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ISO: Light sensitivity of your camera’s sensor. The higher the ISO, the more sensitive your camera will be to light and the grainier your images will be. The lower the ISO, the less sensitive ...
STEP ISO. Once the light has passed through the aperture and been filtered by the shutter speed, it reaches the sensor, where we decide upon the ISO. As you turn the ISO number up, you increase the exposure but, at the same time, the image quality decreases; there will be more digital noise or “grain”. So you have to decide upon your ...
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In the following basics of photography PDF guide you’ll find: 20 lessons and more than 80 pages. Photographic examples in each lesson. Infographics to understand everything easily. The best photography tips and tricks. More than 30 photographic resources and additional content.
- The
- Trademarks
- Acknowledgments
- Pro Tips for Capturing the Wonder of Nature
- Shooting People Like a Pro
- How to Avoid Digital Headaches
- Pro Tips for Capturing the Wonder of Nature
- Become Married to Your Tripod
- Composing Great Landscapes
- A Tip for Shooting Forests
- Getting More Interesting Mountain Shots
- Canon
- Detail
- How to Show Size
- Don’t Set Up Your Tripod. Not Yet
- to Shoot in Bad Weather
- Atmosphere Is Your Friend
- Getting Rid of Lens Flare—The Manual Way
- Weapon
- Shooting on Cloudy Days
- Tips for Shooting Panoramas, Part 1
- for Shooting Panoramas, Part 3
- Faking Panoramas
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Photography The step-by-step secrets for how to make your photos look like the pros’! Book
All terms mentioned in this book that are known to be trademarks or service marks have been appropriately capitalized. Peachpit Press cannot attest to the accuracy of this infor mation. Use of a term in the book should not be regarded as afecting the validity of any trademark or service mark. Photoshop, Elements, and Lightroom are registered tradem...
Although only one name appears on the spine of this book, it takes a team of dedicated and talented people to pull a project like this together. I’m not only delighted to be working with them, but I also get the honor and privilege of thanking them here. I’ve written more than 50 books, and in each book I write, I always start by thanking my ama...
The Golden Rule of Landscape Photography Become Married to Your Tripod Shoot in Aperture Priority Mode Composing Great Landscapes The Trick to Shooting Waterfalls A Tip for Shooting Forests Where to Put the Horizon Line Getting More Interesting Mountain Shots
Tips for Making People Look Their Very Best The Best Lens for Portrait Photography Which Aperture to Use Using Seamless Backgrounds Using Canvas or Muslin Backgrounds The Right Background Outdoors Where to Focus Where to Position Your Camera Positioning Your Subject in the Frame Tip for Framing Portraits Getting Great Light Outdoors Getting Great L...
Pro Tips to Avoid White Balance Problems Cold Weather Shooting Means Extra Batteries Don’t Change Lenses in Dusty Weather Apply for Permits to Shoot with Your Tripod Be Careful What You Shoot A Tip for Shooting on an Incline The Other Reason Pros Use a Lens Hood Keeping Your Lens Out of Trouble Limit Your LCD Time to Save Battery Life Bracket If Yo...
If you ever get to shoot in some truly amazing outdoor locations, like the Grand Canyon or Yosemite National Park, it’s really a very humbling photographic experience. The reason why is you’re looking at this amazing vista, at the sheer grandeur of it all, and it looks so awe inspiring you’d figure a chimp could even take a great photo of it. I mea...
Okay, so now you know that as a pro landscape shooter your life is going to be like this: you get up before dawn, and you miss dinner about every evening (remember, there’s no shame in coming to dinner late). If you’re okay with all that, then it’s time to tell you the other harsh reality—since you’ll be shooting in low light all the time, you’ll...
The next time you pick up a great travel magazine that features landscape photography or look at some of the work from the masters in digital landscape photography, like David Muench, Moose Peterson, Stephen Johnson, Bill Fortney, and John Shaw, take a moment to study some of their wonderful, sweeping images. One thing you’ll find that most have in...
Want a great tip for shooting forest scenes? Don’t include the ground in your shots. That’s right, the ground in the forest is often surprisingly messy (with dead branches, and leaves, and a really cluttered look) and that’s why so many pro forest shots don’t include the ground—it distracts from the beauty of the trees. So, easy enough—frame your s...
One theme you’ll see again and again throughout this book is to shoot from angles we don’t see every day. For example, if your subject is mountains, don’t shoot them from the road at the bottom of the mountain. This is exactly how we see mountains every day when we drive by them on the interstate, so if you shoot them like that (from the ground loo...
