The Essential Guide to Travel Photography
This DVD is designed to allow you to capture great travel images of the places you visit. It looks at how to minimise the equipment, deal with difficult shooting conditions and lighting. We look at a diverse range of topics from the key setting on your camera that you will use through to lens usage and framing for the images you take.
We also look at how travelling to different parts of the world will affect the images that you take and when will be the best times for photography. We also look at helping you plan the day to make the most of the photographic opportunities and talk about looking after the camera and lenses in some of the more hostile conditions.
Topics included on the DVD:
• Approaches to travel photography
• Equipment selection for travel photography
• How the lenses we shoot with change the images we take
• Filters and accessories for travel photography
• Choosing equipment for the locations being visited
• Polarising filters and travel photography
• Analysing travel images
• Understanding when you can take a successful images
• What are the best times of day to shoot
• What are the best times of year to visit
• Understanding why where you shoot will change the images you can take
• Understanding the lighting and how it affect the images you take
• How to get the right exposure for the images you take
• How to use spot and partial metering effectively for travel images
• Using the right settings for the effect you want
• Camera settings for travel images
• Getting the colour right for travel images
• Creative use of white balance settings
• How to get the framing right
• What post production is useful for travel images
• Thinking about locations and how to make the most of them
Plus lots more besides...
This item contains 1 disc
Regional Code: 0 (All Regions).
PAL
Languages: English.
Subtitles: None.
Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0
Picture Format: 16:9 Wide-Screen.
Length: (approx) 2 hours 30 minutes.
Applicable cameras: Any
Other: Interactive Menus, Chapter Selection.
The Essential Guide to Landsape Photography
Landscapes are challenging to photograph and this DVD looks at all aspects of how to capture stunning images of both natural and urban landscapes. We look at all the key areas that are essential to understand if you are to get great results.
The topics that we look at are varied and include understanding why the right lighting is so important, framing and composition, as well as understanding how to make the most of the time you have with some careful planning.
Running to our normal chapter based format this also makes an excellent reference tool.
Although the DVD shows Canon cameras in use, the topics that are discussed on the DVD are equally applicable to any make so tell your photographic friends all about it.
What you will learn from this DVD
• What equipment is needed for landscape photography?
• Lenses for landscape photography
• Using lenses effectively when shooting landscapes
• Controlling depth of field using lenses
• Filters and accessories for landscape photography
• Analyzing the image when shooting
• Understanding exposure for landscapes
• Understanding how lighting will affect your landscape images
• How lighting changes within an image
• The best time of day to shoot landscape images
• How to frame landscape images
• Rules of composition for landscapes
• The best camera set up to use
• Understanding and using white balance effectively
• The best time of year for landscape photography
• How to the the images you want
• Post production techniques for landscape images
• Understanding landscape locations
This item contains 1 disc
Regional Code: 0 (All Regions).
PAL
Languages: English.
Subtitles: None.
Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0
Picture Format: 16:9 Wide-Screen.
Length: (approx) 2 hours.
Applicable cameras: Any
Other: Interactive Menus, Chapter Selection.
The Essential Guide to Wildlife Photography
This DVD is designed to help you understand what wildlife photography is all about and how to achieve the very best results. Although predominantly aimed at photographers who shoot in the wild there are also techniques covered for shooting in zoos and wildlife collections where we have to overcome the problems of shooting through glass and bars.
We look at a diverse range of topics ranging from the camera settings that should be used and why they are needed, through to understanding how much the lighting that we shoot in can change the images that we take. We also look at the equipment that is needed and the framing and composition that is best for wildlife.
If you shoot wildlife then this is the essential reference guide to help you improve your photography.
What you will learn from this DVD
• What equipment is needed for wildlife photography
• How the equipment requirements change with subjects and location
• Why specific lenses are used
• Controlling your background using lenses
• Overcoming the problems of shooting in captivity
• Understanding the problems that shooting in the wild gives you
• Understanding the thought process needed for wildlife photography
• Understanding how lighting will affect your wildlife images
• How lighting changes within an image
• The best time of day to shoot wildlife images
• How to frame wildlife images
• Understanding the angles you can shoot at
• The best camera set up to use
• How to set up your camera to capture action
• The best time of year for wildlife photography
• How to get the images you want
• Post production techniques for wildlife images
• Logistics of travelling for wildlife photography
This item contains 1 disc
Regional Code: 0 (All Regions).
PAL
Languages: English.
Subtitles: None.
Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0
Picture Format: 16:9 Wide-Screen.
Length: (approx) 2 hours 30 minutes.
Applicable cameras: Any
Other: Interactive Menus, Chapter Selection.
