Digital Photography For Dummies

Digital Photography For Dummies Review

A new edition gets you in the picture for learning digital photography

Whether you have a point-and-shoot or digital SLR camera, this new edition of the full-color bestseller is packed with tips, advice, and insight that you won't find in your camera manual. Digital photography guru Julie Adair King presents you with new and extensively updated information on topics that is written for fledgling photographers in a fun and friendly style. You'll explore tips for finding the gear that best suits your needs, using built-in tools, working with focus and exposure, and shooting like a pro.

However, if you've already got an archives full of photos, then this guide shows you how to upload, edit, manage, and share your images. Advice for prolonging battery life, an honest look at the pros and cons of digital SLR, and a helpful glossary are all aimed at making your experience with digital photography picture perfect!

• Shows you how to set up your camera for basic shooting and use automatic mode, common scene modes, and all the camera's features
• Explains how to edit your images and fix common problems like dim lighting or red-eye
• Highlights ways to print photos at home or through a service and then posting online to social sites or send to a cell phone
• Helps you manage depth of field, exposure, and white balance

Digital Photography For Dummies, 7th Edition provides you with rich, full-color examples throughout to help your digital pictures say more than a thousand words!

The Elements of Photography, Second Edition: Understanding and Creating Sophisticated Images

The Elements of Photography, Second Edition: Understanding and Creating Sophisticated Images Review

The greatly revised and expanded edition of The Elements of Photography is a new kind of textbook for a new generation of photographers. Moving far beyond the usual technical manual, Angela Faris Belt dives deep into merging technique and vision, allowing you to master craft while adding meaning to your images. Here you'll really learn to see photographically, expand your creative and conceptual use of apertures and shutter speeds, and choose the right media to create the look and feel you want.

The 2^nd Edition Includes:

• A new introductory chapter with thorough explanations and training exercises in metering and exposure
• Advice throughout the text to help you expand your personal research
• Extended exploration of how photography's technical attributes affect visual outcomes and the meaning of your images

• Image discussions that provide additional perspective about the chapter concepts

This book provides a wealth of information and guidance to help all photographers improve skills, learn new techniques, and expand ways of seeing. Excellent practical exercises allow you to use the knowledge you'll gain to build a solid portfolio. More than 300 stunning, full-color images including portfolios from over 40 prestigious artists provide visual inspiration and a gorgeous collection of artwork to add to any photography enthusiast's bookshelf. Whether you do fine art or commercial, documentary or editorial, or just enjoy making pictures for yourself, The Elements of Photography will take your images to the next level.

*Learn from an expert author how to combine your creative vision with technical accuracy to produce images that are visually provoking as well as technically inspiring
*Includes over 300 stunning full color images and highlights the portfolios of 40+ prestigious artists
*Contains screenshots, before-and-after images, and how-to information to help both students and photographers practice skills and learn new techniques
*Follow the suggested exercises at the end of each chapter to develop your own portfolio of images

Of Lion Paw and Tiger Jaw

Of Lion Paw and Tiger Jaw Review

OF LION PAW AND TIGER JAW--Stories

Humans may not be the only animals who crave freedom.

In these stories, we enter the minds of thirteen wild creatures and the people interacting with them. No anthropomorphizing here--these beasts may be sentient, but they do not think like us. Whether encountering an Alaskan eagle nervous about a photographer stalking its nest or a captive tiger aching to kill a deer, we step through these pages into an alien world.


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The animals in these works do not reason in the same way people do. When a gray whale finds itself stranded on a California beach, it has no frame of reference for the dog that comes to sniff its overheated body. Nor can an orangutan in an Indonesian rehab center understand the origins of the flood threatening its cage.

The interior world of non-humans can only be explored through fiction--fiction based on what scientists have learned both in the laboratory and in the field. Only through story can we understand the perspective of a giraffe struggling through a nasty drought, or what might go through a white shark’s neural bundles when it encounters a sea awash in tuna chum, or the pain an elephant feels from a poacher’s bullet.

People living close to animals best understand how they are different, yet similar to humans. Nature photographers, zookeepers, wildlife biologists, even Central American macaw smugglers, have knowledge of wild creatures urban humans lack. And so within this volume we find a scientist exploring the underwater Antarctic world of a leopard seal, a drunk getting a bit too close to a polar bear in Churchill, Manitoba, and a crocodile expert in Northern Australia with a grudge to settle.

In a world where ever-growing human populations steal more and more ecologic carrying capacity from wildlife, it might behoove us to try to understand the animal mind. To understand a creature is to know it; to know it is to love it; and to love it may help keep it alive.

"These stories are, in both volumes, almost without exception, tight, crisp, and incredibly original. Vanstrum displays an extraordinary facility for this format of prose fiction."

--John A. Murray, author of more than 40 books, including Cinema Southwest and The Sierra Club Nature Writing Handbook.

Advanced Underwater Photography: Techniques for Digital Photographers

Advanced Underwater Photography: Techniques for Digital Photographers Review

Designed for photographers who already have strong diving skills and understand basic photographic techniques, this reference defines what advanced underwater photography is while teaching the skills necessary to create professional-quality images. Opening with a quick overview of the basics—such as exposure, focus, subject selection, and composition—the author then expands on each of these topics, showing the techniques pros use to achieve truly stunning images. A major factor in advancing beyond the basic level of underwater photography is moving from a point-and-shoot or semi-adjustable camera to using a full-featured digital SLR camera. The myriad equipment choices available when making this transition—including cameras, lenses, underwater housings, and the lighting units designed to be used with them—are explained, as are their respective advantages and shortcomings. Because both beginning and advanced underwater photographers can have equipment-related issues, a trouble-shooting section is included to ensure that minor equipment problems won’t ruin a costly dive trip.

