Download or read book The BetterPhoto Guide to Photographing Light written by Jim Miotke and published by Amphoto Books. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how light can breathe new life into your photos Do you take too many snapshots and not enough “wow” shots? If so, you may be spending more time thinking about your subjects than thinking about the light. In The BetterPhoto Guide to Light, veteran photography instructors Jim Miotke and Kerry Drager help amateur shooters of all levels master this basic ingredient of compelling photography. You’ll learn how to identify the best light, fix common lighting problems, and, most important, take stunning photos with whatever light you have. Full of image examples, hands-on assignments, and proven techniques, this book will show you how to expand your vision and take your photography to the next level.
Download or read book The BetterPhoto Guide to Light written by Jim Miotke and published by BetterPhoto Series. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical reference for amateur photography enthusiasts explains lighting fundamentals and how to understand and utilize natural, flash and reflector lighting for stronger and more compelling photographs in a variety of settings. By the author of The BetterPhoto Guide to Digital Photography. Original.
Download or read book The BetterPhoto Guide to Exposure written by Sean Arbabi and published by Amphoto Books. This book was released on 2011-03-09 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exposure. It’s essential to producing high-quality photographs, but mastering exposure is difficult. At last there’s a BetterPhoto guide to exposure, packed with BetterPhoto’s signature assignments, diagrams, tips, and illustrations. It’s like a full-scale photography course between the covers of the book–all taught the BetterPhoto way, just like photographers learn at the top photography-instruction site on the web. There’s plenty of information here on both digital and film photography, discussing how different file formats affect exposure, how to adjust digital files, color correction, combining digital exposures, and much more. The author’s stunning full-color photographs make this hardworking guide as inspiring as it is instructive.
Download or read book The BetterPhoto Guide to Photographing Children written by Jim Miotke and published by Amphoto Books. This book was released on 2011-03-09 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Start taking pictures that are just as cute as they are! Part of the popular BetterPhoto series, this book shows photographers how to get great shots of children of all ages, under any conditions, and with any subject. Learn how to use light, composition, and exposure to help improve photographs, how to capture a moving target and how to develop rapport with even the shyest or most rambunctious child.
Download or read book The BetterPhoto Guide to Digital Photography written by Jim Miotke and published by Amphoto Books. This book was released on 2011-02-09 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you have a simple point & shoot or a DSLR camera, learning the basics of digital photography can be confusing. With The BetterPhoto Guide to Digital Photography, those mysterious icons, strange jargon, and dizzying array of imaging software and hardware quickly become tools to create great pictures. Illustrated with full-color photos for guidance, this easy, practical, lesson-based workbook gives you a step-by-step tutorial in getting bright, crisp, beautiful pictures from your digital camera every time. "Assignments" at the end of each chapter give you the opportunity to go out and test your new skills in real life. Learn about exposure, file formats and quality settings, low-light photography, digital filters and white balance, composition and lens choice, manipulating images, printing, and much more, all in a handy, bring-along format. Everyone who wants to create great photos needs The BetterPhoto Guide to Digital Photography!
Download or read book The BetterPhoto Guide to Digital Nature Photography written by Jim Miotke and published by Amphoto Books. This book was released on 2011-03-16 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the tiniest ladybug to a towering glacier, from a horse running in a field to a leaf falling slowly from a tree, nature subjects offer some of the greatest challenges and the greatest rewards to photographers. In the BetterPhoto tradition, here’s a complete photo course in a book. Hands-on lessons cover every aspect of digital nature photography, from buying the right camera for close-ups, landscapes, and movement, to understanding how the camera works, to taking great pictures. Author Jim Miotke uses straightforward text and inspiring yet informative photos to show the best ways to approach nature photography. Everything a beginner or intermediate photographer needs to know is here, including a buyer’s guide, full information on camera features, file formats and settings, exposure, low-light photography, filters and white balance, composition and lens choice, creative ideas, manipulating, and printing, along with a glossary and list of useful websites. The Better Photo Guide to Digital Nature Photography helps photographers everywhere get great photos in the great outdoors.
Download or read book The BetterPhoto Guide to Creative Digital Photography written by Jim Miotke and published by Amphoto Books. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master composition and design to take your photos from okay to wow You already own the most important photography tool—your creative eye. With this book, you’ll learn how classic design and composition principles can be applied to a wide range of photographic situations to create images with impact. Jim Miotke and Kerry Drager, both veteran photographers and experienced instructors, share time-tested design guidelines, composition techniques, even tips on when to break the rules, that will transform the way you make photographs.
Download or read book The Betterphoto Guide to Creative Digital Photography written by Jim Miotke and published by Amphoto Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the basics of digital photography and provides assignments and practical examples for the amateur photographers that make concepts easy to grasp.
Download or read book BetterPhoto Basics written by Jim Miotke and published by Amphoto Books. This book was released on 2011-02-09 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Absolutely anyone can take better photos! If you can press a button, you can take great pictures. It’s as simple as that. In BetterPhoto Basics, Jim Miotke, founder of the popular online photography school BetterPhoto.com, shares tips and tricks to improve your photos right away, no matter what camera you’re using. Too busy to read a book? No problem—flip to any page for an instant tip to use right away! Learn to compose knockout shots, make the most of indoor and outdoor light, and photograph twenty popular subjects, from sunsets and flowers to a family portrait. Those who want to go further get tips on controlling exposure and the secrets behind ten advanced creative techniques. And everyone will appreciate Jim’s breakdown of easy fixes to make in Photoshop. No matter what your level of experience, you’ll be amazed how easy it is to start taking photos like the pros.
