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    How to Improve Your Digital Photography Volume 1
    How to Improve Your Digital Photography Volume 1
    How to Improve Your Digital Photography Volume 1
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    How to Improve Your Digital Photography Volume 1

    By David Bigwood

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    This book is a compilation of a number of my e-books that have been published on individual topics. These include Introduction to Filters for Digital Photography, Black and White Photography in the Digital Age, and Optimize Your Portraits.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDavid Bigwood
    Release dateNov 9, 2013
    ISBN9781311884862
    How to Improve Your Digital Photography Volume 1
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    David Bigwood

    I am originally from the UK and am now a resident of the Snowy Mountains in New South Wales, Australia. I have been a regularly published writer and photographer for many years with many articles published in Australian Photography, Australian Camera and Better Photography (Australia). My work has appeared in well over sixty publications, mainly in Australia and the UK. I also founded and edited The Black and White Enthusiast magazine when I represented the UK publisher Creative Monochrome in Australia. This magazine was eventually sold and has since become Silvershotz. I also wrote a column on freelancing for the UK magazine F2 Freelance + Digital and have interviewed a number of leading photographers including Charlie Waite, considered the doyen of landscape photographers in the UK. I have qualified as a Licentiate of the Royal Photographic Society (LRPS) with a panel of black and white prints and am a former member of the Australian Society of Authors. My photographs are licensed through Alamy for use in publications. I am a former editor of the Journal of the Australian Photographic Society. I am happy to do my best to answer reader's questions (d.bigwood@bigpond.com).

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      How to Improve Your Digital Photography Volume 1 - David Bigwood

      How to Improve Your Digital Photography

      Making and Processing your Images

      Volume 1

      David Bigwood, LRPS

      Published by Bigwoodpublishing.com at Smashwords

      Copyright 2013 David Bigwood

      Smashwords Edition, Licence Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal use only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Table of Contents

      About the Author

      Introduction

      Histogram

      Exposure

      Filters

      Combination Processing

      Black and White

      Duotone

      Black and White Variations

      Portrait Processing

      Contact

      NB: This book is a compilation of a number of my e-books that have been published on individual topics. These include Introduction to Filters for Digital Photography, Black and White Photography in the Digital Age, and Optimize Your Portraits. How to do Well in Competitions, Into the Light, How to Show Movement in Still Photography, Starting Macro Photography, and Starting Nature Photography are available in Volume 2.

      About the Author

      David Bigwood is a regularly published writer and photographer with his work having been used in well over fifty different publications, mainly in Australia and the United Kingdom.

      He is a Licentiate of the Royal Photographic Society and a member of the Australian Society of Authors.

      For three years he was a columnist on freelancing for the UK magazine F2 Freelance and Digital. He has written regularly for Australian Photography and has written for Australian Camera and Better Photography.

      He founded and edited The Black and White Enthusiast magazine (later Silvershotz) and was sometime editor of the Journal of the Australian Photography Society.

      He has images with Alamy, the on-line photography library.

      He also has pictures in private collections in Australia, Canada and England.

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      Introduction

      There are very few photographs whether captured on film or a sensor that need no processing to achieve their optimum. Before the old hands point out that when using transparency (slide) film there was nothing you could do once it had been developed, I would remind them that in those days we tended to bracket our shots by shooting a number of varying exposures of the same subject so that we had a good chance of one of them being right.

      Even Ansel Adams used to dodge or burn parts of his iconic black and white negatives when printing in his darkroom.

      And, why is this processing necessary? The picture may not be as we remembered it when we pressed the shutter button, or we may have got the exposure not quite right. I could have said we got it ‘wrong’ but ‘not quite right’ sounds much better! And, digital images, even from the most expensive cameras do need subtle improvements such as sharpness and contrast if nothing else.

      Having said that, do try to get as much as you can correct in camera as it will save a lot of time sitting in front of a computer when you could be out making more pictures.

      And getting it right in camera with a histogram to help you is a great deal easier than when you had to rely on a hand held exposure meter and your expertise to set the exposure.

      So, let’s start with that. Why the histogram

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