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Teacher: Kenji Tachibana Digital Photography I Believable Illusion Using Light: Drawing with light is at the core of dynamic or purposeful photography. The other half of the core is the ability to tell a story. Telling a believable story takes solid photographic skills and strong awareness and control over light, composition, and people and/or object manipulation skills.

Teacher: Kenji Tachibana Digital Photography I Believable Illusion Skill Requirement: Basics At minimum, you need to know when an image is accurately exposed with correct color, and reasonably sharp. 1.ExposureDark, just right range, to too light. 2.ColorWarm, neutral, to cool. 3.SharpnessGet accurate focus point and deep enough depth-fo-field to carry the required focus range.

Teacher: Kenji Tachibana Digital Photography I Believable Illusion Sill Requirement: Histogram All of you have active or passive histogram, exposure graph display, in your camera LCD. You must start paying attention to it. Active histogram is much more useful because the exposure graph is fully active during the preview (before shooting) phase. This give you the chance to study the lighting before you shoot.

Teacher: Kenji Tachibana Digital Photography I Believable Illusion Exposure Error: Whether the image is too light or dark, it ‘s usually not a problem with the camera exposure meter. Most real world scenes have tonal range beyond the capability of the sensor chip to capture accurately. Using the squint-view technique in combination with observing the histogram can help you to be selective about what, where, and when you shoot.

Teacher: Kenji Tachibana Digital Photography I Believable Illusion Light Level: Without light, there is no image. With low light, there is poor image with digital noise (grain), bad color, and low contrast. The compact digital is designed to perform well in full daylight level of illumination. Best image are captured somewhere between full sunlit day and moonlit night scenes.

Teacher: Kenji Tachibana Digital Photography I Believable Illusion Seeing the Light: Many of the assignment requirements (rules) are calculated to maximize the success potential for the student. It could benefit you to study the ‘why’s’ behind the requirement. Once you see the light, understand story telling, and fully appreciate output requirements, lot of rules can go out the window. Or, you’ll just modify the requirements to fit your needs.

Teacher: Kenji Tachibana Digital Photography I Believable Illusion Puzzle: Is the example shot an outdoor or an indoor shot? Is it natural or artificial light? Why do you think so? What are the evidence for your assertion?

Teacher: Kenji Tachibana Digital Photography I Believable Illusion Indoor Shot The original shot was taken inside a QFC in Wallingford under fluorescent lights.

Teacher: Kenji Tachibana Digital Photography I Believable Illusion Unconscious Expectation Creating an illusion requires viewer participation. The viewer brings their ‘unconscious expectations’ to your photographic offering. An unthinking expectation might be that flower grows outside.

Teacher: Kenji Tachibana Digital Photography I Believable Illusion Lighting Direction and Cropping The “top light” direction is also helping the image to look like it’s outdoors. And I cropped to delete anything that might give a hint to it’s true location.

Teacher: Kenji Tachibana Digital Photography I Believable Illusion It’s the Thought that Counts Even if you weren’t fooled, it’s important to give the concepts due consideration. And the concept were… 1.Know your story. 2.Have some concrete ideas about how to fill-in the detail of your story. 3.Execute the shot to the best of your ability 4.Make sure to shoot variations on your theme (bracket). 5.Study the histogram from each and every shot. 6.Be willing to re shoot and re shoot with less-is-more in mind. 7.Show your work with learning as your primary selective focus goal.

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