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Welcome to the 547th issue of SnapShot! Hello,
We have some terrific announcements for today's SnapShot: Three Courses Back on Schedule! We are excited that the following 4-week classes (offered in the past) have now returned to BetterPhoto's school listings:
- Getting Started in Commercial Photography
- Portrait Photography Lighting on Location and in the Studio
- Successful Publication Photography New Book!! Check out the latest title in the popular BetterPhoto Guide series: The BetterPhoto Guide to Creative Digital Photography (co-authored by Jim Miotke and myself). It's available wherever books are sold, including Amazon. Also see excerpts from the book. In this issue of SnapShot... don't miss the Featured Blog ("White Balance - How to Keep It Simple!") and This Week's Tip ("Photographing at Twilight: How to Do It"). That's it for now. Have fun with your photography! Kerry Drager
Newsletter Editor
Updates From BetterPhoto
White Balance is a popular - and confusing - topic in digital photography. In this article, Jim Zuckerman - plus Jim Miotke and Kerry Drager! - share their WB "workflow". George Schaub, BetterPhoto instructor and Shutterbug magazine's Editorial Director, has just published a beautiful new book: "Along the Way" - Photographs: 1976-2011. Says George: "The photographs in this book were made during a thirty-five year span, from 1976-2011. They were selected for a number of reasons, mainly as associated or particular memories, partly as images that represent how I see and regard the world. They are not arranged in chronological order but more in themes and ideas that emerged over time. They have many stories attached to them, but for me their main tale is that the passage of time is a blink of the eye and that an illusion worth losing is that things that occur twenty years apart are distant and unrelated happenings." Receive credit and credentials from the worldwide leader in online photography education!
Photo Q&A
1: ISO Questions Hi. I have the Canon D60, and shoot with a manual aperture of f/5.6. I found that I'm constantly increasing my ISO in settings where it's not even that shady. Even when I increase the ISO to 600 or above ,my shots are still coming out dark. I had the Canon Rebel and felt that if I left the same settings my images would have been a lot brighter. Anyone experience this? - Rosie Fodera
ANSWER 1: Hi Rosie, Read the manual and check your exposure compensation setting. If you are not familiar with using a DSLR manually or the ability to use the camera settings, you may consider taking a course for the 60D or an exposure class (even better). What shutter speed are you using? If it's sunny outside, you should be able to shoot at ISO 100 at f/16 with a fast enough shutter speed (1/60 or faster) - aka as the sunny 16 rule. I shoot in the Pacific Northwest and overcast skies are the norm, so I often shoot at ISO 400 or more so that I can get the Depth of Field (like f/22 for landscapes) with a fast enough shutter speed for hand-holding. But I prefer to use a tripod so I can use longer shutter speeds like 1 second or slower and keep my ISO at 100 or 200. I also shoot full frame (5D Mk II) which is better at higher ISO's but you should not be having this problem with your 60D. Hope this helps.
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2: Picture Quality Does anyone know how much JPEG files will be affected if you transfer files from one computer to another for post-processing and then back again? Will quality of photos be harmed very much? Thanks. - Tom Fleeman
ANSWER 1:
Hi Tom,
JPEGs are not a lossless format like TIFF and Raw files, but the loss is very minimal. I shoot everything Raw and save the images as .tif or .jpg, but I always have my original Raw files to revert back to.
I have old small JPEGs that have been transferred over a dozen times through different PCs, MACs and hard drives going back 12+ years, and they still lo ok fine.
Hope this helps,
- Carlton Ward
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