Download or read book Scenic Photography 101 written by Kerry Drager and published by Amphoto. This book was released on 1999 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides beginning and experienced photographers techniques for enhancing outdoor shots, whether city views or historic or people, and includes tips on creating compelling photographs from ordinary scenes using camera features.
Download or read book The Complete Guide to Light Lighting in Digital Photography written by Michael Freeman and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to lighting techniques in digital photography covering topics including working with artificial light and daylight.
Download or read book Understanding and Controlling Strobe Lighting written by John Siskin and published by Amherst Media, Inc. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Siskin lays out a simple process for designing effective strobe-lighting setups for portraits, architecture, still-life images and more. According to Siskin, the most important skill is pre-visualisation. After exploring the quality, quantity, value, versatility and ease of use of many modifiers and sources, including less-traditional laptop screens, flashlights and slide projectors, Siskin moves on to using the correct exposure and camera settings.
Download or read book LIFE Guide to Digital Photography written by Joe McNally and published by Life. This book was released on 2010-10-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photography has been the business and the passion of LIFE since the original weekly magazine's inception in 1936, and it continues to be the business and passion of LIFE Books and LIFE.com in the new millennium. But photography has surely changed during these many decades. The rigs and gear of old have given way-first slowly, then all at once-to sleek miracle machines that process pixels and have made the darkroom obsolete. The casual photog puts eye to lens, sets everything on auto and captures a photograph that is . . . perfectly fine. One of LIFE's master shooters-in fact, the final in the long line of distinguished LIFE staff photographers-was Joe McNally, and he has always believed that with a little preparation and care, with a dash of enthusiasm and daring added to the equation, anyone can make a better photo-anyone can turn a "keeper" into a treasure. This was true in days of yore, and it's true in the digital age. Your marvelous new camera, fresh from its box, can indeed perform splendid feats. Joe explains in this book how to take best advantage of what it was designed to do, and also when it is wise to outthink your camera or push your camera-to go for the gold, to create that indelible family memory that you will have blown up as large as the technology will allow, and that will hang on the wall forevermore. As the storied LIFE photographer and photo editor John Loengard points out in his eloquent foreword to this volume, there are cameras and there are cameras, and they've always been able to do tricks. And then there is photography. Other guides may give you the one, two, three of producing a reasonably well exposed shot, but Joe McNally and the editors of LIFE can give you that, and then can show you how to make a picture. In a detailed, friendly, conversational, anecdotal, sometimes rollicking way, that's what they do in these pages. Prepare to click.
Download or read book How to Take Better Photos written by Tyler Wellington and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-22 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how to take incredible photos! Even if you just read the basic tips in the first chapter, you will already be taking significantly better photos. This guide will take you from absolute beginner to expert. Even if you are an experienced photographer, there are lots of new tips and examples to help you take better photos. With this book you will improve your photography skills and your eye whether you shoot with an expensive DSLR or an IPhone. The in-depth sections take you through picking a subject, composition, light, color, technical aspects and editing. Anyone can snap a photo, but what makes an amazing and memorable image? How do you take your average photos and make them pop? After shooting a photo, what do you do with it? If you have asked yourself any of these questions, then this book is for you! This book has stunning, full color photo examples and the printed version fits perfectly into a camera bag.
Download or read book Photographing Architecture written by John Siskin and published by Amherst Media, Inc. This book was released on 2012 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential for professional commercial photographers but with appeal for anyone who enjoys architectural photography, this book explains how to build better light indoors while finding the optimal positions for capturing images. Beginning with advice on understanding angles, controlling perspective, and becoming familiar with the tools necessary for capturing interiors, this guidebook then progresses onto explanations of various types of light, methods for manipulating them, and circumstances under which different lights should be utilized. Also included throughout the book are example shots of homes, businesses, and public spaces followed from start to finish, illustrating the challenges of the shoot, how these problems were solved, and any work that required editing after the shoot.
Download or read book Lighting for Photographers written by Joseph Lavine and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lighting is one of the most important aspects of any photograph. The best images create dimension and drama, which goes beyond formulas and lighting recipes. In Lighting for Photographers: An Introductory Guide to Professional Photography, commercial photographers and instructors Joe Lavine and Brad Bartholomew offer a unique philosophy of lighting, starting with an understanding of the characteristics of lighting to build great shots. Including interviews from professional photographers and illustrated with over 200 images, this book introduces basic photographic concepts and equipment needs, and takes the reader from the lighting process through to starting a successful career in photography both in the studio and on location. Readers will learn a comprehensive approach to lighting including what light does, composition, experimentation, practical tools and techniques, equipment, metering and histograms, and how to launch and grow their career. With downloadable instructor resources featuring discussion questions and quizzes, this fully updated edition is ideal for introductory level photography and lighting courses as well as the amateur photographer looking to apply the appropriate lighting to realize their conceptual and aesthetic goals.
Download or read book Direction Quality of Light written by Neil van Niekerk and published by Amherst Media. This book was released on 2013-03-04 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing readers with a study of learning how to turn poorly lit images into finely crafted, masterfully lit photographs, this guidebook instills photographers with the self-confidence to think on their feet and photograph any portrait subject anywhere. Acclaimed photographer Neil van Niekirk presents seven distinctly different lighting scenarios—available light, exposure metering, a touch of flash, bounced on-camera flash, off-camera flash, video light, and hard sunlight—to show readers how to manipulate the direction and quality of light, the subject’s and photographer’s position, and numerous other variables so as to turn a bad image into a stunning, professional-level portrait. Packed with dozens of instructional, full-color photos, this work also features 10 sample photo sessions, allowing readers the opportunity to see the seven lighting scenarios put to practice.
