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Author: Michael Freeman
ISBN : 0240820800
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In bright light, it is easier to take a beautiful photograph with your DSLR. When the sun starts to go down or you are shooting indoors, a whole new skill set is needed. This new addition to the successful Field Guide Series will help you shoot what potentially could be the most lovely image without the help of natural light. No more harsh flash photographs with dreary backgrounds and no more blurry night shots that were exposed too long. Opening with a section on the qualities of different kinds of low light, the book then deals with ways of overcoming gloomy situations, whether you are shooting hand-held or on a tripod. Post-production fixes are also covered, allowing you to turn difficult shots into real works of art.
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- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Focal Press; 1 edition (October 21, 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0240820800
- ISBN-13: 978-0240820804
- Product Dimensions: 0.6 x 4.4 x 6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Free Download The Low Light Photography Field Guide: The essential guide to getting perfect images in challenging light
This book does a good job of covering the issues surrounding low light photography. The book is organized into three section: Low light, Handheld and Locked Down. The first section covers issues related to noise, vibration, focus, white balance, highlight and shadow issues. The second deals with handheld issues, eg camera motion blur, focus control, etc. The last section covers the distinct advantages of the tripod and other ad hoc camera stabilization solutions, With a locked down camera, many Photoshop solutions such as blending and HDR come into play and there are reasonably well covered. (Both really require dedicated books of which there are many.) In all sections, software solutions are covered in good detail with several popular packages mentioned. Again, not all software packages can be covered, but the author's selection is good.
Where this book falls down is in the choice of format. The review copy is in a 'field guide' format, as the title would suggest. However, there is little in the book that would be handy in the field. The book needs to be read before using the recommended techniques, and you are unlikely to want to sit down and read the 50 page sections while making images. The review copy is about 4x6 inches is size so looks like a field guide, but would have been much easier to read in the standard 8x10 format. Indeed, the fonts are so small that reading is difficult in many captions, and some illustrations are so small as to be useless. The images showing noise and noise fixes are too small to actually see the noise at all. The book's suggestion of printing noisy images in a small size to reduce the visual impact of noise is well but pointlessly demonstrated. It actually seem like a full size book was miniaturized.
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