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The digital photography book, the step-by-step secrets for how to make your photos look like the pro's!, Scott Kelby, Part 4

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The digital photography book

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Scott Kelby

the step-by-step secrets for how to make your photos look like the pro's!

1. Shooting people like a pro: yet even more tips to make people look their very best : 9 things you'll wish you had known before reading this book ; That was only 6. Here are the last 3 ; Getting shallow depth of field with studio strobes ; Shooting multiple exposures in-camera ; One person, multiple times, in the same shot ; How to freeze motion in portraits ; Avoid seeing too much "whites of their eyes" ; More tips for great group shots ; Better than the self timer for group shots ; Focus on the subject's eye, then recompose ; That works unless you're shooting at f/1.4 ; Creating the blown-out look ; A better way to direct your subject's posing ; Only photographers care about the characteristics of catch lights ; What not to shoot with your 50mm lens ; Getting both what's in front & back in focus ; Two quick composition tips ; How to get better full-length photos ; Controlling the size of your subject -- 2. Using hot shoe flash like a pro, part 3: picking right up where the last book left off : Shooting your flash in manual mode ; The trick to keep from lighting the ground ; Using studio-quality softboxes with your flash ; Mounting a flash on a monopod ; How to put the background out of focus using flash ; Don't have a gel? Change your white balance ; Put Nikon's commander mode one click away ; Making your flash fire every time ; Creating a tight beam of light ; The advantages of using flash in daylight ; How to use your hot shoe flash's modeling light ; Keep your flash from powering off ; How far to place the flash from the umbrella ; Why would anyone use studio strobes on location? -- 3. More tips on using your studio like a pro: in volume 3, we took it up a notch. Now, let's do it again : The pro trick for creating falloff ; Getting a different look without moving the lights ; Using lens flare as an effect in the studio ; How far should your subject be from the background? ; Let your main light do double duty ; Rim-light profile silhouettes made easy ; Using a ring flash ; Use almost any softbox you want with your brand of strobe ; When it comes to softboxes, bigger really in better ; What to do when you can't turn your strobe power down any further ; How to light a couple or small group ; The trick to staying out of trouble ; Where to put your softbox demystified, part I ; Where to put your softbox demystified, part II ; Let Lightroom fix your color as you shoot ; How to set a custom white balance in-camera ; Taking your existing strobes on location --4. More tips on lenses: going way beyond which lens to use : Why your background is still in focus at F/2.8 ; What you need to know about lens compression ; Seeing a real preview of your depth of field ; Auto-correcting the fisheye lens effect in Photoshop ; Shoot at the F-stop you bought the lens for ; How to deal with lens fogging ; Avoiding sensor dust from your body lens caps ; How to focus your lens to infinity ; Don't shoot at the "beginner" focal lengths ; Where to hold a long lens to steady it ; Which lens for outdoor portraits? -- 5. Pro tips for shooting in natural light: how to take advantage of the most beautiful light on earth : Beautiful backlit shots ; Shooting silhouettes ; Jay's trick for not missing the shot ; How to make sure your sunset looks dark ; Tips for using a reflector outdoors ; Control the "power" of your reflector ; How to deal with underexposed daytime shots ; The trick for shooting at night ; Shooting light trails ; Shooting star trails ; The gear for shooting star trails ; Another reason to avoid shooting at high ISOs -- 6. Shooting landscape photos like a pro: yet even more tips for creating stunning scenic images : You don't need fast lenses for landscapes ; Three more tips for silky waterfalls & streams ; Long exposure B&W, part 1 (the accessories) ; Long exposure B&W, part 2 (the settings) ; Long exposure B&W, part 3, (the setup) ; Long exposure B&W, part 4 (the shot) ; Keeping your gear dry outdoors ; Use grid lines to get straight horizon lines ; Instant duotones for landscape images ; Amplifying size in your landscape images ; Need a darker sky? Lower the brightness ; Shoot before a storm or right after it ; Doing time-lapse photography ; Seek out still water for reflections ; Tip for shooting those low-angle landscapes ; Make your cloudy white balance even warmer ; The landscape image post-processing secret ; What helped my landscape photos the most --7. Pro tips for shooting travel photos: how to come back with images you're really proud of : Wait for the actors to walk onto your stage ; Look for that classic "long tree" shot ; Camera bags that won't attract the wrong kind of attention ; How to avoid blurry travel shots ; My favorite travel lenses ; The trick to capturing real lives ; Tourist removal shooting techniques ; Learn how to work the scene ; Finding which travel photos you like best ; Shooting from the roof of your hotel -- 8. Shooting sports like a pro: how to get professional results from your next sports shoot : A tip and a secret on panning ; Finding the right shutter speed for panning ; Freezing motion trick for motorsports ; Your problems start at night or indoors ; Turn off VR (or IS) when shooting sports ; The advantage of using fast memory cards ; How the pros focus for sports ; Why many pros shoot sports in JPEG ; Using a remote camera ; Adding a teleconverter to get really tight ; Why you need to shoot the warm-ups ; Shoot little details surrounding the event ; Getting more football shots in-focus -- 9. Shooting HDR like a pro: how to shoot and process HDR images : Shooting HDR: the gear ; Shooting HDR: the basic idea ; Setting up your camera to shoot bracketing ; A Canon shooter's HDR helper ; What if your camera doesn't have bracketing? ; Which F-stop to use for HDR ; Don't shoot one bracketed shot at a time ; Shooting hand-held HDR shots ; Which types of scenes make good HDR shots ; Shooting HDR panos ; Easily find the images you bracketed for HDR ; The programs we use for creating HDR ; A good preset for photoshop's HDR pro ; Sharpening HDR photos ; The HDR look without shooting HDR ; What they're not telling you about HDR ; Fixing halos & other HDR problems --10. Pro tips for shooting DSLR video: how to get the most out of your build-in video capabilities : You're gonna want an eyepiece ; Learn the popular "rack focus" technique ; Adding effects to your video in your camera ; Why you want an external mic ; Bad audio = bad video ; Making certain you're in focus ; Don't shoot video vertical ; Why you need to lock your exposure ; F-stops matter here, too, but ... ; How to avoid "flicker" while you're shooting ; Want more of a "film" look? ; Don't touch that aperture ; Why zooming on your DSLR is different ; How to use autofocus for shooting video -- 11. Pro tips for getting better photos: more tricks of the trade for making your shots look better : Fit a lot more shots on your memory card ; Sneaky trick when you can't use your tripod ; When exposure compensation doesn't work ; Avoid signs because they draw the eye ; The "gotcha" of using picture styles ; Rotate tall or rotate image or both? Reducing noise in low-light shots ; What people looking at your photos see first ; Keeping your camera info from prying eyes ; Why JPEGs look better than RAW images ; When you don't need to shoot on a tripod ; What to do if your image isn't quite good enough to print ; When to switch to spot metering ; Try cinematic cropping for a wide-screen look ; Sharpening your images for print ; How to rescue a damaged memory card -- 12. Yet even more photo recipes to help you "get the shot": the simple ingredients to make it all come together