The Underwater Photography Handbook

The Underwater Photography Handbook Review

*200 color photos
* 15 color drawings
* 8 x 11
* Useful information for underwater photographers of all levels
* Brilliant full-color photographs throughout

"This book is set to become one of the few classic titles about underwater photography. It is packed with good advice."--Colin Doeg, Dive International magazine

This handsomely illustrated handbook provides a comprehensive guide to the basic techniques of underwater still photography and videography, including choosing the best equipment and using it to its full potential, solving technical challenges, and taking advantage of underwater conditions. Full-color diagrams, tables, and charts provide easy reference for exposure settings and composition.

Annemarie Khler is an underwater videographer who has spent many years researching tropical reefs and marine life behavior. Danja Khler is a qualified dive instructor for two international diving associations.

The Underwater Photographer's Guide: Practical tips on how to shoot like the pros

The Underwater Photographer's Guide: Practical tips on how to shoot like the pros Review

The Underwater Photographer's Guide clearly and concisely explains the steps required to take professional quality images in any underwater situation. It is useful for users of all types of cameras - Compacts, Micro Four Thirds and DSLRs. Any underwater photographer who wants to progress beyond the stage of using their camera in the Underwater, Program or Auto modes will benefit by reading this book. It provides practical tips on equipment selection, equipment set up and care, photographing underwater wildlife, composition, manual settings, white balance, strobe lighting, choosing the right settings for both macro and wide angle photography, and image editing.

Essentials of Underwater Photography

Essentials of Underwater Photography Review

Underwater photography is challenging, even in the age of autofocus and TTL cameras. The author is unique is presenting an in-depth explanation of concepts as they relate to making photographs underwater. This book illustrates these concepts with brilliant color photographs, each of which is accompanied by an explanation of exactly how it was accomplished. This book stresses basic knowledge needed to produce high quality images now and in the future. Both beginning and experienced underwater photographers will benefit from the presentation of practical suggestions and realistic solutions for making photographs with housed 35mm cameras, macro or wide angle lenses, and strobe lighting.

This book includes a glossary of important photographic terms as well as straightforward and comprehensive explanations of useful optical concepts, lenses, cameras, film and strobe lighting. It concludes with addresses, telephone contact numbers and internet URL's for a number of important equipment manufacturers, photography supply houses, and repair facilities that specialize in underwater equipment.

The Underwater Photographer, Second Edition

The Underwater Photographer, Second Edition Review

Written by one of the most experienced teachers of underwater photography this popular, `hands-on' manual demonstrates how to take stunning underwater photographs that will not only give you a personal feeling of satisfaction, but will improve your chances of achieving award winning results.



The book focuses on the practical art of taking underwater pictures through the author's popular 'think and consider' system. This system explains how, with careful thought and consideration of the subject matter, lighting and environment prior to taking the picture, beautiful effects can be captured. Practical examples take you step by step through the basic techniques; from photographing shipwrecks, divers, fish and abstract images to taking photographs at night and 'dual lighting', plus advice on the selection of equipment.

Written in a clear, non-technical style and illustrated in colour throughout this book has established itself as the introductory guide to photographing the wonders of the underwater world. It has now been fully updated and expanded to include seven new chapters containing new techniques and examples, more inspirational images and the very latest equipment.

* concentrates on the practical art of taking stunning underwater pictures
* used by underwater photographers world-wide as a practical handbook to be carried at all times
* illustrated with inspirational colour pictures throughout
* written by an experienced teacher and award winning underwater photographer




Illustrated with beautiful colour pictures to inspire you
Includes practical step-by-step examples so you can really get to grips with this genre
Benefit from an international underwater photography trainer's hints, tips and practical advice first hand

The Photographer's Market Guide to Building Your Photography Business

The Photographer's Market Guide to Building Your Photography Business Review

Make Money Doing What You Love

The Photographer's Market Guide to Building Your Photography Business, Second Edition is an all-in-one resource full of practical advice to successfully start or maintain your business. Experienced photographer, studio owner, and photography teacher Vik Orenstein provides you with the skills you need for every aspect of your photography career. Whether you're just starting out, are looking to revamp an existing business, or have been in the business for years, find out how to make the most of every photo you take.

In this revised edition, you'll learn how to:

• Harness the power of digital photography
  
  
• Target your audience through online marketing
  
  
• Find your niche (or shift to a new one)
  
  
• Craft a solid business plan
  
  
• Network professionally with other photographers
  
  
• Showcase and price your work
  
  
• Get support from accountants and lawyers
  
  
• Create a strategic path for your business at every stage
  
  
• And more!

Orenstein and other photographers from a variety of specialties give you firsthand insight into the many facets of this evolving field. In addition to more than 100 color photos, you'll find the know-how and encouragement you need to successfully build your portfolio and your career.

Shake, Rattle, and Shoot: The Business of Baby Photography

Shake, Rattle, and Shoot: The Business of Baby Photography Review

Shake, Rattle, and Shoot: The Business End of Baby Photography shows budding baby photographers how to photograph their young subjects in a natural and spontaneous way. Perfect for parents or new photographers who want to improve their baby photography skills and take their hobby to the next level, the book provides tips and techniques to help readers learn how to use their camera and accessories well, how to work with babies and their parents, set up a shot with props or backgrounds, and much more. The book also provides coverage of how to build a baby photography business, including information on building client relationships, pricing and packages, and self-promotion.