Create Eye-Catching Photos!
Learn How to Shoot Like the Pros!
Turn Snapshots into Great Images!
Take Your Photography to the Next Level!
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You want to be a better photographer. Digital Photography Exposure for Dummies will show you how. Whether you are a beginning photographer, or your skills are more advanced, if you are ready to take the next step, Digital Photography Exposure for Dummies will show you how to improve your photography. It is about exposure (which is very important), but it is also about a whole lot more! It will show you the simple things the pros do to turn ordinary snapshots into great photos. You can be a better photographer! What can this book do for you? Read the reviews from beginning photographers, advanced photographers, and professionals. They all say Digital Photography Exposure for Dummies will take your photography to the next level. Or read the review from Apogee Photo Magazine. Digital photography expert Tim Grey (author of a dozen photography books and hundreds of photo magazine articles) is one of several professionals who recommend Digital Photography Exposure for Dummies. In one of his eNewsletters, Tim wrote: "I've recently discovered a book that helps photographers truly understand exposure, and that knowledge can dramatically improve the quality of your digital photos. The book is Digital Photography Exposure for Dummies, authored by Jim Doty, Jr., and published by Wiley. This book provides you with everything a photographer needs to know in order to truly understand exposure and how it affects the original capture." To read the rest of Tim's review, plus reviews from other professionals, go here.
California Poppies Digital Photography Exposure for Dummies is loaded with full color photographs and practical, "how-to-do-it" information that will show you how to *Use exposure to dramatically improve the quality of your photos! *"Speak your camera's language" to make it do its special tricks! *Do what the pros do to create dynamic images! *Create bold, vivid photos that stand out from the crowd! Digital Photography Exposure for Dummies grew out of years of experience teaching photography to photographers of all skill levels. The author was on the faculty of the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts for seven years and he currently does photo workshops for The Ohio State University at Stone Laboratory. The ideas, concepts, and exercises in Digital Photography Exposure for Dummies have been tested in classes, workshops, and seminars, and just as important, they have been honed in hundreds of hours leading photography field trips and providing individual, practical, coaching to photographers of all experience levels. As you read this book, imagine the author at your side, providing the same kind of valuable help that has been provided to hundreds of other photographers.
Sunstar Over Turnagain Arm, Alaska This book is about creating better images! If you are a beginner, this book will quickly bring you up to speed. If you are well past the beginner stage, this book is filled with intermediate and advanced photographic techniques that will make a difference in your photography. You will learn the secrets of the pros. They aren't really "secrets", but they might as well be. Most photographers don't do the simple things the pros do that make the difference between boring snapshots and bold images. The foundation for better images is to master exposure. The first half of the book covers the basics and then leads you through some advanced exposure concepts and techniques that many books don't even mention. The exposure information in Digital Photography Exposure for Dummies is one of the most clear, detailed, and comprehensive you can find in a single photography book. There is a special emphasis on the artistic potential that is unleashed when you understand how to take control of your exposure options. The "go out and do it" chapters in the second half of the book are loaded with tips to help you take better, bolder photos in all kinds of photographic situations.
A Boy In His Favorite Blue Hat
For two very important reasons:
1. Sometimes your camera gets it all wrong! Despite all of the wonderful, whiz-bang technology in your camera, there are times it will totally miss the right exposure, and the times your camera meter gets it wrong are often the situations with the most dramatic potential. An example is this pair of photos below. In the photo on the left, the camera made the exposure decision. In the photo on the right, I made the exposure decision. Digital Photography Exposure for Dummies will guide you through tricky exposure situations so you will know when the camera will be fooled and what to do about it.
2. Every exposure decision is also an artistic decision! There are multiple combinations of shutter speed, aperture, and ISO speed that will give you exactly the same exposure, but very different artistic "looks". Knowing which combination to choose can make a big difference in the quality of your photos. If you leave your camera on auto pilot, you have turned the artistic decisions to a computer chip. If you take control of exposure yourself, you open the door to all kinds of creative and wonderful possibilities in terms of exposure, subject motion, and depth of field (check out the depth of field examples farther down this page). Sometimes the technically correct exposure isn't the best artistic exposure. Digital Photography Exposure for Dummies will show you when you need to take control of the exposure process and how to do it.
