if you want a career in it
u think it’s better career wise?
i don’t think you really get connections with school as much as real experience
idk that’s just my opinion

i would say majoring, as one would be exposed to far more teachers and techniques than just one fotog

I have a Pentax Optio 550 – it has the auto – portrait, sunset, mountain, text, etc.. Can setting adjustment be made manually? And if so, what’s what? White Balance? Focusing Area? AE Metering? Sensitivity? Sharpness? Saturation? Contrast? Have I left out any? What do these mean? Each should be adjusted which way, and how much to do what? I hear about manual adjustments to improve lighting or whatever…. My camera manual doesn’t tell this stuff. (and please reply in words that I can understand…don’t get real technical). Many, many thanks

I checked out the Optio 550 on a couple of websites, and yes of course it has manual controls.
Do you have the manual for the camera? If so, read through it step by step.

When you turn the dial to AV (which is aperture priority auto exposure)…you select the aperture value and the camera will choose an appropriate Shutter speed according to lighting conditions.
When you select TV (shutter priority auto exposure) you choose the shutter speed and the camera will select an appropriate Aperture value.
With M (manual mode) you can select both the Shutter speed AND the Aperture, giving you complete creative control.
Always try and make sure you have your ISO set to the lowest value for noise free pics.
The best way to learn is to experiment with different settings and practice, practice practice. A good basic book on digital photography is recommended so you can understand and learn basic photography principles.

Here are some websites that may help you, or just do a search on Google, because there are many more.

hi guys i need some tips and techniques on glamour photography.

i am a beginner photographer who is now taking digital photography class in college. i have a nikon d80 camera and we have a studio at the school with a bunch of tools/lighting to work with. my question is i have many many gorgeous girl friends who will be willing to let me photograph them, but i don’t have the knowledge to go about to get the right model look. also my friend has now opened his own clothing line and i feel my photography skills will benefit him. i would like to help my friends with a modeling career because a lot of girls dream of that.

help thanks!!

Forget preconceived ideas of "how" to pose. Talk to your model, watch her through the lens as she moves about and see what suits HER best. Keep her animated, keep chatting, tell her not to stay still and not to move fast. Use your modeling lights, see how different angles and light intensities affect her. Shoot a lot of preliminary shots and work on improving those that seem to have potential. Analyze your test shots, try to eliminate the areas that are detrimental and improve those that show promise. Play with lighting – have fun – don’t stress.

There are no rules – it is to do with creativity only. Getting the perfect shot is not simply planning, it is photographic skill and a process of elimination. Thinking on your feet, being prepared to try anything that looks as though it has potential. You will soon find what doesn’t work and what has potential. Become her favourite photographer.

I just want some vague info between the two types of photography, some of the techniques used for both and some examples. Thanks in advance to whoever responds.

Glamour photography is the photographing of a model with the emphasis on the allure of the subject. Photographers use a combination of cosmetics, lighting and airbrushing techniques to produce the most physically appealing image of the model possible.

Fashion photography is a genre of photography devoted to displaying clothing and other fashion items. Fashion photography is most often conducted for advertisements or fashion magazines such as Vogue, Vanity Fair, or Allure. Over time, fashion photography has developed its own aesthetic in which the clothes and fashions are enhanced by exotic locations and story lines or could be having great models with different vehicles or animals just to be an eye catching effect.

I am looking for books (or just one all inclusive book) that gives tips on lighting, angles, aperture, using the flash, etc.

i learned best by going to my local library and checking out individual books on different subjects and mastering each subject before i would move on to a new one. it really helped. i found that even different books offer different tips and techniques that others did not, and some were much more informative on certain things than others, so i really benefited by being able to check out multiple books and not be forking out 20 bucks a book- a lot of the books at barnes and noble were the same ones that i was checking out…good luck it’s fun! (very addicting expensive hobby though

I am interested in wedding/portrait photography, but I’m at the beginning stages of learning and practicing. What camera would you recommend that I purchase ? Thanks.

Olympus Stylus 840 8.0MP Digital Camera with 5x Optical Dual Image Stabilized Zoom: $134

- 8.0-megapixel CCD captures enough detail for photo-quality 16 x 22-inch prints
- 5x image-stabilized optical zoom; Face Detection
- 2.7-inch HyperCrystal LCD
- Perfect Fix in-camera editing; includes Olympus Master 2 software
- Stores images on xD Picture Cards

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0011E870Y?ie=UTF8&tag=3730042889-20

I want to take a photography class, but my major reluctance is that I don’t want to be sitting at a computer "photoshopping" digital images. I’m already around computers all the time as it is, and I don’t want another computer science class disguised as a photography class.

If I were to take a photography class, what would they cover? Do they still cover traditional photography? One of the things I really want to learn right now is toning, and probably some alternative processes. I also do need some work on my lighting and composition.

Has anyone taken any photography classes recently? Is it all digital and photoshopping crap, or do most of them still cover traditional, hands-on stuff with film and darkroom techniques and basic photography?

These are course descriptions at a community college near me. If you dig into these, I believe there are two courses that have photoshop as part of the work. That’s it.

http://www.cod.edu/Catalog/detail.asp?url=Photography

What other applications besides panoramic photography uses image mosaicking techniques?

State the references on these applications.

air photos (vertical) are mosaic combined to make a kind of photo map. this used to be done by hand when i was in school, but now they have computers that do a better job of blending photos together and are more accurate for scale as well.

I want to be a pro!

Try this http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/digital-photography-tips-for-beginners/

You will learn a lot from this site.

I work at a portrait studio now and have been in photography for the last 8 years, part of me wants to go to school and learn enough about photography and how to run a small business. The other part is worried that photography is a dying business with so many people doing their own photography with digital cameras & photoshop. Is it worth all that school ,money & time?

the abillity to produce great images in the camera is a dying art as people think great images are made from hours in the computer,

do what you feel is the right thing to do

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