The Digital Photo Experience (Instructional Video Podcast) show

The Digital Photo Experience (Instructional Video Podcast)

Summary: The Digital Photo Experience instructional Video Feed by Rick Sammon and Juan Pons. Bringing you the best photography tips, advice, news and information. Both Rick and Juan live and breathe photography and are always eager to share with you what they know. Instructional videos are posted in a non predetermined schedule, so make sure to check back often. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us! You can reach us at http://www.dpexperience.com The Digital Photo Experience, where YOU are the focus.

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 Lightroom Week: Sharpening Saturday | File Type: video/quicktime | Duration: Unknown

Welcome to Sharpening Saturday! Follow along as I describe Lightroom’s sharpening features and functionality. We will build a solid workflow to execute an effective and efficient input sharpening workflow. Hope to meet all of you at the California Photo Festival later this year! Check out the DPE gang who will be attending http://www.CaliforniaPhotoFest.com. Fiat Lux! Bull [Editors note: this brings to a conclusion our Lightroom week, but keep your eye out on DPE as we will have a few more Lightroom articles for you soon, including previews of Lightroom 3 Beta 2.]

 Expanded Depth of Field | File Type: video/quicktime | Duration: Unknown

Depth of field (DOF,) or the area of your image acceptably in focus, is a great tool for photographers. Through our selection of aperture, focal length, and focal distance (this is a very complicated subject so we will limit to these three variables) we can control the DOF for all of our images. knowing the viewer’s eye is drawn to “in focus” areas of the image we can direct the viewer around the image as we prefer. In general, landscape photographers prefer a deeper DOF in order to show the viewer the entire scene so they may “explore” in detail. In contrast, the portrait photographer generally decreases DOF to highlight the subject. Certain shooting scenarios, such as macro photography, deliver very limited DOF regardless of our aperture selection. You have probably experienced this effect either when shooting or if you have seen a macro shot of a flower with only one portion of the entire subject in focus. For most of photography’s history, we have accepted limited DOF as a given. A few years ago with the introduction of digital photography, powerful software tools allowed the photographer to overcome this limitation. Software such as Adobe Photoshop CS4, gives us the power to combine multiple images (same subject but each with a different focal point/focal plane/DOF) into a single expanded DOF creation. The video tutorial shows the process using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop CS4. To capture the source images I recommend the following guidelines. 1) Shoot from a tripod! At Light we use Induro tripods, and Really Right Stuff ballheads and L-brackets 2) Focus on the leading edge of the subject (the nearest part of the subject you want in focus.) Bull’s best focus tip If your camera is equipped with Live View, use it! Bring up the live view screen and then zoom in on the spot you want as the focal point (use the zoom button on the back of your camera with live view enabled and then scroll location with the multi function controller.) Once you are zoomed in, fine tune your focus manually. Using Live View and the 5X or 10X optical zoom and manual focus will give noticable sharper images. After focus is fine tuned, shoot from Live View. This, of course, removes the problems associated with camera shake because of mirror movement/vibrations. For those new to Live View, the mirror is already locked up. 3) Shoot the first image. 4) Without moving the camera or changing composition, refocus deeper into the image. In effect, you are stepping backwards. 5) Shoot again 6) Repeat steps 4 and 5 until you reach the trailing edge of the subject (the farthest part of the subject you want in focus.) Now you have the required source files to use the Auto Align and Auto Blend functions of Photoshop CS4. Follow the video tutorial from here. As always, any questions, comments, or concerns shoot me an email at email hidden; JavaScript is required /* */ . Fiat Lux!

 Rick Shares His Top Ten Tips For Great Digital Pix | File Type: video/quicktime | Duration: 6:45

In this quick video, DPE’s Rick Sammon, a.k.a. “King of the Photo One Liners,” stopped by Nations Photo Lab (http://www.nationsphotolab.com) to share his top ten photo tips with Nations’ Ashley Reeder . . . and you! Enjoy! And speaking of enjoying, enjoy this cool offer: DPE readers can get a free $50 order (prints, books etc.) at Nations Photo Lab, http://www.nationsphotolab.com, by using this code upon checkout: RICK2. This offer expires 6.1.10!

 Basalt, an affordable alternative to Carbon Fiber for tripods | File Type: video/quicktime | Duration: Unknown

I have been a user of Gitzo tripods for many many years, and have been very fond of their carbon fiber models. Carbon fiber is the preferred material to use for making durable yet lightweight tripods, however, they are typically very expensive. A few years ago Gitzo developed a new material that offers many of the same advantages of carbon fiber, but at a fraction of the cost. Check out this video where I explain a bit about the tripods that I am using now made from Basalt, and why I now prefer them over the carbon fiber models.

 Tips on Using a Monopod | File Type: video/quicktime | Duration: Unknown

You may have heard me say that I shoot with a tripod 95% of the time. More accurately what I mean to say is that I shoot with some sort of support for my camera 95% of time. This can be a tripod, a bean bag, or even a monopod. A monopod can be a very very effective as a support for your camera, but often people get frustrated when using a monopod. In this short video I will give you a few tips on using a monopod effectively. If you’d like more information about the monopod I use in the video check it out at Outdoor Photo Gear

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