Contents
Cover
Title Page
Acknowledgments
Copyright
Dedication
INTRODUCTION
What’s a Pixel?
The Three Digital Image Formats
ISO
White Balance
Infrared “Film”
Aperture’s True Importance
F/22, Storytelling, and the Wide-Angle Lens
Isolation Apertures
“Who Cares?” Apertures
Interpreting Motion
Panning
Painting with Shutter Speed
Zooming
The Importance of Light
Frontlight
Sidelight
Backlight
Diffused Light
Dusk and Low Light
Taking a Meter Reading
Backlit Portraits
Backlit Nature Subjects
Filling the Frame
Backgrounds
The Rule of Thirds
Horizontal vs. Vertical
Working Your Subject
Scale and the Landscape
White Backgrounds: An Exercise in Composition
Themes
Good Macro Subjects
Macro Depth of Field and Lenses
Specular Highlights
Photography and Photoshop: It’s Like Driving
Opening and Cleaning a Digital File
Sharpening
Cloning
Adjusting Color
Black and White, Sepia, or Steely Blue
Color, Black and White, or Both
Digital Sandwiches
Composites
Photoshop as Graduated Neutral-Density Filter
Multiple Exposures in Photoshop
Correcting Keystoning
Panoramas
Cropping and Resizing
Workflow
INDEX