METRO - Intro Photoshop Class

Thank you to everyone who attended the Intro Photoshop and Digital Imaging workshop. Here are links to the presentation in .pdf form and the sample images we used in class. The presentation is all fuzzy when viewed in Google Docs, so make sure to download it to see it clearly.

Metro Intro Photoshop Class

Workshop images

Here is a link to the NARA Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Archival Materials for Electronic Access that I reference in the presentation. It is an excellent source of information for digitization projects.

Thank you to everyone at the Metropolitan New York Library Council.

Night Photography - Nikon

I used to enjoy night photography with film, because you never quite knew what you would get. Now with digital photography, I probably enjoy night photography even more precisely because of the instant feedback.

Eiffel Tower at night as seen through a Nikon D50

If you want to try night photography, you will be dealing with very long exposure time since there is not a lot of light at night as far as the camera is concerned. This means, you should have a tripod to get the best results. I don't like lugging a tripod around, so I just place my camera on the ground, or in the case of the picture above, the hand rail on a bridge.

In this picture, my camera was set to ISO 400 and aperture priority. I wanted a long exposure time to burn in the tower and the street lights and I wanted a broad depth of field, so I set the aperture at f16. This resulted in an 8 second exposure. To avoid camera shake from pressing the shutter release, I set the timer and waited.

This is the result:

What the camera recorded

I used Adobe Lightroom to get to the final version. How I did that will have to wait for another post.