Welcome to Intermediate DSLR Photography

Welcome to our Spring 2019 Intermediate DSLR Photography course (F104). We’ll be meeting in the Tallwood Annex on Tuesdays from 9:40 to 11:05. This course will have a photo assignment announced each week.

This course assumes attendees can find the basic camera controls including focusing the lens, adjusting white balance, and selecting the shutter speed and aperture settings. We’ll start discussing how those elements work together in making a photograph.  Each week we’ll discuss and practice shooting topical pictures including table-top/macro, landscape, nature, sports and others.  Prior to the first class each attendee is asked to upload a recent favorite photo to the class's gallery.

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Dan Feighery earned a BS in physics from St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia and a master’s in public administration from Golden Gate University in San Francisco. He was the founder of the OLLI Photography Club and has taught various photography courses over the past several years. Photography has been one of his hobbies for the past seven decades.

File Naming Convention for OPC Courses

The file naming convention for OLLI Photo Club (OPC) courses is similar to that used for the OPC’s routine galleries:

• The filename contains two fields: the photographer’s name and the image’s title,
• The title field of a filename will include up to two elements: the image’s descriptive title, and in some cases, a Photo ID to ensure filename uniqueness,
• “hyphens”, preceded and followed by a “space” character, will separate the two fields, and
• The title field may contain “spaces.”

 

The filename format for this course only is

LastnameFirstinitial - Title [ PhotoID ]

The brackets ( “[“ and “]” ) indicate an optional element in the filename. This optional element is used only to ensure filename uniqueness. The course’s instructor may require use of a particular form of the PhotoID.

Examples:

When the title is unique

SmithJ - Beautiful Trees.jpg

 

When duplicate titles must be made unique

SmithJ - Beautiful Trees 1.jpg

SmithJ - Beautiful Trees 2.jpg

 

When the camera’s filename is used to ensure uniqueness

SmithJ - Beautiful Trees IMG_1234.jpg

SmithJ - Beautiful Trees IMG_5678.jpg

 

Other filename formats that will not be used in this course

IMG_1234.jpg
IMG_1234-Edit-1.jpg
yyyymmdd-hhmmss.jpg

 

Notes:

The only characters allowed in a filename for this course are alphanumerics, “spaces,” “hyphens,” and, for camera filename elements only, “underbar.”

The “.jpg” suffix is normally appended by your PC’s software.

“PhotoID” is only required when needing to distinguish among multiple photos.

The last three examples are just for information purposes. They are other typical file naming formats designed to ensure uniqueness of file names, the first being a camera-generated filename, the second indicating the existence of an external photo “editor” such as PhotoShop, and the third a date and time stamp.

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Uploading Instructions for OPC Courses

1. Create a JPEG (.jpg or .jpeg) photo named according to the "File Naming Convention" specified for the gallery. Note: Depending upon your workflow, you may not want to change the name of an original JPEG file; in this case, change the name of a copy of the original file.
2. Enter the "upload link" into your browser to show the OPC’s "Upload to ‘Gallery’ ” window. Note: some courses have a "Sandbox" gallery to practice the upload process. You will receive an email from the instructor with an upload link for a Sandbox gallery (if used in the course) and for a gallery specific to each session of the course.
3. Drag and drop your photo file(s) into the window using the file manager of your PC:
   1. in Microsoft Windows, the file manager is File Explorer;
   2. in Apple macOS, the file manager is Finder.
4. Wait until the upload completes and click the "Done" button.
5. View your images at the appropriate OPC gallery. For example, this course's galleries are maintained at the OPC photo repository (https://olliphotoclubgmu.smugmug.com), and the galleries can be found via the following menu sequence:

> Galleries
> Special
> OLLI Courses
> "Name of Course"

For example, the "Name of Course" for the practice gallery (Sandbox) is:

> "Course name abbreviation" Sandbox

(e.g., "GRC Sandbox" or "DCF Sandbox")

And the "Name of Course" for an assignment gallery is:

> "Course name abbreviation" YYYYMMDD

(e.g., "GRC 20190122," "DCF 20180918," etc.)

 

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