Given that the AW'ers here in this forum are pretty good natured I've decided to post this request here.

Five of us are volunteering to do a 'classroom-type' course on basic use of a SLR camera along with other content such as flashes, accessories, composition, etc. at the end of this month for the local Toronto photography club.

Lucky me volunteered for the basic use which turned out to be quite a chunk of the course, but anyways I think I have the content all there.

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(Works best with IE, view it in slide show mode.)

Most of the content came from me though some from the web and will be acknowledging which sites were used.

I'll have this content available online for a while, but if anybody's interested, take a look and provide me any feedback. Keep in mind that the intended target are beginners and of course I'll be talking more about each point and points in each slide will appear one at a time versus all at once (you'll see it in slide show mode).

TIA....

Add examples of the different shots that would keep there attention more, and probably make more sense. Show what happens when the settings are wrong for a particular shot. The layout and info look great. hope this is the stuff you were looking for.

Slide 12
"Some cameras...1/2000th". 1/2000th is already in your standard list above. Perhaps you were trying for 1/3000th?

Slide 13
Bullet point 3 - the description is kinda odd. Maybe something like "The amount of light needed to expose ISO 200 film is half that needed for ISO 100 film, everything else being equal."

Otherwise, looks pretty good.

Somebody told me about that point on slide 13, fixed it as it was originally more light needed for higher ISO :) Brain fart. Will reword it better. Will look at slide 12 also.

As for more visual examples, good idea. Show something underexposed by a stop and over by a stop, along with the histogram for those beginners with DSLRs and a quick blurb on the histogram as everybody should be looking at that.

That's a really important tool now with digital photography. The sooner you can pound that into the noob's heads, the better. Of course, understanding the basics of exposure is just as important. Realizing that you may want some parts of the image blown (high key) or way underexposed (silhouettes) for creative purposes might be a more advanced issue, but is a natural extension of the histogram introduction.

And the one thing I want to get straight to digital shooters, STOP SHOOTING FOR THE SAKE OF SHOOTING!!!

:)

Nothing's worse than people adding all of their photos from an event outing and 95% of them suck as no thought was done for composition :)