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Posing is about crafting the desired results, not settling for contrived confusion. The wrong pose can send the wrong message to the viewer. It can also cause the subject to feel insecure during the shoot or when viewing the end result. In glamour, beauty, and nude photography, posing should convey a message and, in most cases, tell the viewer something about the subject. Use the wrong pose, the

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Over the past seven years I’ve taught almost three-hundred glamour, beauty, and nude photography workshops and seminars from Maui to the Virgin Islands, from Europe and Mexico to Canada, and throughout the United States. At these classes, the most commonly asked question is, “How do I pose a model?” That’s a tough question to answer; as in most genres of photography, there are infinite

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If you'll be taking many portraits, one thing you'll want to learn for sure is how to retouch your pictures digitally. Few people are so great looking that their photographs can be used as is with no modification. Do you really think Sharon Stone or Keanu Reeves look like that when they get up in the morning? Unless your subjects have Hollywood make-up artists at their beck and call, it's likely

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Posing is another topic that's worth a book or two of its own. I'm going to provide a list of quick tips you can use in this section, but your best bet is to experiment with different poses and find some that you like. Work with those poses at first, try some variations, and add more poses as you become comfortable. Just keep in mind that your goal is not to use your subject as a mannequin that

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You can apply virtually all the techniques you learned in the studio to your outdoors portraits. Once you've mastered short lighting, broad lighting, butterfly lighting, and the rest of the basic setups, you can use them outdoors by being flexible enough to work with the less controllable lighting you find there. For example, you might have to position your subject to take advantage of the

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Although I'll describe each of the most common lighting techniques, you'll want to set up some lights and see for yourself exactly how they work. Short Lighting Short lighting and broad lighting (discussed next) are two different sides of the same coin. Together, they are sometimes referred to as "three-quarter lighting," because in both cases the face is turned to one side so that three

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As I warned you in the previous section, the best portrait lighting involves at least two, and often three or more light sources. The light sources don't always have to be incandescent lights or electronic flash. Figure 6.15, for example, was shot using window light (from the rear), light bounced from a flat reflector you can see at the right side of the image, and from another reflector at

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Lighting is the palette you'll be using to paint your photographic portraits. The next two sections will introduce you to some basic techniques, using some diagrams I've put together that will help you set up professional-looking lighting on your first try. However, you don't need to stick to the setups I'm going to describe anymore than you'd want to paint using only one shade each of red, blue,

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Much of the gear you need for home portraits is the same as what I'm going to outline in Chapter 10, too. The next section will list the basic items you need to have on hand. There's enough overlap that if you're well-equipped for macro photography, you've got most of what you need for individual portraits, too. Your Portrait Camera There are a few special requirements for a digital camera

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Any convenient indoors space can be transformed into a mini-studio, as you'll discover in Chapter 10, "Macro Photography." A key difference is that close-up photos usually involve small subjects, taken from a few inches away, and, much of the time, use much simpler lighting arrangements. People pictures require more room than photographs of your ceramic collection, and few homes have space that

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For many years, most portraits were created in a studio of some sort. This custom pre-dates photography by a handful of centuries, because, unless you were royalty and were able to do exactly as you pleased, it was more common to venture to the artist's studio, where the lighting, background, props, and other elements could be easily controlled. That soft and flattering "north light" used to

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Some digital photographers specialize in one kind of picture or another, such as landscapes, sports, or close-ups. But everyone who uses a camera enjoys taking pictures of people, even if their main efforts are concentrated elsewhere. Unless you're a hermit, you love to photograph your friends, family, colleagues, and even perfect strangers. Human beings are the most fascinating subjects of all.

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If you're at all serious about photography, you've seen and, perhaps, studied those stroboscopic pictures of bullets stopped in mid-air, light bulbs captured in the act of breaking, or droplets of water frozen as they erupt from a bowl, as you can see in Figure 5.37. Your project for this chapter is to explore the world of high-speed motion stopping. Your digital camera and a little ingenuity may

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Whether you call it sequence shooting, burst mode, continuous advance, or "motor drive" mode, the ability to take multiple shots of fast-moving action is a valuable capability found in an increasing number of digital cameras. On the plus side, ripping off five or ten shots as the action unfolds can increase your chances of catching the peak moment(s) in one or more of them. Unfortunately, you can

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Now you know the basics. It's time to set up some real-life scenarios and see just how you'd tackle them with a digital camera. This section will take you through a few typical action photography assignments. Preparation and Setup Before you go out on the shoot, it's a good idea to make sure you're well-prepared. You'll never get good pictures of any type if you don't do the right prep and

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One of the keys to taking great action photos is getting a favorable vantage point. Some locations just lend themselves to better viewpoints and improved photographic opportunities. Gain access to the pit at an auto race, and you'll not only get incredible photos of cars on the track, but you'll be able to capture the excitement of the crew servicing a dusty, steaming hot vehicle that pauses just

