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Guide to Stock - Part I
Published: 2006-06-13 05:29:22 +0000 UTC; Views: 71701; Favourites: 1723; Downloads: 9763
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full title: "A Guide to Taking Good Quality, High Resolution Stock photographs - Part I - All About Cameras"In this tutorial I'll explain tons of stuff. Aperture, Shutter Speed, ISO, focus, mega pixels, self-timers, etc.
(This is made for figure stock artists, but all sorts of stockers and beginning photographers can learn from this)
Full-view (zoom in) to see the actual tutorial. WARNING: Very large image! There's a somewhat printable version here: [link]
edit: Oh gods! I just signed on quick before I had to go to work and wasn't able to say thanks (no time), but now I'm back.. and wow!
Another DD! Thanks so so much to `thespook for suggesting and ^bleedsopretty for featuring it.. 
And thanks to you for looking.
I have used camera symbols belonging to well... I've seen a few companies use them (Canon, Nikon, Pentax). But I've used them for educational purposes only. No copyright infringement is intended. Please oh please don't report me, I certainly don't make any money off of this.
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Comments: 420
Great tutorial! 
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This is fab - you just summed up an entire semester of photography class in one nice little package!
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I think this is a great tutorial for stockers, but also for beginner photographers as you've explained things like shutter speed and apeture so well.
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this really deserves the DD! awesome tut, thanks.
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very nice comprehensive tutorial. Can see this being useful for other purposes, like photography of textures, props, and objects reference.
Thanks!
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Very nice. What I found to be especially useful were the clear and practicle example images you used to illustrate how a different aperature or ISO effects the detail of the image. Not too many books, I've found, show that as well as you have.
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Who is Carl zeiss? I used to see this name on most camera. Is it a brand or the type of lense? please help. thanks
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Carl Zeiss is a German manufacturer of high quality lenses: [link]
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I've been looking for something just like this. Thanks!
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I just loved looking at this tutorial so much 
I have a 9 megapix cam, so I'm pretty satisfied, it's my first digi cam.
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oohhhh THANK YOUUUUU*fav* im definitely printing this off!
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Wow, talk about timing. My wife and I were just discussion what would be a good camera to buy since we don't have use of one any longer and I stumble upon this great guild. Thanks so much for posting it. I'm faving it for future reference.
Thanks
Kat
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thanks a lot for this!!
it was really helpful and easy to understand
hopefully it will make my stock pics a hell of a lot better xD
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Thank you, I think this will fix the problems I had with my camera this evening.
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This tutorial is great, very useful. To be honest I had no idea about camera megapixels before reading this and I've just realised that I have a 7.1 Megapixel camera. I found it surprising that it is suposed to be a high quality camera because my camera takes images that are so grainy at full size.
Would the make of the camera(olympus) change the quality, or is my camera just faulty?
Thanks for your time
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This is a great tutorial!
I was kinda wondering what stock art was and how to do it
and when I stumbled upon this tutorial it and after I read it I was very impressed!
Nice job!
-Jen
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Hot damn, this is good.
A 10 second timer can be "quite a restricting", eh?
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Hi ,you've been featured in this news article
https://news.deviantart.com/article/39459/
thanks a lot for sharing
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one question...what kind of camera do you think would be better to use? i mean, a normal one or one of those expensive photographers cameras? >.>
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Thank you! This is terrific and I really appreciate you sharing it with us. Blessings.
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I dont take stock photos but Im sort of camera stupid
thank you
<333 you have saved me
im going out to practice right now
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thanks for this I found the info on f-numbers a lot easier to understand than all the other manuals I've read on the subject.
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This is bloody genius I cant believe this hasn't come out until now.
Dude Fave and kudo's
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Ooooooohh....Maaaa.....FUCKING.....GAAADD... This is exactly what I need!!! I got my camera from Macau and it's manual is in chinese at least here i'd know what the thingies on my camera's thingies are for x.x easier to understand than those professional thingy from the site.
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WW--OOOW, this is so much help. Thank you! ^__^
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wow. i dont think my camera has much of this stuff, like Tv, Av and M.... so i don't understand alot of it.
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Thank you so much for posting this.
It helped me out a ton <33
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You asked to be notified of typos? Just a couple, not sure if you've already been told...they're both in the 'remotes' section. Firstly, you say to look at the 'self timer' section on the left...it's on the right. Secondly, "a ten-second timer can be quite a restricting"...
Anyway, sorry to have to point that out, I love your tutorial, it's taught me so much about how to use my camera in general, as I don't do stock but most fo the stuff is still really useful
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A art guru... god damn you are good and know alot about cameras...
thanks...
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thanks so very much. I've got a nice camera that i have no idea how to use so thanks for finally show me how to use the different modes. auto mode just wasnt doin it for me
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Extremely well done and very helpful! Thank you so much...
Congrats on the DD!
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You have a lot in the beginning about megapixels. I've heard that a higher MP camera can actually give worse images than a lower MP camera. Hadn't heard that before, but somehow it makes sense. The 2MP camera I had for years worked just fine and the images were good - even though there weren't any manual settings! It was... after all... from the Dinosaur Era of digital cameras.... (Which was only 7 years ago.)
I can image that a higher MP count can give better photos, but it depends on more than just that. Like the amount of colors the camera reads and all the other settings.
Thanks for this nice tutorial though. It's pretty much what my photography teacher has been trying to teach us, but I haven't understood at all. It's nice to have it in English and written down.
Do you have any tips about night-time photography? (it's not exactly stock related, but I'm curious.)
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man, i really need that!
thanks for help!!!
fav for you!
if i have some question you will try help?
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Really well done! Clear and direct: a full manual in a few steps.
The next person who asks me anything related to cameras and settings, I'll give him this link.
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