The various chapters in the book covers everything from developing an eye for a suitable scene, practices to adopt to various light conditions and technique of pressing the shutter button to using a histogram— and everything in-between.The treatment is conceptual so that you are enabled to use the camera as a tool of your expression. \nAmong other things this book will:\n Dissect the concept of exposure down to its basics, so you can give free rein to your creative options.\n Demystify auto focus, so fundamentals quickly reach their stage of implementation.\n Explain depth of field and how you can use exposure to play it up. \n Teach you how and why it is necessary to sometimes blur a background in order to draw the viewer’s attention to the sharp image in the foreground, or simply mix and match the two for a generic shot. \n Explain how to manipulate shutter speed to freeze fast-moving subjects in their tracks or how to create a blur to imply and accentuate motion for a greater effect in your picture.\n Discuss why and which metering mode you should use, exposure compensation and bracketing. \n Explain how to identify and contemplate a picture.\n Discuss the rules and concepts of composition.\n Elaborate the ways to bring out the relationship between elements in the frame to lend a personality to your image.\n Facilitate you to establish a clear and easy communication with the viewer.
About the Author
Alok Sardana is an alumnus of prestigious National Defense Academy and the IIMB. He is disproportionately qualified and holds a B Tech and M Tech in Electronics in addition to few management labels.\nHe has a history of fastest promotions and awards, the highest being the coveted ‘Vishisht Sewa Medal’ by the President of India. \nHe is an inventor, techie, explorer, adventurer, Shooter, diver, Golfer, photographer and an author. \nContentment is not one of his virtues. He jumped over to corporate from Army, while his career was at ascent. He dumped the obscenely paying and equally boring job in the corporate to chase happiness full time. \nMeet the Colonel, who pursues professional photography, Authors books, conducts workshops on photography for six months of the year and does pretty much the same things when he is travelling and holidaying the rest of six months.
