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Author Batt, Andy, author.

Title Camera & craft : learning the technical art of digital photography / Andy Batt, Candace Dobro, and Jodie Steen
Published Burlington, MA : Focal Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Series Digital imaging masters series
Digital imaging masters series.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction: Our Photo Experts; Holly Andres, Fine Art and Editorial Photographer; Kim Campbell, Portrait Photographer; Stewart Cohen, Director/Photographer; Jeff Conley, Landscape and Nature Photographer; Carli Davidson, Animal Photographer; Bruce Ely, Newspaper Photojournalist; Craig Ferroggiaro, Photographer/Retoucher; Toni Greaves, Documentary Photographer/Photojournalist; Sol Neelman, Commercial, Editorial and "Weird Sports" Photographer; About Camera & Craft; 1 Prerequisite: Photo 101
The Camera Is not a Photographer-You ArePhilosophy: Put It on Manual; Manual Mode Isn't Pretty-At First; Exposure Basics: Shutter Speed, F-Stop and ISO; Controlling Time; Learning to Focus Like a Camera; Taking Control: Metering and Histograms; White Balance = Color Control; Any Camera; 2 It's Your Viewfinder: Interviews with the Pros; See What's Happening; 3 Your Digital Skeleton; Raw All the Way; To DNG or Not to DNG; Media Card Management; Featured Interview: Rachel Jerome Ferraro, Photographer and Educator; The Importance of Image Workflow; Renaming; Backing Up and Archiving
The Simply Paranoid DNG + Lightroom WorkflowDigital Workflow; A Plan; 4 Creative Control: Using Your Lens; Each Lens Has Its Own Personality; Which Is the Right Lens for You?; Stuff for the End of Your Lens; Technical Control: Understanding Your Lens; Lens Problems and "Miracle" Lenses; Sometimes Problems Are a Good Thing; 5 Light Becomes the Image; CCD or CMOS: A Two-Party System; Analog to Digital: Photons to Pixels; The Photosite: Mother of All Pixels; Mosaics at Work; The Analog-to-Digital Converter; Bit Depth; CCD Vs. CMOS: Deep-Geekery; Noise and Speed; Noise Rescue: Keeping Up
Featured Interview: Jim Christian, Author of Noise Ninja and Photo NinjaNoise-Removal Tools; 6 Exposure: Controlling the Light; What Is Good Exposure?; In-Camera Metering that You Control; Leveling Up to a Handheld Meter; Digital Exposure; Dynamic Range; Featured Interview: Jodie Steen, Co-Author of Camera & Craft and Owner of 127 Productions, Inc.; Histograms and Image Archetypes; Camera Neutrality: Picture Styles and Raw Data; Correcting Exposures; 7 Your Color in Control; Color Is a Choice; The Standards: 3200K and 5500K; Tint It!; Balanced Icons; Neutral Color-How Do We Get There?
Creative Color-Stop Worrying!Enter the Dragon: Color Management; Applied Color Management: Jodie Steen, Owner of 127 Productions, Inc.; 8 Pre-Pro/Shoot/Deliver: Interviews with the Pros; Featured Interviews: Therese Gietler, Producer; 9 Guest Photographers: Photos and Advice; Bibliography; Index
Summary To create successful imagery, you need to balance technical know-how and aesthetic vision. In Camera & Craft, we deconstruct photographic principles in new ways to help you think through your process. Together with nine guest photographers, we explore photographic practice and follow up with inventive exercises and demonstrations that challenge you to engage with your tools-all with the goal of helping you work more creatively. Along the way are conversations with our guest photographers that address each topic, from how the professionals work with clients and models to what they think about a
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Photography -- Digital techniques.
Photography -- Technique
Photography.
PHOTOGRAPHY -- Techniques -- Equipment.
PHOTOGRAPHY -- Techniques -- General.
Photography -- Digital techniques
Photography -- Technique
Form Electronic book
Author Dobro, Candace, author.
Steen, Jodie, author.
ISBN 9781135041373
1135041377
9780203792391
0203792394
9781135041366
1135041369
Other Titles Camera and craft