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    Beginners Guide to your DSLR: Getting off Auto
    Beginners Guide to your DSLR: Getting off Auto
    Beginners Guide to your DSLR: Getting off Auto
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    Beginners Guide to your DSLR: Getting off Auto

    By Giovanna Tucker

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    Beginners Guide to your DSLR - Getting off Auto is a practical guide to help you get off Auto on your DSLR and take stunning photos straight away.

    You will be given simple settings for your camera for each technique that will help you get started immediately!

    You will learn How To...
    ...take perfect Beach photos
    ...photograph Light Trails
    ...take HDR pictures
    ...perfect the Zoom Burst technique
    ...use White Balance with your photos
    ...perfect your Snow photos
    ...use the Rule of Thirds to dramatically improve your photos
    ...photograph Portraits
    ...capture Fireworks
    ...learn Panning
    ...capture Cityscapes and Landscapes
    ...learn Composition tricks to make your photos stand out
    ...how to capture Architecture
    ...and much much more!!

    Also included are some computer tutorials for taking photos of panoramas and changing your image to black and white while leaving a splash of colour.

    This guide should have you taking stunning photos within minutes of reading it!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGiovanna Tucker
    Release dateMar 27, 2012
    ISBN9781476160153
    Beginners Guide to your DSLR: Getting off Auto
    Author

    Giovanna Tucker

    Giovanna Tucker is originally from Christchurch, New Zealand. She has been living and working in London, England for the last five years.She first arrived in the UK in 2006, planning to use London as a base to travel around Europe.Photography and travelling have always been her two main passions and the stunning vistas from countries around the world have inspired much of Giovanna's body of work.Her photos have been used in magazine articles, websites, travel and tourism guides, books, blogs and even wine labels!You can find more of her pictures at: www.exploretravelphotography.com

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      Beginners Guide to your DSLR - Giovanna Tucker

      Getting your first DSLR or SLR is a very exciting time. I remember getting mine and thinking how amazing my photos were now going to be. I had been travelling with a point and shoot camera and couldn’t wait to test my new DSLR.

      I was in St Tropez with a couple of girls from the hostel I was staying in. We were taking the boat back to the mainland and there was an amazing sunset. I picked my camera up and started to snap away, but when I looked at the images they were terrible: all washed out and boring, nowhere near as striking as the spectacle we were seeing. One of the other girls had a point and shoot; she switched it on to sunset mode and was getting amazing oranges and pink. My photos remained dull, with no colours at all!

      It took me a while to work out what I was doing wrong? I was supposed to have a better camera than theirs, but my photos were terrible and drab in comparison.

      The reason my pictures were not coming out properly was because I was using AUTO.

      SLR’s are great and let you take control, but you need to get off your AUTO setting to get the full potential out of the camera.

      Now my sunsets are vibrant, full of reds, blues, oranges and yellows. I know exactly what my settings should be and have learnt the most important thing I have to do to enable the striking colours to show through (all in this eBook).

      You may have encountered the same problem as me, you may have solved it and are still struggling to get the right pictures. In this eBook I will give you the settings to start with so you can feel comfortable taking photos straight away in a variety of situations. Once you start playing around (having read what I have to say and using my starting settings) I guarantee you will be taking better photos.

      So what are we waiting for, let’s get started!

      The Time of Day

      The thing that separates Photographers from tourists, stunning pictures from holiday snaps, is the time of day you shoot.

      Anybody can go to the Houses of Parliament in London and take a photograph of the building. Normally what they will end up with is a snapshot. Typically, being London, it will be cloudy and a little grey, perhaps it’s raining. Even in these conditions it is still possible to take a striking photo, an image that's a little bit different from everybody else's. You can achieve this by taking the picture during one of four times towards the end of the day; the golden hour; sunset/sunrise; twilight or night.

      For me nothing beats twilight. I love the time of day when the sun has just gone down, the sky is full of blues and the lights of the buildings are evenly balanced to the sky. I can be in a location where it has been pouring with rain all day and I can still be guaranteed amazing photos at twilight. By changing your camera settings from White Balance to Tungsten you will make your twilight photos stand out even more, but I will go into more detail later in this eBook.

      Others say you can’t beat sunrise and sunset, with the sky full of wonderful colours and they have a point! If you get up for sunrise, you are bound to beat the crowds, have more of the location to yourself and be more flexible with the angle you can go for.

      Below is a summary of these 4 times of the day so that you can decide which you would like to try first.

      Houses of Parliament, London, Twilight, Tungsten White Balance, 30 Seconds

      Golden Hour

      This is considered the best time to take photos, because the sun is low and not as harsh as it is in the middle of the day. This softer light places a warm glow over the scene you are capturing. There is less contrast, shadows are less pronounced and highlights are less likely to be over exposed. It is the perfect time to take portraits and land/cityscape shots.

      Sunset / Sunrise

      As the sun sets the sky is filled with lovely colours; oranges; blues; pinks and yellows. The light is beautiful and diffused. The scene is calming and lovely to watch. The sun is low and it is the perfect time to photograph it.

      Twilight

      The sun has just dipped below the horizon, filling the sky with gorgeous blues and possibly a spot of orange and yellow! Cityscapes really stand out at this time as artificial light from buildings and streetlamps, mix with the blue of the sky to result in a perfect exposure.

      Night

      When the residue of the sunset is no longer in the sky and the clouds are barely visible it is a great time for long exposures, particularly for cityscapes.

      If you Google twilight calculator, you can find a calculator that will give you the exact times for the city you need so you don’t have to guess. For example I just put in London, UK and, knowing that it’s almost winter, this was the result:

      Golden hour starts at 3.30pm

      Sunset is at 4.22pm

      Twilight ends at 4.58pm

      Night is after 4.58pm

      The Moon is up at 3.24pm and will be down at 5.47am

      So this should give you a bit of a guide as to the timings of the different stages.

      Below is a guide to the manual settings and features of your camera. You will need to understand these before I give you my recommended settings to start from for each

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