The Complete Photo Manual: 300+ Skills and Tips for Making Great Pictures

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Focus on capturing the best images ever with tips from choosing the right gear to composition to processing—plus tutorials and updated software advice. This comprehensive, all-in-one guide demystifies today’s DSLRs and ILCs, walking you through their basic functions and setting you up for photo-making success, as well as offering creative projects for more advanced photographers. From setting a proper exposure to Photoshopping images together into clever composites, The Complete Photo Manual Revised Edition has you covered! With chapters on: Camera Basics: Take a crash course in exposure, focus, aperture, shutter speed, white balance, and more so you can master the fundamentals. Composition & Shooting: Get out there and start shooting! This chapter helps you pick subjects, compose on the fly, work your camera settings as you go, correct for problematic situations, use a tripod, choose the right lens for your scene, and explore different storytelling idioms. Setup & Gear: Graduate to a more robust photography kit with discussions of lights, light modifiers, and more. Here, you’ll learn how to shoot more ambitious portraits, still lifes, and action shots. Photo Editing & Beyond:Make your photos even better with tried-and-tested tutorials in Photoshop and Lightroom, plus quick tips and image organization hacks.

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