Photography 101 Pocket Guide

Quickly learn the basics of exposure, composition, and your camera so you can capture great photos! Designed for photographers who haven’t fully conquered their camera or the photographic fundamentals of exposure and composition, this handy and ultra-portable quick reference Pocket Guide helps you get the shot when you’re out and about. • Confirm that your camera is set up properly with the pre-shoot checklist • Learn about the three key components of exposure—aperture, shutter speed, and ISO • Conquer the essential camera modes and settings you need to know • Understand lenses and focal length—and how they affect the look of your image • Use the most effective composition tips for framing your photo • Follow techniques for getting great shots in typical scenarios (portrait, landscape, freezing action, low light, etc.)

Quickly learn the basics of exposure, composition, and your camera so you can capture great photos! Designed for photographers who haven't fully conquered their camera or the photographic fundamentals of exposure and composition, this handy and ultra-portable quick reference Pocket Guide helps you get the shot when you're out and about. - Confirm that your camera is set up properly with the pre-shoot checklist - Learn about the three key components of exposure--aperture, shutter speed, and ISO - Conquer the essential camera modes and settings you need to know - Understand lenses and focal length--and how they affect the look of your image - Use the most effective composition tips for framing your photo - Follow techniques for getting great shots in typical scenarios (portrait, landscape, freezing action, low light, etc.) TABLE OF CONTENTS 01: Pre-Shoot Checklist 02: Exposure Basics 03: Setting Up Your Camera 04: Lenses and Focal Length 05: Advanced Shooting Techniques 06: Composition Tips 07: Typical Shooting Scenarios

Provides beginning and experienced photographers techniques for enhancing outdoor shots, whether city views or historic or people, and includes tips on creating compelling photographs from ordinary scenes using camera features.

Even film diehards have a tough time resisting the instant gratification of the digital camera. Today's digital cameras are more affordable then ever before, and they deliver high quality images that are a snap to share. Plus, you can take risks with a digital camera you never would with a film camera. You waste nothing; there's no film required, and because you only print the pictures you need, digital photography is cost effective and environmentally friendly. But to take full advantage of a digital camera, you need to be an experienced photographer and an expert at digital photography too. With more than 15 years of experience as a photojournalist, author Derrick Story brings you Digital Photography Pocket Guide, 3rd Edition. For everyone who owns or will own a digital camera (and that pretty much means everyone!), this is the perfect on-the-go guide for taking top-notch digital photos. In this third edition of the bestselling pocket guide, Story expands on the basic photography techniques that he introduced in earlier editions, including an explanation of each camera component and what it does, tips for choosing just the right settings for your needs, and much more. This indispensable guide covers everything from how to shoot sports action, close ups, and night shots, to dealing with image resolution, archiving, and memory cards. Affordable and portable, Digital Photography Pocket Guide, 3rd Edition offers full-color photographs, screen shots, and line art illustrating all the topics in the guide's three main sections ("Digital Camera Components," "Standard Camera Functions," and "How Do I?"). Contents are labeled A to Z for quick reference. There's also a comprehensive table of contents and index so you'll waste no time flipping to the specific information you need--whether you want to transfer images, make a QuickTime movie, or just figure out what purpose that mystery setting on your camera serves. There's even a section of easy-to-read reference tables for quick look-up of white balance settings, exposure compensation, camera mode explanations, and plenty more.

Wonderfully easy-to-use, concise, portable enough to stash in a camera bag, and packed with all the basics on taking digital photos: this invaluable pocket guide is everything you’d expect from a digital imaging leader such as Kodak. Filled with first-rate information, it covers everything from choosing the right digital camera to selecting accessories, from saving digital images to sharing photos with friends and family over e-mail. Find out all the basics on file formats, downloading pictures, taking better portraits, and improving image composition. This guide will help photographers get superior results from their digital camera, and even those new to digital—and intimidated by technology—will find themselves shooting with confidence.

Photography is now more popular than ever thanks to the rapid development of digital cameras. Read This If You Want to Take Great Photographs is ideal for this new wave of snapshooters using DSLR, compact system and bridge cameras. It contains no graphs, no techie diagrams and no camera-club jargon. Instead, it inspires readers through iconic images and playful copy, packed with hands-on tips. Split into five sections, the book covers composition, exposure, light, lenses and the art of seeing. Masterpieces by acclaimed photographers – including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Sebastião Salgado, Fay Godwin, Nadav Kander, Daido Moriyama and Martin Parr – serve to illustrate points and encourage readers to try out new ideas. Today’s aspiring photographers want immediacy and see photography as an affordable way of expressing themselves quickly and creatively. This handbook meets their needs, teaching them how to take photographs using professional techniques.

Furnishes an overview of digital photography, covering such topics as cameras, exposure, lighting, shutter speed, depth of field, and resolution--and tips on how to avoid hours of photo-editing by taking great photographs the first time.

In contrast to the jargon-filled manuals that come with most digital cameras, The Beginner's Photography Guide presents step-by-step digital slr camera basics, while introducing and demonstrating a wide variety of techniques that will inspire the novice digital photographer. Grouped together by themes-color, composition, natural light, framing, and more-each camera technique is broken down into an easy-to-follow step-by-step sequence, and features annotated photographs and suggestions on getting the best from digital slr cameras and taking eye-catching photos.