What shall I write a photography tutorial on? You decide! What do you want to learn?

TijmenDal

TijmenDal

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I think we got a pretty good thing going with people writing tutorials and what not. I've secretely been working on a few myself, which I will upload soon. I've just finished number three, but would like to get 5 tutorials before I upload my content.

Before writing a new one, I figured I might ask what NS would like to learn in terms of photography (don't ask me anything video related, I know jack shit about it).

A few suggestions and stuff I was thinking about doing maybe:

- The ultimate guide on vintage lenses. Maybe bold to say, but I'm certainly one of the most schooled ones on here on this subject.

- Timelapse and timelapse workflow

- Something post-processing related (in lightroom/photoshop). This could be pretty much anything. A certain feature in photoshop, something you might want to learn about colors and RAW, a certain look, sharpening etc. You name it

- Photography slang and abbreviations (this would basically be a list of stuff with a small explanation)

- Metering modes and how you camera's meter works (this would probably be a 2 tutorial series. The first on your meter, the second on applying that knowledge to taking actual photo's)

If there's anything you want to learn, just post in here.

Most votes in a couple days wins.

Go!

 
lightroom one would be cool. Sometimes I find it hard to figure out just what to do with a picture as there are so many options
 
if you did a time lapse that would be so helpful. i cannot figure out how to do them. the part the sucks the most is i have a few pretty good shots i want to get and cant get them.
 
I'm sure what ever thing you choose has already been done far better online somewhere, so...
 
This is very true. But I'm also writing these tutorials for myself, so I analyze what I'm doing much more closely than I normally would. When I'm photographing, it's almost auto-pilot, but it's good to think every now and then why you do what you do and how you do it.

And it's nice to keep this thing going within the community I think.
 
yeah, but personally i find it nice reading tutorials right on this site. another thing is you might stumble on a tutorial just browsing m&a that you weren't planning on actually looking up. for example, the star photography tutorial that papa_lanks wrote on here is awesome, and i bet a lot of people only tried to shoot stars because they randomly saw that here.
 
i'll collaborate with you on the timelapse one if you like. or i can just write a timelapse tutorial, it's super easy.
 
Ok, Lighroom it is. That one would be really helpful for me as well. Especially the whole organization part of it.

It'll probably a series of a couple tutorials. I might even do a video tutorial, we'll see.

Gavin, you can make one on Timelapses if you want. I'll write one on vintage lenses thereafter.
 
forgot all about that haha. This would be super helpful, as I am in the process of reorganizing all my files/making a few changes to my workflow
 
Perhaps something to do with speed lights, how to use them in manual mode, positioning them, using slaves, bonus points if you relate it to skiing.
 
This is something I don't think I'm experienced enough with to write a good guide on. Especially with skiing (I've never shot skiing with flashes before) I wouldn't be able to write a good guide. I know how to shoot skiing with strobes, but without any practical practice I don't think it's really fair to write one.

I would refer you to a guide on Dan Carrs site. I think he wrote one, you should check it out.
 
This is true but i find a dynamic guide (where people are constantly adding/asking questions) helps me a lot more. I know there is a shitload of stuff on POTN and FM and other sites, but it's fun to learn with other kids just like yourself IMHO
 
Ok, just finished the vintage glass guide. It's pretty effin long, but it should help a lot of kids out.

Gavin messaged me he's going to write the timelapse one, so I'll just do another one.

I might just start a video series on Lightroom tonight, we'll see.
 
Yes they pretty much are.

There's basically two different kinds of lighting: continues and strobes. Strobes *mostly* refer to big lights that use a capacitor that fills up and then dumps all it's energy in one go (even at lower powers it discharges completely). Speedlights on the other hand use what's called an IGBT, a transistor that let's through a certain amount of light till the desired output is reached. That's why the flash duration of a speedlight gets much shorter at less power, whereas a studio strobe's output stays more or less the same. Now, officially speedlights fall under the category of strobes, but aren't often referred to as that.
 
God you're knowledgeable. Could a strobe guide not just be the same as an external flash guide really then?
 
In terms of use: yes. It's basically the same thing, except for the way they output power. I'm just not very experienced with strobes and think it would be better if someone else would cover this. Especially with optical slaves and masters I'm not up to date at all. I use a radio trigger system, which works much differently (but imo better) than master/slave strobes.
 
I think you should cruise tumblr, look at all the cliche hipster-ass photo looks, and then do a guide that's not only informative but sorta tongue-in-cheek about how those looks can be easily accomplished in LR.

I think it would be fun and you could have some fun writing it.
 
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