Digital Photography For Dummies

Digital Photography For Dummies Review

A new edition gets you in the picture for learning digital photography

Whether you have a point-and-shoot or digital SLR camera, this new edition of the full-color bestseller is packed with tips, advice, and insight that you won't find in your camera manual. Digital photography guru Julie Adair King presents you with new and extensively updated information on topics that is written for fledgling photographers in a fun and friendly style. You'll explore tips for finding the gear that best suits your needs, using built-in tools, working with focus and exposure, and shooting like a pro.

However, if you've already got an archives full of photos, then this guide shows you how to upload, edit, manage, and share your images. Advice for prolonging battery life, an honest look at the pros and cons of digital SLR, and a helpful glossary are all aimed at making your experience with digital photography picture perfect!

• Shows you how to set up your camera for basic shooting and use automatic mode, common scene modes, and all the camera's features
• Explains how to edit your images and fix common problems like dim lighting or red-eye
• Highlights ways to print photos at home or through a service and then posting online to social sites or send to a cell phone
• Helps you manage depth of field, exposure, and white balance

Digital Photography For Dummies, 7th Edition provides you with rich, full-color examples throughout to help your digital pictures say more than a thousand words!

The Basic Book of Digital Photography: How to Shoot, Enhance, and Share Your Digital Pictures

The Basic Book of Digital Photography: How to Shoot, Enhance, and Share Your Digital Pictures Review

The ultimate, up-to-the-minute digital photography handbook-from the authors of the bestselling Basic Book of Photography.

The Basic Book of Digital Photography is the definitive guide to the expansive world of digital photography from two of the field's most established authorities. The Grimms' classic guide, The Basic Book of Photography, has sold over 400,000 copies since the first edition was published in 1974. Now they are steering photographers through the new era of digital imaging.

This comprehensive handbook covers how to compose the best shots with cameras from point-and-shoot to the increasingly popular SLR (single lens reflex) models-and even cell phone cameras- and takes readers through the steps to improve, display, and preserve their images. The guide includes over 400 photos and illustrations, an extensive glossary and addresses everything from choosing a digital camera to storing files and printing photos. An indispensable accessory for amateur shutterbugs or dedicated professionals, this is the one handbook no digital photographer will want to do without.

The NEW Joy of Digital Photography (Lark Photography Book)

The NEW Joy of Digital Photography (Lark Photography Book) Review

The original was a huge seller-and now this new and thoroughly up-to-date edition covers all the latest technological advances, plus interviews with professionals that reveal how taking, editing, and sharing pictures have become more fun and exciting than ever.
Easy-to-grasp explanations of technique, introductions to exciting new imaging technology, fun diagrams, spectacular pictures, and the author's creative, inspirational approach will distinguish The NEW Joy of Digital Photography from any other digital photo how-to book.

INCLUDES:
o Wi-fi technologies that have spawned a frenzy of image sharing
o The quantum leap in digital sensor and RAW file technology
o Up-to-the-minute advice on digital vision, digital tools, common problems and solutions
o Travel and landscape photography; portraiture; sports photography
o Post-production, including seeing, sharing, and storing digital images
o The latest in desktop printing and the digital darkroom
o A Photoshop primer
o And much, much more!

Ocean: Photographs from the World's Greatest Underwater Photographers

Ocean: Photographs from the World's Greatest Underwater Photographers Review

This collection of great marine photography by famous underwater photographers includes works by Scott Frier, chief expedition photograper for the Cousteau Society, and Flip Nicklin, the "premier whale photographer in the world". 225 photos.

H2O

H2O Review

Acclaimed photographer Howard Schatz broke new ground in the 1990s with his books WATER DANCE and POOL LIGHT, two collections of luminous photographs of dancers, some clothed and some nude, all taken underwater. His underwater photography has been called uncanny, lithe and athletic, exquisitely real, and mysterious, and has been widely imitated in art and advertising. The dancers seem to transcend time and space to become floating, ethereal objects. Schatz's new underwater photographs are shot in a state-of-the-art, custom-built pool fitted with studio lights and covered with a giant dome to regulate temperature. The results are stunning. His unique images---at once lyrical, fantastic, and palpably real---express the beauty of inspired movement magically free of the restrictions of gravity.

The Essential Underwater Photography Manual: A Guide to Creative Techniques and Essential Equipment

The Essential Underwater Photography Manual: A Guide to Creative Techniques and Essential Equipment Review

More and more people discover diving, and the wonders of the undersea world, with every passing summer. Divers are stunned by the beauty they see—but how can they capture it? The Essential Underwater Photography Manual shows and tells them how. In this beautifully illustrated, practical guide, underwater photography gurus Larry and Denise Tackett draw on their years of experience to share everything a diver needs to know to take great photographs of life beneath the sea. Along with information on choosing equipment, the book discusses lighting, composition, and macrophotography, all in simple, straightforward language. With practical exercises, reassuring advice, illuminating anecdotes, and, of course, awe-inspiring photographs, The Essential Underwater Photography Manual is the one book to get before you get wet.

