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John and Barbara Gerlach, the founders of Gerlach Nature Photography.
Key Features:
- Follow-up to bestselling 1st edition
- Completely updated to reflect all recent technological and artistic changes in the field
- Highly respected professional nature photographers, John and Barbara Gerlach, share their tips and tricks learned during their 40 years of nature photography.
- Beautifully designed book is packed with gorgeous full page images of the most interesting subjects found in nature.
- Gerlachs' unique and easy to understand teaching style has helped over 3000 students learn their photography techniques through year-round seminars and workshops – with more being added every year to meet the rising demand.
Identifying a beautiful image in nature is easy, but capturing it is often challenging. To truly seize the essence of a photograph shot out of the studio and in the world requires an artistic eye and impeccable set of photographic techniques. John and Barbara Gerlach have been teaching photographers how to master the craft of photographing nature and the outdoors through their workshops and best-selling books for more than twenty years. ?Now, equipped with brand new images to share and skills to teach, this celebrated photo team is sharing their latest lessons in the second edition of
Digital Nature Photography.
Notable revisions in this new edition include introducing the concepts of focus stacking and HDR, as well as expanded discussions of multiple exposure, wireless flash, RGB histograms, live view, shutter priority with auto ISO, hand-held shooting techniques, and the author’s equipment selections. The inspiring imagery in this book covers a broader range of subjects than before including ghost towns, the night sky, animals, and sports, in addition to the classic nature photographs we expect from this very talented author team. This book is a comprehensive guide to one of the broadest subjects in photography, explained and dymystified by two respected masters.
"The beauty of this book is that you can learn from the extensive advice given so when you are standing in one of those must-capture moments, with a colourful sky, endangered animal, or hovering bird of prey, you have all the tools at your disposal to give capturing the perfect shot your very best go." -
Zoe Homes, Shutterhub.com
"Without doubt if you are new to nature photography, investing the price of this book will more than likely pay for itself in what you save by guiding a judicious purchase strategy – if not, you can still enjoy the pictures!" -
Professional Imagemaker
"This is a book that covers the many details and techniques that will advance the abilities of new photographers especially, and is an excellent review for those that are doing well but still want to improve." -
Noella Ballenger, Apogee Photo
Contents:
Introduction
- Camera and Accessories
- Popular Camera Systems
- Key Camera Features
- Sensor Size
- Camera Batteries
- Memory Options
- Protecting the Camera
- Choosing and Using Lenses
- Lens Makers
- How Lenses Work
- Image-stabilization
- Lens Choices
- Mastering Exposure
- Exposure guideline summary
- Exposure Basics
- Understanding the Exposure Meter
- Conquer Extreme Contrast with HDR
- What is HDR?
- Shooting Sharp Images
- Hand-held techniques
- Tripod Techniques
- Avoid adding Extra Glass to the optical path
- Optimum apertures
- Focusing strategies
- Focus Stacking for Incredible Depth of Field
- What it does
- The Crucial Role of Light
- The Magic of Light
- The Qualities of Light
- Close-ups and Macro
- Definition of the two
- Ways to Focus Close
- Getting Sharp Images
- Ideal Close-up Light
- The Power of Flash
- Flash
- Flash Sync Speed
- Using Multiple Flash
- Developing Your Eye for Composition
- Composition-a definition
- Composition Guidelines
- Stunning Panoramas
- Opportunities
- Traveling with Camera Gear
- Camera bags
- The Equipment We Use
- Camera gear
- Office Gear
Sources
Author's previous publications include
- Digital Nature Photography, The Art and the Science
- Digital Landscape Photography
- Digital Wildlife Photography
- Close Up Photography in Nature
