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The Birdwatcher's Guide to Digital Photography
Capturing the essential beauty of a landscape on camera is a popular and rewarding pastime. But the natural world is inherently unpredictable, and you won't always achieve the results you want. That's where Photoshop comes in.
Whether your aim is to convert a colour shot of a distant forest into a monochrome masterpiece; making a montage
of two separate pictures to create a single, stronger image; or changing the weather to give your landscape shots a wholly different atmosphere, Creative Landscape Techniques will show you how.
The book begins with simple enhancements such as creating shadows; through more complex techniques such as simulating rain and snow and turning day into night; to adding new features such as waterfalls and rivers to landscapes.
The step-by-step tutorials will also show you how to recreate useful styles such as sepia effects, fish-eye lens effects, and depth-of-field manipulation. Creative Photoshop Landscape Techniques is an essential read for digital landscape photographers of all skill levels.
Section 1 - Equipment
What digital camera do I need?
Digital SLRs
Digiscoping equipment
Telephoto lenses
Zoom lenses
Tele-converters
Wide angle lenses
Tripods & heads
Monopods
Beanbags and window mounts
Exposure/f-stops and shutter speeds
Using histograms for a correct exposure
Fast shutter speeds freezing action
Slow shutter speeds motion blur
Understanding depth of field
Memory cards and file formats explained
Which format to shoot Raw versus JPEG
Taking care of your equipment
Accessories
Section 2 - Photographing Birds
Backyard birds
Town and city parks
Seabirds
Wildfowl (Swans, ducks, and geese)
Birds of prey
Shorebirds
Passerines (small birds)
Captive birds in natural surroundings
Birds in flight
Shooting low
Silhouettes
Backlighting
Reflections
Capturing action
Stalking and field-craft
Blinds
Using public blinds
Using your automobile as a blind
Travelling with your gear
Choosing bird photography vacations
Digiscoping techniques in the field
Section 3 - Digital photo editing
Computer hardware
Editing software
Importing and editing photos
Cropping
Correcting poor composition
Adjusting for poor exposure
Tuning brightness and contrast
Saturation?laying with colors
Cleaning up an image
Processing a Raw image
Shadows and highlights
Using Curves
Output formats
Printing
Getting published
Sharing photos on the web
Long term storage of pictures
Ethics
Glossary and Resources
Index
Acknowledgments
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