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Index
Cover
Dedication
Copyright
About the Authors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
What If?
About this Book
1. Learning to Paint
An Overview
What’s Vital
A Painted Approach
A Walk-through
The Peacock Effect
The Real Issue
Tough Love
A Telling Question
The Opposition
What It Takes
Upcoming Challenges
Some Useful Gear
Lens Recommendations
Filter Options
Proven Inspiration
2. The Basics
A Manual Approach: The Nitty Gritty
How It All Works
The Shutter Speed
An Experiment
Aperture
An Experiment
Aperture Options
Lens Focal Length and Depth of Field
Apertures and Focal Lengths: A Powerful Combination
Reciprocity
An Exercise in Reciprocity
Iso Settings
An Exercise
Reciprocity and Iso
Achieving Great Focus Every Time
Visualizing Depth of Field
Detrimental Default Settings
Auto Iso
Auto Focus
Auto White Balance
Aperture or Shutter Speed Priority Mode
Auto Lcd Brightness
Auto Contrast/Saturation
In Conclusion
3. Choices and Mood
Some Insight
The Art of Seeing
Our Limited Vision: An Experiment
Creating Mood
Incamera Settings
White Balance
Creating a Black Background (by the Numbers)
4. Tiering an Image
Tiers of Graphic Information
Punching an Image
How to Do It
Available Punches
Case Study: Taxicabs and Color
Ripping an Image
Using Spatial Distortions to Your Advantage
How to Do It
Finger Painting
Something to Watch for
A Walk-through
5. Controlling Blur
Physical Blurs
Bokeh: An Experiment
How to Do It
What You Gain
Depth of Field Control: An Experiment
Broke Bokeh?
Motion Blur
Creating Motion Blur
Life Moves: An Exercise
Stabilizing the Camera
Creating the Images
Taking Away Light
The Extremes: Making People Disappear
Partial Blurs
Panning
The Settings
What to Shoot
How to Do It
Inverse Panning
Advanced Blur Options
The Simple Spin
The Simple Zoom
6. Painting on “Bulb”
Blur to the Extreme
Feeling the Light: An Exercise
Stepping It up a Notch
Going Even Slower
Your First Swipe
How to Do It
The Flutter
How to Do It
7. It’s All in the Approach
What Do You Want to Accomplish?
The Path
The Four Approaches
The Expected Approach
The Educated Approach
The Expressive Approach
The Evasive Approach
Conclusion
Being “in Focus”
Index
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