Take a tour of the burgeoning world of plastic cameras and low-tech photography in this fun and funky guide to creating the most artistic pictures of your life! Whether you're an experienced enthusiast or toy camera neophyte, you'll find this guide full of tantalizing tips, fun facts, and absolutely striking photographs taken with the lowest tech tools around. You'll learn how to prep your plastic camera, their advantages and quirks, and what film to feed it. You'll also explore what makes a good subject, vignetting, multiple exposures, panoramas, close-ups, night photography, color, flash, problems and solutions, and so much more. Michelle Bates also takes you from a negative to either prints or pixels so that you can show off your photos and jump on the toy-camera revolution! Contributors include: Michael Ackerman, Thomas Michael Alleman, Erin Antognoli, Jonathan Bailey , James Balog, Michelle Bates, Phil Bebbington, Gyorgy Beck, Susan Bowen, Laura Corley Burlton, David Burnett, Susan Burnstine, Nancy Burson, Perry Dilbeck, Jill Enfield, fotovitamina, Annette Elizabeth Fournet, Brigitte Grignet, Eric Havelock-Bailie, Christopher James, Michael Kenna, Wesley Kennedy, Teru Kuwayama, Louviere & Vanessa, Mary Ann Lynch, Anne Arden McDonald, Ted Orland, Sylvia Plachy, Dan Price, Becky Ramotowski, Nancy Rexroth, Francisco Mata Rosas, Richard Ross, Franco Salmoiraghi, Rosanna Salonia, Jennifer Shaw, Nancy Siesel, Mark Sink, Kurt Smith, Sandy Sorlien, Pauline St. Denis, Harvey Stein, Gordon Stettinius, Ryan Synovec, Rebecca Tolk, Marydorsey Wanless, Shannon Welles, Matthew Yates, Dan Zamudio

Finally upgraded to that new DSLR camera you've always wanted? Want to get the most out of the camera you already have? Boost Your Photography: Learn Your DSLR will launch you on your journey by providing clear explanations of DSLR fundamentals that will save you hours of adjusting settings and fiddling with buttons. Based on practical advice about the technical and creative aspects of DSLR photography, Boost Your Photography: Learn Your DSLR will help you take beautiful photographs right away.Many photography books are written by people who have been doing photography for so long that they have forgotten what it is like to truly start from the beginning. Boost Your Photography: Learn Your DSLR is written with a beginner's perspective in mind and is organized to get you shooting from the start and then to support you along the way as you learn more advanced skills. Intermediate and advanced users will boost their skills through the specific tips and techniques covered. All levels of photographers will benefit from the "apply it now" activities that will make in immediate impact in your photography.Major Chapters include- Camera Zero: Your go-to camera settings- Good Photography Habits: What you need to know before you start shooting- Go Take Pictures: Specific recommendations, suggestions, and practice exercises for several of the most common photography situations, including landscapes, portraits, sports and motion photography, macro and close-up photography, night photography, travel photography, and black and white.- Learning Your Camera Lens(es): Understand how to utilize your lenses to their maximum potential- Understanding Focus: How and where to focus, as well as troubleshooting common focus-related difficulties- Exposure: Know the Variables: How to use and manipulate ISO, aperture, and shutter speed to get the photographs you want- Camera and Accessory Maintenance: Important and oft-overlooked tips for caring for your camera and getting the most out of your memory cards and batteriesMore than 50 original photographs.

Short essays by photographers describing the photographs they didn't take, and why.

