Mastering Exposure
How Great Photography Begins
Published on 16. November 2015
128 pages
978-1-60895-958-7 (ISBN)
Description
In photography, every decision, creative and technical, rides on achieving a good exposure. When shooting portraits or products, landscapes or architecture, we must control our camera's settings to ensure that just the right amount of light is allowed into the camera. When we strike the right balance in our exposure, we have a full range of tones, from pure white to deep blacks. We have rich visual detail. We have a sense of dimension. The colors and tones and contrast in our images weave the visual story of our subject and scene in a way that visually computes. As a result, we see just the image we strove to create, rendered perfectly in a way that satisfies our creative vision. In this book, Mark Chen shows you how to take full control over the science of exposure, providing you with the foundational skill-set you need to maximize your artistic vision.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amherst
United States
File size
223,32 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-60895-958-7 (9781608959587)
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Mark Chen is a Photographer, Adobe Certified Photoshop Expert/Instructor, Photoshop Trainer and the owner of Mark Chen Photography based in Houston, Texas.
Chen's passion for photography started early, as a teenager in his native Taiwan. A pursuer of photographic artistry and a believer in imaging technology, Chen embraced digital photography with great enthusiasm. His computer science degree helped him feel at home with the digital post productions. Pairing the creativity, techniques and think-outside-the-box attitude, Mark Chen has established himself as the most creative wedding photographer whose wedding album designs are sought after by clienteles with discerning tastes.
In addition to his studio operations, Chen teaches Photoshop at Houston Baptist University. and Houston Community College. He is touring the nation giving Photoshop training conferences to people of all professions including professional photographers. This teaching experience is a factor in making his book easy to follow.
Look for Mark Chen's future books about Photoshop, digital photography as well as his artistic endeavors that would push the limit of what pixels can show us, at MarkChenPhotography.com.
Chen's passion for photography started early, as a teenager in his native Taiwan. A pursuer of photographic artistry and a believer in imaging technology, Chen embraced digital photography with great enthusiasm. His computer science degree helped him feel at home with the digital post productions. Pairing the creativity, techniques and think-outside-the-box attitude, Mark Chen has established himself as the most creative wedding photographer whose wedding album designs are sought after by clienteles with discerning tastes.
In addition to his studio operations, Chen teaches Photoshop at Houston Baptist University. and Houston Community College. He is touring the nation giving Photoshop training conferences to people of all professions including professional photographers. This teaching experience is a factor in making his book easy to follow.
Look for Mark Chen's future books about Photoshop, digital photography as well as his artistic endeavors that would push the limit of what pixels can show us, at MarkChenPhotography.com.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Technique Enables Creativity, Creativity Fuels Technique
- From Capture to Postproduction
- Exposure Is the Beginning of Great Photography
- Equipment
- 1. The Basics (and Please Don't Skip This)
- If Light Were Water
- Exposure Modes
- Sensitivity: ISO
- Aperture
- Shutter Speed
- Aperture and Shutter Speed: The Duo
- Evaluating Exposure: Histograms
- Dynamic Range
- 2. Aperture: In Depth
- The Mathematics of Aperture (Nerdy but Helpful)
- Depth of Field
- Setting the Scene, Shaping the Narrative
- Close Up, Depth of Field Shrinks
- Adapting to the Subject and Lighting
- Sensor Dust: Ready to Bite When the Aperture Is Small
- Problem-Solving Exercises
- 3. Shutter Speed: In Depth
- A Brief History of Shutter Speed
- Freeze!
- It's All a Blur . . . and Then It's Not
- Tracking (or Panning)
- Time-Lapse Capture
- Very Long Exposures
- Problem-Solving Exercises
- 4. The Light
- The Color of Light
- The Quality of Light: Harsh vs. Soft
- Portrait Lighting
- The Direction of the Light
- Problem-Solving Exercises
- 5. Adding Flash to the Exposure
- Be Ready to Adapt
- The Watery Model Revisited
- Maximum Flash-Sync Speed
- Flash Techniques
- 6. Above and Beyond
- Adobe Camera Raw
- Shooting in RAW
- Fixing Exposure Imperfections
- The White Balance Tool
- The Crop and Straighten Tools
- Extending the Dynamic Range
- Portfolio and Practical Examples
- Conclusion
- Index
