- 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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