Original Digital Images Tutorial (2007)

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Digital Images and the Web

http://DigitalImages.notlong.com

Brian Lamb –http://www.flickr.com/photos/harry

Jeff Miller – http://www.flickr.com/photos/bazzy

Novak Rogic – http://flickr.com/photos/rogic/∞; http://www.supernovak.com

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Choosing a camera

• digital vs. film

• phone? point and click? prosumer? dslr?

• Think: features vs price vs convenience…

For gathering info:

• http://dpreview.com∞
• http://cameralabs.com∞
• http://imaging-resource.com∞
• http://ephotozine.com∞
• http://steves-digicams.com∞
• http://dcviews.com∞

Buying local vs online, new vs. used

• eBay, Buy & Sell, Used Vancouver, Craigslist∞
• (brief digression on the general fabulousness of Craigslist)

Basics of snapping a shot — what are your tips?

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A really good starting point is Fodor’s tips on photography∞ (composition, techniques, styles…)

• Composing your shot

• Flash or no flash?

• Shutter speed

• Depth of Field (aperture)

• White Balance

• Histograms
• Raw or Jpeg?

Editing and organizing photos

• Developing Raw files (Bibble Pro, Adobe Bridge, Aperture, Picassa)
• Editing Jpegs (Photoshop, Picasa, iPhoto, Camera’s software)
• White Balance (removing colour cast caused by different light sources)
• Sharpening
• Cropping (re-composition)
• Red-eye Reduction
• Artistic License…

Activity: Basic Photo Editing

• Choose your editor (Picasa, iPhoto, Photoshop, ONLINE! using Picnic∞ or Splashup∞, on your camera)
• Find a photo on Flickr∞

Different approaches to posting photos to web

• choosing the web presence
• personal vs community
• pbase, photosig, deviantart, webshots, Picasa web albums…)

• commercial photography: www.istockphoto.com
  
• basic HTML code <img src=”URL”> — more here∞

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How do we love http://www.flickr.com∞? Let us count the ways

• Flickr as photo organizer
• Uploading & Downloading
• Describing and tagging
• Digression – what is ‘tagging’
• Notations
• Flickr Badge
• Comments
• “Contacts, Friends & Family”
• Privacy
• Groups
  • UBC Group∞
  • UBC Photos on a Map∞
• Favorites
• Geotagging – maps and places∞
• Online editing (now built in using PICNIC)
• HTML Code for webpages
• Creative Commons
• Flickr Stats
• Flickr to print

Activity: Upload and tag a photo to Flickr (username and account in-session)

http://raw.at/kontakt/images/cc-logo.png∞

Finding legal images for your web presentation

• Digression – what Creative Commons∞ is, and why it’s a necessary step forward in the IP wars
• Flickr advanced search∞
• Using the “blog this” button
• setting it up (demo)

Activity: find a Creative Commons licensed image, and post it to the blog

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Flickr as Web 2.0

• RSS support
• Flickr Mashups∞
• Tag Related Browsers∞, Mappr∞, Clockr∞, Postcard Browser∞, Vancouver Map∞, Montager∞, Spell With Flickr∞, Colr Pickr∞, delivr∞…. More at Flickr Bits∞ and Great Flickr Tool Invention∞.
• Dumpr∞ – nifty effects
• basics of Geotagging