Learn Photography [Full Course] by Australian Geographic Photographer Chris Bray

Nowadays, you can do it yourself for free if you have any type of computer. Now, in other ways, you can get someone else to do it for pretty cheap nowadays and then

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a little bit of post-production that you need to do. that in order to get the best out of your photos some people think that post-production is just cheating, you know, they think that if you touch the photo after it comes out of the camera, then that's cheating because he couldn't do that. with film but of

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you can do that on film, you can make a lot of adjustments, you know how long you left the lamp on when you're exposing the paper, that was like changing your exposure, you can dodge and burn the cover.

This part for a while and then let the light come in so I could basically do local adjustments and that kind of thing and it was just black and white. You could do even more with color, so it's a little silly to say that just because it's digital now and it's so easy, you shouldn't be allowed to do anything. I think that's true, but then some people say, Oh, I'm pretty sure it's okay to get this photo of a boat and this photo of a dolphin and merge them together. and clone the dolphin and now we have two dolphins jumping on the boat, that's good, they are both digital images so it is still a digital photo, no I don't think so, it could be a digital image depending on its uses but it is not a photo, but it's important to realize that even the strictest magazines like the Geographic series and really strict contests like wildlife

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of the year, you know, big cash prizes and entire races are based on any image you've ever seen. over there.

In recent years, they've all been digitally manipulated, but basically we're trying to draw a pretty clear line in the sand. Different competitions have different rules, of

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, but they basically say that you can do whatever you want with the image, as long as you do it over the entire image, so if overall the image is too dark, you can brighten it. If the colors are a little flat, you can increase the saturation, but you can't just go get the girl's eyes and make them green or get rid of the person in the background or bring in a seagull, you know it starts changing an area and making make it look like something completely different, nothing like what it was at the time, then that's pretty universally accepted as cheating or at least creating a digital image. image anyway, but you shouldn't feel bad about going and modifying your photo a little, fixing the colors, etc., because that's the whole point of shooting RAW.

You know, when you shoot RAW files professionally, it's because you can slide the colors. and everything around it to more accurately represent the scene because otherwise you leave it to the camera, so on a normal camera all that light comes in and they start as a raw file and then the camera It determines how blue it normally is and how bright and dark the shadows are and ends up with this kind of runs it through a built-in averaging algorithm and ends up with an image that it thinks is the best representation of the colors and it's not quite correct. , so if not there and it's a particularly vibrant blue day at sea and the ocean is that amazing sapphire blue color and you take a photo of it, you look at the photo and you probably think that the sparrow was bluer than that and you know it really it was.

I just ran it through a built-in averaging algorithm and it gave you a JPEG, so you have to go back there and increase the intensity of the blue so that it looks nice and vivid again just like it did at that time. Now some people have particularly vibrant memories. I think when they go and modify their photos, they come back looking a little amazing. Don't do that, yeah, of all the photos I've judged in contests and stuff, the easiest way to ruin an otherwise great photo is to just end it. saturating the colors and things like that, you're just trying to make it look like it looked at one point and that should be totally acceptable, so if you have any questions or anything, you can submit them through our website.

Chris Bray Photography calmly or If you're on Facebook find us at Chris Bray Photography, we have a group of over 10,000 people, most of them have done the

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course so it's a great knowledge base of

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s there where you can ask questions. If you want feedback on your photos or should you buy this lens or this one, you know, instead of asking me, I'll answer you, but my answer is not necessarily right, even if you have a list of 10,000 people who are giving you feedback   the average that's probably right, so it's a good resource that we try to keep up to date with news, news,

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, new cameras that have come out or contests that you might want to enter, so go and find us on Facebook.

You are also on Instagram if you want us to send you a beautiful photo to your smartphone every day or to register there and then go to our website and see all those free tutorials, like I said, we have so many free tutorials that we are covering many different topics , from light painting and star trails, photographing fireworks and lightning using custom modes, basics of flash, the moon and more advanced things, like you already know the real difference between JPEG and RAW. Okay, now that you've finished my photography course. online, if you enjoyed it, I really recommend you take a look at the course notes booklet that comes with the course on the website.

It's just a handy little review of everything in the entire course, one small section at a time, and you can just sit back. there and reread it until everything makes sense, it's convenient to carry it with you in your camera bag, you know, this course used to cost four hundred and eighty dollars per person and now it's only online, so the least you can do is go and buy that course notes booklet, same with these little plastic summary clip cards, the ideas that you can clip onto the neck strap of your camera and that's just all the really important parts of the course come down to this couple of little cards you already know below.

What time you're wondering or which direction I shift my F-stop to do what with my depth of field and why my photos are blurry, all the answers are in this thing, so if you carry it with you that should save you problems like that which you can also get them on the website and lastly, if you really want to improve your photography to the next level then you should join us on one of our photography tours. There really is no better way to improve your photography than traveling as part of a small group to incredible destinations around the world with photography assistance to help you

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and simply surrounded by inspiring test subjects 24/7. week, so log on to our website Chris Bray Photography Comm and see all the amazing destinations we take these tours to. too and hope

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y one day you'll be able to join us in one of them now.

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