Here’s a trick I picked up from Bill Fortney for getting even warmer sunrises and sunsets: For Nikon shooters, go to your camera’s Shooting menu and choose Cloudy as your white balance. Press the right arrow button to get the White Balance Cloudy submenu, and move the dot in the middle of the grid to the right three spots (to A3), and then click O...
Okay, they’re technically not called “the blinkies” (that’s our nickname for them), they’re actually called highlight warnings (or highlight alerts) and having this turned on, and adjusting for it, is a critical part of getting properly exposed landscape shots. This warning shows exactly which parts of your photo have been overexposed to the poin...
If you’ve ever had a chance to photograph something like the California redwood trees or a huge rock formation out in Utah’s Monument Valley, you’ve probably been disappointed that when you looked at those photos later, you lost all sense of their size. In person, those redwoods were wider around than a truck. In your photos, they could’ve been the...
Okay, so you walk up on a scene (a landscape, a mountain range, a waterfall, etc.) and you set up your tripod and start shooting. What are the chances that you just happened to walk up on the perfect angle to shoot your subject? Pretty slim. But that’s what most people do—they walk up on a scene, set up their tripod right where they’re standing, an...
Okay, so you’re thinking that it’s an overcast or drizzly day, and you’re going to spend the day inside working on your photos in Photoshop. That’s not the worst idea in the world, but you’ll miss some great shooting opportunities, like: Right after a rain, while it’s still cloudy and dark, is the perfect time to shoot foliage, forests (the green ...
Besides just keeping us here on earth, the atmosphere (low-hanging clouds or fog) can make for some really interesting landscape photos (we’re talking soft, difused light heaven). In fact, some of my personal favorite shots are taken when the fog rolls in between mountains (but, of course, you need to shoot this from above the fog on a higher mou...
Another great reason to wear a baseball cap when you shoot (besides the two obvious reasons: [1] it protects you from the harmful rays of the sun, and [2] it looks cool) is to help eliminate (or at the very least, reduce) lens flare. If you’re using a lens hood on your camera, that can certainly help, but I’ve found that often it alone is not enoug...
So, earlier you learned about the polarizer and how essential that filter is. This filter, the neutral density gradient filter, isn’t necessarily essential but it is the secret weapon of professional landscape photographers. It lets them balance the exposure between the ground and the sky to capture a range of exposure which, without it, their came...
This is another one of those things that may initially elicit a “Duh” response, but I’ve been out shooting with more photographers than I can think of who didn’t think of this simple concept when shooting on gray, overcast days—shoot to avoid the sky. I know, it sounds silly when you’re reading it here, but I’ve heard it time and time again, “Ah, t...
There is something so fascinating about what happens when you stitch together five or six (or more) landscape photos into one long, single image. It’s as close as you can get (with a photograph anyway) to recreating the experience of being there. Now, although this will take more than one page to describe, shooting panos right is easy, so if you’re...
Now, if you followed the rules set out on the previous two pages, the rest is easy: Step One: Open Photoshop and then go under Photoshop’s File menu, under Automate, and choose Photomerge. Step Two: In the resulting dialog, click the Browse button in the center, navigate to your pano photo segments, choose them all, and click Open. Step Three...
If you have Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, there’s a great way to create a fake panorama: crop the photo so it becomes a panorama. Just get the Crop tool (C) and click-and-drag so it selects only the center of your photo, cropping of the top and bottom (as shown above). Then press Return (PC: Enter) and the top and bottom are cropped away, leavi...
When you’re setting up your tripod at some famous landscape location, look at all the other people setting up their tripods. What do they all have in common (take a look at the image on page 65 again)? They’re all standing behind their tripods, right? So, what’s about to happen? They’re all about to take a shot with pretty much the same vantage poi...
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RAW. A camera’s RAW file is an unconverted, bit-for-bit digital image recorded by the camera when the image is captured. Along with the pixels in the image, the RAW file also contains data about how the image was shot, such as the time of day, the exposure settings, and the camera and lens type.
RAW files permit you to enlarge your images 200% or more and it is possible to modify exposure and white balance afterwards - you get a second chance to improve the exposure! Most cameras will also permit you to shoot both RAW and JPG files simultaneously. RAW is best if you want high quality and flexibility.
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3. Shutter Speed – A key element for beginner photography. The second photography fundamental related to exposure basics is the shutter speed. In short, shutter speed is related to how long the camera shutter is open and capturing light. This has a significant impact on the exposure; a shorter shutter speed will translate into a darker image ...
