Understanding digital photography : techniques for getting great pictures / Bryan Peterson.
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TextPublication details: New York : Amphoto ; Garsington : Windsor [distributor], 2005.Description: 160 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 28 cmISBN: - 9780817437961 (pbk.) :
- 0817437967 (pbk.) :
- 775 PET
- 775 22
- TR267
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Introduction. --All that digital stuff:-- What s a Pixel?. The three Digital Image Formats. ISO. White Balance. Infrared Film. --Aperture: -- Aperture\'s true importance. F/22, Storytelling, and the wide-angle lens. Isolation Apertures. Who Cares? Apertures. --Shutter Speed: -- Interpreting Motion. Panning. Painting with Shutter Speed. Zooming. --Light-- The Importance of Light. Frontlight. Sidelight. Backlight. Diffused Light. Dusk and Low Light. Taking a Meter Reading. Backlit Portraits. Backlit Nature Subjects. --Composition-- Filling the Frame. Backgrounds. The Rule of Thirds. Horizontal vs. Vertical .. Working you Subject. Scale and the Landscape. White Backgrounds: An Exercise in Composition. Themes . Good Macro Subjects. Macro Depth of Field and Lenses. Specular Highlights. --The Photoshop Digital Darkroom. -- Photography and Photoshop: It\'s like Driving . Opening and Cleaning a Digital File. Sharpening. Cloning. Adjusting Color. Black and White, Sepia, or Steely Blue. Color, Black and White, or both. Digital Sandwiches. Composites, Photoshop as Graduated Neutral-Density Filter. Multiple Exposures in Photoshop. Correcting Keystoning. Panoramas,. Cropping and Resizing. Workflow. --Index.
Peterson takes the reader through all the basic and essential techniques and skills required to obtain beautiful-looking digital photographs every time you snap a picture.