"Through the Lens: A Beginner's Guide to Photography" is your passport to the captivating world of visual storytelling. Authored by Mohana Prasad, a passionate photographer and final year undergraduate in chemistry at Bishop Heber College, Trichy, this comprehensive handbook is designed to empower enthusiasts and aspiring professionals alike on their photographic journey. Delve into the fundamentals of camera anatomy, master exposure compensation, explore composition techniques, and unleash your creativity with insights into color theory and post-processing. Whether you're drawn to landscapes, portraits, wildlife, or street photography, this book offers a roadmap to hone your skills and elevate your craft. With practical advice, expert tips, and stunning visuals, "Through the Lens" is more than just a guide—it's an invitation to discover the beauty of the world through your own unique perspective. Unlock your potential, unleash your creativity, and embark on a transformative journey with "Through the Lens."
The first book in the Understanding Photography series, Understanding Exposure, was a runaway best-seller, with more than 250,000 copies sold. Now author Bryan Peterson brings his signature style to another important photography topic: shutter speed. With clear, jargon-free explanations of terms and techniques, plus compelling “before-and-after” photos that pair a mediocre image (created using the wrong shutter speed) with a great image (created using the right shutter speed), this is the definitive practical guide to mastering an often-confusing subject. Topics include freezing and implying motion, panning, zooming, exposure, Bogen Super Clamps, and rendering motion effects with Photoshop, all with helpful guidance for both digital and film formats. Great for beginners and serious amateurs, Understanding Shutter Speed is the definitive handy guide to mastering shutter speed for superb results.
This guide opens with in-camera flash basics, then moves to topics such asxposure flash readings, detachable units, flash guide numbers, bounce flash,nd fill flash, then covers advanced methods for using off-camera flash,lash brackets, power packs, remote triggering, and other techniques.
Learn to ask better, more helpful questions of your work so that you can create stronger and more powerful photographs.
Photographers often look at an image—one they’ve either already created or are in the process of making—and ask themselves a simple question: “Is this a good photograph?” It’s an understandable question, but it’s really not very helpful. How are you supposed to answer that? What does “good” even mean? Is it the same for everyone?
What if you were equipped to ask better, more constructive questions of your work so that you could think more intentionally and creatively, and in doing so, bring more specific action and vision to the act of creating photographs? What if asking stronger questions allowed you to establish a more effective approach to your image-making? In The Heart of the Photograph: 100 Questions for Making Stronger, More Expressive Photographs, photographer and author David duChemin helps you learn to ask better questions of your work in order to craft more successful photographs—photographs that express and connect, photographs that are strong and, above all, photographs that are truly yours.
From the big-picture questions—What do I want this image to accomplish?—to the more detail-oriented questions that help you get there—What is the light doing? Where do the lines lead? What can I do about it?—David walks you through his thought process so that you can establish your own. Along the way, he discusses the building blocks from which compelling photographs are made, such as gesture, balance, scale, contrast, perspective, story, memory, symbolism, and much more. The Heart of the Photograph is not a theoretical book. It is a practical and useful book that equips you to think more intentionally as a photographer and empowers you to ask more helpful questions of you and your work, so that you can produce images that are not only better than “good,” but as powerful and authentic as you hope them to be.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Better Questions
PART ONE: A GOOD PHOTOGRAPH? Is It Good? The Audience's Good The Photographer's Good
PART TWO: BETTER THAN GOOD Better Subjects
PART THREE: BETTER EXPRESSION Exploration and Expression What Is the Light Doing? What Does Colour Contribute? What Role Do the Lines and Shapes Play? What's Your Point of View? What Is the Quality of the Moment? Where Is the Story? Where Is the Contrast? What About Balance and Tension? What Is the Energy? How Can I Use Space and Scale? Can I Go Deeper? What About the Frame? Do the Elements Repeat? Harmony Can I Exclude More? Where Does the Eye Go? How Does It Feel? Where's the Mystery? Remember When? Can I Use Symbols? Am I Being Too Literal?
PART FOUR: BETTER PHOTOGRAPHS The Heart of the Photograph Index
Unlock the secrets to stunning digital photography with "Digital Photography Mastery." This comprehensive guide is designed for photographers of all levels, from beginners to seasoned professionals, seeking to enhance their skills and creativity. Authored by an experienced photographer, this step-by-step handbook delves into the art and science of capturing breathtaking images. Discover the fundamentals of camera settings, composition techniques, lighting essentials, and post-processing tips that will transform your photographs. Each chapter is packed with practical advice, detailed tutorials, and stunning examples that inspire and educate. Whether you're shooting portraits, landscapes, or action shots, "Digital Photography Mastery" provides you with the tools and confidence to take your photography to the next level. Join a community of passionate photographers and embark on a journey to master the craft of digital photography. Elevate your skills, capture unforgettable moments, and create stunning visuals that tell your unique story.
Jason Youn teaches photography in a way that anyone can understand. This book is filled with information presented in a concise manner, the illustrations are simple & direct, the instructions and personal stories are invaluable, & his years of photographic expertise are evident in the advice he gives.
Electronic flash not only brings light to a photograph, it can be an important artistic tool--if you’ve acquired the knowledge to use it creatively. To master those skills, digital photographers need only turn to this complete reference. Packed with inspirational photos, it takes the mystery out of flash, covering every type of equipment and explaining such essentials as guide numbers, sync speeds, white balance, and more. Photographers will see how fill flash can decrease contrast and shadows in outdoor portrait photography, understand how to control the light using bounce and multiple flash techniques, and expertly employ high-speed and rear curtain synchronization to create impressive motion-blur images. Everything you need to know is here--including a section on studio flash and computer processing.
A book designed to equip and improve beginner Photographer's ability in terms of knowing how to choose the right DSLR Camera, understanding how the camera sees the dynamic range, understanding the exposure triangle, motion blur, and image noise. This book will teach you how to successfully master the shooting modes, metering mode, exposure compensation and when to use the aperture priority mode, how to deal with white balance and how to shoot golden hour photography. Here is a preview of what you'll learn... · What is dslr photography · Modes and effects · What makes an image pop · How to tell stories with your camera · Specialized alternatives in photography · How to achieve the best effect with filters · Creating the right focus · Much, much more! There are many other benefits to shooting with a DSLR camera that will be covered in this book including the ability to choose a specific lens for a shot, using various formats, and other scenarios that lower quality cameras cannot capture.
