A Short Course in Digital Photography

For introductory, one-semester courses devoted to digital photography. The London, Upton, Stone series has helped over 1,000,000 photography students capture their potential.      After a very successful first edition, this second edition returns with the most up-to-date industry knowledge. Modeled after the long-running and widely used A Short Course in Photography, a brief text which presents the medium entirely in its most updated form.

Table of Contents:
1 Camera 2 Getting Started Getting your camera ready 4 Focusing and setting the exposure 6 Exposure readout 7  Exposing images 8 What will you photograph? 9   Types of Cameras 10   Basic Camera Controls 12   More about Camera Controls 14   Inside a digital single-lens reflex camera 15 Shutter Speed Affects light and motion 16   Use it creatively 18   Aperture Affects light and depth of field 20   Use it creatively 22 Shutter Speed and Aperture Blur vs. depth of field 24   Getting the Most from Your Camera and Lens 26 2 Lens 28 Lens Focal Length The basic difference between lenses 30   Normal Focal Length The most like human vision 32   Long Focal Length Telephoto lenses 34   Short Focal Length Wide-angle lenses 36   Zoom, Macro, and Fisheye Lenses 38   Focus and Depth of Field 40   Automatic Focus 41 Depth of Field Controlling sharpness in a photograph 42   More about Depth of Field How to preview it 44   Perspective How a photograph shows depth 46   Lens Attachments Close-ups and Filters 48 3 Light and Exposure 50 Sensor and Pixels 52   Pixels and Resolution 53   Color in Photography 54 White Balance 55   Using Histograms 56   Exposure Meters What different types do 58   How to calculate and adjust an exposure manually 60 Overriding an Automatic Exposure Camera 62   Making an Exposure of an Average Scene 64   Exposing Scenes that are Lighter or Darker than Average 66   Backlighting 68   Exposing Scenes with High Contrast 69 HDR High dynamic range 70 4 The Digital Darkroom 72 Equipment and Materials You’ll Need 74   Pictures Are Files 75   Digital Color Modes, gamuts, spaces, and profiles 76   Channels 77   Calibrating for accuracy 78   Working with Camera Raw 79   Setting up a Workflow Stay organized 80   Workflow programs: Aperture and Lightroom 81   Importing an Image 82   Scanning 83 5 Image Editing 84 Getting Started Editing an Image 86   Adjusting an Image Levels 88 Curves 90   Adjusting Part of an Image Selections 92   More Techniques Layers 94   Retouching 96   Sharpening 98   Compositing 100   Color into black and white 102   Filters 103   An Editing Workflow 104   Ethics and Digital Imaging 106 6 Printing and Display 108 Printers and Drivers 110   Papers and Inks 111   Soft Proofing 112 Panoramic Photographs 113   Presenting Your Work Framing 114   Matting a print 115   Mounting a Print Equipment and materials you’ll need 116   Dry Mounting a Print Step by Step 118   Bleed Mounting/Overmatting 120 7 Organizing and Storing 122 Image Storage 124   Using Metadata 125   Software for Organizing 126 Archiving Images and Prints 127 8 Lighting 128 Qualities of Light From direct to diffused 130   Existing Light Use what’s available 132   The Main Light The strongest source of light 134   Fill Light To lighten shadows 136   Simple Portrait Lighting 138   Using Artificial Light Photolamp or flash 140   More about Flash How to position it 142 Using Flash 144 9 Seeing Like a Camera 146 What’s in the Picture The edges or frame 148   The background 150   Focus Which parts are sharp 152   Time and Motion in a Photograph 154   Depth in a Picture Three dimensions become two 156   Chaos becomes order 157   Photographing for Meaning 158   Portraits Informal: Finding them 160   Formal: Setting them up 162   Photographing the Landscape 164   Photographing the Cityscape 166   Photographing Inside 168 Responding to Photographs 170 10 History of Photography 172 Daguerrotype “Designs on silver bright” 174   Calotype Pictures on paper 176 Collodion Wet-Plate Sharp and reproducible 177   Gelatin Emulsion/Roll-Film Base Photography for everyone 178   Color Photography 179   Early Portraits 180   Early Travel Photography 182   Early Images of War 183 Time and Motion in Early Photographs 184   The Photograph as Document 185   Photography and Social Change 186   Photojournalism 188 Photography as Art in the 19th Century 192   Pictorial Photography and the Photo-Secession 193   The Direct Image in Art 194   The Quest for a New Vision 195   Photography as Art in the 1950s and 1960s 196   Photography as Art in the 1970s and 1980s 198   Digital Photography Predecessors 200 Becomes Mainstream 202 How to Learn More 204   Troubleshooting 205   Photographers’ Web Sites 210   Glossary 212   Bibliography 216   Photo Credits 217   Index 218

About the Author :
Jim Stone is an Associate Professor of Photography at the University of New Mexico. His photographs have been collected by the Museum of Modern Art and The Smithsonian American Art Museum, among many others. Books of his work include Stranger Than Fiction (Light Work, 1993),Historiostomy (Piltdown Press, 2001), and Why My Pictures are Good (Nazraeli Press, 2005). He has also published six higher education titles that are widely used in university courses: A User¹s Guide to the View Camera, Darkroom Dynamics, Photography, Photography: The Essential Way, A Short Course in Photography, and A Short Course in Digital Photography. Barbara London has authored and co-authored many photography books from their first editions to their current ones, including Photography, Photography: The Essential Way, A Short Course in Photography, A Short Course in Digital Photography, The Photograph Collector's Guide, and more.