Thank you for your interest in 31 Days to a Better Photo! I’m glad you’re here and want to learn how to make the most of your dSLR. With a little time together, you can be shooting manually in a month! Yes, for real. For terms of use of this (FREE!) series, please read below. Thank you for respecting the intellectual work of the author. xo, Darcy
- Welcome
- Find Your Camera Manual
- Shooting Fast vs. Shooting Slow
- Controlling the Faucet – Learning ISO
- Understanding Aperture, Part 1
- Understanding Aperture, Part 2
- Tackling Depth of Field
- The Exposure Triangle
- Scales
- Meter Maids – In Camera Metering
- Tips for Shooting Manually – Link Up
- What’s White Balance?
- Setting Custom White Balance
- Histo-huh? What’s a histogram?
- Histograms in the Field
- Exposure Compensation
- The Low Down on Lenses
- What camera do you have?
- When natural light won’t cut it
- Art in Photography
- Elements of Composition
- Post Production
- Levels vs Curves in Photoshop
- What’s a Layer Mask?
- How to Install Photoshop Actions – featuring Jodi from MCP Actions
- Photoshop Actions Resource List
- When too much is too much.
- How to Resize your Images to Share on the Web
- 12 Steps to a Sharper Image
- My Workflow
- Thank you & Live the Moments
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I didn’t do this series alone! Special thanks to Nester for assembling our crew:
31 Days of Grace :: Chatting at the Sky
31 Days to an Inspired Table :: My First Kitchen
31 Days to a Less Messy Nest :: Nesting Place
31 Days of Living Simply :: Remodeling This Life
31 Days of Autumn Bliss :: The Inspired Room
31 Days to More. . .With Less :: Beauty and Bedlam
31 Days to a Better Photo :: My 3 Boybarians
31 Days to Stress Free Entertaining :: Reluctant Entertainer
