Photography legend John Shaw returns with his much-anticipated guide to digital nature photography, complete with more than 250 extraordinarily beautiful photographs.
For over four decades, John Shaw’s authentic voice and trusted advice has helped photographers achieve impressive shots in the great outdoors. In his first-ever book on digital photography, Shaw provides in-depth advice on everything from equipment and lenses to thorough coverage of digital topics including how to use the histogram. In addition, he offers inspirational and frank insight that goes far beyond the nuts and bolts of photography, explaining that successful photos come from having a vision, practicing, and then acquiring the equipment needed to accomplish the intention. Easily digestible and useful for every type of photographer, and complete with more than 250 jaw-dropping images, John Shaw’s Guide to Digital Nature Photography is the one book you’ll need to beautifully capture the world around you.
Author(s): John Shaw
Publisher: Amphoto Books
Year: 2015
Language: English
Pages: 240
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Preface
What Is There to Photograph?
01 / Gear
Which Camera?
Setting Up Your Camera
Tripods and Heads
Filters
Flash
02 / Getting Started
Working in Stops
Exposure Modes
Metering and Metering Patterns
Manual Exposure
Autoexposure and Exposure Compensation
Proper Exposure and Histograms
High ISO
03 / Lenses
What Lenses Do
Focal Lengths
Depth of Field
Focusing a Lens
Zoom Lenses or Fixed-Focal-Length Lenses
Teleconverters
Tilt/Shift (T/S) Lenses
Chromatic Aberration
04 / Composition
Learning to See Photo-Graphically
Lighting
Vertical or Horizontal?
Framing and Placement
Working a Subject
05 / Close-Ups
Defining a Close-up
Working Distance and Background Coverage
Making Lenses Focus Closer
Macro Lenses
Close-up Flash
06 / The Photographer at Work
My Personal Field Gear
Changing My Camera Settings
Working in the Field
Working in the Digital Darkroom
Index
