Digital SLR Photography ALL-IN-ONE FOR Dummies PDF book

I assume that you aren't a professional photographer looking for highly specialized, professional techniques using advanced, full-frame digital SLRs and lighting gear. Along those lines, this book doesn't specifically target portrait photographers, landscape photographers, or building and architecture photographers, for example. I assume that you want to find out about digital SLRs and are willing to put into practice what you read here.The experience you gain from going out and experimenting with things like different lenses, apertures, depth of field, flash modes, and other topics will lock into your mind the words you read on these pages and make it that much easier to go out the next time. Knowledge is cumulative. Read about apertures today; read about shutter speeds tomorrow. Review the next day what you find out about apertures today.Continue until you've discovered all you want to know about digital SLRs and can take the photos you want in the situations you're in. To avoid starting at the beginning, where you take the mouse out of the package and plug it in, I have written this book as though you know how to use your computer, install software, and navigate around applications without much trouble. I haven't taken much for granted in photography. Generally, though,I anticipate that you want more from your digital SLR than the most basic automatic modes provide. Therefore, I don't go into extreme detail to explain the difference between such settings as Portrait and Landscape scene modes, nor do I show sample photos using those settings. I do mention them, but then I move on.The following sections summarize the information you can find in each mini-book.In this "demystifying" mini-book, I show you every angle of a digital SLR and its menus so that you can see what the parts are and what they do and not be intimidated. I want you to be able to see and understand the difference between a shutter button and a command dial, for example. I walk you through the process of setting up your camera and taking photos. You also see how to clean your camera, its sensor, and its lenses.Because you can take lenses off and put on new ones, lenses are an important part of the overall world of digital SLR photography. They enable you to customize your camera to suit you and what you want to shoot at the time. You'll see what makes different types of lenses different and check out a number of photographs that were taken with each one. Along the way, I give you tips and tricks for using each lens and finding what it's good for. You'll also read about the difference between single focal length prime lenses and zoom models.Don't think of exposure as the "black magic" of photography. If you know a little bit about aperture, shutter speed, and ISO, managing exposure becomes much easier. I explain each of these elements in detail and describe how they work together. I want you to be able to "trade" stops of aperture for stops of shutter speed, or any other combination. You can also read about filters and how to use them so that you can shop for them without being overwhelmed.Flash doesn't have to be a pain to use. This book exposes all those pesky flash settings and gives you the information you need to use all the gear you have, and then some. You'll see examples of different techniques involving the pop-up flash and an external speedlight, and you'll see examples of shots taken with a snoot, a shoot-through umbrella, a diffuser, and a reflector.Design is a less subjective topic than you may believe. We humans have a basic sense of what looks good, even if it's at the subconscious level. My goal is to bring your innate ability to the level of your conscious mind so that you can design, frame, and shoot great-looking pictures.Photography isn't just about taking pictures. It's about the whole journey, from setting up on location (even if that's your backyard) to saving a finished JPEG file to post on Flickr. I show you the elements of a digital photography workflow, including raw editing, photo management, and basic photo editing. You'll see how to shoot brackets for High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography, shoot and process panoramas, and convert photos to black and white or colorize them.Shooting videos introduces a whole new set of challenges for you as a photographer. In fact, it turns you into a videographer. Be forewarned and forearmed. I also show you which digital SLRs shoot video, their differences, and basic instructions for how to shoot movies with each type of camera. To top it off, you can find out how to edit videos using one of the many available video editors.This practical guide to digital SLR photography is organized around different types of photos. You can see a number of my photos in each chapter. I explain what's in them, what I was doing when I shot them, and how I did it. This mini-book has a little bit of everything, from people to vehicles, landscapes, buildings, odds and ends, different shades of light, and animals.Author:Robert Correll