Complete Digital Photography, Eighth Edition

  • 12h 5m
  • Ben Long
  • Cengage Course PTR
  • 2015

In this thoroughly updated eighth edition of COMPLETE DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY, popular photographer, writer, and teacher Ben Long is your guide through the creative and challenging world of digital photography. In this book is everything you'll need to know in order to create great digital photos, from how a camera works and how to choose the right camera for you, to all the details of shooting, image editing, output, and workflow. The step-by-step tutorials included here offer great tips and techniques on improving your processes from start to finish; you'll learn about exposure theory, composition, lighting, complex masking, image adjustment, and much more. No prior experience is needed or assumed, and by the end of the book you'll be tackling complex photographic challenges with your own growing expertise. And the results will astound you.

About the Author

Ben Long is a San Francisco-based photographer, writer, and teacher. The author of more than two dozen books on digital photography and digital video, he is also a senior contributing editor to Macworld magazine, a contributing editor at CreativePro.com, and the author of several best-selling Lynda.com photography courses. His photography clients have included 20th Century Fox, Blue Note Records, Global Business Network, the San Francisco Jazz Festival, the Pickle Family Circus, and Grammy-nominated jazz musicians Don Byron and Dafnis Prieto. He has taught and lectured on photography around the world, including workshops at the Santa Reparata International School of the Arts in Florence and a class for imaging engineers at Apple, Inc. He occasionally dabbles in computer programming and has written image editing utilities that are used by National Geographic, the British Museum, and the White House.

In this Book

  • Eyes, Brains, Lights, and Images: Understanding How You See
  • Getting to Know Your Camera: Using Auto Mode for Snapshot Shooting
  • Camera Anatomy: Holding and Controlling Your Camera
  • Image Transfer: Building a Workstation and Transferring from Your Camera
  • Image Sensors: How a Silicon Chip Captures an Image
  • Exposure Basics: The Fundamental Theory of Exposure
  • Program Mode: Taking Control of Exposure, Focus, and More
  • Advanced Exposure: Learning More About Your Light Meter and Exposure Controls
  • Finding and Composing a Photo: Learning the Art of Photography
  • Lighting: The Process of Controlling Light
  • Raw Shooting: Gaining More Editing Power Through Raw Format
  • Special Shooting: Camera Features and Techniques for Specific Situations
  • Workflow: Managing Your Images and Starting Postproduction
  • Editing Workflows and First Steps: Understanding the Order of Edits and Making Your First Adjustments
  • Correcting Tone: Ensuring that White, Black, and Overall Contrast are Correct
  • Correcting Color: Repairing, Improving, and Changing Color
  • Selective Editing and Masks: Making Edits to Specific Parts of an Image
  • Photoshop Adjustment Layers: Advanced Tools for Adjustments and Corrections
  • Black-and-White Conversion: Turning Your Color Images into Black-and-White Images
  • Layers, Retouching, and Special Effects: Additional Editing Tools and Concepts for Improving Your Images
  • Panoramic Stitching and HDR Merging: How to Process These Multi-Shot Effects
  • Output: Taking Your Images to Print or Electronic Output
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