Louis Benjamin

Using your Digital SLR Camera In Simple Steps

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Produktbeschreibung

Use your digital SLR ca Backcover
Use your digital SLR camera with confidence

This practical book will have you achieving immediate results using:

a friendly, visual approach

simple language

practical, task-based examples

large, full-colour screenshots.

Discover everything you want to know about using your digital SLR camera in this easy-to-use guide; from the most essential tasks that you’ll want to perform, to solving the most common problems you’ll encounter.

Get the most out of your camera with practical tips on every page:

· ALERT: Solutions to common problems

· HOT TIP: Time-saving shortcuts

· SEE ALSO: Related tasks and information

· DID YOU KNOW? Additional features to explore

· WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? – Jargon explained in plain English

Contents for Using your Digital SLR Camera in Simple Steps

Top Ten Tips

Make your camera vanish

Taking advantage of your dSLR

Buy the best glass you can afford

A great value lens: 50mm f/1.8

Megapixels and myth

The benefit of full-frame sensors

Shoot in raw

Avoid auto white balance

Avoid auto ISO

Photoshop (editing) is not evil

1. Finding your way around the camera controls

· Read the manual - strategically

· Navigate menus

· Exposure mode controls

· Scene mode controls

· Metering modes

· What's in your viewfinder?

· Using autofocus (AF) and focus lock

· Using autofocus with Live View

· Single shot and burst modes

· Self-timer and intervalometer

· Review images

2. Setting up your camera for shooting

· Set image naming

· Format your media card

· Select image quality - raw versus JPEG

· Choose a colour space

· Select ISO sensitivity

· Select a white balance setting

3. Taking control of exposure

· The water model of exposure

· Start thinking in stops

· Using the auto-exposure modes

· Take advantage of the aperture setting

· Take advantage of shutter speed

· High-key, mid-key, and low-key

· Use exposure compensation

· Bracket exposures

· Reading the Histogram

· Using manual exposure

4. Working with light

· Types of light: colour temperature and white balance

· Types of daylight

· Types of indoor light

· Work with bright light

· The direction of light and backlighting

· Lens flare and halation

· Soft light and window light

· Work with dim light

5. Selecting and Using Lenses

· Focal length and the crop effect

· Depth of field and pre-focusing

· Normal lenses

· Fast lenses

· Telephoto lenses

· Wide-angle lenses

· Prime versus zoom lenses

· Variable aperture zooms

· Lensbaby – selective focus with a tilt

· Macro lenses

· Change lenses

6. Composing better portraits

· Framing

· Orientation: portrait or landscape

· Simplify

· Get closer

· Watch the fingers!

· Keep an eye on the background

· Making your portraits environmental

· Isolate with depth of field

· Keep the horizon horizontal

· Change up your angles: use extreme perspective

· Give your subjects leading space

7. Composing better images

· The principle of thirds

· Using negative space and tension

· Using symmetry

· Crop for composition

· Frame in frame

· Points of interest and shapes

· Use lines

· Patterns, textures, and repetition

· Compose with colour

· Compose with motion and time

8. Managing images in Lightroom

· Workflow and backup

· Using the integrated environment

· Import

· Add keywords

· Find by keyword

· Use ratings

· Set up Lightroom-to-Photoshop transfer

· Edit images from Lightroom in Photoshop

9. Editing and printing in Lightroom

· Use the Develop module

· Use Develop Presets

· Adjust white balance

· Use the Histogram

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This text walks the reader through all they need to know to use their digital SLR camera fully and effectively.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pearson Education Limited
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 187mm x 235mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 362g
• ISBN-13: 9780273761105
• ISBN-10: 0273761102
• Artikelnr.: 33768103

Inhaltsangabe

Contents for Using your Digital SLR Camera in Simple Steps
 
Top Ten Tips
* Make your camera vanish
* Taking advantage of your dSLR 
* Buy the best "glass" you can afford
* A great value lens: 50mm f/1.8
* Megapixels and myth
* The benefit of full-frame sensors
* Shoot in raw
* Avoid auto white balance
* Avoid auto ISO
* "Photoshop" (editing) is not evil
1. Finding your way around the camera controls
·         Read the manual - strategically
·         Navigate menus
·         Exposure mode controls
·         Scene mode controls
·         Metering modes
·         What's in your viewfinder?
·         Using autofocus (AF) and focus lock
·         Using autofocus with Live View
·         Single shot and burst modes
·         Self-timer and intervalometer
·         Review images
2. Setting up your camera for shooting
·         Set image naming
·         Format your media card
·         Select image quality - raw versus JPEG
·         Choose a colour space
·         Select ISO sensitivity
·         Select a white balance setting
3. Taking control of exposure
·         The water model of exposure        
·         Start thinking in stops
·         Using the auto-exposure modes
·         Take advantage of the aperture setting
·         Take advantage of shutter speed
·         High-key, mid-key, and low-key
·         Use exposure compensation
·         Bracket exposures
·         Reading the Histogram        
·         Using manual exposure
4. Working with light
·         Types of light: colour temperature and white balance
·         Types of daylight
·         Types of indoor light
·         Work with bright light
·         The direction of light and backlighting
·         Lens flare and halation
·         Soft light and window light
·         Work with dim light
5. Selecting and Using Lenses
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