Overview
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Covers advanced techniques for staging, lighting, and photographing your handmade crafts, as well as for sharing the images you create.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Foundations of composition and staging
- Foundations of ISO, aperture, and shutter speed
- Camera Raw: What? when? why?
- How bracketing can save your exposure
- Understanding key tones
- What is dynamic range?
- Reading and understanding histograms
- Creating striking images with contrast
- Shooting crafts in black and white
- Metering light to get it right
- Minimizing and maximizing shadows
- Getting awesome shots in low-light settings
- Crafting moods with light
- Understanding the golden section: ratio, triangles, and spirals
- Using vanishing points in craft photography
- Establishing the temperature of an image
- Angling for the wow factor
- Handy tools for staging
- Hinting at motion in a static image
- Creating simple animations with still images
- Lenses: Choosing the right one for the job
- Project: Shooting a highly reflective handmade craft
- Project: Shooting an extremely fibrous handmade craft
- Removing skin imperfections
- Using layer masks to improve backgrounds
- Adding watermarks and copyright info
- Shooting for a client
- Caring for your gear
- Forecasting challenges
- Respecting spaces
- Keeping it simple
