Digital Photography Books

Book One
Page 11: Use a self timer when you don't have a cable release or wireless remote

Page 12: Use Mirror lock-up to get a super sharp picture

Page 13: Turn off IS when using a tripod

Page 14: Shoot at your lens sharpest aperture. that is about two full stops smaller
than wide open

Page 18: Sharpening after the fact.

• For people: Amount 150%, Radius 1, Threshold 10

• For cityscapes, urban photography: Amount 65%, Radius 3, Threshold 2
• For general use: Amount 85% Radius 1, Threshold 4

Page 20: Hand Held Sharp - use continuous mode shooting and one shot should be
sharp

Page 27: Use a Canon Close-Up Lens for a macro lens. Put it on a 70-200 lens

Page 30: Black background use black velvet or black velour

Page 31: White background use white paper or white mounting board

Page 66: Shooting waterfalls, Switch to Shutter priority mode and set the shutter
speed to 1 or 2 full seconds. Shoot at dawn or just after sunset when there is much
less light or use a stop down filter

Page 70: Warmer Sunrises or Sunsets:

Step One:
Set your camera's white balance to Daylight.

Step Two:
In the menu on the LCD monitor, choose WB SHIFT/BKT (this is the white balance
correction menu) and then press the SET button to bring up the white balance
correction/white balance bracketing screen.

Step Three:
This screen features a grid where you can tweak the temperature of the currently
selected white balance.

Step Four:
Using the Multi-Controller (which works kind of like a joystick), move the little
square grid dot two clicks over toward A (Amber), which will warm up the Daylight
white balance.

Step Five:
Press the SET button to lock in your settings.

Note: By the way, if you ever want to reset the temperature back to its default
setting, just go back to the same screen (the white balance correction/white
balance bracketing screen) and move the little square grid dot back to the 0 (zero)
position in the center of the grid.

Page 75: Use a polarizing lens for landscapes and shooting water. Buy the best you
can afford.

Page 82: Shooting Panoramas.

• Shoot on tripod Vertically

• Switch WB to Cloudy
• Press shutter half way to set your exposure, then look in your viewfinder and
make note of the f-stop and shutter speed. Now switch to manual mode and
use those settings for each shot.
• Focus your first shot and then turn off Auto focus to keep the same focus for
all shots
• Overlap each shot by 20%
• Shoot fairly quickly
• Use a shutter release

Page 89: Use a 1.4x teleconverter for a cheap 400mm lens

Page 95: Sports photography use 1/640 or higher on shutter priority

Page 100: Raise ISO to get the 5.6 to work

Page 103: Sports photography use burst mode

Page 105: Shoot vertical for sports

Page 114: Portrait shots try and shoot around 100mm

Page 115: For portraits use F11 for the best sharpness and depth of the face

Page 116: Use seamless backgrounds

Page 126: Sunset portraits - Start by turning off your flash and aim at the sky. Then
hold your shutter button halfway down recompose the shot by aiming at your
subject, but now turn the flash on and reveal your subject with the light of the flash.

Page 127: Use a photoglex 22" circular collapsible reflectors with gold on one side
and silver on the other side
Page 160: Be ready shot use Program mode

Page 188: Color management get Eye-One display 2 from gretagmacbeth for 230
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Book two

Page 13: Drag the shutter to see more of the background. Set your camera to shoot
in program mode. Then, aim at your subject and hold the shutter button down
halfway so your camera takes a meter reading of the scene. Look in your viewfinder
and see the f-stop and shutter speed your camera chose to properly expose your
subject and remember those two numbers. Now switch to manual mode and dial in
those same two numbers. If the camera showed a shutter speed of 1/60 of a second
to drag the shutter you should need to use a slower shutter speed right? So try
lowering the shutter speed to 1/15 of a second and take the shot.

Page 21: Rear Sync use it

Page 23: Use gels

Page 24: Get the SI look. First you set the white balance on your camera to
Tungsten then pop a yellow gel on to your flash. Shoot near dusk so the background
sky is dark and moody.

Page 36: Use 107 inch seamless paper

Page 52: Always shoot in AP mode

Page 58: Use a reflector (silver) to get an extra light

Page 62: Super Saturated background colors. Use a black background and light it
with a flash with a gel on it

Page 64: Reflectors, use gold for outdoor, silver for studio.

Page 91: Always shoot with their shoulders turned this goes for everyone.

Page 169: For macro shooting turn auto focus off

Page 184: Remember WHIMS

• White balance check

• Highlight warnings turned on
• ISO check
• Mode check
• Size (image size)
Book Three

Page 17: Switch your camera to program mode, then hold expose this daylight shot.
Let's say it's 1/80 of a second at f/11. Switch to manual mode, and dial it in. Now to
make the scene darker you'd just change the f-stop to f/16 take a test shot and see
if it's dark enough. If not drop it down to f/22 and make another shot. now you turn
on your flash and light your subject.

Page 22: Shooting portraits use a light orange gel over the flash (CTO)

Page 66: Filters to use

• Neutral Density Gradient Filter - shooting landscapes

• Circular Polarizer lens - reduces glare
• UV filter

Page 116: Graduated Neutral Density Filter - use a large rectangular plastic one and
hold it up to the lens

Page 117-118: Shoot HDR Shoot on a tripod

• Turn on Auto exposure bracketing set number of shots to 5.

• Turn camera to burst mode
• Load shots into Program Photomatix Pro

Page 146: Shoot at 1/1000 for sports - to keep it at 1/1000 you need to set the ISO
speed to A by looking at the LCD panel and turning the main dial on top of your
camera.

Page 153: Auto Track the Action. On Canon it's called AL Servo AF and you turn it on
by pressing the AF-Drive button on the top of the camera and then turning the mail
dial until you see AI Servo in the top LCD panel.

Page 163: Rent Glass - lensprotogo.com

Page 200: Copyright your photos www.copyright.gov/eco/index.html

Page 225: Soccer shots:

• Shoot really low

• Use a wide lens like 14-24mm
• Use a off mount flash
• Switch to Program mode with flash off, aim at your subject hold the shutter
button halfway down and then look at the speed and fstop.
• Switch to manual mode put in that fstop and shutter speed turn the flash on
and put the power really low. Also use the orange gel over the flash head.