Beginning Camera Setup/ Exposure Testing - Photoshop Workflow

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Camera Configuration

- Highest Resolution
- Lowest Compression

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- No Flash
- Shooting Modes - (*P), Av, Tv, M

- ISO - lowest required (*Auto, 50, 80, 100, 200, 400), 800, 1600, 3200

- White Balance - Auto, Bracketed

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Testing and Experimentation with :

- Bracket exposures -.3 .5 .7 over and under

- Half Step Shutter Lock

Auto Exposure (Lock) AE-L
Auto Focus (Lock) AF-L or AIF-L

- Auto Bracketing AEB
- White Balance Bracketing
- Metering/Exposure and Focus Modes
( Multi-zone/Pattern, Center-weighted, Spot)
- Exposure Compensation Value (and meter)

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Best Practices Camera

- Format media card after every major upload
(erase all, delete all, format)

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Traditional Photoshop Work Flow

Adobe Bridge - preview and editing

- JPEG to Adobe Photoshop .PSD - working file format

Adobe Photoshop

- All adjustments to layers (adjustment/smart object) - reveiw handout here:

http://www.basearts.com/curriculum/PDF/TechHandouts/EssentialLayersPhotoshop.pdf

Digital Camera Configuration - Camera RAW , first steps

- Camera Image Quality Setting - Camera RAW + Largest JPEG
- Lowest Compression - Finest Quality - (Super Fine)
- Flash Off
- ISO - Auto
(Unless experimenting or lowest required to achieve optimal Aperture or Shutter speeds.)

- White Balance - Auto
(Unless experimenting or you know the camera is not acurate in detecting light source. Irrelevant with regards to Camera RAW image editing)

-AEB - auto exposure bracketing enabled or on - ( 3 shots (-1/3 or .3) or (-2/3 .7 ) or ( .5 or 1/2 stop increments)

- Media card FORMATTED following each major accumulation of images. (Low Level Format on monthly basis)

---Camera RAW Work Flow

Adobe Bridge - preview and editing
- Camera RAW Plug-in
- Lightroom
- Aperture

- PhaseOne/ CaptureOne