Digital Photography From Using the Camera to Integrating Images into Your Program

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Digital PhotographyFrom Using the Camera to
Integrating Images into Your Program

• Barbara Chamberlin, bchamber_at_nmsu.edu
• Jeanne Gleason, jgleason_at_nmsu.edu,
• Bill Pabst, PabstA_at_missouri.edu

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Our Plan for theNext 90 Minutes

• Using any Camera
• Taking better photos
• Fixing photos
• Organizing photos
• Sharing
• You wont learn everything, but youll know
  enough to learn everything

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Turning the camera on
Turn camera on
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Taking photos
Shoot photos
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Viewing photos
Play or view photos
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Viewing photos
Move to next photo
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Zoom
Wide/Telephoto
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Flash
Toggle flash
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Flash options
Flash on
Flash off
Red eye
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Focus
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How many images on camera?

• Size of storage card(8, 16, 32, 64, 128, etc)

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How many images on camera?

• Size of storage card(8, 16, 32, 64, 128, etc)
• File Size (number of pixels in the picture)
• 640x480
• 2260x1614
• Compression or Quality

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Changing Settings/Menu
Menu button
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Moving through Settings
Navigation button
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Settings - file size (pixels)
Image Size/Resolution
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Settings - quality, compression
Image Quality/Compression
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Extra stuff youll want

• Extra battery
• Card reader
• Additional card (with more space)

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Deleting images off camera

• Deleting on the camera

Delete button
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Getting images off camera

• Use cable and software
• Use card reader
• Use Adobe Album

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Taking better photos
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Move in close
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Use flash outside
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Take lots of photos
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Try interesting poses
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Try interesting poses
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Watch your backgrounds
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Watch your lines
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Make meaningful memories
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Resource for Teaching

• Digital 4-H Photography Project
• 6 learning experiences
• PowerPoint presentations (with notes)
• Handouts

cahe.nmsu.edu/4h/photography
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Resource for Teaching

• Good book for teaching content Teaching with
  Digital Images Acquire, Analyze, Create,
  Communicate. Editors Bull and Bell. ISBN
  1564842193

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Fixing and Organizing Photos

• Your photos are perfect but what about those
  that other people take?
• How do you organize and group your photos so they
  are useful?

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Lets Play with Album

• Getting photos from camera and computer
• Organizing photos
• tagging/titles/keywords
• albums/folder
• Fixing photos
• Stuff you can make
• Printing options

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Album Software

• Many types
• Adobe Photoshop Album (49.00) and free download
• http//www.adobe.com/products/photoshopalbum/
• Google Picasa (Free)
• http//picasa.google.com/)
• Apple iPhoto (part of 79 iLife Suite)

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Brainstorming

• How can digital images be used
• With YOU holding the camera?
• With THEM holding the camera?

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Questions

• What camera should I buy?
• Why are my PowerPoints so big?
• Is it really ok to print photos at home?

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What to do with them once youve got em

• Printing
• High-speed access Online
• Printer
• Photo development house (take card)
• Web or presentation
• Resize before using (72-100 ppi)
• Save in proper format

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What to do with them once youve got em

• Archive
• Back up photos to CD
• Back up photos to DVD
• Post photos to online service and order CD