DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY ebooks

Digital Photography: Take Pictures Like A Professional

Photography is a pastime that is growing in popularity with the rise in digital cameras and the ease with which an everyday person can obtain a beautiful photograph.  No longer is it necessary to haphazardly take pictures and hope you got the shots you really wanted. Over the years, we’ve seen cameras get smaller and smaller, move from separate flashes to built-in flashes, and finally to the absence of film with the digital camera.

If you have yet to experience the delights of digital photography, this guide is the perfect introduction. It covers many different aspects of digital photography, including...

• Positioning your subjects

• Finding the right light

• Avoiding blurry images

• Using the flash correctly

• Capturing moving images

• Keeping red eye out of pictures

• Preserving the right moment

  Posing For The Camera - Harriett Shepard and Lenore Meyer
  
  A professional guide... for the creative model, director, photographer
  
  This book is not a compilation of 'Do's and Dont's.' It seeks to organize thought on the part of photographers, directors and models as to where posing begins and how it is accomplished. Step by step, we will take the major and minor components of the posing figure and show how they function in relation to the camera - their possibilities and their limitations.
  
  Once you know how the figure functions, and the results thereby obtained, it is up to you to decide whether the pose is desirable or undesirable for the job at hand. For instance, a certain hand position may be generally recognized as awkward or conspicuous. This position would be undesirable if you wanted your picture to express grace and loveliness. On the other hand, it could very well serve to characterize a gangling teenager or call attention to an object or important copy in an advertisement.
  
  This book is not meant to impose our personal opinions upon you. Its intent is to increase your awareness of how symmetry of figure in pictures follows a consistent pattern. That pattern, when analyzed, establishes basic truths that beat like a motif throughout prize-winning and time-tested pictures. These truths are the fundamentals of which we speak...
  

  The History and Practice of the Art of Photography - Henry H. Snelling (Public Domain)

  Chloride of Gold, freed from an excess of acid is slowly changed under the action of light; a regularly increasing darkness taking place until it becomes purple, the first action of the light being to whiten the paper, which, if removed from the light at this stage, will gradually darken and eventually develope the picture. This process may be quickened by placing the paper in cold water.