Creative Composition Digital Photography Tips and Techniques

Creative Composition: Digital Photography Tips & Techniques......Page 4
Contents......Page 8
Introduction......Page 9
Cameras don’t take photos, people do......Page 12
Technique and Composition......Page 13
Working with Your Camera......Page 15
Lenses and Focal Lengths......Page 17
Sensor Size and Focal Length......Page 19
Using a Fisheye Lens......Page 25
Working with Macro Lenses......Page 27
Choosing the Right Focal Length......Page 31
Understanding Exposure......Page 35
Using Exposure Histograms......Page 39
Creative Exposures......Page 41
ISO and Noise......Page 43
Shutter Speed and Motion......Page 45
Aperture, Focus and Depth-of-Field......Page 51
Focusing and the Hyperfocal Distance......Page 55
Working with a Lensbaby......Page 61
Blur and Bokeh......Page 63
Understanding Dynamic Range......Page 67
Extending Dynamic Range......Page 69
Exposing for the Earth and Sky at Night......Page 71
Multi-RAW Processing Beyond Landscapes......Page 73
Bracketing Landscape Exposures......Page 75
Combining Flower Captures......Page 77
Extending Focal Range......Page 79
Workflow and Digital Asset Management......Page 81
Unleash your imagination......Page 84
Using Visual Ambiguity......Page 85
Seeing the Unexpected......Page 87
The Power of Vision......Page 91
Photography is Magic......Page 95
A World of Mystery......Page 99
Double Takes......Page 101
Photography and Narration......Page 105
Photography Is Poetry......Page 109
Photography That Tells a Story......Page 113
Researching Your Subject......Page 119
Be Specific......Page 121
Abstraction......Page 123
Plausible Abstraction......Page 129
Photography and paradox......Page 132
Combining Images......Page 133
Photography Is Deception......Page 135
Playing with Scale......Page 137
What Is Reality?......Page 139
The Mystical Landscape......Page 141
The Nature of Paradox......Page 145
Surrealism......Page 151
Photography is design......Page 158
Lines......Page 159
Shapes......Page 161
Photography and Zen......Page 165
Patterns......Page 167
Iteration......Page 173
Rhythm......Page 177
Translating a 360º World......Page 179
Seeing the Frame......Page 181
Framing......Page 183
Dividing the Frame......Page 189
The Golden Ratio......Page 193
Frames within Frames......Page 195
Color......Page 199
Light......Page 201
Working with Tones......Page 203
Seeing the Composition......Page 205
Black and White......Page 207
Contrasting Color with Black and White......Page 213
Spirals......Page 217
Perspective......Page 223
Order and Disorder......Page 225
Emphasizing What Matters......Page 229
Further Reading......Page 235
Glossary......Page 237
Index......Page 239