The Complete Photo Manual: 300+ Skills and Tips for Making Great Pictures

Focus on capturing the best images ever with tips from choosing the right gear to composition to processing—plus tutorials and updated software advice.

This comprehensive, all-in-one guide demystifies today's DSLRs and ILCs, walking you through their basic functions and setting you up for photo-making success, as well as offering creative projects for more advanced photographers. From setting a proper exposure to Photoshopping images together into clever composites, The Complete Photo Manual Revised Edition has you covered!


With chapters on:

Camera Basics: Take a crash course in exposure, focus, aperture, shutter speed, white balance, and more so you can master the fundamentals.

Composition & Shooting: Get out there and start shooting! This chapter helps you pick subjects, compose on the fly, work your camera settings as you go, correct for problematic situations, use a tripod, choose the right lens for your scene, and explore different storytelling idioms.

Setup & Gear: Graduate to a more robust photography kit with discussions of lights, light modifiers, and more. Here, you'll learn how to shoot more ambitious portraits, still lifes, and action shots.

Photo Editing & Beyond:Make your photos even better with tried-and-tested tutorials in Photoshop and Lightroom, plus quick tips and image organization hacks.