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If you're a passionate photographer and eager to deploy all the creative options built into your Canon EOS Rebel T6, these 47 picture-taking principles are exactly what you need to take your work to the next level. With friendly mentor David Busch as your guide, you'll quickly learn nearly four dozen easy, useful techniques for getting the most from your camera. You'll learn:
. How to Take Great Portraits with Your Rebel
. Three Ways to Conquer Low Light
. Secrets of Dynamic Action Shots
. Key Principles for Beautiful Landscape Photographs
47 Things to Know About Your Canon EOS Rebel T6: David Busch's Guide to Taking Better Pictures teaches you how to shoot great images while mastering tools that let you freeze action (or add creative blur); use focus to place the center of attention on your subject; or add an artistic look using the T6's built-in Creative Filters and Picture Styles. In this book, which is divided into 8 chapters that include 47 lessons, photo guru David Busch teaches you exactly how to apply your camera's features imaginatively in a variety of situations.
Written in the author's friendly and approachable style, and illustrated with examples that clearly show how each technique can help your photography,
47 Things to Know About Your Canon EOS Rebel T6: David Busch's Guide to Taking Better Pictures is designed to be an effective, fast, and fun way to learn how to use your camera, and use it well. Read an entire chapter, or browse topics that catch your eye one at a time, you quickly learn how to create amazing images with your Rebel.
List of contents
Front Matter
1. Hit the Ground Running
Your T7 Preflight Checklist
Taking that First Shot
Mastering Those Buttons and Dials
What's on the Menu?
Best Settings Guide, Ever
Reviewing Images - Zooming In
Transferring to Your Computer
Great Prints from Your Camera
2. Getting Great Pictures
Make Everything Sharp...
...Or Blur the background
Freeze action...
...Or Add a sense of movement
Blurred Lines
Shoot Dramatic Silhouettes
Put Yourself in the Picture
Scene Mode Decisions
Taking Control with Shooting Modes
3. Making Great Shots Better
Fixing pictures that are too dark or light
Evaluating exposures in the camera
Noisebusters
Ensuring realistic color
Improving highlight details
4. Great -- and Easy -- Techniques
Shooting with Style
Getting Artistic with the Creative Filters Feature
Nailing Focus: When
Nailing Focus: Where
Manual Focus and Close-ups
Brightening Inky Shadows Outdoors
Flattering Flash
Hedging Your Bets with Bracketing
Sensational Sequences
5. Communicating with your Camera
Easy Linking to your Phone or Tablet
Using Your Device as a Remote Control
Adding Information to Your Images
6. Movies and Live View
Taking the Live View
Detecting Faces
Using Exposure Simulation
Shooting Movies
Better Sound
Editing Movies in Your Camera
Collecting Images with the Video Snapshot Feature
7. Best Accessories for the T7
What Lenses Do For You
Choosing a Lens
Killer Accessories
Ready, Steady...Tripod
8. Troubleshooting
Your Sensor's Dirty Secret
Resurrecting Dead Cards
Index
About the author
With more than two million books in print,
David D. Busch is the world's #1 best-selling camera guide author, with more than 100 guidebooks for Nikon, Canon, Sony, Olympus, Pentax, and Panasonic cameras, and many popular books devoted to digital photography and imaging techniques. His best-sellers include
Digital SLR Cameras and Photography for Dummies, which has sold more than 300,000 copies in five editions, and
Mastering Digital SLR Photography, now in its Fourth Edition.
The graduate of Kent State University is a former newspaper reporter/photographer, and operated his own commercial photo studio, shooting sports, weddings, portraits, fashion, architecture, product photography, and travel images. For 22 years he was a principal in CCS/PR, Inc., one of the largest public relations/marketing firms based in San Diego, working on press conferences, press kits, media tours, and sponsored photo trade magazine articles for Eastman Kodak Company and other imaging companies. His 2500 articles and accompanying photos have appeared inside and on the covers of hundreds of magazines, including
Popular Photography, Rangefinder, and
Professional Photographer.
For the last decade, Busch has devoted much of his time to sharing his photographic expertise, both in publications, and in seminar/workshops he hosts at the Cleveland Photographic Society School of Photography. He has been a call-in guest for 21 different radio shows nationally and in major markets, including WTOP-AM (Washington), KYW-AM (Philadelphia), USA Network (Daybreak USA), WPHM-AM (Detroit), KMJE-FM (Sacramento), CJAD-AM (Montreal), WBIX-AM (Boston), ABC Radio Network (Jonathan & Mary Show). He's also been a call-in guest for one Canadian television show, and appeared live on
Breakfast Television in Toronto, the Today Show of the Great White North.
With a total of more than 200 books to his credit, Busch has had as many as five books appear simultaneously in the Amazon.com Top 25 Digital Photography Books, and when Michael Carr of About.com named the top five digital photography books for beginners, the initial #1 and #2 choices were Busch's
Digital Photography All-in-One Desk Reference for Dummies and
Mastering Digital Photography. His work has been translated into Arabic, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, Bulgarian, German, Italian, French, and other languages. Busch's Web portal is www.dslrguides.com
