Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT Guide to Digital SLR Photography

Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT Guide to Digital SLR Photography Review

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Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT Guide to Digital SLR Photography serves as a concise introduction to the features of theCanon EOS dSLR. This book not only covers the camera's basic controls, it explains their purpose and function, outlining how readers should use them and why. From focus zones to zoom settings, to exposure modes, The Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT Guide to Digital SLR Photography is aimed at providing photographers with a concise, yet complete, introduction to all aspects of digital shooting. For anyone who would otherwise struggle to learn how to use their Canon 30D's basic capabilities, this book is a quick start to pixel proficiency.

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Boudoir Photography: The Complete Guide to Shooting Intimate Portraits

Boudoir Photography: The Complete Guide to Shooting Intimate Portraits Review

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The complete manual to boudoir, one of the fastest growing trends in photography
  
Once popular mainly with brides, boudoir portraits are now enjoyed by women of all ages to celebrate everything from anniversaries to birthdays to their own independent spirit. This isn’t old-fashioned glamour photography—it’s an altogether new genre, with a focus on flattering the subject and creating stunning, intimate images.
In this one-stop guide, successful boudoir photographer Critsey Rowe reveals all you need to get started with your own boudoir studio, whether you’re an amateur shooting at home or a professional looking to tap into this exciting new revenue stream. Inside you’ll discover:
 
·         A complete guide to boudoir, from equipment, makeup, and styling, to lighting, shooting, and step-by-step retouching.
·         Thirty poses to flatter any subject, whatever her body type.
·         Essential postproduction techniques to lift, smooth, and tone.
·         Tips on making clients comfortable and collaborating with them to produce portraits they’ll love.

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Visual Poetry: A Creative Guide for Making Engaging Digital Photographs

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Visual Poetry: A Creative Guide for Making Engaging Digital Photographs Feature

• Discover visual poetry in the creative process
• Use less to say more with your subject matter
• Learn to see light, color, shape and expression
• Understand what gear is essential
• Create compelling portraits

A great photograph has the potential to transcend verbal and written language. But how do you create these photographs? It’s not the how that’s important, but the who and the what. Who you are as a person has a direct impact on what you capture as a photographer.

Whether you are an amateur or professional, architect or acupuncturist, physician or photographer, this guide provides inspiration, simple techniques, and assignments to boost your creative process and improve your digital images using natural light without additional gear.

Chris Orwig’s insights—to reduce and simplify, participate rather than critique, and capture a story—have made him an immensely popular workshop speaker and faculty member at the prestigious Brooks Institute. His engaging stories presented as lessons follow his classroom approach and highlight what students say is his contagious passion for life.

In this accessible and beautifully illustrated four-color guide you will:

• Discover visual poetry in the creative process
• Use less to say more with your subject matter
• Learn to see light, color, shape, and expression
• Understand what gear is essential
• Create compelling portraits
• Make lasting memories of your family and kids
• Capture the outdoors and adventure
• Begin the transition from amateur to professional

Chris also includes exclusive interviews with such photographers as: Steve McCurry, Chris Rainier, John Sexton, Rodney Smith, Joyce Tenneson, John Paul Caponigro, Marc Riboud, and Pete Turner.

Share your work with the author and other readers at www.flickr.com/groups/visual-poet and visit the Web site: www.visual-poet.com.

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Sixty Tips for Creative iPhone Photography

Sixty Tips for Creative iPhone Photography Review

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The iPhone's convenient form factor, built-in software, and third-party apps have led it to become the camera of immediate choice for millions of users worldwide. Whether you have been using your iPhone camera to document everyday life or are just discovering the charm of using it as a tool for creative photography, this book is for you.

Author Martina Holmberg shares sixty tips that cover everything from shooting and editing pictures using your iPhone's basic features, to third-party apps and techniques for turning ordinary snapshots into unique and artistic images. The book is filled with images that illustrate each tip.

Also included are two guest galleries that showcase iPhone photos from professional photographers Dominique James and Uwe Steinmueller. You'll be amazed and inspired by the artistic photography that can be achieved using the iPhone.

