UDPSIG

About

Welcome to the Unicon Digital Photography Special Interest Group

This group is formed for Unicon Employees, Family and Friends interested in leaning and sharing about Digital Photography.  In the first few weeks the group will be dedicated to covering the following topics in an instructional setting.  In future weeks, we will probably have photographic assignments, assignment reviews, and more.
  • Digital photo management processes
    • Reviewing pictures
    • Backing up pictures
    • Sharing pictures
  • Digital photo management software
    • Lightroom
    • Aperture
    • Picasa
    • Others
  • The basic controls of a camera
    • Shutterspeed, Aperture, ISO
  • The differences between types of digital cameras
    • Digital SLR, Point-n-Shoot, cell phone
  • Wide Angle, Normal, Zoom and how this affects your pictures
    • Including what's the difference between optical and digital 'zoom'?
  • How different sources of light affect your pictures
    • Sun (dawn, noon, evening), florescent, tungsten, flash
  • Composition
    • Rule of Thirds, Leading Lines, Natural Frames, etc.
  • Different camera accessories and what they do
    • Different types lenses, external flashes and more
  • Practicing your hobby, photography assignments for fun