Beginner's Guide to Photography: No Jargon - Just Great Photos
Forget about confusing jargon and technicalities: just take great photos, whatever your camera


Photography is a big part of our lives, and we all take photos all the time. By understanding just a few basics of how your camera - or your phone - works, you'll find yourself able to take more exciting, stand-out photos.


Within a few pages you'll be able to speak with confidence to photographers about exposure settings, decide what lighting or lenses will lift a scene, or what tactics you can use to make your subject look more interesting.


The book also covers the basics of managing, editing & sharing your collection of digital images so you're not at the mercy of the software that was bundled with your phone.
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Beginner's Guide to Photography: No Jargon - Just Great Photos
Forget about confusing jargon and technicalities: just take great photos, whatever your camera


Photography is a big part of our lives, and we all take photos all the time. By understanding just a few basics of how your camera - or your phone - works, you'll find yourself able to take more exciting, stand-out photos.


Within a few pages you'll be able to speak with confidence to photographers about exposure settings, decide what lighting or lenses will lift a scene, or what tactics you can use to make your subject look more interesting.


The book also covers the basics of managing, editing & sharing your collection of digital images so you're not at the mercy of the software that was bundled with your phone.
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Beginner's Guide to Photography: No Jargon - Just Great Photos

Beginner's Guide to Photography: No Jargon - Just Great Photos

by Haje Jan Kamps
Beginner's Guide to Photography: No Jargon - Just Great Photos

Beginner's Guide to Photography: No Jargon - Just Great Photos

by Haje Jan Kamps

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Forget about confusing jargon and technicalities: just take great photos, whatever your camera


Photography is a big part of our lives, and we all take photos all the time. By understanding just a few basics of how your camera - or your phone - works, you'll find yourself able to take more exciting, stand-out photos.


Within a few pages you'll be able to speak with confidence to photographers about exposure settings, decide what lighting or lenses will lift a scene, or what tactics you can use to make your subject look more interesting.


The book also covers the basics of managing, editing & sharing your collection of digital images so you're not at the mercy of the software that was bundled with your phone.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781781578285
Publisher: Octopus Books
Publication date: 08/17/2021
Pages: 176
Product dimensions: 7.60(w) x 10.10(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Haje Jan Kamps set up his first photo website at the age of 16 and is now one of the world's best-read photography bloggers; his Photocritic Photo School (photocritic.org) has taught tens of thousands of photographers how to fall in love with photography. Shooting with any camera he can, including his smartphone, he has built a successful freelance career, and written books for serious professionals and hobbyists alike, including bestseller The Rules of Photography & When To Break Them. You can find him on @Dipsolect on Instagram. When he's not writing or taking photos, Haje runs the virtual events platform Konf.co.

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

Technical Considerations

Cameras & Equipment 10

Exposure: An Introduction 14

Exposure Value 16

The Exposure Triangle 18

Controlling Exposure: Aperture 20

Controlling Exposure: Shutter Speed 24

Controlling Exposure: ISO 26

White Balance 30

Understanding the Histogram 32

Controlling Exposure: Shutter Speed 34

Dynamic Range 40

Controlling Dynamic Range 42

ETTR: Expose to the Right 46

Creative Exposure: Gallery 48

Additional Notes for Film Users 52

Shutter Speed

Matching Shutter Speed to Subject 56

Natural Light, Short Exposures 60

Subject Moving, Camera Fixed 62

Low-light Photography 64

Wight Scenes 68

The Color of Darkness 72

City Lights 74

Star Trails 80

The Moon 84

Fireworks 86

Painting with Light 90

Using Filters to Extend Exposures 94

Motion Blur 96

Panning 100

Aperture

Wide-aperture Lenses 106

Using Shallow Depth of Field 112

Bokeh 118

Tilt-shift Lenses: Minimizing Depth of Field 120

Hyperfocal Distance 122

Tilt-shift Lenses: Maximizing Depth of Field 124

The Lensbaby 128

Flash Photography

Flash Equipment & Techniques 132

Wring Flash & Ambient Light 136

Flash Synchronization 138

Freezing Movement with Flash 140

High-speed Flash 144

Special Exposure Techniques

Shooting High Dynamic Range Scenes 154

HDR Images & Tone Mapping 156

Manual Exposure Blending 158

Focus Stacking 162

Reference

Glossary 168

Index 172

Picture Credits 176

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