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Workshop
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OCTE Ontario Council for Technology Education
Nottawasaga Inn, Alliston, ON, Canada
May 8-10 2008
This is a summary of Digital Photography Workshop
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Henry Christiansen & Phil Kwan lead the digital photography workshop on using flash.
Henry began with the presentation with the basics of flash photography.
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The topics covered were:
- Automatic built-in flash & external flash
- Flash is unnatural
- Why Flash is unnatural
- How to fix it
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On the first topic, Henry listed the equipments you would need to get started and explained the pros and cons of various equipment options. He explained and demosrated how these equipments work.
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On the second topic, Henry expained the differences between a picture taken with flash and without flash. The picture taken with flash appeared unnatural - flat, two-dimensional and bright. Whereas, the picture taken without flash appeared natural - three-dimensioanl, depth and texture but dark.
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On the third topic, Henry showed what happened to the picture when you vary the direction of flash; size of the flash; and the balance of the illumination.
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On the forth topic, Henry walked-through the steps you need to follow to take perfect pictures using flash every time.
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Following the presentation, Henry lead the group through two student building exercises that applied the knowledged learned about flash photograhy. The first student building exercise, "Making Your Image Really Smoke" demostrated the use of flash direction, flash size and balance of the illumination. The second student building exercise applied the knowledge of flash photograhy to group pictures. Volunteers from the audience were used to do this exercise to show how easy and practical using flash with your pictures. This exercise also included a component using Adobe Photo Elements to correct common problems you would see in group pictures.
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At the end of the workshop, all the attendees were given a full press kit and The Digital Photography book written by the DPInstruct team. Many attendees stayed afterward to ask further questions.
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