Book description
Top photographer and Canon Explorer of Light Rick Sammon shares his best tips and tricks for getting high-quality images with your point-and-shoot camera
Prolific author and renowned photographer Rick Sammon shares essential tips, tricks, and advice from years of vast and unique photography experiences. Packed with pointers and helpful hints, this handy, full-color guide can travel with you on your journeys for getting stunning photographs taken with point-and-shoot cameras. You'll learn how to capture proper exposure, create depth of field, use the appropriate flash settings, and much more.
More than 100 techniques show you how to improve your compact camera skills and hundreds of lavish photos serve to motivate and inspire you. Aim your sights at taking stunning photos with this helpful guide by your side!
Top industry expert, Canon Explorer of Light, and bestselling author Rick Sammon shares invaluable advice for taking amazing photos with a point-and-shoot camera
Explains how to capture proper exposure, create depth of field, use the appropriate flash settings, and more, all using your point-and-shoot camera
Boasts hundreds of beautiful photos with accompanying explanations as to the various techniques Sammon used to get a specific shot
Motivates and inspires you to improve your compact camera skills to a whole new leve
You'll be grateful for the amazing advice Rick Sammon confesses in Confessions of a Compact Camera Shooter.
Table of contents
- Copyright
- Preface1
- Credits
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword: Full-Featured Compact Digital Cameras
- Preface: Compact Camera Photo Gallery: Believe It or Not
- Introduction: Confessions of a Compact Camera Shooter
- I. Compact Camera, Pro Results
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II. What Your Compact Camera Can and Can't Do
- 2.1. Image Quality
- 2.2. Digital Noise Difference
- 2.3. Getting Close to a Subject
- 2.4. Sunsets—and More on Subject Size
- 2.5. Maximum Wide-Angle View
- 2.6. Close-ups
- 2.7. Action Sequences
- 2.8. Shutter Lag
- 2.9. More on Shutter Lag
- 2.10. Always Ready for Fun
- 2.11. On-the-Spot Creativity
- 2.12. Know Your Camera
- 2.13. Good News!
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III. Top Tips for Great Digital Pix
- 3.1. An Interesting Subject is Key
- 3.2. Go for Good Composition
- 3.3. Pick an Interesting Vantage Point
- 3.4. Focus on Auto Focusing
- 3.5. Fine-Tune Your Exposures
- 3.6. Be Aware of the Background
- 3.7. See the Light
- 3.8. Create a Sense of Depth
- 3.9. Control the Light On-Site
- 3.10. Check Your Exposures
- 3.11. Check Your Camera Settings
- 3.12. Watch for Lens Flare
- 3.13. Subtle Lens Flare
- 3.14. Use Your Radar
- 3.15. Dead Center is Deadly
- 3.16. See Eye to Eye
- 3.17. When You Think You Are Close Enough, Move Closer
- 3.18. When You Think You Are Done Shooting, Shoot More
- 3.19. Always Look Up, Always Look Down
- 3.20. The Name of the Game is to Fill the Frame
- 3.21. Don't Forget the Details
- 3.22. Frame It
- 3.23. Don't Just Stand There
- 3.24. Do It In the Digital Darkroom
- 3.25. Look for Pictures within a Picture
- 3.26. Be Ready for Fun ... and the Not So Fun
- 3.27. RAW Rules
- 3.28. Make Pictures, Don't Just Take Pictures
- 3.29. Always Carry a Camera
- 3.30. Don't Get Stuck
- 3.31. All Together Now
- 3.32. Develop Understanding
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IV. Light: The Main Subject in Every Photograph
- 4.1. What Our Eyes See vs. What Our Cameras See
- 4.2. Scene Brightness and ISO Settings
- 4.3. Photographing People Indoors in Low Light
- 4.4. Reducing and Increasing the Light
- 4.5. More on Increasing the Light
- 4.6. Contrast and Outdoor People Pictures
- 4.7. Diffuser in Action
- 4.8. Contrast in Scenic Pictures
- 4.9. The Color of Light
- 4.10. The Direction of Light
- 4.11. The Quality of Light
- 4.12. Finding the Light: Part I
- 4.13. Finding the Light: Part II
- 4.14. Controlling the Movement of Light
- V. Understanding ISO
- VI. Get the Best Image Quality: RAW and JPEG
- VII. A Case for White Balance
- VIII. Flash Settings: On, Off and Partial
- IX. The Zoom Lens Advantage
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X. Setting the Mode
- 10.1. Fully Automatic Picture/Exposure Modes
- 10.2. Full Auto Mode
- 10.3. Portrait Mode
- 10.4. Sports Mode
- 10.5. Landscape Mode
- 10.6. Close-up Mode
- 10.7. Night Portrait Mode
- 10.8. Flash-Off Mode
- 10.9. Creative Exposure Modes
- 10.10. Program Mode
- 10.11. Shutter-Priority (Tv) Mode
- 10.12. Aperture-Priority (Av) Mode
- 10.13. Manual Exposure (M) Mode
- 10.14. Exposure Bracketing
- 10.15. Metering Modes
- 10.16. Average
- 10.17. Center-weighted Average Metering
- 10.18. Spot Metering
- 10.19. Focus Modes
- 10.20. One-Shot
- 10.21. Focus Lock
- 10.22. Focusing Tracking
- 10.23. Manual
- 10.24. Drive Modes
- 10.25. Single Frame Advance
- 10.26. Rapid Frame Advance
- 10.27. Self-Timer
- XI. The Wonders of Infrared Imaging
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XII. Photoshop Elements Confessions
- 12.1. #1: Quick Look at the Quick Mode
- 12.2. #2: The Full Mode is Full-Featured
- 12.3. #3: Save a Copy
- 12.4. #4: Crop Creatively
- 12.5. #5: Love Those Adjustment Layers
- 12.6. #6: The Touch of a Brush
- 12.7. #7: A Look at Levels
- 12.8. #8: Brightness/Contrast Basics
- 12.9. #9: See What Hue/Saturation Can Do For You
- 12.10. #10: The Super Shadow/Highlight Control
- 12.11. #11 : Select Your Selections Carefully
- 12.12. #12 : Do It with the Dodge/Burn/Sponge Tool
- 12.13. #13 : Resize the Right Way
- 12.14. #14 : Check-Out Canvas Size
- 12.15. #15 : Heal with the Spot Healing Brush
- 12.16. #16 : Copy and Fix with the Clone Stamp Tool
- 12.17. #17: Wow 'em with Black-and-White Images
- 12.18. #18 : Have Fun with Effects
- 12.19. #19 : Play With Plug-ins
- 12.20. #20: Sharpen As The Final Step
- 12.21. #21: Reward of RAW Files
- XIII. Expand Your Vision with HDR Imaging
- XIV. Shooting Panoramas
- XV. HDR + Panos = Way-Cool Imaging Fun
- XVI. Make a Better Print
Product information
- Title: Confessions of a Compact Camera Shooter: Get Professional Quality Photos with Your Compact Camera
- Author(s):
- Release date: January 2010
- Publisher(s): Wiley
- ISBN: 9780470565070
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