Better Available Light Digital Photography : How to Make the Most of Your Night and Low-light Shots

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  • Chapter 1 What is available light? What’s new xii

  • The golden hour

  • Zap!

  • Weather tips from Barry

  • Light is light

  • What is exif and what is it good for?

  • Artifi cial light

  • Painting with light

  • Artifi cial natural light

  • The philadelphia story

  • Out of the past: fi lm noir

  • Moulin rouge!

  • Flash in the pan

  • Chapter 2 Basic exposure

  • The age of aquarius

  • Light and color

  • Meet the histogram

  • The perfect exposure

  • Really available light

  • Creating high dynamic range images

  • HDR in Photoshop

  • Other HDR software

  • HDR fi les from scanned fi lm

  • What does it all mean?

  • deal with it Chapter 3 Digital noise: What it is and how to

  • Noise comes from many sources

  • Chip size vs. Noise

  • Shutter speed vs. ISO speed

  • Do a noise test

  • Built-in noise suppression

  • Noise-reduction software

  • Got noise?

  • Picture code

  • Keepin’ it neat

  • Visual infi nity

  • Applied science fi ction

  • The imaging factory

  • Stoic STOIK

  • Noise in motion

  • Taking action against noise

  • Noise in print

  • Our take on noise

  • Chapter 4 White balance techniques

  • Light is light?

  • Real-world color balance

  • 4000–8000 k AWB: color-temperature range of approximately

  • Daylight: approximately 5200 K

  • Shade: approximately 8000 K

  • Cloudy: approximately 6000 K

  • Fluorescent light

  • Tungsten light: approximately 3200 K

  • Flash: approximately 5400 K

  • Manual

  • Facing lighting challenges indoors

  • On location

  • Black and white?

  • In-camera monochrome color effects

  • No more fi lm storage

  • Chapter 5 Fast lenses

  • Zoom vs. prime lenses

  • Case study: canon’s 85 mm f/1.2 L lens

  • One more time, boys

  • Image-stabilization lenses

  • Case study: fun in acapulco

  • In-body stabilization

  • Does it matter?

  • What about depth of fi eld?

  • Chapter 6 Tripods and other camera supports

  • Standing on three legs

  • It’s made of what?

  • Carbon-fi ber choices

  • Legs and feet

  • Heads and columns

  • The tripod bottom line

  • Monopods

  • Panorama heads

  • Alternate supports

  • Chapter 7 Available light photography at weddings

  • The new wedding photography

  • New technology = new opportunities

  • Wedding-day coverage

  • Off to the reception

  • Chapter 8 RAW-image-fi le capture

  • Paper or plastic?

  • What’s behind door no.

  • Making the decision

  • Pros and cons

  • JPEG advantages

  • JPEG disadvantages

  • RAW advantages

  • RAW disadvantages

  • Digital fi lm?

  • Raw software

  • Adobe camera raw

  • Workfl ow: pictures, you’ve got pictures

  • Sort ’em out

  • Did somebody say distribution?

  • Embed copyright with your fi les

  • Glossary

  • Index

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