Digital Photography: 99 Easy Tips To Make You Look Like A Pro!

Digital Photography: 99 Easy Tips To Make You Look Like A Pro!, 9780072225822 (0072225823), McGraw-Hill, 2002

Get tips and advice for taking better pictures with your digital camera from expert photographer Ken Milburn. Discover all the cool things you can do--like making panoramas, short movies, rapid shot sequences for Web animations, instant greeting cards (both in print and for the Web), restoring and retouching photos--and much more.

Extend the capabilities of your digital camera with 99 thoroughly explained helpful pointers. Organized into easy-to-navigate chapters, this handy resource will help you fully utilize your camera's features, perform digital darkroom magic, and manage, print, and publish your images to the Web. Learn photographic techniques such as lighting problem shadows, taking extreme close-ups, capturing motion, and more. Plus--supplement your photographic expeditions with darkroom tricks and magic, including correcting the color and brightness of your images, sharpening the focus, and eliminating imperfections. Read this book and discover why digital photography is fast becoming the leading method of capturing life's most important moments.

Capture viewer interest with good composition
Restore old family photographs
Photograph in rainy or dark conditions
Compose and shoot breathtaking panoramas
Hand-color black-and-white photographs
Calibrate your monitor and camera screen
Overcome common problems like parallax error
Freeze fast action or follow motion to blur a background
Shoot movies and sequences for Web animation
Optimize images for a Web portfolio

About the Author

Ken Milburn (Oakland, CA) has 15 years experience as a nationally published advertising photographer writing about graphics and multimedia for national computer publications. Milburn has also written seven computer books, including the best-selling FrontPage 97 and the Flash 3 Web Animation and f/x, and Master Photoshop 5.5 Visually (IDG). Ken's clients include Multimedia Live!, New World Publishing, Morph's Outpost, Computer Artist, MacMillan Publishing, American President Lines, The Sausalito Chamber of Commerce and the Sausalito Art Festival.

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