Of great interest to all digital camera owners, this practical guide to understanding a camera's settings and functions will help photographers take great pictures with creative effects

This book has been written for photographers who want to switch their camera off automatic mode and take control of its image-making potential. With visual examples throughout, it explains how to use the camera's settings and functions to take better and more creative photographs. By introducing new techniques based on concepts already taught, it explains the key principles of camera craft and thereby helps the photographer determine the outcome of the image they take. This book covers exposure, shutter control, aperture, ISO settings, flash control, metering patterns, color settings, and much more. Digital photographs are explained in terms of histogram, resolution, image size, and quality settings, and the examples are fully illustrated with helpful color photographs.