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Improve your photography with more than 200 lighting tips from a top photographer Written by Canon Explorer of Light Rick Sammon and leading fashion and studio photographer Vered Koshlano, this guide is packed with professional advice on the essential element of photography: lighting. It provides detailed information and insider secrets that are bound to make you a better photographer. You'll learn the basics of studio lighting as well as how to achieve special effects. A 90-minute DVD is included, with additional tips on using reflectors, diffusers, accessory flashes, and more. - Explores the basics of studio lighting in various situations
- Features more than 200 lighting tips and secrets for planning and taking the most impressive digital images in the studio
- Compares available camera equipment, accessories, software, and printing options
- Covers post-shoot digital darkroom techniques and workflow tips and tricks
- Companion DVD includes advice on making the most of accessories such as diffusers, reflectors, and accessory flashes
- Written by two top professional photographers and illustrated with full-color examples
Studio and Location Lighting Secrets provides information from the pros to improve your photograpic skills. Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file....
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How to capture and control light to make the best digital photographs. Light is the essence of photography. Follow master photographer Rick Sammon at dawn in Kenya or nighttime in Miami as he demonstrates how to achieve the best composition with the available light, which camera settings are best suited to existing conditions, and how to obtain the best exposures in challenging situations. Sammon shows how to make photographs instead of just taking them, providing the tools necessary to take artistic command of the images you create. Drawing on intuitive analogies and technical tips, his in-depth lessons on light apply to every style and subject of photography. In this beginner-to-intermediate-level guide, Sammon also teaches how to "rescue" potentially imperfect exposures with the resources available to the digital SLR camera owner. Technical exposure information images where relevant. 428 color photographs....
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An easy-to-carry, quick reference to Rick Sammon’s tips and tricks for the digital photographer on the go.
Inspired by Rick Sammon’s popular workshops given around the world, this indispensable handbook condenses the master photographer’s most important lessons into one easy-to-carry guide. Designed for outdoor and travel photographers of any skill level, this book will come in handy for a wide range of potential shooting situations. The Field Guide, illustrated with hundreds of Rick’s own photographs, offers great advice on how to get the best images with the resources at hand, and gives dozens of crucial lessons for the mobile digital photographer, each one crafted in Rick’s trademark nontechnical and intuitive manner. Readers will learn how to prevent bad exposures in less-than-ideal conditions and will discover how to fix images that may have unexpected flaws. This is the portable Rick Sammon all of his fans have been waiting for—small enough to fit in your camera bag.
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Rick Sammon leads us through twenty step-by-step workshops on how to edit our photographs using the most popular imaging software available. Rick Sammon's Digital Imaging Workshops picks up where his popular Complete Guide to Digital Photography leaves off. The earlier book gave us brief glimpses of the power of digital imaging. In his new book Sammon has selected twenty of the most common and effective imaging techniques that workshop participants request. Each richly illustrated workshop in the book is accompanied by Sammon's base images on the CD-ROM so that readers can follow step by step along with Sammon using the same image as portrayed in the book. This technique leads readers to develop their own ideas very rapidly. The book opens with a tour of Adobe Photoshop Elements tools and menus. For photographers who are visual learners, the book's CD-ROM also contains short movies that readers can view on their computer showing how to manipulate the most useful tools and menu actions in Elements. 600 color illustrations; CD-ROM....
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“Clear, concise, lively, well-organized and opinionated.”—Popular Photography and Imaging In this thorough revision of his best-selling guide, Rick Sammon covers all the steps in the digital photographic process. The book teaches basic technical picture taking and the art of photography, plus introductory and advanced digital techniques.
Orchestrating over 1,000 images into easy-to-read lessons, Sammon uses an approach of "learning to see and seeing to learn" with pairs of images, software screen shots, and the best photographs from his own shooting assignments.
New for this edition, all the image editing tips feature the popular Adobe Photoshop® Elements®; file format discussions now include working with Camera RAW files; and more than 170 new color images have been added. 1000 color photographs....
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Go on location around the globe to learn the techniques that professional photographers use to make great photographs. Whether traveling with family or friends, for pleasure or for business, more of us tote cameras along than ever before. Rick Sammon guides us through dozens of different shooting situations from action shots to portraits, from aerials to zoos, from low light to bright light, from landscape to cityscape, from close-up to panorama, from silhouettes to sense of depth.
The book features how-to tips from a photographer who has traveled to over fifty countries, from photographing seals under the ice in Siberia's Lake Baikal to monarch butterflies on Mexican mountaintops. Sammon's thematically organized excursions take the reader to Vietnam, Kampuchea, Guatemala, India, Alaska, Singapore, Maine, Texas, New York City, Las Vegas, Botswana, the Caribbean, and the American Southwest, among many other locations. ....
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