Sailboat at Sunset, Lake Michigan There's magic in the creative side of exposure. Knowing which exposure possibility to choose can make the difference between an ordinary looking photo and a beautiful image you will be proud of. A Quick Look at the Contents Part I also includes some specialized and mostly inexpensive metering tools to make your photo life simpler and easier. Part I also teaches you the language of light so you know how to work with the light instead of fighting the light. Part I gives you a solid foundation that prepares you for Part II, the fun, artistic side of exposure.
Some of the Metering Tools Covered in Part I Part II introduces you to the artistic side of exposure. It shows you how to make the best choices of apertures, shutter speeds, and ISOs for the kind of creative results you want. If you want to freeze a fast moving subject, or create long artistic blurs, you will know how. Thanks to the creative use of shutter speeds, you will learn how to create images that reveal things that are too fast for the human eye to see, or so slow that the camera records the passage of time in a way that our "instant snapshot" eyes can't capture.
The Strip, Las Vegas, Nevada You will develop the know how and skills to use aperture, focal length, and focusing choices to create eye-popping depth of field (the near to far sharpness in an image) so everything looks sharp from the grains of sand inches in front of the camera all the way to the distant horizon.
White Sands New Mexico at Sunset Or you can minimize depth of field so you can isolate your subject against a background of soft, blurry colors, like these Shooting Stars.
Shooting Stars in the Rain, Rocky Mountains, Colorado Whether you want a lot of depth of field, a little, or something in between, Chapters 6 and 7 in Part II will show you how to do it Part II also introduces you to the wonderful world of flash and shows you how to use flash as a primary or secondary light source, and how to mix flash and ambient light.
A Mixture of Off-Camera Flash and Ambient Light Parts I and II are both filled with lots of photo exercises that you can do close to home so can you master the skills you need to be a better photographer. When you've mastered the exposure skills, you can get out there and take on the big wide world of real life photo situations that are covered in Parts III and IV. Parts III and IV are the "go out and do it" sections. If you are looking for simple things to do that will make a big difference in how your photos look, Parts III and IV will show you how.
Portrait Created with a Single, Part III shows you great ways to improve your people, wildlife, landscape, flower, and sports photography.
Great Gray Owl, Whitefish Point, Michigan's Upper Peninsula
Paintbrush, Aspen Bole and Evergreen Needles, Colorado
Part IV introduces you to the specialized and wonderful fields of close-up and low light photography. You will learn how to choose the right aperture, shutter speed, and ISO combinations to shoot landscapes by moonlight, freeze the stars in the night sky, and create star trails.
Northern Lights, Camp Denali, Alaska
Star Trails, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado Part V is the infamous Dummies "Parts of Ten" which covers ten photographic mistakes that can cost you (saving you from a lot of grief), and ten accessories that will make your life simpler and/or improve your photography.
1. A willingness to experiment and try new things. If you are ready to jump start your creative juices, go out and try the suggestions in this book.
Neon Pizza Sign 2. You will also need a camera that allows you to take separate control of shutter
speeds, apertures (f-stops), and ISO speeds. Just about any single lens reflex camera (SLR), both digital and film, makes it easy to control the exposure settings. Some high
end point-and-shoot cameras also make it easy to control aperture, shutter speed, and ISO.
Despite the title, this book is still for you. About 1/3 of the photos in the book were shot on film (including the photo below of Mt. Sneffels). The principles of exposure are the same for both film and digital photography, even if the application is a little different. 95% of this book applies to film photography.
Mt. Sneffels, San Juan Mountains, Colorado
A Final Thought
Photo Accessories As promised in the book (Chapter 18 - Ten Accessories to Make Your Life Easier), Chapter 18 is being expanded here on my web site into an Accessories Section with additional content and more illustrations. Enjoy! Teasers. These articles will give you an idea what you will discover inside the book.
They are short online versions of the more comprehensive and detailed information in the book. Book reviews of Digital Photography Exposure for Dummies. Apogee Photo Magazine reviews Digital Photography Exposure for Dummies. What the pros say about Digital Photography Exposure for Dummies.
More information and purchase links at Dummies.com.
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