12 Steps to Improve Your Digital Photography

A Lecture at  Focus Group Camera Club. Richmond VA

River Road Presbyterian Church (corner of Mooreland Road & River Road)

8960 River Road

Richmond, VA 23239

Common problems make for common grief. In this lecture Stephen Johnson addresses many of the problems that come up for people, often with the user not even knowing what is going wrong. These issues are covered with a clarity and in a context so that their purpose and problem causing potential is understood and able to be applied to a photographer's workflow immediately.

1. calibrate your monitor

2. shoot RAW

3. set jpg to low contrast on camera

4. use histogram, expose to the right

5. gray cap

6. customize RAW presets

7. metadata: name, label and keyword your files

8. preserve bit depth

9. edit for image (tone and aspect ratio)

10. curves for tone shaping

11. calibrated print viewing light

12. preserve whites

Photo by Ben Garfinkle.

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