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• 2 - Confusing Terms >
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• 3 - Camera >
• 3.1 - Accessibility
• 3.2 - Focus
• 3.3 - Focus Problems
• 3.4 - Shutter Release
• 3.5 - Two Viewfinder Problems
• 3.6 - Select the File Format
• < 3.7 - Default Settings
• 3.7.1 - Introduction
• 3.7.2 - Change EV Stops & Display a Viewfinder Grid
• 3.7.3 - Automatic Focus Area Selection
• 3.7.4 - Light Meter
• 3.7.5 - Automatic ISO Increase
• 3.8 - Checklist
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• 4 - Computer >
• 4.1 - Transfer Your Photographs
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• Sections 5 to 8: Light >
• 5 - Light >
• 5.1 - Introduction
• 5.2 - Snow Analogy
• 5.3 - Sensitivity
• 5.4 - Encouragement
• 5.5 - Take a Pictute Out Your Window
• 5.6 - Take Pictures of a Newspaper
• 5.7 - Play with Light
• 5.8 - Watch an Old B&W Movie
• 5.9 - WYSINWYG
• 6 - Lighting Contrast >
• 6.1 - Introduction
• 6.2 - Detrimental Contrast
• 6.3 - Beneficial Contrast
• 6.4 - See Like Your Camera
• 6.5 - Averaging Doesn't Work
• 6.6 - Film, Curves, & Paper
• 6.7 - Change the Lighting
• 6.8 - Polarizing Filter
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• 7 - An Advanced Light Topic
• 8 - Light Summary
• Sections 9 to 15: Exposure >
• 9 - Exposure Introduction
• 10 - ISO
• 11 - Lens Opening
• 12 - Shutter Speed >
• 12.1 - Introduction
• 12.2 - Slow Shutter Speeds
• 12.3 - Shutter Speed Example
• 12.4 - Two Kinds of Blur
• 12.5 - Shutter Speed Resources
• 13 - Setting Exposure >
• 13.1 - The Light Meter
• 13.2 - More about Light Meters
• 13.3 - Exposure Modes
• 13.4 - Exposure Mode Icons
• 13.5 - Bracketing
• 13.6 - Exposure Compensation
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• 14 - The Language Called Stop >
• 14.1 - Introduction
• 14.2 - Definitions
• 14.3 - Example
• 14.4 - More Examples
• 14.5 - Three Countries
• 14.6 - Stop & ISO
• 14.7 - Stop & ISO Example
• 14.8 - Stop & Lens Opening
• 14.9 - Stop & Shutter Speed
• 14.10 - Trading Stops
• 14.11 - Moon Exercise
• 15 - Light Meters Are Stupid >
• 15.1 - Introduction
• 15.2 - The World Isn't 18% Gray
• 15.3 - Why Are Light Meters Stupid?
• 15.4 - Getting the Correct Exposure
• 15.5 - Be Careful with Backlighting
• Sections 16 to 21: More >
• 16 - Depth-of-field >
• 16.1 - Introduction
• 16.2 - Lens Opening
• 16.3 - Distance from Subject
• 16.4 - Sensor Size
• 16.5 - How to Get Less
• 16.6 - A Reason for Poor Backgrounds
• 16.7 - Depth-of-field Myth
• 16.8 - Diffraction
• 17 - Focal Length >
• 17.1 - MMS
• 17.2 - Odds & Ends
• 17.3 - Lens Factor
• 17.4 - Flare
• 17.5 - Volume & Background
• 17.6 - Portraits
• 18 - Filters >
• 18.1 - Introduction
• 18.2 - Clear
• 18.3 - Polarizing
• 18.4 - More about Polarizing Filters
• 18.5 - Graduated Neutral Density
• 19 - White Balance (WB) >
• 19.1 - Introduction
• 19.2 - Is AWB the Best Method?
• 20 - Composition >
• 20.1 - Introduction
• 20.2 - Guidelines
• 20.3 - The Frame
• 20.4 - Planes
• 20.5 - Other Factors
• 21 - Flash >
• 21.1 - Pros & Cons
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• Getting Started >
• 1 - Why This Book?
• 2 - What's a Way-of-working?
• 3 - Way-of-working: So What?
• 4 - Travel Guide for this Book
• 5 - Is This a Digital Photography book?