National Geographic Ultimate Field Guide to Travel Photography (National Geographic Photography Field Guides)

National Geographic Ultimate Field Guide to Travel Photography (National Geographic Photography Field Guides) Review

This superb practical guide to travel photography combines the best of all worlds: convenient size, comprehensive coverage, and useful, straightforward advice from the experts of National Geographic Traveler, the highest circulation magazine in its field. It’s the perfect "how-to" for anyone seeking to master the veteran photographer’s trademark skills: a strong sense of place; a swift, decisive eye; and a sure instinct for the dramatic scene.

Be it a weekend escape or far-flung adventure, every occasion promises the chance for a great photograph. Whether you’re after that once-in-a-lifetime shot or just want a vivid travelogue to share with friends, The Ultimate Field Guide to Travel Photography will help you achieve your goals. It explores such key genres of photography as panoramas, portraits, and creating a narrative in photographs. Always, the focus is on engaging your subject and working—often quickly—to get the best shots.

Chapters cover everything from inspiration and research to the practicalities of purchasing the right equipment. Practical information including checklists, essential contents of a camera bag, and other helpful resources are listed in the back. Designed especially for active travelers, the book fits easily in a backpack or pocket for handy access.

The amazing world of underwater photography (A Silver Burdett international library selection)

The amazing world of underwater photography (A Silver Burdett international library selection) Review

Explains how to photograph underwater plant and animal life simply and safely while snorkeling.

Adobe Photoshop for Underwater Photographers

Adobe Photoshop for Underwater Photographers Review

Using the digital darkroom to perfect underwater images, this guide is loaded with tips on how to finesse, fine-tune, retouch, and enhance underwater film scans and digital images with Adobe Photoshop. This comprehensive look at the required setup for a digital darkroom outlines the necessary hardware, monitor calibration, and room lighting, in addition to providing a survey of the top editing tools and descriptions of the most tried-and-true correction techniques. Step-by-step instructions explain how to group underwater images for editing; approach corrections for images that require a multi-step enhancement process; and choose the right output options for printed images, video, slide shows, and Web viewing.

Jim Church's Essential Guide to Composition: A Simplified Approach to Taking Better Underwater Pictures

Jim Church's Essential Guide to Composition: A Simplified Approach to Taking Better Underwater Pictures Review

The author shows how to find and choose subjects, position and guide models, and take the pictures.

Pisces Guide to Shooting Underwater Video/a Complete Guide to the Latest Techniques and Equipment (Lonely Planet Diving & Snorkeling Great Barrier Reef)

Pisces Guide to Shooting Underwater Video/a Complete Guide to the Latest Techniques and Equipment (Lonely Planet Diving & Snorkeling Great Barrier Reef) Review

A guidebook for divers and snorkellers who want to record underwater scenes on video. The book provides practical information, tips and techniques.

Essentials of Underwater Photography

Essentials of Underwater Photography Review

Underwater photography is challenging, even in the age of autofocus and TTL cameras. The author is unique is presenting an in-depth explanation of concepts as they relate to making photographs underwater. This book illustrates these concepts with brilliant color photographs, each of which is accompanied by an explanation of exactly how it was accomplished. This book stresses basic knowledge needed to produce high quality images now and in the future. Both beginning and experienced underwater photographers will benefit from the presentation of practical suggestions and realistic solutions for making photographs with housed 35mm cameras, macro or wide angle lenses, and strobe lighting.

This book includes a glossary of important photographic terms as well as straightforward and comprehensive explanations of useful optical concepts, lenses, cameras, film and strobe lighting. It concludes with addresses, telephone contact numbers and internet URL's for a number of important equipment manufacturers, photography supply houses, and repair facilities that specialize in underwater equipment.

Digital Underwater Photography: Jill Heinerth's Guide to Digital Underwater Photography

Digital Underwater Photography: Jill Heinerth's Guide to Digital Underwater Photography Review

A comprehensive guide to digital underwater photography techniques, equipment, editing and artistry. Written by acclaimed underwater photographer and film maker, Jill Heinerth, the manual includes tips, secrets and remarkable stories from her expeditions around the world. Scuba divers of all levels of experience and background will enjoy this easy to understand, full-color handbook. Techniques are demonstrated using Jill's rich library of award-winning images.