Creative DSLR Photography: The ultimate creative workflow guide

✍ Scribed by Chris Weston, Chris Coe

• Publisher: Focal Press
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 198
• Series: Digital Workflow
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Amongst the wealth of books aimed at helping you to understand and use your camera equipment and software, Creative DSLR Photography is a rare gem that focuses on the real art of photography and the creative, design and composition skills needed to take your work to the next level.

Beginning with the basics of visualisation and perception, the book gives clear guidance on how to interpret a scene, define a subject and develop a personal style. It covers the key creative factors to be considered pre-capture, whilst shooting and post-capture, taking a practical approach and offering valuable pointers that you can incorporate into workflow immediately to dramatically improve results.

Written by two accomplished professional photographers, Creative DSLR Photography is packed with inspiring images from travel, nature and landscape photography, amongst other genres, and includes pro tips on how these stunning shots were created.

Part of Focal's Digital Workflow series, aimed at helping photographers to work faster, work smarter and creative great images. Current series titles include Canon DSLR: The Ultimate Photographer's Guide, Apple Aperture 2 and Mac OS X for Photographers.

✦ Table of Contents

Creative DSLR Photography: The ultimate creative workflow guide......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Visualization and Creativity......Page 8
The Essentials of Light......Page 12
Light and the Camera......Page 22
Understanding Color......Page 27
Tone and Contrast......Page 30
Understanding Exposure......Page 32
The Zone System Applied......Page 35
What is Composition?......Page 43
The Five Elements of Design......Page 55
Deconstructing the Image Space......Page 71
The Art of Omission......Page 73
The Camera as a Creative Tool......Page 86
Lenses and Perspective......Page 87
Focus, Aperture and Depth of Field......Page 93
Movement and Shutter Speed......Page 100
Playing with Time and Light......Page 103
Practical Composition......Page 115
Defining Your Subject......Page 122
Getting Your Message Across......Page 124
The Defining Moment......Page 132
Developing a Personal Style......Page 135
Understanding the Photographic Process......Page 138
Advantages and Limitations of Digital Cameras......Page 139
Color Space and Color Interpretation......Page 163
RAW Conversion......Page 166
Post-Capture Exposure and Color Balance......Page 169
Fixing Digital and Optical Aberrations......Page 177
Fine-Tuning a Digital Image......Page 178
Selective Exposure and Color Control......Page 184
Creating a Monotone Image......Page 185
Sharpening......Page 186
The Digital Print......Page 192
The Way to Better Digital Photography......Page 195
H......Page 196
S......Page 197
Z......Page 198