Contents

Cover

Title Page

Acknowledgments

Copyright

Dedication

INTRODUCTION

ALL THAT DIGITAL “STUFF”

What’s a Pixel?

The Three Digital Image Formats

ISO

White Balance

Infrared “Film”

APERTURE

Aperture’s True Importance

F/22, Storytelling, and the Wide-Angle Lens

Isolation Apertures

“Who Cares?” Apertures

SHUTTER SPEED

Interpreting Motion

Panning

Painting with Shutter Speed

Zooming

LIGHT

The Importance of Light

Frontlight

Sidelight

Backlight

Diffused Light

Dusk and Low Light

Taking a Meter Reading

Backlit Portraits

Backlit Nature Subjects

COMPOSITION

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

THE PHOTOSHOP DIGITAL DARKROOM

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