Digital Photography in Available Light

essential skills: digital photography in available light

Lange, Dorothea 205
Late light 100
Latitude, brightness range 103
Law 215
LCDs (Liquid Crystal Displays) 14–15
Leaf shutters 43
Lens controls 81
Lens quality 13
Levels
dialog box 50
exposure 48–52
white point 131
Light 93–110
brightness range 102
color 99
contrast 101
direction 100
exposure compensation 105–7
fi ltration 108–9
intensity 96
Inverse Square Law 97
landscapes 181
latitude 103
measurement 39
previsualization 103
quality 98
source 95
TTL metering system 117
Light meters 39
reading 46
Lighting on location 111–26
additional lighting 112
fi ll 113
fi ll-fl ash 121
fl ash 115–17, 119, 121, 122
guide numbers 118
refl ectors 114
slow-sync fl ash 123
Line, framing the image 74–5
Liquid Crystal Displays (LCDs) 14–15
Local adjustments 129, 135–7
Location lighting 111–26
Long exposures 10
Low-contrast image 101
Luminance smoothing 58

Macro lens 185
Magnum photo agency 205
Manual focus, EVF 17

Matrix metering 44

Maximum depth of fi eld 82

Megapixels 2–3

Metadata templates 31

Meter indicated exposure (MIE) 46, 47

Midtones 94, 102

MIE see meter indicated exposure

Monopods 185

Motive with subject 198

Movies 15

Multiple exposures 63

Naturalism 175

Negatives, digital 54

Neutral density fi lters 108

Night photography 186

Nikon (Arcsoft) Panorama Maker 168

Nikon D2Hs camera 4

Nodal point 158–60

Noise

increase 88

post-production editing 132

reduction 58

suppression 9

Off-camera fl ash 119

Olympus E-500 camera 6

Open landscape 182

Opening images 61

Orchard, Matthew 179

Ouchterlony, Ann 196

Overall focus 84

Overexposure 38, 39

Panavue ImageAssembler 169

Panning 86

Panoramic photographs 153–72

Parr, Martin 179

Personal expression 178–9

Perspective 90

Photo agencies 205

Photo gallery, web 36

Photo-Secessionists 176

Photographer’s presence 212

Photographic essay 203–17

Photoshop CS/CS2 61

Pictorial photography 175

Point of focus 83

Polarizing fi lters 109