If you handed most people a camera and asked them to take a picture of …something, chances are they'd take off the lens, walk right up to it, and shoot …it straight on. And while that's all well and good for a …snapshot, your craft photography deserves so much more than that. …So we're here in nature right now, this beautiful setting, and what we're going to …do today is take some really great shots of our crafts. …We've made these beautiful terariums, and they kind of reflect the area that we're …shooting in. So, I thought it would be great to place …them all on this stump and really get some interesting compelling angles.…
And I'm all about angles, because everywhere you look you see a lot of …craft photos, product photos that are just really kinda straight on or straight above. …And that really works well with somethings, but when you've got a setting …like this you just have to take advantage of it. …So what we're going to do is just take a couple of pictures and it's, it's, you …know we're out in nature so it's more about the light and we got some …
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9/26/2011- Getting familiar with the camera
- Basic composition and staging tips
- Making and buying helpful tools
- Image editing with Photoshop
- Compressing images
- Using the cloud for image storage
- Tagging images for search engine optimization
- Uploading images for blogging, selling, and printing
Skill Level Beginner
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Introduction
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Welcome2m 26s
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1. Getting Familiar with the Camera
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What is shutter speed?4m 29s
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What is ISO?1m 57s
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Using depth of field5m 10s
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2. Basic Composition and Staging Tips
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The power of negative space4m 31s
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The benefits of using models4m 47s
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3. Equipment List: Making and Buying Helpful Tools
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4. Image Editing with Photoshop
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Cropping and rotating images5m 30s
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Correcting color balance4m 22s
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Giving brightness a boost7m 39s
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5. Compressing and Uploading
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Compressing images8m 19s
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6. Uploading Images for Blogging, Selling, and Printing
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Selling your crafts6m 17s
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Selling your shots5m 33s
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Images for blogging6m 33s
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Images for exposure websites11m 1s
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Images for print4m 42s
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