The Digital Photographers Guide To Filters

Today’s photographer is faced with an overwhelming number of choices when it comes to using digital-camera and computer-based filtration. Help is here in this comprehensive overview. It provides the lowdown on how digital cameras respond to traditional photographic filters and which filters are the most useful to own. Photoshop filters and third-party plug-ins are explored. Learn to improve color rendition, create traditional filter effects, and more in the computer. Filters have always been the most important tools in a photographer’s creative arsenal. Here is everything you need to know to master the use of photographic filters in the digital age.

The most comprehensive, updated resource on using optical and digital filters to create stunning effects Whether you're shooting nature, wedding, portrait, landscape, or any other type of photography, filters are indispensable tools for bringing images closer to the way our eyes actually perceived the scene in real life, as well as for creating unique mood and color effects. In Mastering Filters for Photography, author CHRIS WESTON covers everything you need to know about the range of optical and digital filter options, showing you how to use them to master contrast, intensity, color, tone, and for creative special effects. Filled with more than 300 images from master photographers, before-and-after shots, and step-by-step instructions, Mastering Filters for Photography is the one book you'll need to make filters an essential part of your photographic arsenal.

In this guide for the modern photographer, Ross Hoddinott explains when and how to use traditional hardware filters on your camera and how to achieve the same effects with software instead - as well as a wealth of other digital filter-effects that were impossible on film.

Combing technique and creativity, this comprehensive review provides a detailed survey of filters and their applications, including tips on special-effect filters and on filter maintenance.

An Advanced Guide to Digital Photography aims to unravel the complex world of digital imaging whilst also focusing on the images themselves. The time-honoured basics of composition, line and form remain fundamental but the new techniques, tools and materials of digital photography allow far greater control and expression then ever before. This book, the fourth in the Digital Photography series, is ideal for the enthusiast or professional, not just for the inspirational ideas it contains but as a source of reference for the future, when new approaches are sought or older ones revisited. This book will prove invaluable for anyone wishing to develop their skills from an intermediate level in digital photography and image processing to a semi-professional or professional level. For those seeking further creative inspiration for their work, it shares the techniques and tricks of the trade used to create stunning images. As well as tackling the equipment and technique necessary to master the advanced digital workflow and capture and edit the shot, the book she features contributions from recoghised digital 'masters' sharing the secrets of their expertise across a diverse range of photographic genres. The book is illustrated with images, diagrams and screengrabs that elucidate the photographer's technical and creative processes. Book jacket.

Digital photography gives us an entirely new set of tools for controlling light and color, and other for altering or enhancing image elements. Joseph Meehan makes this process understandable by exploring a variety of traditional optical filters, new electronic camera controls, and filter software that will take your photography to the next level. Learn the fundamentals of working with light, from altering contrast to manipulation color. You'll also discover how software expands your options, and how using traditional optics such as polarizers and neutral density filters can not only create an improved image file, but also save you processing time after capture.

This guide to using filters in photography covers colour and black and white film. Beginners can learn what filters are available and how to use them successfully. More experienced photographers will find this book a source of true inspiration.

Cameras can capture what the eye can’t perceive: the presence of infrared light. And shooting infrared (IR) with a digital camera makes it easier than ever to create distinctively dreamlike, high-contrast black-and-white pictures. Using a wealth of stunning images, this thorough resource explores the technical and creative possibilities of this unique and increasingly popular medium. Get tips on focus and exposure; IR filters; and having a camera converted to shoot specifically in infrared. Follow instructions for processing and printing the photos--including toner effects and faux color. One glance through this guide and it’s clear why infrared pictures are fun to take and beautiful to look at.

A comprehensive guide to filters for digital photographers examines both hardware and software filters to provide a deeper understanding of the applications of various filter systems, covering such basic camera filters as color correction, monochrome, polarizing and diffusion, and explaining how such filters can be applied using such image manipulation software as Photoshop and the effects that can be produced.

Furnishes an overview of digital photography, covering such topics as cameras, exposure, lighting, shutter speed, depth of field, and resolution--and tips on how to avoid hours of photo-editing by taking great photographs the first time.