Learning Center

Christmas Card Learn how to produce a greeting card with a photograph

16 June HDR_Stitching By John Smith.  Describes both HDR and image stitching software.

Histogram and Exposure  By Brian Beevers  Describes how to use the histogram to set exposure.  Presented 6 February 2018

CAPA TOE Evaluation By Brian Beevers.  Presented 4 April 2017

Creative DOF and Blur By Brian Beevers.  Presented 14 June 2016

Bad Weather Photography By Jim Bird.  Presented 6 October 2015

Night Photography Tips By Brian Beevers.  Presented 8 September 2015

Auto Focus By Brian Beevers.  Presented 10 February 2015.  Describes how autofocus works and describes back button auto focus.

Crop Factor by Brian Beevers.  Describes how the size of the sensor affects image size compared to a full frame sensor

Lens focal length by Brian Beevers.  Describes the characteristics and uses of wide angle, normal and telephoto lenses

Pixels and Image Size by Dan Ridinger.  Defines “pixel”. Describes how pixels produce an image and how the image size can be determined from the number of pixels.

Changing Pixel Number by Brian Beevers.  Demonstrates how to change the pixel number in an image using Photoshop Elements.

Photography Composition Composition rules based on Youtube video “From Snapshots to Photography“.

Want to see how to conduct a family portrait photo shoot? View Joyce Dodds’ hilarious video on how to conduct a family portrait session: https://www.facebook.com/joycedoddsphotography/videos/277375297296005/?__so__=channel_tab&__rv__=all_videos_card

https://peaceportalalliancephotogroup.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Long_Exposure.pptx Long_Exposure By Brian Beevers. Use of ND filters presented 5 March 2019

The Photographers Ephemeris: https://peaceportalalliancephotogroup.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Photographers-Ephemeris.pptx

RAW vs JPG…which to choose? This is a helpful article on the RAW vs JPG discussion. https://photographylife.com/raw-vs-jpeg