Oct 25

David Busch's Quick Snap Guide to Using Digital SLR Lenses

Are you ready to go beyond the basics with your digital SLR camera but are unsure which interchangeable lens or two to buy and more importantly, how and when to use each lens? “David Busch?s Quick Snap Guide to Using Digital SLR Lenses” offers focused, concise information and techniques on how to use different lenses to take great photographs. You?ll begin with a quick overview of how lenses work and the types of lenses available, including normal, telephoto, wide-angle, prime, and zoom. Then you?ll explore typical lens controls and features such as focus rings, depth-of-field scales, and image stabilization, and how particular settings can help improve your photography. Once you have the basics down you?ll learn how to create cool effects using lens filters and accessories, and how to select the best lens aperture for particular types of photos. Finally, you?ll go in-depth with telephoto, wide-angle, and macro lenses. Each topic or concept is explained using a clear (more…)

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Aug 09

The Nikon Creative Lighting System: Using the SB-600, SB-800, SB-900, and R1C1 Flashes

Flash photography, especially advanced light modeling with modern iTTL flash systems, has become an art by itself, which should be mastered by every aspiring amateur photographer – and even professionals are often helpless when it comes to using the full potential of these systems. Many photographers are already well versed in photography but don’t have a clue about flash photography. It is a brand new world, so the book starts at a basic level and then moves up from there so that advanced users also gain insight. The book shows a simple, step by step method for setting up and using the newest Nikon iTTL flash units. It solves people’s frustrations with flash and specifically, shows them how to use their SB-900, SB-800 and SB-600 strobes. It also has a complete chapter showing system configuration so readers can duplicate the photos on their own. The book teaches everything you want to know about using Nikon’s iTTL flash system. It shows all the steps required to set (more…)

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