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Mac Digital Photography
By: Dennis R. Cohan , Erica SaduneBook Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Imprint: Sybex
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"""this book is an excellent resource for the beginning digital photographer.""
— MacCompanion
The Essential Companion to Your Digital Camera and Your Mac
You'll be amazed at what you can create with your digital camera and your Mac. Whether you're making striking portraits or hilarious montages, this book provides the essential tools, techniques, and advice to turn you into a photo pro. Written by two Mac and digital photography experts, Mac Digital Photography explores everything essential to snapping, enhancing, and sharing great digital images.
Inside you'll find expert techniques for refining your photo-taking techniques, editing and repairing your images, choosing the right camera peripherals, using your photos for fun craft projects, and sharing your creations with others across the globe or across the room.
Mac Digital Photography teaches you how to: Snap high-quality photographs by concentrating on composition, lighting, and posing Enhance your images and fix picture flaws with Photoshop Elements 2 and iPhoto Create panoramas, 3D images, and poster-sized photographs Get crafty—use your photos for T-shirts, calendars, greeting cards, tattoos, and more Share your photos via e-mail and the Web Make DVDs, picture CDs, and video CD slide shows Perform special effects such as warping, morphing, and animation
Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file. "
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| Title of Computers eBook: Mac Digital Photography | |
| Release Date: 12-26-2006 | |
| Publisher: Sybex |
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Mac Digital Photography
Chapter One
Composition, Lighting, and Posing: Some Tried-and-True Advice
Whether you're using a traditional film camera or a fancy new digital one, composition, lighting, and posing play important roles in your photos. Taking pictures is at least as much an art as a science. Learn from the classics. The basic rules of portraiture and landscape art are as applicable to digital (or film) pictures as they are to traditional canvases. As you will discover in this chapter, it's important to think about how you should place your subjects, light them, and frame them with your camera. The time-tested techniques and tips described here will help you create better, more professional snapshots, while taking advantage of the special features provided by your digital camera. Learn to combine the traditional with the state-of-the-art, and you'll be richly rewarded by the results.
This chapter covers the following topics:
Compose your shot with care
Use light effectively
Understand depth of field
Achieve natural poses
Focus sharply
Tips of the trade
Compose Your Shot with Care
Do you remember that joke about Mozart (the one in which he is busy decomposing)? In photography, composition doesn't mean creating music. Instead, it refers to the way that the photographer places all of the visual elements of a picture. Good pictures don't happen by accident. Good pictures result from planning and following the basic rules of composition; the better the composition, the better the photograph. If you think that you take pretty good pictures now, you'll be astonished how quickly your snapshots improve wh
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