How to Photograph Absolutely Everything: Successful Pictures from Your Digital Camera

Tom Ang

Dorling Kindersley, Jan 19, 2009 - Photography - 384 pages

Learn from Tom Ang how to capture fleeting memories forever - including beautiful scenes, celebrations and your baby's smile - in exquisite digital photographs.

Award-winning professional photographer Tom Ang shows how to choose the best camera and learn how to adjust its settings to control exposure, zoom, and brightness. He explains how to light and frame your subject and cope with issues such as poor light conditions or a moving subject. Checklists for each shot tell you what camera mode and lens setting to use, with insider know-how, such as using the flash in bright light to reduce shadows.

Photography can lead you to unexpected beauty in places such as a city street, a fruitmonger's stall, or reflections in the water. Tom Ang guides your eye, showing you how to take stunning images. He describes how to take characterful portraits, dramatic silhouettes, and intriguing close-ups. Plus he gives valuable tips on taking for selling items online or documenting a project.

Illustrated throughout with Tom Ang's own inspirational images, How to Photograph Absolutely Everything is your one-stop guide to enjoying photography and creating unforgettable images.

About the author

Tom Ang is the author of more than 30 books, both in print and digital media. He serves as a juror on international competitions and was senior lecturer in photographic practices at the University of Westminster, London, for more than 12 years. Tom has also worked as a technical editor for specialty photography magazines and has won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award for his photographic coverage of the Marco Polo Expedition.

Bibliographic information

• Title: How to Photograph Absolutely Everything: Successful Pictures from Your Digital Camera
• Author: Tom Ang
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Dorling Kindersley, 2009
• ISBN: 0756643082, 9780756643089
• Length: 384 pages
• Subjects: Photography / General; Photography / Reference; Photography / Techniques / Digital; Photography / Techniques / Equipment; Photography / Techniques / General