If you're a passionate photographer and you're ready to take your work
to the next level, The Enthusiast's Guide book series was created just
for you.
Whether you're diving head first into a new topic or exploring a classic
theme, Enthusiast's Guides are designed to help you quickly learn more
about a topic or subject so that you can improve your photography. These
handy books don't waste your time covering all the photography basics
you already know. Instead, they build on that knowledge so you can
quickly advance your photography skills.
The Enthusiast's Guide to Multi-Shot Techniques: 49 Photographic
Principles You Need to Know addresses what you need to know in order to
shoot compelling images that require multiple exposures. Chapters are
broken down into a series of numbered lessons, with each lesson
providing all you need to improve your photography. In this book, which
is divided into five chapters that include 49 photographic principles to
help you create great images, photographer and author Alan Hess covers
double exposures, high dynamic range (HDR) images, panoramas, time lapse
images, focus stacking, and image stacking. Example lessons include:
- Using a Flash to Create Double Exposures
- Double Exposure Portraits
- Tripod, Release, and Mirror Lockup
- What Is Tone-Mapping?
- The Need to Overlap Your Panoramas
- Handholding for Panoramas
- Software Settings for Image Stacking
- Focus Stacking in Landscape Photography
- Exposure Settings for Time Lapse
- Doing the Math for Time Lapse Sequences
Written in a friendly and approachable manner and illustrated with
examples that drive home each lesson, The Enthusiast's Guide to
Multi-Shot Techniques is designed to be effective and efficient,
friendly and fun. Read an entire chapter at once, or read just one topic
at a time. With either approach, you'll quickly learn a lot so you can
head out with your camera to capture great shots.