Are you a night owl looking to make stunning images of streetscapes, fireworks, or the night sky? Do you like to bend time with long exposure photography? Do star trails or lightning strikes inspire you? Then this book is for you! In Night Photography: From Snapshots to Great Shots, photographer Gabriel Biderman brings you the basics of digital night photography—exposure, composition, and light—and how to scout and capture different nocturnal locations once the sun goes down. Gabriel will help you understand the fundamentals and bring your unique artistic expression to any night situation. In this beautifully illustrated guide you will: Focus in the dark and master basic composition rules—and know when to break them Understand metering and switch to manual mode for more control over your exposure Set white balance, understand color temperature, and add flash or slow sync Explore color, light painting, and creative ways to play with light in your images Learn what gear works best for your style of shooting and strategies for operating your equipment in the dark Discover expert techniques for post-processing your nighttime images in Lightroom and Photoshop Beautifully illustrated with large, compelling photos, this book teaches you how to take control of your photography to get the image you want every time. And once you have the shot, show it off and join the book’s Flickr group: www.flickr.com/groups/night_fromsnapshotstogreatshots

In this detailed and easy-to-read reference, professional photographers Gary L. Friedman and Ross Warner spell out the nuances of every feature for both beginning and experienced photographers. Get the most out of your camera from the most highly-acclaimed author of books for the Sony cameras! Instantly-downloadable electronic formats are also available from the author's website.

Learn to ask better, more helpful questions of your work so that you can create stronger and more powerful photographs.

Photographers often look at an image—one they’ve either already created or are in the process of making—and ask themselves a simple question: “Is this a good photograph?” It’s an understandable question, but it’s really not very helpful. How are you supposed to answer that? What does “good” even mean? Is it the same for everyone?

What if you were equipped to ask better, more constructive questions of your work so that you could think more intentionally and creatively, and in doing so, bring more specific action and vision to the act of creating photographs? What if asking stronger questions allowed you to establish a more effective approach to your image-making? In The Heart of the Photograph: 100 Questions for Making Stronger, More Expressive Photographs, photographer and author David duChemin helps you learn to ask better questions of your work in order to craft more successful photographs—photographs that express and connect, photographs that are strong and, above all, photographs that are truly yours.

From the big-picture questions—What do I want this image to accomplish?—to the more detail-oriented questions that help you get there—What is the light doing? Where do the lines lead? What can I do about it?—David walks you through his thought process so that you can establish your own. Along the way, he discusses the building blocks from which compelling photographs are made, such as gesture, balance, scale, contrast, perspective, story, memory, symbolism, and much more. The Heart of the Photograph is not a theoretical book. It is a practical and useful book that equips you to think more intentionally as a photographer and empowers you to ask more helpful questions of you and your work, so that you can produce images that are not only better than “good,” but as powerful and authentic as you hope them to be.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Better Questions

PART ONE: A GOOD PHOTOGRAPH?
Is It Good?
The Audience's Good
The Photographer's Good

PART TWO: BETTER THAN GOOD
Better Subjects

PART THREE: BETTER EXPRESSION
Exploration and Expression
What Is the Light Doing?
What Does Colour Contribute?
What Role Do the Lines and Shapes Play?
What's Your Point of View?
What Is the Quality of the Moment?
Where Is the Story?
Where Is the Contrast?
What About Balance and Tension?
What Is the Energy?
How Can I Use Space and Scale?
Can I Go Deeper?
What About the Frame?
Do the Elements Repeat?
Harmony
Can I Exclude More?
Where Does the Eye Go?
How Does It Feel?
Where's the Mystery?
Remember When?
Can I Use Symbols?
Am I Being Too Literal?

PART FOUR: BETTER PHOTOGRAPHS
The Heart of the Photograph
Index

Gary's Ebooks on the Sony cameras are renown for being the most thorough, detailed, and enjoyable to read. This latest edition goes into even more detail of the features everyone wants to know about. In this 619-page (!) full-color book you'll learn: * The new exposure modes * The Hybrid AF system and what it means to you * All the different focusing modes explained in an intuitive way * 4K shooting and choosing a bit rate for video * S-Log2 in a way that a non-videographer can understand * My personal camera configuration * How to know which video mode is right for you * NFC, Wi-Fi, and step-by-step instructions on using them * A set of ""Cliffs Notes"" cards you can print showing the recipes for common shooting situations, and Gary's Personal Camera Settings Get the most out of your investment, cut through the clutter and optimize your camera to match the way YOU work best!