Photo Tips

This page is devoted to listing photography tips discussed at our meetings and others asked of us. If you remember more of them that you want added here, let me know by emailing me at the email address below (webmaster).

Q: How do you perform Custom White Balance? - May 2010 meeting

A: Here is a website that has a tutorial on white balance that looked good. It also includes good information as to how to set your white balance for any photography session you plan to do. It also includes information related to Raw capture and fixing white balance there. Another website I found also includes good information on setting manual white balance. It is on photoxels.com. Another website offers advice on white balance but also a number of other tutorials that you might want to check out. This website is digital-photography-school.com. You would be amazed at how many websites there are with good advice on how to handle the white balance question. Just do a google search on the topic and find additional information if you want.

Q: How do you capture red flowers properly? - August 2009 meeting

A: Add side lighting to keep it from looking muddy. Adds the depth missing when shooting straight on.

Q: Anyone know more about Macro Photography? Subject of September 2009 meeting.

Email us if you have links that can help us with this topic.

Q: What software works good for doing photo slide shows to DVD on a Windows machine?

A: At the October meeting, we discussed options including Photodex ProShow Gold (price now $70), Adobe Premiere Elements (price ranges from $80 - $100) and Pinnacle (now owned by Avid - prices range from $50 - $130). I have included links here to these products so you can obtain more information on each product. Various club members have used each product and like them for ease of use and/or capabilities. If you have Adobe Photoshop Elements 7.0, here are instructions from Adobe's website on how to Publish a Slide Show onto DVD, Burn an Existing Slide Show onto DVD, or Add Photoshop Elements Slide Shows to Video Projects.

Q: Where can I find some good tutorials on Digital Photography?

A: I found some good tips on a website called Photoxels: http://www.photoxels.com/digital-photography-tutorials.html. It discusses What is Aperture, What is Exposure Bracketing, What is Correct Exposure, What is Noise, Fireworks, Fill-in Flash, Frame Your Picture, Sharpens Your Photos for Display, Using Area Focus, Using Center AF, Adjusting Levels, Using the Histogram, Understanding Focal Length, Taking TV Pictures, What is ISO, Understanding White Balance, Understanding RAW File Format, Depth of Field, Night Photography, and Understanding Exposure Compensation.

Q: How can I give constructive criticism as it relates to someone's photos?

A: I found this link to a website (photocritic.org) that gives you more information on how to do a good constructive photo critique.

 

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Photo Tips Websites:

PhotoSecrets.com is a very good resource for tips on photography, links of websites to explore, location guides, and books. The attached Adobe PDF file contains most of the Photo Tips pages (356 kb in size) from this website. It even has tips on shooting fireworks photos.