Time-lapse Photography: A Complete Introduction is a technical and practical timelapse tutorial guidebook for all skill levels designed to get you out the door and shooting now! Learn time-lapse with 350+ easy to understand examples, workflows, walkthroughs and diagrams covering basic and advanced topics. We’ll walk through examples, workflows and diagrams together to create maximum understanding with minimum time spent away from your camera. Understand tim...

The Canon EOS 70D is the latest of Canon's full-sized DSLR cameras. Its impressive array of advanced capabilities allows the photographer more influence over the final image.This book's exploration of the EOS 70D goes beyond that of the user's manual. It provides illustrations, step-by-step setting adjustments, helpful suggestions for setup, and detailed explanations for each of the camera's many features and menu configurations. The text is illustrated with easy-to-follow...

In Bird Photography: From Snapshots to Great Shots, author and wildlife photographer Laurie Excell teaches you key techniques for capturing images of birds–whether you spot them in your own backyard or in a faraway, exotic location. Laurie starts by discussing various camera setups and basic settings and why she uses them, as well as the fundamentals of exposure and how it relates to real-world bird photography. She then covers practicing at home, planning your trip, and selecting...

Mastering the Nikon D800 by Darrell Young provides a wealth of experience-based information and insights for owners of the new D800 camera. Darrell is determined to help the user navigate past the confusion that often comes with complex and powerful professional camera equipment.This book explores the features and capabilities of the camera in a way that far surpasses the user's manual. It guides readers through the camera features with step-by-step setting adjustments; color illus...

A practical, affordable and accessible home photography tutor. This inspiring project-based course book covers everything from basic composition to the latest digital darkroom techniques.Learn at your own pace as this practical, comprehensive course helps you develop your key photographic techniques. Contents include: step-by-step projects on exposure, aperture, lenses, light, filters, colour, black and white and image enhancement; plus professional secrets and stunning shots from ...

With more than 350,000 copies sold, Understanding Exposure has demystified the complex concepts of exposure for countless photographers. Now updated with current technologies, more than one hundred new images, and an all-new chapter, this new edition will inspire you more than ever to free yourself from “auto” and create the pictures you truly want.In his trademark easy-to-understand style, author Bryan Peterson explains the relationship between aperture and shutter speed,...

The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood’s blockbuster, Academy-Award nominated movie."An amazingly detailed account of fighting in Iraq—a humanizing, brave story that’s extremely readable." — PATRICIA CORNWELL, New York Times Book Review**"Jaw-dropping...Undeniably riveting." *—***RICHARD ROEPER, Chicago Sun-Times...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREA mission to Mars. A freak accident. One man’s struggle to survive. From the author of Project Hail Mary comes “a hugely entertaining novel that reads like a rocket ship afire” (Chicago Tribune).“Brilliant . . . a celebration of human ingenuity [and] the purest example of real-science sci-fi for many years . . . utterly compelling.”—The Wall Stre...

DSLR Fundamentals: An Introduction To Photography is written specifically for the beginning photographer. The book uses text, images, tables, diagrams, video, and reference material to explain and teach a variety of concepts such as setup, shooting, technique, processing, and sharing.The volume covers setting up your DSLR, how to shoot properly, exploring predefined shooting modes, learning manual settings (aperture, shutter speed, ISO), basic equipment needs, composition and techn...

The Business of Studio Photography is packed with proven strategies for starting a new studio or improving an existing one-and now this classic book has been thoroughly updated and revised for the new digital-imaging era. Expert advice on every aspect of running a studio is featured: location, financing, equipment, digital shooting, proofing, and ordering; marketing, Web advertising, public relations and self-promotion; pricing, negotiating with labs, selling to the wedding, portrait, scho...

Sony doesn’t play it safe. Since the company entered the digital photography arena, it hasn’t been satisfied with the old paradigms and technology. At a time when the top dogs in the digital camera world are still mired in the race to produce the best single lens reflex models, Sony has concentrated on non-dSLR cameras, including SLT (semi-translucent mirror) models like the Sony Alpha a99 II.Sony has packaged up the most alluring features of advanced digital SLRs and stuffed them ...

Everything you need to know in one take-anywhere field guide!This all-in-one guide from renowned photographer, instructor, and author Bryan Peterson will help you take better photos anytime, anywhere–with any camera.Want to finally understand exposure? Interested in learning to "see" and composing your images more creatively? Ready to master the magic of light? It’s all here, the techniques every amateur photographer needs to take better nature, landscape, people, and close...