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Virtually all of the readers of this book will be using zoom lenses rather than fixed focal length lenses. Today, all non-SLR digital cameras are furnished with a zoom lens, and even dSLRs with interchangeable lenses are usually used with a zoom of some type. However, action images are one type of photography that does benefit from the use of specialized lenses, so if you do have a digital SLR

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You don't need an expensive camera to take action photos. I once wrote an article for Petersen's PhotoGraphic Magazine, which I illustrated with sports photos taken with both a $100 point-and-shoot amateur camera as well as with a $2,000 professional SLR. When my results were reproduced in the magazine at a small size, and subjected to halftone screening, it was difficult to tell which photos

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We might as well get the topic of shutter lag out of the way immediately. That awful gap between the time when you press the shutter release on your camera and when the picture is actually taken is probably the number one complaint photographers have about digital cameras. You know the sequence: You see a great shot, put your camera's viewfinder to your eye, and press the shutter button.

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Yes, action photography requires a little technical knowledge. You'll need to understand how to select the shutter speed that will freeze action when you want to, or choose a longer shutter speed to allow for some creative blurring effects when you want to do that. But neither of those skills are the real keys to getting great action pictures. The two most important things you must master are

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Lights! Camera! Action! Those are the keys to exciting photography. And, given today's technology, you might not even need the lights. A digital camera, some fast-moving action, and a bit of knowledge about how to take the best pictures of moving subjects will launch you on the road to some of the most interesting photographs you've ever taken. You've got the camera, the action is all around

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This section provides an overview of the range of RAW file viewers, so you can get a better idea of the kinds of information available with particular applications. I'm going to include both high-end and low-end RAW browsers so you can see just what is available and then move on to Photoshop's Camera RAW plug-in. Camera Vendor Solutions You may prefer to use the RAW image processing software

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As we've seen, digital cameras produce files in three kinds of formats. JPEG files are the most efficient in terms of use of space and can be stored in various quality levels that depend on the amount of compression you elect to use. You can opt for tiny files that sacrifice detail or larger files that preserve most of the information in your original image. Some cameras can also save in TIFF

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This section will list each of the important file formats available for use both with digital cameras and image editors, including a few that you should avoid when working with images. I'll discuss their advantages, disadvantages, and the types of image compression used. JPEG JPEG is the most common format used by digital cameras to store images, as it was designed specifically to reduce the

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You can adjust the image size, file size, and image quality of your digital camera images. The guidebooks and manuals don't always make it clear that these adjustments are three entirely different things. However, image size affects file size and image quality, and image quality affects file size. File size, while it's dependent on the other two, has no direct effect on image size or quality. No

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The gods who rule the imaging world must love different file formats, because they have created so many of them. There are dozens of graphics formats supported by image editors like Photoshop that are so far off the radar that simply mentioning them is an exercise in trivial pursuits. Who reading this book has used .IFF (Amiga), .TGA (Targa), .PXR (Pixar), .PX1 (PixelPaint), .PIC (SoftImage), or

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In recent months, the confusion over which digital camera file format to use has been reduced in some ways, and made more befuddling in others. Of the three possible formats—JPEG, TIFF, and RAW—TIFF has fallen into disfavor for all but the high-end professional cameras, and RAW is now found only in the more sophisticated digital models intended for photo enthusiasts. That leaves JPEG as the

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You might have even more exposure options available with your digital camera. Among your choices: Bulb/long exposure. Long exposures are anything longer than 1/8th second; many cameras can produce exposures of several seconds automatically. When the exposure exceeds one full second, and is created by holding down the shutter button manually, it becomes a bulb exposure (so called because the

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The first accessory I purchased when I worked as a sports photographer some time ago was a motor drive for my Nikon SLR. It enabled me to snap off a series of shots in rapid succession, which came in very handy when a fullback broke through the line and headed for the end zone. Even a seasoned action photographer can miss the decisive instant when a crucial block is made, or a baseball

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Beginner photographers typically say that they want their photos to be "sharp and clear." That's especially true for applications like online auctions, for which the image shown in Figure 3.15 was prepared. When you're selling something on eBay, you want the entire widget to be reasonably sharp. Figure 3.15. You probably want everything in your online auction photos to be in sharp focus.

