Digital Black & White Photography ~ Paperback ~ David Taylor

This new series of "The Expanded Guides" focuses on photographic techniques to give you a comprehensive grounding in the subject and also takes you a step further to enable you to get much more from your photography. Professional photographers give expert advice and useful hints and tips, using practical examples of techniques for clarity, all illustrated in full colour with the aid of clear diagrams and charts. This book gives advice on how to shoot black and white images on today's sophisticated digital SLR and compact digital cameras. Aimed at both the novice and less experienced amateur, jargon-free text explains the theory behind digital photography, along with a guide to the equipment and software needed to take outstanding images. From the basics of exposure and good composition to file types, manipulating captured images using popular software and applying special effects, there are a number of projects for photographing people, landscapes, architecture and animals.Author BiographyDavid Taylor is an award-winning landscape and travel photographer. His work has taken him all over the world, but away from his photographic career David lives on an exposed hill, overlooking the market town of Hexham in Northumberland.