Digital Family Photography

Author: Light
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Publish Date: 2004-09-01
Features: How to take and create artistic, memorable portraits of your family. Includes concise, hands-on digital image operation guides. Covers a wide range: from lenses and achieving correct exposure, to cropping, local dodging and burning, to creating oil-painting-style portraits, and even expert-level retouching. Offers new ways to share your captured and completed images with family, friends, and the world. The goal of this book is simple and clear—to provide you with simple, effective techniques for taking stunning portrait photos and introducing some amazing features of digital photography. Notably, this book focuses on the type of portraits most of us shoot most of the time: photos of our friends and family. By the time you reach the last page of this book, you will be able to fully leverage the many beautiful moments that arise in family life. Starting from simple and basic techniques to advanced, more challenging planning and design, this book provides comprehensive and straightforward operational methods for making the most of various family portraits. It covers a range of topics from image capture to post-production techniques, emphasizing how to make the most of the advantages of digital technology. The book begins directly with how to take the best photos, then explores composition techniques, lighting and exposure, special subjects, and image processing. By the last page, you will have learned all the techniques you need to fully make the most of the countless beautiful moments available for shooting in family life.