Digital Photography Outdoors: A Field Guide for Travel and Adventure Photographers
Category: Books,Arts & Photography,Photography & Video
Digital Photography Outdoors: A Field Guide for Travel and Adventure Photographers Details
This title is fully illustrated in color with examples of great and not-so-great photographs. It offers new tips on the latest digital techniques: noise reduction and sharpening to minimize image degradation; adjustment layers and layer masks; and use of the flash outdoors.It also offers expanded coverage of recent features in Photoshop including the Spot Healing Brush, Image Processor, High Dynamic Range (HDR), and Lens Correction menu. The title presents a description of the latest equipment options such as sensor cleaning tools and the Lensbaby option for selective focus and artistic blurs elsewhere.A long-time mountaineer and wilderness traveler, Jim Martin is uniquely suited to show us how to make the most of digital photography's advantages for outdoor photography. In this expanded second edition, Martin gives us the latest in technique and equipment innovations while still sticking to the basics: how a digital camera works, special considerations for use and maintenance in the field, and selecting the best equipment and most useful accessories for capturing outdoor action and storing images safely.Martin presents the new rules of digital photography (why overexpose?) and reminds us of old rules that still apply (light and good composition remain key). He covers the fundamentals of digital editing, including selecting software tools, applying filters, creating the illusion of movement, and stitching photos together to create panoramas.
Reviews
I saw this at a gift shop in Yellowstone, and later ordered it from Amazon. Starts with a review of photographic "rules" which would apply to film as well as digital. Big section on equipment and how to take care of it. Big section on Photoshop processing of outdoor photos including processing of RAW images. Some advanced digital processing, for example for Hight Dynamic Range. Finally a set of tips on different types of outdoor subjects (people, landscapes, wildlife, etc.). Overall a very compact treatment. The only thing bad to say is that this is the type of material one could find in other sources.