Introduction to Digital Photography
Focus
A course by Jesús G. Pastor , Photographer
About the video: Focus
Overview
“How do I adjust the camera to focus on my pet? And a more tranquil portrait? That's what we'll talk about here”
In this video lesson Jesús G. Pastor addresses the topic: Focus, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Digital Photography. Learn to control the basic parameters of your reflex camera.
Partial transcription of the video
“Focus We add one more element to our beloved camera, something we should control yes or yes, not so much to handle the light, but to see what is focused and what is not. There are two ways to focus and blur an image. We already saw the topic of the diaphragm widely, how a closed diaphragm focuses us more, it gives us more depth of field, which is not the same as focusing, and a very open diaphragm closed the depth of field, whereby what we have in focus is less. So how do we work with the focus of our camera? The first thing we will decide is whether we work in automatic or manual. In many ...”
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Jesús G. Pastor
A course by Jesús G. Pastor
The path of Jesús G. Pastor, a journalist by training, led him little by little towards images, always with a connection to social assistance. As an inveterate traveler, he spent two uninterrupted years in Asia, in addition to a month or more in Lebanon, Syria, Mexico, and Cuba, and two years living in the Balkans in the former Yugoslavia. It was during his travels that Jesús developed his photographic style.
Currently, he is a professor in a higher-level vocational training degree in Image and Sound. He has taught corporate communication workshops for Amnesty International and on travel photography, authorial photography, and digital retouching (especially Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw).
He has been published in national press (La Vanguardia, Público, Metro, Avui, Interviu, Periodismo Humano, The Huffington Post) and internationally (Travel Africa Magazine, Sunday Times, Corbis, Demotix, ACNUR), has worked for companies and NGOs, and has won awards for his work at a waste disposal site in Phnom Phen.
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