Understanding Your Digital Camera: Art and Techniques

by Tim Savage

Overview

This book has been written for photographers who want to switch their camera off automatic mode and take control of its image-making potential. With visual examples throughout, it explains how to use the camera's settings and functions to take better and more creative photographs. By introducing new techniques based on concepts already taught, it explains the key principles of camera craft and thereby helps the photographer determine the outcome of the image they take. Many topics are covered including: a guide to photographic equipment; exposure and how to control the shutter, aperture and ISO settings; flash control, metering patterns, focus modes and drive options; colour settings, including white balance, picture styles and colour spaces and digital photographs are explained in terms of histogram, resolution, image size and quality settings. Fully illustrated with 378 colour photographs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781847978035
Publisher:	Crowood Press, The
Publication date:	09/30/2014
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
File size:	34 MB
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Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Tim Savage is a photographer, artist, teacher, and writer. He regularly writes and illustrates features for many of the UK photographic magazines.

Table of Contents

Introduction 7

1 Inspiration 9

2 Understanding Light 17

3 Understanding Equipment 21

4 Understanding Lenses 33

5 Understanding the Viewfinder 43

6 Understanding Exposure (Auto and Program) 49

7 Understanding Scene Modes 59

8 Understanding Aperture 73

9 Understanding the Shutter 85

10 Understanding ISO 97

11 Understanding Manual Exposure Mode 105

12 Understanding the Built-in Camera Flash 115

13 Understanding External Camera Flash 123

14 Understanding Focus, Metering and Drive Modes 135

15 Understanding Colour: White Balance, Picture Styles and Colour Spaces 149

16 Understanding How to View, Access and Enhance Photographs 161

17 Understanding the Digital File 171

18 Understanding the Raw Format 183

19 Closing Thoughts 197

Glossary 199

Index 205