers and reflectors
`
`• Good for
`–Portraits
`–Macro
`• See
`–http://www.diyphotography.net/
`–http://strobist.blogspot.com/
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`Type of photo
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`Portrait
`• Cheap body
`• Wide aperture often matters
`(f/2.8 and below)
`• 50mm f/1.8 is a must
`• Invest in an external flash and
`lighting
`–reflector
`• Depends on perspective you like:
`–17-55 f/2.8
`–50mm f/1.8
`–70-200mm
`(f/2.8 if you can afford it)
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`Kids / action
`• Good Autofocus matters.
`Get a slightly more expensive
`body
`• Fast lens (wide aperture)
`–17-55 f/2.8
`–50mm f/1.8 (for kids)
`–70-200 f/.8
`• External flash for kids.
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`Landscape
`• Get a cheap body
`• Good tripod + remote trigger
`• Polarizing filter
`• lenses:
`–Large aperture does not
`matter.
` You want large depth of field
`–main one: 17-85 or 17-70
`–depending on style:
`• wider angle, e.g. 10-22 but
`include a foreground element
`• telephoto, surprisingly useful,
`e.g. 75-300
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`Wildlife
`• Expensive!
`• Need good autofocus and long
`lenses
`• At least 300mm on small sensor
`• A flash and a better beamer
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`Macro
`• Easier with a smaller sensor
`–more depth of field
`• 100mm macro or 60mm macro lens
`(1:1 magnification)
`• Sturdy tripod + remote trigger
`• Lighting equipment
`–reflector / diffuser (DIY)
`–flash or some external light
`–lots of DIY options
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`Plan
`• Imaging
`parameters
`–Camera
`–Lighting
`–Software
`
`• Equipment
`
`• Improving
`your pictures
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`Monday, May 2, 2011
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`APPLE V. COREPHOTONICS
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`Improving your
`pictures
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`Fredo Durand
`MIT CSAIL
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`Not a creativity session
`• For those of us who are NOT talented photographers
`• Heuristics, issues, that help get better photographs.
`Maybe not great photographs, but better
`• If you are talented, good for you.
`Forget those “rules”, keep taking good photos.
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`Take pictures, critique your pictures
`• And get them critiqued (friends, internet)
`• Give yourself a theme, constraints
`• Look at contests online:
`–You don’t need to enter the contest, but use the theme
`– http://www.dpreview.com/challenges/
`– http://www.dpchallenge.com/
`– http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/
`– http://gizmodo.com/#!shooting-challenge
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`Advice overview
`• Simplify, avoid cluttered background
`
`• Don’t center things
`
`• Avoid harsh light
`
`• White balance
`
`• Portraits are all about the eyes
`
`• Follow rules or really break them.
`No middle ground.
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`
`Fixing a cluttered background
`• Change viewpoint
`• Shallow depth of field
`• Frame tighter
`• Modify scene (move objects, add backdrop)
`• Retouch (blur, desaturate, darken)
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`Composition/viewpoint
`• Get low
`–at eye level of subject
`• Avoid centering subject
`–rule of the third
`• Keep horizon horizontal
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`Light & color
`• Avoid harsh light…
`unless you want to play with shadows
`• Sunrise & sunset are best
`• Cloudy days are great as long as the sky is not in the
`picture
`• For sunny days, shade areas are best
`• Avoid direct flash
`• HDR, tone map
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`Portraits: It’s all about the eyes
`• Eyes should be sharp & shiny
`• Be at eye level
`• Make sure lighting is not harsh
`• Shallow depth of field can help
`• Add vignetting to focus attention
`• Get the white balance right
`(maybe a little warm)
`• Try Black and white
`• Telephoto: isolate the subject
`• Wide angle: approachable and
`include surrounding
`• Don’t hesitate to over-shoot:
`bits are cheap
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`Landscape / architecture
`• Get a foreground element
`– rock, tree, flower
`• Rule of the thirds, diagonals
`– in particular for the horizon
`• Don’t hesitate to zoom in
`• Manage dynamic range
`– sky is always too bright
`– graduated neutral density, HDR
`– golden hours or right after sunset
`• Use a polarizer
`– darkens the sky, make colors stand out
`• Alignments
`– Keep horizon straight
`– For architecture, correct verticals
`• Don’t be deterred by stormy weather
`• Slow shutter speed for water
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`Background
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`Cluttered backgrounds are bad
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`Distracting background
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`Monday, May 2, 2011
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`Model: Rob Wang
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`Move your feet! (1 meter away)
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`Monday, May 2, 2011
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`Model: Rob Wang
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`Distracting background
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`50mm f/8
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`Monday, May 2, 2011
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`Model: Rob Wang
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`Shallower depth of field
`
`50mm f/1.8
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`Monday, May 2, 2011
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`Model: Rob Wang
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`Shallower depth of field
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`85mm f/1.2
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`Monday, May 2, 2011
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`Model: Rob Wang
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`Crop
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`Isolate using blur (Photoshop, layering)
`• But maybe don’t over-do it
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`Clone brush/Poisson cleaning
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`Desaturate, darken
`
`From Digital Photographer’s Handbook
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`Monday, May 2, 2011
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`Compositing & matting
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`Monday, May 2, 2011
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`APPLE V. COREPHOTONICS
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`
`
`Fixing a cluttered background
`• Change viewpoint
`• Shallow depth of field
`• Frame tighter
`• Modify scene (move objects, add backdrop)
`• Retouch (blur, desaturate, darken)
`
`Monday, May 2, 2011
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`Question?
`• Recap: avoid distracting background
`• Simplify, get close
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`Monday, May 2, 2011
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`Composition
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`
`
`Get low
`• Try to be at eye level
`
`Bad
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`Better
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`Eye level
`
`
`
`
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`
`
`Or really get high
`• As usual, follow a rule
`or really break it.
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`Rule of the thirds
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`Monday, May 2, 2011
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`National
`Geographic
`Photography
`field guide
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`Rule of the thirds
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`Rule of the Third
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`
`Variations of the rule of the thirds
`• Golden ratio
`–Very questionable superstition
`–http://plus.maths.org/issue22/features/golden/
`• Rule of the fifth
`• ...
`
`• Only one thing matters: don’t center!
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`Don’t center, especially for motion
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`Don’t center, especially for motion
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`Don’t center, especially for motion
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`
`... or do center
`
`or do center
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`
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`
`Question
`• Recap:
`–avoid distracting background
`–be at eye level, get low
`–avoid centering subject
`
`Monday, May 2, 2011
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`Build on diagonal lines
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`
`Warning: near-parallelism
`• In particular, keep horizon level
`• Use crop with rotation to fix this
`
`http://www.fotofinish.com/resources/centers/photo/takingpictures.htm
`• or use bubble level on flash hot shoe
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`Correct perspective (perspective crop)
`+ you control reflection and pe