Showing your images -- Preserving your images -- Print set-up -- Presenting your prints -- Online printing -- Earning wiht photos -- The filmmaking revolution -- Building your kit -- Adjusting to shooting video -- Lighting for video -- Recording sound -- Camera techniques -- Downloading and importing -- Video editing -- Working with sound -- Making your first film -- Selecting a digital camera -- Choosingthe right lens -- Accessories -- Flash and accessories -- Computer hardware -- Photographic software -- Looking after equiptment -- Internet resources -- Further reading.
Workflow strategies -- Quick fix: file problems -- File formats -- Image strategies -- Color management -- Picture selection -- Pictures for a purpose -- Working in RAW -- Processing RAW files -- Asset management -- processing pipeline -- Removing dust -- Quick fix: claening clearing -- Working with noise -- Trimming and resizing -- Refining shapes -- Correcting levels -- Adjusting tone -- Visual toolkit: levels and curves effect -- Burn and dodge -- Image analysis: writing with light -- Controlling shadows and highlights -- Tone-mapping brillance -- Correcting white balance -- Color refinements -- Enhancing tone and color -- Image analysis: entrancing color -- Saturation and vibrance -- Quick fix: digital corrections -- Sharpness and blur -- Adaptive sharpening -- Cloning techniques -- Selection methods -- Protective masks -- Quick fix: selecting pixels -- Removing image content -- Quick fix: retouching faces -- Working with layers Visual toolkit: layer blend modes -- Cut out and composite -- Converting to black and white -- Working in duotone -- Image analysis: evocative tones -- Emulsion-based effects -- Visual toolkit: recreating darkroom effects -- Changing colors -- Image analysis: embellishing reality -- Cropping for effect -- Aging an image -- Text in images -- Art effects -- Visual toolkit: digital filters -- Redirecting the image.
Your first photos -- Ten pillars of photography -- preparing your camera -- Scene modes -- Viewing and sharing -- Elements of composition -- Image analysis: working with lines -- Perspective and viewpoints -- Quick fix: framing issues -- Composing with color -- Image analysis: order from chaos -- Visual toolkit: composition solutions -- Zoom lenses -- Optimizing image quality -- Focusing on the essentials -- Close-ups -- Image analysis: macro world -- Quick fix: capture problems -- Exposure metering -- Excessive dynamic range -- Inage analysis: hyper-dynamic range -- Quick fix: incorrect exposure -- High and low key -- Exposure time and motion blur -- Working inlow light -- Image analysis: the lady with the lamp -- Stability during capture -- Using aperture -- Image analysis: the beauty of blur -- Plane of focus -- Visual toolkit: focal length -- Lighting fundamentals -- Image analysis: lighting the way -- Visual toolkit: partnership with light -- Portable flash -- Studio lighting set-ups -- Lighting small objects -- image analysis: on location -- ISO and noise -- Color settings -- Image size and format -- Quick fix: optical techniques -- Expansive panoramas -- Effects filters -- Portraiture -- Visual toolkit: informal posing -- Child photography -- Image analysis: in conversation -- Art photography -- Visual toolkit: Arts of the visual -- Image analysis: suburban moonrise -- Quick fix: creative block -- Plantlife and gardens -- Animal photography -- Image analysis: cloudy waters -- Live events -- Image analysis: transfigured night -- Documentary photography -- Image analysis: cafè culture -- Travel photography -- Image analysis: crowded clichès -- Quick fix: ethical questions -- Architectural photography -- Interior worlds -- Landscape photography -- Inage analysis:chasing rainbows.
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Providing a strong combination of practical instruction with visual inspiration, Digital Photography Essentials, covers the basics of photography: different ways to approach a subject, how to develop projects, and image manipulation. With its fresh, contemporary design, beautiful images, and jargon free, yet highly practical text, Digital Photography Essentials, is a practical and inspiring book that will take beginners to confident, creative photographers.