The Complete Idiot's Guide to Digital Photography Like A Pro, 4E

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Digital Photography Like A Pro, 4E Review

The focus is on great sales with this fully revised guide.

Written by a professional still photographer who’s also an expert in digital imaging, this updated edition explains everything beginners and seasoned photographers need to know about digital photography. Step-by-step methods help readers understand and utilize resolution, image processors, and pixels. Readers will find helpful pictures, expanded coverage on camera features, extras for the camera, download devices, and more.

-Software options including using third-party software, proprietary programs, image management programs, and album/scrapbooking software

-More coverage on how to take great pictures with a digital camera

-Digital camera ownership reached 20% in the U.S. by 2003, and continues to grow exponentially both in the States and abroad

-Author is a top-notch professional photographer

Master Posing Guide for Portrait Photographers: A Complete Guide to Posing Singles, Couples and Groups

Master Posing Guide for Portrait Photographers: A Complete Guide to Posing Singles, Couples and Groups Review

Photographers are guided through every aspect of posing—beginning with the consultation and continuing with specific tips for posing children, high school seniors, wedding parties, families, events, teams, groups, and pets—in this comprehensive manual. Maintaining that good posing is 80 percent mental and only 20 percent technical, this guide stresses the importance of communication between photographer and subject to creating a portrait that not only captures the subject’s personality but also makes the subject comfortable, fostering repeat business.

Mastering Digital Flash Photography: The Complete Reference Guide (A Lark Photography Book)

Mastering Digital Flash Photography: The Complete Reference Guide (A Lark Photography Book) Review

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.

Fashion Photography: A Complete Guide to the Tools and Techniques of the Trade

Fashion Photography: A Complete Guide to the Tools and Techniques of the Trade Review

Fashion photography is glamorous. Fashion photography is hot. Fashion photography pays well! Now is the time to get into fashion photography, and there’s no better way to learn all the tricks and tips of this trade than Fashion Photography. Insider Bruce Smith explores every aspect of fashion photography, from high-end couture and beauty for both editorial and commercial clients, to runway, swimwear, lingerie, and more, with full information on how to break into the business. Topics include equipment, styling, backgrounds, hair and makeup, locations, lighting, production and directing, Photoshop, prepping images, marketing, and much, much more. Interviews with Nigel Barker, Dirk Franke, Barry Lategan, and other top names give insight into succeeding in the field. Fast-track your career with Fashion Photography!