[The Snail]

June 14, 2015 at 9:38 pm

Obviously you want to have the same file on multiple hard drives in case of failure so anything you move off of the mac to create space should be kept on both external hard drives.

Since you have 2 x 500 GB and 1 x 1TB you could do something like split the 1 TB into 2 x500 gb, one partition keeping a backup of things kept on the mac and the other keeping a backup of what is kept on the other external hard drive. That way you always have 2 copies of the file.

Slightly off topic but relevant when talking about backups, is that if you keep all of the hard drives in the same place as the computer you could still suffer a single point of failure that could result in the loss of all data eg flood or theft.

[The Snail]

June 2, 2015 at 4:59 pm

JustExposin’ wrote:

wilco wrote:

I would always use Shutter priority in my years in Fleet Street.
The most important thing to me was to eliminate all chance of camera shake.and for that I NEED to know at what speed my shutter is firing
The best news picture in the world is immediately devalued if it has camera shake.

I saw in a documentary that a papparazzi got one million dollars/or pounds for an out of focus grainy shot of Princess Diana kissing Dodi

There is a difference between the two, he vast majority of photographers care about the overall quality of the image, that would include the composition, the content, the lighting and the actual image quality where as paparazzi (and to a lesser extent the press) it is all about the contents often not caring about the other aspects of the final image.

JustExposin’ wrote:

paul wrote:

JustExposin’ wrote:

What settings would pros use in a situation where some big news story is happening. Do they use auto camera settings?

Most of the cameras in use don’t have “auto”. They would usually be good enough at photography to know how to use aperture priority, shutter priority or even full manual.

When they hold it up over the crowd to shoot what setting would they use?

If it was me I would use aperture priority for without flash or manual with ettl for flash. But this also brings up the usefulness of knowing your gear, I know my camera and flash combo usually uses about 1/3 of a stop more flash than I generally like in my photos so I would have it set to ETTL – 1/3 but depending on lighting ect I may change that.

[The Snail]

April 4, 2015 at 5:35 pm

Having a look at the course syllabus there is nothing there that could not be found on YouTube for free. It is all fairly basic stuff and not what I would have considered worthy of a diploma.