The Digital Photography Handbook

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.

Tackles the most important side of digital photography - how to take pro-quality shots using the same tricks top digital pros use. This book shows which button to push, which setting to use, when to use them, and nearly two hundred photographic tricks of the trade . Each page covers just one trick, one concept that makes your photography better.

Includes tools for sprucing up your photos like the Scene Cleaner that lets you get rid of unwanted elements and the Smart Brush that makes touch-ups a breeze. This title helps you to jazz up your pictures with dozens of filters, frames, and special effects.

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.

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 ..

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

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.

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.

Provides photographs and instructions to discover what equipment you'll need, the best approach for each subject and to compose, light, frame and take shots. This work includes checklists that give instant advice on getting results, while tricks of the trade show you how to turn a good picture into a great one.

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.