not having to crop and rotate is a little time saver that makes
editors smile (we're a lazy bunch). Not that I'd frown at receiv-
ing these photos – you’ve done a good job.
All the photos seem slightly soft, but a bit of unsharp mask in
Photoshop should cure that. If your camera has live view and
you can magnify the 'viewfinder' image on the back of the cam-
era, setting focus that way is the most trustworthy. My Canon
40D, which is otherwise a really nice camera, has the thru-the-
lens viewfinder ever so slightly out of whack as is the autofocus.
Live view lets me shoot noticeably sharper photos.
Overall I'd say A- on the photos!
Cheers,
Charlie Comstock
While I was pleased with the grade I received, I told Charlie
that I believed there was a little incentive baked into it. At
this point I made an outline of the various steps that would
take place in the construction process and noted where I
thought photos would be appropriate.
I also started taking photos- and more photos, and more
photos, and... Did I mention that I didn't have much experi-
ence with digital photography?
I got a spiral-bound notebook and each time I took a set of
photos, I recorded the specifics of each individual shot: see
Photo 4.
Across the top of each page I made heading for photo num-
ber, f-stop, shutter speed and focus. After taking a round of
photos, I would load them into the computer for review. I
made notes about photos that worked and ones that didn't,
and kept taking shots until I got the photos I wanted for a
specific step in the construction process.