• You & Photography >
• 6 - Not Been a Student for Awhile?
• 7 - A New Identity
• 8 - Magic Pills
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• 10 - Harder & Harder
• 11 - Hierarchy of Dissatisfaction
• 12 - Do Think More
• 13 - Don't Think So Much
• 14 - The Above Two PATHways
• 15 - Mistakes
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• 17 - Down Time = Objectivity & Insight
• 18 - Dashed Expectation
• 19 - Credit
• 20 - Sole Authorship?
• 21 - Different Audiences
• The Photograph & You >
• 22 - What's a Good photograph?
• 23 - How Often Do Good photographs Occur?
• < 8 More Reasons for Good photographs
• 24.0 - Introduction
• 24.1 - Good Subject = Good Photograph?
• 24.2 - Equipment
• 24.3 - Technique
• 24.4 - Form
• 24.5 - Knowledge of Subject
• 24.6 - Knowledge of Self
• 24.7 - Surprise
• 24.8 - Light
• < Top 16 Reasons for Bad Photographs
• 25.0 - Introduction
• 25.1 - I Don't Have Enough Time
• 25.2 - Waiting for the Muse
• 25.3 - No Camera
• 25.4 - Buried Camera
• 25.5 - Pictures of Trip & Family
• 25.6 - Jumping from One-Thing-to-Another
• 25.7 - Not Doing a Larger Project
• 25.8 - Paying Attention to the Subject Only
• < Camera Vision v. Human Vision
• 25.9 - Part 1
• 25.10 - Part 2
• 25.11 - Using Program All the Time
• < Your Viewfinder Can Lie
• 25.12 - Part 1
• 25.13 - Part 2
• 25.14 - Bad Prints
• 25.15 - Photographs that Got Away
• 25.16 - Lack of Sensitivity to Light
• 26 - More about Light
• 27 - Snow Analogy
• < Sensitivity to Light
• 28.0 - Introduction
• 28.1 - Take a Picture Out Your Window
• 28.2 - Take a Picture of a Newspaper
• 28.3 - Play with Light
• 28.4 - Watch an Old B&W Film
• 28.5 - WYSINWYG
• 29 - More about Surprise
• 30 - Gesture
• 31 - A Place for Your Project
• 32 - Display Your Work
• Classic Themes in Photography >
• 33 - What's Art?
• 34 - Is Photography Art?
• 35 - Photographing Reality?
• 36 - Taking v. Making Photographs
• 37 - Purity
• Back to You >
• < Why Do Photography?
• 38.0 - Introduction
• 38.1 - Structure
• 38.2 - Rewards
• 38.3 - Example #1
• 38.4 - Example #2
• 39 - Write an Artist Statement
• 40 - Reasons for Good Photography
• < Woody Allen & the Six P's
• 41.0 - Introduction
• 41.1 - Passion
• 41.2 - Pliny
• 41.3 - Practice
• 41.4 - Persistence
• 41.5 - Patience
• 41.6 - Presentation
• 42 - Satan v. Venus
• 43 - Presentation
• < Fame, Guru-hood, Sales of Prints
• 44.0 - Introduction
• 44.1 - Age
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• 44.3 - Size & Quantity
• 44.4 - Effort
• 44.5 - Risk
• 44.6 - Time & Money
• 44.7 - Good Creation Story
• 44.8 - Innovate
• 44.9 - Bodies of Work
• 44.10 - Be Popular
• 44.11 - Be an Artist
• 44.12 - Ego
• 45 - Bulls--t Happens
• 46 - It- Why You're a Photographer
• 47 - More Resources
• 48 - Most Importantly ...
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• < Methods for Large Expanses
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• Combine 2 Exposures - Levels & the Eraser Tool
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• < Selecting Tones
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• Color Picking >
• 1 - Introduction
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• 4 - Anything on Your Screen
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• 1 - Overview
• 2 - Introduction
• 3 - Color Spaces
• 4 - Common Color Spaces
• 5 - Camera Color Spaces
• 6 - File Color Spaces
• 7 - Monitor Color Spaces
• 8 - Color Spaces & Photoshop Elements
• 9 - Printer Profiles
• 10 - Printer Profiles at Home
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• 12 - Rendering Intents