Bryan Peterson's Understanding Photography Field Guide

Bryan Peterson's understanding photography field guide: how to shoot great photographs with any camera is a new book that is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

Contents:

• A FEW DIGITAL BASICS -- File Formats -- Returning to an Original Raw File -- 16-Bit Mode and Color Space -- White Balance
• EXPOSURE -- What Is Meant by Exposure? -- The Photographic Triangle -- The Heart of the Triangle: The Light Meter -- Six Correct Exposures vs. One Creatively Correct One -- Seven Creative Exposure Options
• APERTURE -- Aperture and Depth of Field -- Storytelling Apertures -- Isolation Apertures -- The Depth-of-Field Preview Button -- "Who Cares?" Apertures
• SHUTTER SPEED & ISO -- The Importance of Shutter Speed -- The Myth of ISO Exposed -- Freezing Action: Fast Speeds -- Slowing Down -- Panning -- Motion with a Tripod -- Motion in the Background -- Motion in Low Light: 1 Second and Beyond
• LEARNING TO SEE -- Learning the Language -- Seeing Starts with Your Lenses -- Wide-Angle Lenses -- Street Zooms -- The Telephoto -- The Fish-Eye -- Looking Up -- Shooting Down from Above -- Seeing Themes
• DESIGNING A STRIKING IMAGE -- Line -- Shape -- Form -- Texture -- Pattern -- Color -- Scale -- Composition -- Filling the Frame -- Backgrounds -- Horizontal vs. Vertical -- The Golden Section and the Rule of Thirds -- Breaking the Rules -- Avoiding Mergers -- Framing within the Frame -- Working Your Subject -- Picture within a Picture -- Composing Action
• THE IMPORTANCE OF LIGHT -- The Best Light -- Frontlight -- Sidelight -- Backlight -- The Sunny f/16 Rule -- Exposure Meters -- 18% Reflectance -- The Sky Brothers -- Mr. Green Jeans (the Sky Brothers' Cousin) -- Night and Low-Light Photography -- HDR Exposures
• CLOSE-UP PHOTOGRAPHY -- Close-up vs. Macro -- Extension Tubes -- Canon Close-up Filters -- Backgrounds -- Ring Flash -- Nontraditional Subjects
• PHOTOGRAPHING PEOPLE -- Overcoming Your Shyness -- Approaching and Respecting People -- People Psychology 101
• UNCONVENTIONAL TECHNIQUES -- Making "Rain" -- "Painting" -- Zooming -- Attaching the Camera to ... -- Photographing "Ghosts" -- Deliberate Overexposure
• USEFUL TOOLS -- Tripods and Tripod Heads -- Self-Timers, Mirror Lock-up, and Cable Releases -- Polarizing Filters -- Neutral-Density Filters -- Graduated Neutral-Density Filters
• INDEX