How Digital Photography Works

Ron White - Collection How It Works

226 pages, parution le 11/04/2007

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A full-color, illustrated adventure into the high-tech wonders inside your digital camera by the author/illustrator team that created the bestselling How Computers Work.

With clear and simple explanations that say, "You, too, can understand this," and brilliant, full-color illustrations, How Digital Photography Works, Second Edition, gives you detailed information on the hidden workings of digital cameras, professional picture-taking techniques, and even photo-editing software. Some of the topics covered in this groundbreaking book include:

How Digital Viewfinders Frame Your Pictures
How Twin Lens Cameras and Tilt-and-Shift Lenses Change the Rules
How Cameras Focus on Moving Targets
How Exposure Systems Balance Aperture and Shutter
How Electronic Flashes Create a Burst of Light
How Studio Lighting Creates a Perfect Lighting Environment
How Color Calibration Makes What You See on the Screen Match What You See on Paper
How Your Camera's Microprocessor Manipulates Images
How Photoshop Expands a Photographer's Artistry

L'auteur - Ron White

Ron White is a senior editor at PC Computing where he writes the CD-Ron and Net Kahuna columns. Founder of one of the earliest PC user groups, he has been writing about computers for 15 years, and is the author of two other books, How Software Works and How Anyone Can Fix and Rev Up PCs. The second edition of How Computers Work won an award for best non-fiction computer book from the Computer Press Association. Timothy Downs is a long-time artist with Ziff Davis Publications. He currently illustrates for PCComputing and has been illustratior for the popular How It Works stories there. He is the original artist for the first edition of How Computers Work.

Sommaire

Getting to Know Digital Cameras
- The Workings of a Digital Camera
- Inside Digital Video Cameras
How Digital Cameras Capture Images
- How Lenses Work
- How Light Plays Tricks on Perception
- How Digital Exposure Sifts, Measures, and Slices Light
- How Technology Lets There Be Light
- How Light Becomes Data
- How New Tech Changes Photography
How the Digital Darkroom Works
- How Software Changes Pixels by the Numbers
- How Digital Retouching Rescues Family Heirlooms
- How the Digital Darkroom Makes Good Photos into Great Fantasies
How Digital Print-Making Works
- How Computers and Printers Create Photographs
- How Photo-Quality Printers Work

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Que
Auteur(s)	Ron White
Collection	How It Works
Parution	11/04/2007
Nb. de pages	226
Format	20,5 x 25,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	576g
Intérieur	Quadri
EAN13	9780789736307
ISBN13	978-0-7897-3630-7