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Discover how to get the very best from your photography with clear step-by-step guidance from expert photographer, Tom Ang.

In this fully comprehensive photography companion, renowned photographer and teacher Tom Ang teaches you how to capture, enhance, and transform your photographs.

The first half of the book explains all of the essential techniques that every photographer needs to learn - from how to handle your camera correctly and understand its features, to composing a successful shot.

The second half develops your understanding of photography, guiding you through a range of projects that focus on different photographic genres and subjects, including landscapes, cityscapes, and live events. It explains how to digitally enhance your images, not only to improve the original shot, but also to apply creative techniques that will take your image to a new level. This section also gives advice on the best way to share your work, to choosing the most suitable equipment, and should you wish, how to develop a career in photography.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• 1 Core Skills
• Handling cameras (p. 12)
• Your first pictures (p. 14)
• Picture composition (p. 16)
• Focusing and depth of field (p. 24)
• Image orientation (p. 28)
• Image proportions (p. 30)
• Composition and zooms (p. 32)
• Movement blur (p. 34)
• Close-ups (p. 38)
• Extreme lenses (p. 40)
• Quick fix: Optical problems (p. 42)
• Influencing perspective (p. 46)
• Changing viewpoints (p. 48)
• Quick fix: Leaning buildings (p. 52)
• Quick fix: Facial distortion (p. 53)
• Color composition 58 Adjacent colors (p. 54)
• Color contrasts (p. 60)
• Quick fix: White balance (p. 64)
• Exposure control (p. 66)
• Silhouettes/backlighting (p. 68)
• High-key images (p. 70)
• Low-key images (p. 72)
• Advanced metering (p. 76)
• Accessory flash (p. 80)
• Quick fix: Electronic flash (p. 82)
• Electronic flash (p. 84)
• 2 Photography Projects
• Starting projects (p. 92)
• Abstract imagery (p. 94)
• Architecture (p. 97)
• Interiors (p. 100)
• Documentary photography (p. 104)
• Street photography (p. 108)
• Vacations and travel (p. 110)
• Weddings (p. 118)
• Children (p. 120)
• Landscapes (p. 124)
• Cityscapes (p. 132)
• Reflections (p. 136)
• Low-light photography (p. 138)
• Long-exposure photography (p. 140)
• Night sky photography (p. 142)
• Animals (p. 144)
• Plants and gardens (p. 148)
• Panoramas (p. 154)
• Live events (p. 156)
• Portraits (p. 160)
• Camera phone photography (p. 166)
• Point-of-view photography (p. 170)
• Drone photography (p. 172)
• Record-keeping (p. 174)
• 3 Image Development
• Scanning basics (p. 178)
• Workflow essentials (p. 180)
• Handling files (p. 182)
• File formats (p. 184)
• Image management (p. 186)
• Capture defects (p. 188)
• Color management (p. 190)
• Cropping and rotation (p. 192)
• Quick fix: Poor subject detail (p. 194)
• Quick fix: Poor subject color (p. 195)
• Levels (p. 196)
• Burning-in and dodging (p. 198)
• Dust and noise (p. 202)
• Sharpening (p. 204)
• Blurring (p. 208)
• Quick fix: Image distractions (p. 212)
• Image size and distortion (p. 214)
• Quick fix: Converging parallels (p. 216)
• Quick fix: Image framing (p. 217)
• White balance (p. 218)
• Color adjustments (p. 220)
• Saturation and vibranee (p. 222)
• Manipulation defects (p. 224)
• Curves (p. 226)
• Bit depth and color (p. 230)
• Color to black and white (p. 232)
• Vintage effects (p. 240)
• Working with RAW (p. 242)
• Duotones (p. 246)
• Tritones and quadtones (p. 248)
• Sepia tones (p. 249)
• Sabattier effect (p. 250)
• Gum dichromates (p. 251)
• Split toning (p. 252)
• Hand tinting (p. 256)
• Cross-processing (p. 258)
• Tints from color originals (p. 260)
• Quick fix: Bright landscapes (p. 264)
• Filter effects (p. 266)
• Multiplying filter effects (p. 272)
• High dynamic range (p. 274)
• Selections and masks (p. 278)
• Quick fix: Removing backgrounds (p. 284)
• Layer blend modes (p. 286)
• Text effects (p. 294)
• Cloning techniques (p. 296)
• Simple composite (p. 302)
• Photomosaics (p. 304)
• Image stitching (p. 306)
• 4 Showing and Sharing
• Proofing and printing (p. 310)
• Output to paper (p. 314)
• Art printing (p. 318)
• Online printing (p. 322)
• Presenting prints (p. 326)
• Sharing images (p. 328)
• Photos on the internet (p. 332)
• Selling your pictures (p. 334)
• 5 Buying Guide
• Your ideal camera (p. 338)
• Camera phones (p. 342)
• Compacts (p. 344)
• Mirrorless compacts (p. 346)
• Single-lens reflex (p. 348)
• Choosing lenses (p. 350)
• Photographic accessories (p. 354)
• Digital accessories (p. 358)
• Electronic lighting (p. 360)
• Lighting accessories (p. 362)
• Computers and monitors (p. 364)
• Computer accessories (p. 366)
• Choosing software (p. 368)
• Printers and other devices (p. 370)
• 6 Going Further
• Learning more (p. 374)
• Portfolio technique (p. 378)
• Building up your business (p. 380)
• Mounting an exhibition (p. 382)
• Copyright concerns (p. 384)
• Shopping for equipment (p. 386)
• Glossary (p. 388)
• Index (p. 400)
• Acknowledgments (p. 408)

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