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    Essential Photography Tips: Get the Most out of Your DSLR: Essential Photography Tips, #1
    Essential Photography Tips: Get the Most out of Your DSLR: Essential Photography Tips, #1
    Essential Photography Tips: Get the Most out of Your DSLR: Essential Photography Tips, #1
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    Essential Photography Tips: Get the Most out of Your DSLR: Essential Photography Tips, #1

    By Chris Jock

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    "Essential Photography Tips" is mainly intended for fresh DSLR owners who are looking to enhance their photographic skills. Most of the tips presented in this book can be easily adopted by a mirrorless camera owner too. 

    We will start by diving into composition. This is what matters most, composition rules should become a habit, and you have to be able to apply them without judging too much. We will then continue with a series of “How to” topics: “How to shoot a portrait”, “How to shoot a landscape” and so on. 

    Next we have some DO’s and DON’Ts. Among them are “Do not be afraid to go out on a cold day” and “Embrace the fog”. In the end we are covering tips on camera usage, general framework, post-production, and recommended accessories.

    Now let’s get to work and remember: no matter how much you read, it’s worthless if you don’t practice. Go out and practice! Actually, we have a chapter dedicated to this, so move on :-)

    This is the first book of "Essential Photography Tips" series. The series continues with “Essentials Travel Photography Tips”, a book providing usable tips to any traveler wishing to improve his or her photographic skills. Reading the book you will find out how to plan your trip, where to find useful information, what equipment you shall carry, what to do in location, how to take care of your family, which schedule to have, how to deal with different shooting situations, how to better compose your pictures, how to make a backup plan, or how to stay out of trouble.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChris Jock
    Release dateOct 5, 2014
    ISBN9781507048238
    Essential Photography Tips: Get the Most out of Your DSLR: Essential Photography Tips, #1
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    Chris Jock

    Chris Jock is a member of the younger generation of photographers, mainly raised in the digital era. Besides being a passionate photographer, he is also an avid traveler, loving European Mediterranean people. You can find him all summer wandering between Greece and Spain. To be updated on his projects you can subscribe at his blog: www.chris-jock.com

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      Essential Photography Tips - Chris Jock

      Essential Photography Tips

      Get the Most out of Your DSLR

      By Chris Jock

      Text and images copyright © 2014 Chris Jock

      All Rights Reserved

      Blog: chris-jock.com

      Twitter: twitter.com/CJQuest

      Disclaimer: This book details the author’s personal experiences and opinions about photography. The author and publisher are providing this book and its contents on an as is basis and make no representations or warranties of any kind with respect to this book or its contents.

      While reasonable care was taken in editing this book, neither the author nor the publisher will be liable for damages arising out of or in connection with the use of this book.

      To my wife and kids for their love and support

      Table of Contents

      Foreword

      1. Composition

      2. Make your Subject Obvious

      3. Rule of Thirds

      4. Fill the Frame

      5. Leave the Subject Space to Move or Breath

      6. Check Horizontal and Vertical Lines

      7. Leading Lines

      8. Use a Simple Background

      9. Shoot at the Level of The Subject

      10. Try a Different Angle

      11. How to Shoot a Portrait

      12. How to Shoot a Landscape

      13. How to Photograph Birds

      14. How to Photograph Flowers

      15. How to Photograph a Scene Mainly Consisting on Black or White

      16. Do Not Shoot In-Camera Black & White Pictures

      17. Avoid Shooting at Noon

      18. Never Direct the Flash Straight to the Subject

      19. Do Not Be Afraid of High ISO Values

      20. Do Not Be Afraid to Go out on a Cold Day

      21. Embrace the Fog

      22. Do Not Be Afraid to Take Vertical Pictures

      23. Shoot Same Scene Both Horizontal and Vertical

      24. Make a Selection

      25. Set Your Camera for Highest Quality

      26. Edit Your Photos in Post-Production

      27. How to Edit Your Photos

      28. Practice

      29. Do Not Take Your Camera to Weddings

      30. Have Spare Batteries and Memory Cards

      31. Get a Tripod for Night Landscape Pictures

      32. How to Use a Tripod

      33. Polarizing Filter

      34. Neutral Density Filter

      35. Avoid Camera Shake

      36. Delete Blurry Photos

      37. Get Your Photos off Your Memory Card as Soon as Possible

      38. Backup, Backup, Backup

      39. Check the Histogram

      40. Know Your Camera

      41. Choose the Right Camera Mode

      42. Don’t Over-Spend for Megapixels

      43. If Available, Use Prime Lenses

      44. Print Your Digital Photos

      45. The Best Camera Is the One You Have with You

      Epilogue

      About the Author

      Foreword

      This book is mainly intended for fresh DSLR owners who are looking to enhance their photographic skills. Most of the tips presented in this book can be happily adopted by a mirrorless camera owner too. For the owners of smaller compact cameras or even the users of a smartphone camera, there are some advices that can be applied. But most of the tips are useless for smaller cameras, due to their incapacity of proper controlling the exposure. The noted exception are the composition rules, these can and should be applied by all photographers, no matter what type of camera they operate.

      This book will assume you have already read the manual of your camera and you know how to choose different values using basic controls on the camera. You have to know at least how to change camera modes, how to change ISO, aperture and shutter speed, how to change your focus type, how exposure compensation is working on your camera. If you are not comfortable with these notions, please keep your camera reference booklet close and consult it whenever something is not clear.

      The book consists of 45 chapters, each including one way to improve your photographic skills. Each chapter is

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