Digital SLR cameras & photography for dummies

The ideal guide for beginning DSLR camera users, with full-color examples of what you can achieve Make the most of your Canon, Nikon, Sony, Pentax, or Olympus digital SLR camera! This guide explains the different lenses, the many settings and how to use them, the results you can get from using diff...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Busch, David D., author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley 2009.
Edición:3rd ed
Colección:--For dummies.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009627467106719
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  • Digital SLR Cameras & Photography For Dummies®; Contents at a Glance; Table of Contents; Introduction; About This Book; Foolish Assumptions; How This Book Is Organized; Icons Used in This Book; Part I: Digital SLRs and You; Chapter 1: The Digital SLR Difference; dSLR: dNext Great Digital Camera; Improving Your Photography with a dSLR; The Downsides That Have Been Overcome; Chapter 2: Safari Inside a dSLR; Megapixels and Why dSLRs Have More of Them; Touring through a Digital SLR; Overcoming Quirks of the dSLR; Chapter 3: Tracking the Ideal dSLR; Features for Now and the Future
  • Breadcrumbs on the Upgrade PathCameras of Today and Tomorrow; Checking Out Key Features; Chapter 4: Accessorizing Your dSLR; Memory Cards in a Flash; Storing Your Images; Filtering Factors; The Tripod: Your Visible Means of Support; Electronic Flash in the Pan; Other Must-Have (Or Maybe-Have) Gear; Part II: Oh, Shoot!; Chapter 5: Taking Control of Your dSLR; Discovering the Secrets of Exposure; Fine-Tuning Exposure with the Metering System; The Many Ways to Choose Exposure; Focus Pocus; Chapter 6: Mastering the Multi-Lens Reflex; Optical Delusions; Choosing Your Prime Lens - or Zoom
  • Lens ConceptsUsing Lenses Creatively; Chapter 7: Special Features of dSLRs; Feel the Noize at Night; Noise Reduction Made Easy; Shake, Shake, Shake; Time Waits for Someone: Creating Time-Lapse Sequences; Better Infrared than Dead; Dust Off; Part III: Beyond the Basics; Chapter 8: Working with RAW and Other Formats; So Many Formats, So Little Time; Worth the Fuss: Understanding the Main Formats; Choosing a File Format; Using RAW Files as Digital Negatives; Chapter 9: Action, Flash, and Other Challenges; Kind of a Lag; Shooting in Sequences; Stopping Action in Its Tracks
  • Flash in the Pan: Other Keys to Good Flash PhotographyYo, Trigger! Setting Off an External Flash; Chapter 10: Composition and dSLRs; Composing a Photo: The Basics; Posers and Poseurs; Tips for Publicity and PR Photography; Capturing Architecture; Designing Your Landscape Photos; Compositional Ideas That Travel Well; Part IV: Fine-Tuning Your Output; Chapter 11: Fixing Up Your Images; Editor-ial Comments: Choosing an Image Editor; Workflow Workarounds; Fixing Your Photos; Chapter 12: Combining and Reorganizing Your Images; Making Selective Modifications; Making Basic Selections
  • Adding to and Subtracting from Your PicturesAdding New Backgrounds; Combining Several dSLR Photos into One; Chapter 13: Hard Copies Aren't Hard; Prints? What Prints?; You Pays Your Money, You Takes Your Choice; Choosing a Printer; Part V: The Part of Tens; Chapter 14: Ten Ways to Improve Your dSLR Photography; Does Lighting Ever Strike Twice?; Choosing a Righteous Resolution and Other Settings; Stop! What's That Sound?; Working the Right F-Stop; Focus Is a Selective Service; Playing the Angles; Through a Glass Brightly; Feel the Noize; Editing, Retouching, and Compositing Images
  • Reading the Funny Manual (RTFM)