100 Ways to Make Good Photos Great - Peter Cope

100 Ways to Make Good Photos Great

Tips and Techniques for Improving Your Digital Photography

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Buch | Softcover
144 Seiten
2013
David & Charles (Verlag)
978-1-4463-0300-9 (ISBN)
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100 ideas for turning your good photos into great ones. A practical accessible guide that includes inspirational examples of great photos and compares them with average images, with easy to follow tips and techniques, so you can achieve the same results. Covers portraits, events, landscapes, indoors, travels, night and low light photography.
Discover 100 ideas for turning your good photos into great ones. This is a practical and accessible guide that includes inspirational examples of great photographs and compares and contrasts these with more average images. This, along with easy to follow tips and techniques, will show you how easy it easy to achieve the same results.

100 Ways to Make Good Photos Great covers all of the key photographic genres - capturing the perfect portraits, shooting social photography, photographing the outdoors, indoor photography, taking great photos of your holidays and travels, and shooting night and low light photography - as well as getting the very best from your shots through creating portfolios and presentations.

Now that most people have a camera or camera phone, the term 'point and shoot' has become ever prevalent. However, sometimes we will want something more than good snapshots. 100 Ways to Make Good Photos Great will show you ways, often simple and fun ways, to create great photos that will be more emotive and meaningful to you.

Cutting through the mystique in photography, whether you are an aspirational amateur wanting to make your photographs even better, or an enthusiastic beginner who just wants to produce more satisfying results, this practical guide offers useful professional tips and techniques to take your photography to the next level.

Peter Cope is an experienced photographer and author. His interests in digital technology began at university where he worked on the development of electronic assemblies - image photon counting systems - that would ultimately lead to the imaging sensors used in today's digital cameras. Peter has lectured extensively on photographic and digital subjects and his work has appeared in a number of magazines in the UK and the US, including What Digital Camera, Total Digital Photography and Digital Pro. He lives in Bristol.

1. WHAT A PICTURE! : What turns a snap into a
photograph?


       Creating well balanced and structured images


Developing
an Eye for Composition


Looking
around the viewfinder


Rules
of composition – and how to use and abuse them


Keeping
things on the level


When
all else fails… Adjusting compositions digitally


Cropping
for creative impact


Mastering
the technique: Pictures within Pictures


      Page
out: Did I really shoot that? Typical compositional faux pas


 


2. THE PERFECT PORTRAIT


The
Perfect Portrait: the key elements from setting up through to printing, taking
in formal, informal and candid portraiture


     Making a good portrait brilliant


     After the event: Retouching of skin tones,
wrinkles etc


     Lighting the portrait in the field


     Quick tips on composition


     Pro tips for great portraits


     High and low key effects


     Mastering the technique:: Adding Character
 


3. GETTING THE MOST FROM EVENTS & CELEBRATIONS


Exploding
the Myths and Mystique.


     Planning


     Establishing a Theme


     Dos and Don’ts


     Presentation


    Mastering the technique: Creative Candids
and Cutaways
 


4. A TRIP TO THE COUNTRYSIDE: BECOME A LANDSCAPE EXPERT


Building
on the foundations of composition, discover how to take great landscape shots,
with classical and contemporary approaches


     A Sense of Scale


     The Sweeping Vista vs. Meaningful Details


     Mood


     Panoramas, Collages & Joiners


    Page Out
Quick Project: Homage to Hockney: The Joiner


 


5. MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR HOLIDAY AND TRAVELLING


Holidays and travel are great excuses
to take lots of photographs. Add a little thought and planning and you can
achieve results that are leagues apart from those of the casual holiday
snapper.


     The Secrets of Success


     Shortcuts and Cheats to Great Travel
Photography


     The Stock Shot vs. the Novel Approach


     Capturing Atmosphere


     Mastering the technique: Travelling in the
Real World
 


6. WHEN IT’S RAINING OUTSIDE: STILL LIFE IN THE
STUDIO


Forget the fruit bowl, staple of the
oil painter, still life photography includes everything from photographing
collections and hobbies through to close up and macrophotography.


     The Impromptu Studio


     Controlling the Environment


     The Staged Set


     Product shots


     Macro and Microphotography


     Mastering the technique: A Matter of
Support
 


7. GOING TO EXTREMES: LOW LIGHT AND NIGHT
PHOTOGRAPHY


As night falls most photographers put
their cameras away. Shame. Evening and night make for some of the best in
photographic images


     Techniques for low light photography


     Colour and the Fading Light


     Sunset and Sunrise: Shoot the beauty,
avoid the Cliché


     Night and Astrophotography


    Page Out
Quick Project: Theatre and the Arts


    Mastering
the technique: Cities and Cityscapes


 


8. IMAGE PORTFOLIOS AND COLLECTIONS


Photographs are designed
to be seen. In this rounding-off section we look at how to effectively enjoy,
share and promote your photography


All About Presentation


Printing Masterclass


Image Storage and Archiving


Traditional and Contemporary Image Delivery


Exploiting the World Wide Web


 


9. RESOURCES


Classified Glossary


Further Explorations


Bibliography etc

Zusatzinfo 200 Illustrations, unspecified
Verlagsort Newton Abbot
Sprache englisch
Maße 12 x 252 mm
Gewicht 483 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Fotokunst
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Freizeit / Hobby Fotografieren / Filmen
ISBN-10 1-4463-0300-4 / 1446303004
ISBN-13 978-1-4463-0300-9 / 9781446303009
Zustand Neuware
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