Collins Complete Photography Course

A guide to digital photography, covering topics such as the basics, including choosing a camera and equipment, setting up, taking shots and camera care. It also provides tips for taking photographs, with ideas for various genre: portraits, holidays, weddings, children, flora and fauna, and abstracts.

A guide to various aspects of digital photography. It helps you improve your skills, and learn to take control of your camera. It tells you how to master the complexities of lighting, composition and timing.

A practical, affordable and accessible home photography tutor. This inspiring project-based course book covers everything from basic composition to the latest digital darkroom techniques.

In the follow-up to the successful first volume, this book provides photographers with nearly 200 ideas and suggestions for shooting dramatically sharper, more colorful, and more professional-looking photos with a digital camera.

Packed with tips on upgrading your equipment, working with focus and exposure, shooting like a pro, organizing and enhancing your images, and printing them or getting them online, this full-color guide helps you learn what you need for the way you take pictures, how to prolong battery life, and the pros and cons of digital SLR.

Provides detailed lessons on the elements of exposure and how each relates to depth of field, freezing and blurring action, and shooting in low light, demonstrating a diversity of creative choices in exposing a picture.

How to See and Shoot Better Digital Photos. 'The Photographer's Eye' shows how anyone can develop an eye for 'seeing' great digital photos. The book explores all the traditional approaches to composition and design but, crucially, it also addresses the new digital technique of shooting in the knowledge that a picture will later be edited, manipulated, or montaged to result in a final image that ..

Everything You Need to Know From Beginner to Pro. 'The Book of Digital Photography' is a comprehensive, authoritative and inspirational guide to every aspect of modern picture taking in a single volume. Combining the technical with the aesthetic, it covers in detail all the new equipment and digital-imaging tools with which today's photographers must be familiar, and takes a fresh look at the ...

Includes the basics of photography, such as the nature of light, lens construction, and fundamental concepts, as well as sections on film, cameras, accessories, processing, and the various other aspects of digital photography. This book also deals other subjects such as, critical theory, how to present images, ethical issues, and copyright.

Understanding exactly how a digital SLR (dSLR) works can help you use its exciting capabilities to their fullest potential.