Angi
From: David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b@dd-b.net>
Reply-To: photoforum@listserver.isc.rit.edu
To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students <photoforum@listserver.isc.rit.edu>
Subject: Re: none
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 10:34:31 -0500
Angi Turnpaugh <shutterbug123@hotmail.com> writes:
> Hello everyone!
> Just landed postion of part time photog for our small local newspaper
> (circulation 10,000) and I am very excited! Spent two days learning basics
> of Nikon D1H and D1X....my first experience with digital... and a new one
> for the paper as well a long way from the comfort zone of my 20 year old
> Canon AE1-Program!! (2 days was NOT enough) Any words of advice? On the
> camera, or photo journ. in general? This is a whole different slice of
> photography for me as I have done mostly portraits in the past. (will be
> keeping my 7 year position at Sears Portrait Studio for a while...security
> blanket and extra income!)
Learn to use the histogram display. It tells you an amazing amount about the image -- you can pretty easily tell if you've clipped highlights or blocked shadows. Digital is like slide film in that *overexposure* is the unforgivable sin (although a sufficient error in *either* direction is fatal, of course).
And learn to use on-camera bounce flash if you haven't yet.
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