Topics include:

• Shooting and editing photos using the iPhone's standard features
• Using the camera's limitations to your advantage
• Developing your photographic eye
• Composing interesting snapshots of your everyday environment
• Using third-party apps
• Capturing portraits
• Shooting videos

This is another title in Rocky Nook's edition espresso series: books that keep the content short, strong, and to the point-like a great shot of your favorite espresso. The ideas and inspiration found in this little volume are sure to improve your photography.

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The Nikon Creative Lighting System: Using the SB-600, SB-700, SB-800, SB-900, SB-910, and R1C1 Flashes

The Nikon Creative Lighting System: Using the SB-600, SB-700, SB-800, SB-900, SB-910, and R1C1 Flashes Review

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Mike Hagen opens up a whole new world to those photographers who are already well versed in photography, but may not have a clue about flash photography.

With the new and rapidly evolving technology, flash photography (especially advanced light modeling with modern iTTL flash systems) has become an art in itself and should be mastered by all aspiring photographers-amateurs as well as professionals-who are often helpless when it comes to using the full potential of these systems.

Using a simple, step-by-step method for setting up and using the newest Nikon iTTL flash units, Mike teaches all the steps required to achieve consistent and amazing flash photos. He solves the common frustrations associated with flash, and specifically teaches how to use the SB-600, SB-700, SB-800, SB-900, SB-910, and R1C1 strobes. Also included is a chapter showing system configuration so readers can duplicate the desired results on their own.

Beginning at a basic level and progressing to more advanced techniques, Mike teaches you everything you need to know about mastering Nikon's iTTL flash system.

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Digital Stock Photography: How to Shoot and Sell

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Digital Stock Photography equips photographers with everything they need to know to create digital stock photos that sell in today’s marketplace. From organizing a shoot to raking in the profits as the pictures sell and sell and sell again, all the steps are here: Capturing digital images, working with scans, digital delivery of images, evaluating equipment, organizing digital files, building an archive, and more. Thirty assignments, designed to reflect the latest trends in photography, provide readers with a blueprint for building a stock collection. Special sections explain how to market, negotiate and quote prices, and manage a business, plus obtaining model releases and protecting copyright.

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Digital SLR Photography All-in-One For Dummies (For Dummies (Lifestyles Paperback))

Digital SLR Photography All-in-One For Dummies (For Dummies (Lifestyles Paperback)) Review

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A complete, full-color guide to all the elements of dSLR photography

If you have a digital SLR camera, you’ll find everything you need in this full-color reference to help you get the best results. Ten self-contained minibooks cover the basics of dSLR photography and address camera models from the five leading dSLR manufacturers. Topics include lenses, exposure, lighting, composition, processing and editing, a guide to manufacturers and systems, and a guide to camera settings, plus separate minibooks covering video and high dynamic range (HDR) photography.

• This full-color volume covers all the key elements essential to good photography as well as the basics of camera bodies and lenses, dSLR workflow, and advice on the best camera settings to use for different situations
• Covers lighting, composition, and exposure as well as macro and telephoto lenses
• Features minibooks on video, HDR photography, processing and editing images, and a guide to leading camera manufacturers and systems

Digital SLR Photography All-in-One For Dummies replaces an entire shelf of digital photography books and helps you get the photos you dream of.

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Photo Inspiration: Secrets Behind Stunning Images

Photo Inspiration: Secrets Behind Stunning Images Review

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The inspiration you need to help improve your photography skills

Well-known for their stunning world-class photography, 1x.com has worked with their most talented photographers to handpick 100 awe-inspiring images and provided the back-story and photographer's secrets that helped capture them. This book presents you with inspiration as well as underlying techniques that can help improve your photography skills immediately.

• Shares behind-the-scene stories of the featured photos from the photographers themselves, from their artistic vision to the technical details that went into each shot
• Offers clear, concise, and accessible descriptions for the ideas, vision, performance, setup, location, equipment, camera settings, lighting diagrams, and image editing methods of each amazing photo

Photo Inspiration provides a unique combination of the final photograph with the tools and knowledge that made it possible, all of which are aimed at helping you meet your photographic potential.

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