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- Digital Cameras Introduction xi
- Introduction
- Megapixels
- The need for speed
- Prosumer digicams - closing the gap?
- Choosing a system
- Check list overview
- Asset Management
- Digital asset management
- Workfl ow sequence
- Conclusion
- Exposure
- Introduction
- Intensity and duration
- TTL light meters
- Interpreting the meter reading
- Reading exposure levels
- Camera RAW
- Introduction
- Processing RAW data
- Processing activity
- White balance
- Tonal adjustments
- Noise reduction and sharpening
- Choosing a bit depth
- Choosing a color space
- Save or open
- Additional information
- Framing the Image contents
- Introduction
- Communication and context
- For mat
- Content
- Balance
- Subject placement
- The decisive moment
- Vantage point
- Line
- Depth
- Summary of basic design techniques
- Creative Controls
- Introduction
- Focus
- Duration of exposure
- A creative decision
- Perspective
- Summary of basic camera techniques
- Light
- Introduction
- Light source
- Intensity
- Quality
- Color
- Direction
- Contrast
- Exposure compensation
- Filtration
- Lighting on Location contents
- Introduction
- Fill
- Refl ectors
- Flash
- Choice of fl ash
- Guide numbers
- Flash as the primary light source
- Diffusion and bounce
- Fill-fl ash
- Flash as a key light
- Slow-sync fl ash
- Post-production Editing
- Overview
- Sequential editing
- Stage 1 - Global adjustments
- Stage 2 - Local adjustments
- Stage 3 - Final adjustments
- Converting images to black and white
- Advanced tone control - part a
- Advanced tone control - part b
- Panoramic Photographs
- Introduction
- Core steps in creating panoramas
- Shooting panoramas
- Producing panoramas
- Landscape
- Introduction
- History
- Personal expression
- Expressive techniques
- Detail
- Night photography
- The constructed environment
- Assignments
- Environmental Portraits contents
- Introduction
- Design
- Revealing character
- Connecting with new people
- Directing the subject
- Character study
- Assignments
- The Photographic Essay
- Introduction
- Visual communication
- Capturing a story
- Working styles
- Editing a story
- Ethics and law
- Distribution and sale of photo-essays
- Assignments
- Glossary
- Index