Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Ths Is The First Day of My Life

In this class my main goals are to learn to use the settings on my camera better and to learn to use Adobe Photoshop. I shoot a Canon Rebel XT right now and its a great camera, but I'm still trying to figure out exactly which settings and buttons I should use, depending on the picture. I'm okay with aperture and focusing but the iso and white balance settings still confuse me sometimes. I can go back and edit pictures pretty well on my editing programs, but I'd like to be able to do that first instead of going back and fixing it. I use Jasc Paintshop, but I recently bought a slightly older version of Photoshop. One thing I'd really like to learn is how to make panoramas without seams.

2 comments:

DivingRhino said...

We will be working on ISO and white balance this semester. Remind me (Or look into it yourself for one of the independent projects) to work on panoramas ... there are a few options.

ISO ... the higher the number the more sensitive the sensor. One step faster and you can change your shutter 1 step faster (or aperture 1 step smaller hole). I mainly only up the ISO for action shots (so I can get a fast shutter without it being too dark.) The negative of a high ISO is graininess (or noise.)

The class has one XT as well. Good camera.

Zoe Wal said...

Good idea! I agree wth your design
-Zoe, Doug, Mason