1. Teacher: Kenji Tachibana Digital Photography I. G rab S hot into HQ Sunflower

2. Teacher: Kenji Tachibana Digital Photography I High Quality Grab Shot Finders Keepers: I hope you always carry your camera around. Photogenic opportunity abound when you are prepared to capture them.

3. Teacher: Kenji Tachibana Digital Photography I High Quality Grab Shot Sunflower: This was the only thing standing in a yard that was being redone. And the fence was put up first to hide the rest of the yard which was a construction mess. I quickly zoomed to 180mm equivalent telephoto lens to isolate the subject from the rest of the yard with my 18x Leica zoom.

4. Teacher: Kenji Tachibana Digital Photography I High Quality Grab Shot Shooting Specs: I wanted at least f/4.5 to carry the dof which resulted in a 1/50 sec shutter speed. 1/50 sec is very slow for handholding a 180mm equivalent telephoto. I was testing Panasonic’s stabilizer to control or eliminate camera motion blur.

5. Teacher: Kenji Tachibana Digital Photography I High Quality Grab Shot It Worked: The camera original image has been cropped as shown by the off center ‘black frame’. And the stabilizer past the test with flying colors. The image has been processed, retouched, and image enhanced with a right edge and cast shadow for depth.

6. Teacher: Kenji Tachibana Digital Photography I High Quality Grab Shot Comparison: Capture a solid camera original ‘negative’ and MAKE the image in the Lab.

7. Teacher: Kenji Tachibana Digital Photography I White on White against Dark Ivy: On my exercise walk to Madison Park, I spotted this challenge, a white shiny object in front of a very dark field of ivy. If too much tones are used up describing the white object, there is little to fully draw the background. Grab snapshot to Gallery Image

8. Teacher: Kenji Tachibana Digital Photography I In the Detail: Technique has to be transparent to the viewer. That means the exposure and the color must look believable. And the subject must be fine detail sharp! Make it sharp!

9. Teacher: Kenji Tachibana Digital Photography I High Quality Grab Shot Inner Image: I hope you can see that I use the camera original ‘negative’ as the starting point for my ‘painting with light, color, and design sense’. Put together your own toolkit for ‘painting on your camera original negative’. Take classes in art history, drawing, painting, and design. Of course, take more photography classes.

10. Teacher: Kenji Tachibana Digital Photography I x End