The Sunday Recap is Nika’s review of the week’s lesson. I look at this as kind of the instructor’s review of my work. So, in Nika’s words…

It has been a fantastic week! We have had more than 80 people sign up to participate and we have several submissions of image sets at the flickr Food Photo 101 group. We have gotten so many lovely emails that have thanked us for starting this series. Thank you for your support.There are quite a few sites out there that do pointers and such for food photography but I think that this series has one huge difference - You! Because we are working through this together this will be a much more interesting process. I can’t thank you all enough for participating.Curt has crafted an amazing newsletter that you can get at this link (pending) in which he reviews his lesson outcomes and that of some of the other participants. Curt has done an amazing job of taking this first lesson to heart and really going analytical.

Some notes first

At the outset, I have to say that the lesson was “simplified” in one way - I had you set your non-testing settings to auto. This is flawed in a way because the auto implies that the auto setting will vary to compensate in some way as you change the other settings, depending on the camera’s algorithms. I didn’t want the lesson to become this massive matrix of different conditions.

Someone on the blog asked what a DSLR is. I have been compiling a glossary, that may be helpful. A digital single-lens reflex camera (digital SLR or DSLR) is a digital camera that uses an automatic mirror system and pentaprism to direct light from the lens through the viewfinder. The non-DSLR shows on the LCD what is hitting the sensor.

Analysis

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