Mastering Digital Flash Photography: The Complete Reference Guide (A Lark Photography Book)

Mastering Digital Flash Photography: The Complete Reference Guide (A Lark Photography Book) Review

Electronic flash not only brings light to a photograph, it can be an important artistic tool—if you’ve acquired the knowledge to use it creatively. To master those skills, digital photographers need only turn to this complete reference. Packed with inspirational photos, it takes the mystery out of flash, covering every type of equipment and explaining such essentials as guide numbers, sync speeds, white balance, and more. Photographers will see how fill flash can decrease contrast and shadows in outdoor portrait photography, understand how to control the light using bounce and multiple flash techniques, and expertly employ high-speed and rear curtain synchronization to create impressive motion-blur images. Everything you need to know is here—including a section on studio flash and computer processing.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Digital Photography Like A Pro, 4E

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Digital Photography Like A Pro, 4E Review

The focus is on great sales with this fully revised guide.

Written by a professional still photographer who’s also an expert in digital imaging, this updated edition explains everything beginners and seasoned photographers need to know about digital photography. Step-by-step methods help readers understand and utilize resolution, image processors, and pixels. Readers will find helpful pictures, expanded coverage on camera features, extras for the camera, download devices, and more.
-Software options including using third-party software, proprietary programs, image management programs, and album/scrapbooking software
-More coverage on how to take great pictures with a digital camera
-Digital camera ownership reached 20% in the U.S. by 2003, and continues to grow exponentially both in the States and abroad
-Author is a top-notch professional photographer

DVD Studio Pro 4: The Complete Guide to DVD Authoring with Macintosh

DVD Studio Pro 4: The Complete Guide to DVD Authoring with Macintosh Review

Author professional quality DVDs with Studio Pro 4

With Apple DVD Studio Pro just about anyone can author high performance DVDs -- easily and inexpensively. This heavily-illustrated complete tutorial, written by world-famous DVD trainer Bruce Nazarian, provides the step-by-step guidance necessary to unleash Studio Pro's full power and understand all the new features of Studio Pro 4.

• Includes DVD with sample footage, authoring samples, graphics, and project graphical layout
• Covers video and audio encoding, Photoshop for DVD authoring, and new Hi-DEF features

Basic Studio Lighting: The Photographer's Complete Guide to Professional Techniques

Basic Studio Lighting: The Photographer's Complete Guide to Professional Techniques Review

As every photographer quickly learns, there’s more to studio lighting than simply learning the equipment. In Basic Studio Lighting, an expert photographer and renowned photography teacher provides nuts-and-bolts guidance for mastering the complexities of one of the most important aspects of making a photograph: proper lighting.

Readers will discover surefire tactics for using equipment properly and innovative ways of utilizing color and light to create fabulous effects, as well as getting hands-on practice with exposures, accent lighting, backgrounds, set-ups, and dozens of other studio techniques. Plus, dozens of outstanding color photographs illustrate each technique step by step.

Perfect for aspiring photographers and students as well as veterans, Basic Studio Lighting provides all the theory and practical techniques needed to create professional photos that make an impact.