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100 Ways to Make Good Photos Great Peter Cope

100 Ways to Make Good Photos Great By Peter Cope

100 Ways to Make Good Photos Great by Peter Cope


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100 ideas for turning your good photos into great ones. A practical accessible guide that includes inspirational examples of great photos and compares them with average images, with easy to follow tips and techniques, so you can achieve the same results. Covers portraits, events, landscapes, indoors, travels, night and low light photography.

100 Ways to Make Good Photos Great Summary

100 Ways to Make Good Photos Great: Tips and techniques for improving your digital photography by Peter Cope

Discover 100 ideas for turning your good photos into great ones. This is a practical and accessible guide that includes inspirational examples of great photographs and compares and contrasts these with more average images. This, along with easy to follow tips and techniques, will show you how easy it easy to achieve the same results.

100 Ways to Make Good Photos Great covers all of the key photographic genres - capturing the perfect portraits, shooting social photography, photographing the outdoors, indoor photography, taking great photos of your holidays and travels, and shooting night and low light photography - as well as getting the very best from your shots through creating portfolios and presentations.

Now that most people have a camera or camera phone, the term 'point and shoot' has become ever prevalent. However, sometimes we will want something more than good snapshots. 100 Ways to Make Good Photos Great will show you ways, often simple and fun ways, to create great photos that will be more emotive and meaningful to you.

Cutting through the mystique in photography, whether you are an aspirational amateur wanting to make your photographs even better, or an enthusiastic beginner who just wants to produce more satisfying results, this practical guide offers useful professional tips and techniques to take your photography to the next level.

About Peter Cope

Peter Cope is an experienced photographer and author. His interests in digital technology began at university where he worked on the development of electronic assemblies - image photon counting systems - that would ultimately lead to the imaging sensors used in today's digital cameras. Peter has lectured extensively on photographic and digital subjects and his work has appeared in a number of magazines in the UK and the US, including What Digital Camera, Total Digital Photography and Digital Pro. He lives in Bristol.

Table of Contents

1. WHAT A PICTURE! : What turns a snap into a photograph?

Creating well balanced and structured images

Developing an Eye for Composition

Looking around the viewfinder

Rules of composition - and how to use and abuse them

Keeping things on the level

When all else fails... Adjusting compositions digitally

Cropping for creative impact

Mastering the technique: Pictures within Pictures

Page out: Did I really shoot that? Typical compositional faux pas

2. THE PERFECT PORTRAIT

The Perfect Portrait: the key elements from setting up through to printing, taking in formal, informal and candid portraiture

Making a good portrait brilliant

After the event: Retouching of skin tones, wrinkles etc

Lighting the portrait in the field

Quick tips on composition

Pro tips for great portraits

High and low key effects

Mastering the technique:: Adding Character

3. GETTING THE MOST FROM EVENTS & CELEBRATIONS

Exploding the Myths and Mystique.

Planning

Establishing a Theme

Dos and Don'ts

Presentation

Mastering the technique: Creative Candids and Cutaways

4. A TRIP TO THE COUNTRYSIDE: BECOME A LANDSCAPE EXPERT

Building on the foundations of composition, discover how to take great landscape shots, with classical and contemporary approaches

A Sense of Scale

The Sweeping Vista vs. Meaningful Details

Mood

Panoramas, Collages & Joiners

Page Out Quick Project: Homage to Hockney: The Joiner

5. MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR HOLIDAY AND TRAVELLING

Holidays and travel are great excuses to take lots of photographs. Add a little thought and planning and you can achieve results that are leagues apart from those of the casual holiday snapper.

The Secrets of Success

Shortcuts and Cheats to Great Travel Photography

The Stock Shot vs. the Novel Approach

Capturing Atmosphere

Mastering the technique: Travelling in the Real World

6. WHEN IT'S RAINING OUTSIDE: STILL LIFE IN THE STUDIO

Forget the fruit bowl, staple of the oil painter, still life photography includes everything from photographing collections and hobbies through to close up and macrophotography.

The Impromptu Studio

Controlling the Environment

The Staged Set

Product shots

Macro and Microphotography

Mastering the technique: A Matter of Support

7. GOING TO EXTREMES: LOW LIGHT AND NIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY

As night falls most photographers put their cameras away. Shame. Evening and night make for some of the best in photographic images

Techniques for low light photography

Colour and the Fading Light

Sunset and Sunrise: Shoot the beauty, avoid the Cliche

Night and Astrophotography

Page Out Quick Project: Theatre and the Arts

Mastering the technique: Cities and Cityscapes

8. IMAGE PORTFOLIOS AND COLLECTIONS

Photographs are designed to be seen. In this rounding-off section we look at how to effectively enjoy, share and promote your photography

All About Presentation

Printing Masterclass

Image Storage and Archiving

Traditional and Contemporary Image Delivery

Exploiting the World Wide Web

9. RESOURCES

Classified Glossary

Further Explorations

Bibliography etc

Additional information

GOR006345837
9781446303009
1446303004
100 Ways to Make Good Photos Great: Tips and techniques for improving your digital photography by Peter Cope
Used - Very Good
Paperback
David & Charles
2013-07-01
144
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