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January 10, 2006
Macworld - Day 2 - Digital Photography Day
So today I attending a digital photograph day sponsored by Olympus. There were two sessions to choose from Advanced and Beginner. I, in my infinite wisdom, decided that I was not good enough for the Advanced Session so I decided to sign up for the Beginner Session. Boy, was I was wrong. I was bored and frustrated just about the whole day. My time would have been better spent attending the second day of the Aperture Class.
The first part of the day was spent talking about the technical concepts of digital photography, battery life, film speed, file types, file size, and Histograms. Now, the part about the Histogram was interesting and I did learn a little. Then the instructor, Jay Kinghorn, talked about composition, lighting, and emotion. It was very basic stuff and not anything that I didn't know already.
After the short class room instruction, we then went out to Yerba Buena Gardens and took a little photo safari. I started out using an Olympus camera that was provided by Olympus. I soon grew tired of it and wanted my own camera. So Lucien was nice enough to bring it to me. I did get some nice instruction from a couple of the Olympus reps and learned a little about depth of field and some of the features of my camera. I also had comments about my good technique on taking pictures, i.e crouching down low or standing on items to get a different perspective.
After the photo safari, we went back to the conference room and downloaded the pictures. Now, keep in mind I am in a beginners class, most people in my class are not proficient with a computer and had trouble with some basic skills. They had us use Photo Mechanic to download the photos. We were told that this is the application that the pros use, especially those in the newspaper business. Personally, I think this was beyond the capability of most of the people in our class and iPhoto should have been used. I like iPhoto; it's a great entry level photo and image editing application. I personally could have had the photos downloaded and a CD created within 5 minutes, but we had to go through each step slowly, so it took a little longer.
After lunch, we had a session on indoor lighting. This was probably the most interesting and the least applicable to what I want to do. The instructor brought in a lot of equipment and was showing where to set-up the lights. He also talked about colored filters.
Next, Jaky Kinghorn, returned and talked about the digital workflow. Most of his talk centered around Photo Mechanic and iView. I personally am excited about Aperture and currently use iPhoto, so this is the part that I liked the least and I actually walked out of the session and went to the Exhibit floor.
I did go back to hear from Kevin O'Connor who talked about Image Editing. This is another part of the day that could have had more time as we only touched the surface of what is available in Photoshop Elements. He showed a little bit of the image editing options in iPhoto and then moved on to Photoshop Elements. I did learn a little in this session and think with more time, I could have gotten a lot more out of the session.
Overall, I don't feel I got much out of today. Tomorrow should be better as I am going to a Final Cut Studio 2 day session. I am really looking forward to it and hope that they day is better than today.
Posted by crumrine at January 10, 2006 11:09 PM
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