Practical Artistry

by Davis, Harold

• ISBN13: 9780596529888
• ISBN10: 0596529880
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-04-01
• Publisher: Oreilly & Associates Inc

Summary

This fascinating book teaches enthusiasts how to apply the techniques and principles of classic photography to today's digital reality -- and helps them to make great images in the process. Harold Davis introduces general concepts of digital photography, with an emphasis on understanding light and exposure: crucial concepts that must be understood and mastered to take great photographs.

Author Biography

Harold Davis is an author, photographer, and expert technologist. Harold's photographs have been widely published, exhibited, and collected. Many of Harold's fine art photography posters are well known, including some recent alternatively processed digital flower images published by New York Graphic Society.

Harold is the author of more than twenty books, and has written (and illustrated with his photographs) Digital Photography: Digital Field Guide (Wiley), The Photographer's Guide to Yosemite and the High Sierra (Countrymen/W.W.Norton), 100 Views of the Golden Gate (Wilderness Press). He is the lead author of a new series of books about digital photography from O'Reilly Digital Media. In addition, Harold has three popular websites (www.digitalfieldguide.com), (www.photoblog2.com), and (www.digitalnight.us) and blogs regularly for O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 8
Understanding Exposure	p. 12
Working with Aperture	p. 50
Selecting Shutter Speed	p. 80
ISO and Noise	p. 104
Using Light	p. 116
Digital Darkroom	p. 150
Index	p. 176
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