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Thanks to the tiny computers built into modern film and digital cameras, exposure can be determined accurately in a variety of situations. Most cameras have multiple metering modes which measure light in any of several different ways. This next section explains the most common modes and how they work. Exposure Zones Sophisticated electronic cameras divide the subject area into a few dozen

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Correct exposure is not the most important aspect of taking a picture. How well you frame or compose the image really makes or breaks a photograph. The exposure can be a little off and the picture can still look good, but if the composition is awry, there's not a lot you can do to save it. Fortunately, compositions are not chosen by the camera. In most cases, however, exposure settings are. You

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If digital cameras do such a good job selecting settings, why would you want to interfere? There are lots of situations in which an experienced photographer can do a better job of selecting settings than even the most sophisticated digital camera. Here are a few:You're looking for a special exposure effect, such as a silhouette. When faced with strong backlighting, your camera may correctly

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It's one of the unfortunate realities of complex mechanical or electronic devices, including digital cameras, that, the more options and features and capabilities a gadget has, the more difficult it is to use. A toaster is easy to use: insert the bread, dial in how light or dark you want it to be toasted, and push down the lever. Few options, no bewildering array of controls, no problems.

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Today's digital camera didn't just drop out of the sky, fully formed. Even though digital cameras are a relatively recent innovation in the 165-year history of photography, the road to all-electronic digital photography has been a gradual transition, extending over decades. Solid-state technology began to intertwine itself into the workings of conventional cameras more than 20 years ago, as

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Narrowing down your choices to a specific camera category is only half the job. Because features can vary widely even within a category, you'll still need to decide which capabilities are "must haves" and which are "nice to haves if they don't cost an arm and a leg." This section will outline your chief options among lens requirements, resolution, storage options, exposure controls, and

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For the serious photographer, buying a camera can be a major undertaking. The point-and-shoot set may purchase a camera based on one or two marginally relevant characteristics, such as whether the camera is small enough to tuck into a pocket, or whether it has 7 or 8 megapixels of resolution. You know the type: They want a camera that takes "sharp, clear" pictures and don't care about much else.

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Most of the technology I've described so far applies equally to digital SLR, EVF, and optical-viewfinder-equipped cameras. (Funny how it seems easiest to differentiate the main camera types by the systems they use for viewing images!) There are some differences between how a dSLR works and how other cameras work, and you'll find all the gory details in Mastering Digital SLR Photography, also by

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Understanding how sensors operate can be important, because, ultimately, the resolution and quality of your digital image is largely determined by the solid-state capture array. Certainly, the lens that focuses the image on the sensor has an equal role, but optical technology is fairly mature, dating back to the invention of the first magnifying glasses (used for reading) in the 13th century.

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This section provides a quick look at how a digital camera works. You don't really need to understand quantum physics to operate a digital camera, but a basic comprehension of what's going on inside your picture box can help you troubleshoot vexing photographic challenges later on; plus, if you're the typical serious photographer, satisfy your curiosity. While this explanation will be simplified

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We're going to start with a generic tour of a typical non-SLR digital camera. Later on, we'll get into the features of digital SLR cameras, too, but if you want a great deal of detail on how dSLRs work, I recommend my companion volume, Mastering Digital SLR Photography. There's more than you ever expected to know about the digital single lens reflex camera. Digital cameras come in many shapes

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I'll be covering emerging and future technologies in later chapters, but the view from 50,000 feet looks bright. The "average" resolution of a mid-priced (say, $500) digital camera has been increasing dramatically. As I write this, just about anyone who is serious about photography can afford a 7- to 8-megapixel camera, and megapixel monsters from Nikon and Canon with (what seems to me) an

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One aspect of digital photography that we can easily examine from 50,000 feet is the broad range of areas in which digital technology has become important. This section looks at a few of the traditional photography realms that have seen the most impact. Photojournalism You don't have to be a professional photojournalist to realize that news and digital photography were made for each other. You

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You don't need to have started out as a film photographer to succeed in digital photography, but it certainly doesn't hurt. As a photographer, if you've shot with film for any length of time you've accumulated a lot of useful knowledge and skills that help you take better pictures than the average snapshooter. For example, you know not to shoot into the sun (unless you're looking for a silhouette

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For millennia, text and pictures were more or less equals: Scribes illuminated or illustrated a manuscript at the same time the text was drawn. The only technology involved was, say, a quill pen and the tools used to sharpen it. When both text and graphics were hand-drawn, it took a little longer to create an illustration, but, as they say, a sketch is worth a thousand words. Until the invention

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The path to digital photography has almost as many roads as those leading to Rome. Many of you probably first discovered the joys of film-based photography. Perhaps you yearned to transcend the ordinary vacation photograph and bring back pictures that would provide memories that would last a lifetime. Or, you might have discovered photography as an artistic outlet, either because you lacked

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Digital photography has gone through some amazing changes since I wrote the first edition of this book. At that time, I was floored by the introduction of the original Canon Digital Rebel, a 6-megapixel single lens reflex (SLR) camera available for less than $1000. That Digital Rebel, I predicted, would be seen as the harbinger of a significant digital photography revolution. After all, back in

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