Digital Capture After Dark [Paperback] Author: Amanda Quintenz-Fiedler | Language: English | ISBN:
1933952660 | Format: PDF, EPUB
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The pitfalls of photographing at night are many. Autofocus and built-in light meters generally fail at night. Long exposures tend to make noisy or blurry photographs. Cameras set to automatic generally trigger the built-in flash in low light conditions, which results in unsatisfying images. Lack of understanding and inappropriate techniques often ruin the dramatic potential of nighttime images.
In Digital Capture After Dark you will learn to overcome these and other obstacles. You will go beyond the many “how-to’s” of capturing digital images at night to the “why-to’s” of long exposure photography; including the importance of how we think and see at night compared to during the day.
Also discussed are hands-on image editing techniques that will help you prepare your images for output. Detailed descriptions cover color balancing, expanding dynamic range, controlling flare, dealing with noise, converting to black-and-white, toning, and much more.
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- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Rocky Nook; 1 edition (January 23, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1933952660
- ISBN-13: 978-1933952666
- Product Dimensions: 10 x 8 x 0.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
It's been said that photographers who put away their cameras when the sun goes down are losing half of their opportunities to photograph. That's probably not true, given that most of us have to sleep sometime. But photographing after dark does present new opportunities.
Amanda Quintenz-Fiedler and Philipp Scholz Ritterman, with the help of photographers Kevin McCollister and Michael Penn, offer their take on the genre. The book begins with a discussion of equipment, although, other than a flashlight, none of the suggestions seem out of the ordinary for the well equipped DSLR photographer. Next there is a discussion of basics, like ISO, manual focus (important for night photography where cameras may have a hard time acquiring focus) and histograms. The authors emphasize the importance of using one's histogram since the camera's LCD can't be trusted in the dark. Subsequent chapters discuss where and when to photograph, the effects and benefits of varying weather conditions, and what the authors call light-painting. (It differs from what I have learned to call light painting.) The next part of the book deals with post-processing, with emphasis on increasing dynamic range by combining bracketed images. There is a chapter on selective smart sharpening, black and white photography, and a chapter demonstrating panoramic HDR imaging at night, without any suggestions about how to accomplish this.
I have never found a single book on night photography that covers all the aspects and this book is no exception. Indeed, it almost seems like the book is aimed at inspiring the night photographer rather than providing detailed instructions.
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