Tony Northrup's DSLR Book: How to Create Stunning Digital Photography

Tony Northrup's DSLR Book: How to Create Stunning Digital Photography Review

The Digital Single Lens Reflex (DSLR) camera is a revolutionary way to capture images and create art. This book picks up where your camera manual leaves off, teaching you to make pictures that truly show the beauty of the world around you. In this book, Tony Northrup teaches you both the art and science to create stunning pictures. You will learn how shutter speed, aperture, ISO, and flash impact your photos. You will also learn how to compose pictures, understand the qualities of natural and artificial light, and how to best add flash. More than 350 original pictures show the results of both good and bad technique, and you can complete the practices at the end of every chapter to get the hands-on experience that you need. Beyond the fundamentals, Tony dedicates entire chapters to portraits (including natural light, flash, and studio environments), weddings, animals and nature, landscapes and cityscapes, night and light painting, High Dynamic Range (HDR), macro/close-up, and underwater photography. When pictures don’t turn out the way you hoped, you can refer to Chapter 5 for tips on solving common problems. Because digital photography is a fast-moving field, Tony invented a brand new publishing process to keep this book up-to-date (as of December 2011). While other books waste time describing outdated photography technology, this book describes only modern DSLRs and post-processing software.