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Mastering Your DSLR Workshop

Aug30
2009 Leave a Comment Written by KerryG

Mastering Your DSLR Workshop
Sunday September 20th 10am – 2pm
Tustin, Ca

Are you wanting more out of your new camera but are stuck on the lousy automatic modes that never seem to get you the shot you want? Take control of your camera with the DSLR Workshop and learn how your camera really works. In this four hour workshop you will learn about the different shooting modes and how they are used to get exactly the shots you want to get.

  • What is Program mode and when to use it
  • Use aperture priority to get nice depth of field shots
  • Use shutter priority to capture movement
  • Take full control with manual mode

Once you understand how to use your camera we then dive into getting great exposures by controlling our cameras exposure settings. By controlling the ISO, Aperture, and Shutter speed we can learn to properly control our exposure and ensure that we can get every shot.

After lunch (included in the price) we will get into using flash to your advantage and showing how to get high quality portraits with just a single flash.

Finally we will look at using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom to process our images and make them look as professional as possible.

  • Lightroom workflow
  • Using presets
  • Camera Calibration
  • Using Lightroom’s retouching tools
  • Creating slideshows
  • Exporting images
  • Watermarking

Attendees should bring their camera equipment, accessory flash, lenses, and laptops (optional)

Total cost for this four hour event is $79 and is limited to 10 people.
Register at: http://dslr0920.eventbrite.com/

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How to clean your lenses

Jul18
2009 Leave a Comment Written by KerryG

In the forums Benjamin Trevor asked for an article on how to properly clean your lens so thanks for the suggestion and here we go. First off, the best thing to do is keep your lenses clean in the first place, always keep your front and rear caps on when not in use. Secondly, you should have UV filters on all your lenses, this will help protect your lenses from damage as well as keeping any cleaning limited to the filter instead of actually touching the lens glass itself. But, if you have to clean, lets look at some ways how.

Goodbye Dust Bunnies

There are three things that I keep handy in order to keep my lenses clean. A good microfiber cloth, a Giottos Rocket Blower, and a LensPen. I do not use any cleaning process that uses chemicals since even the best will leave some residue. Preferably I don’t want to touch the glass at all so the first step is going to be to use the Rocket Blower to get as much off the glass as possible. If something isn’t coming off easily I turn to the brush side of the Lenspen. If the issue is something different like fingerprints (my personal biggest issue) then the best way to clean that is with the felt tip of the Lenspen. The carbon dust will clean and polish the lens to perfection.

The following video will walk through my cleaning process that I go through before any shoot.

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