Overview
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Discover how to stage, light, and photograph your handmade items in a way that maximizes their appeal to viewers and customers.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Understanding aperture value and f-stops
- What is shutter speed?
- Using shutter priority and aperture priority
- What is ISO?
- Achieving the proper exposure
- Using depth of field
- Using point-and-shoot cameras
- Using the viewfinder to frame the image
- The power of negative space
- Creating lines to make compelling compositions
- Using and recognizing the rule of thirds
- Creating clean and zen images
- "How'd they do that?": Taking process shots
- The benefits of using models
- Shooting your crafts in the great outdoors
- Creating a "habitat" with site-specific shooting
- Anthropomorphizing: When, where, why?
- Tools for diffusing and reflecting light
- Getting resourceful with lighting options
- The joys of tripods and remote controls
- Project: Making a tabletop light box
- Project: Converting your kitchen into a studio
- Project: Converting your car's trunk into a mobile studio
- Cropping and rotating images
- Refining tone with Curves
- Correcting color balance
- Giving brightness a boost
- Removing clutter with the Clone tool
- Compressing images
- Using the cloud for image storage
- Tagging images for search engine optimization
- Sending high-resolution images
- Selling your crafts
- Selling your shots
- Images for blogging
- Images for exposure websites
- Images for print
- Future scope and happy crafting
