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Digital Portrait Photography for Dummies
Learn to:
Create professional-looking portraits with your digital camera
Shoot portraits in indoor and outdoor settings
Apply expert posing and lighting techniques to your photos
In Full Color!
Doug Sahlin
Author of Digital Photography Workbook For Dummies
Learn professional techniques for shooting great portraits of kids, pets, and family groups
Done right, a good portrait captures much more than what someone looks like; it also reveals a bit of his or her life and personality. This guide shows you how to make that happen, with advice on equipment and lighting, tips for working with various subjects, information on how to choose the best camera settings for portraits, and instructions for fine-tuning your images on your computer.
Choose the right equipment -- find out what to look for in the ideal camera, lenses, filters, and lighting sources
See your subject -- sharpen your observation skills by paying close attention to your surroundings and the people near you
Location, location -- place your subject in natural surroundings that say something about the person
Meet challenges -- discover the secrets of photographing babies, young children, and pets, especially cats
Make them even better -- enhance the effects you've created with appropriate cropping, sizing, and retouching
Open the book and find:
Important details about composition
How to work with props
Various lighting approaches and the results they achieve
Tips for taking advantage of your surroundings
What differentiates a portrait from a snapshot
How to use focal length and aperture
Ten top editing tips
What a histogram is and how to use one Less
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