Part 2

Taking Your Photography to the Next Level

IN THIS PART …

Understand key exposure settings — aperture (f-stop), shutter speed, and ISO — and how they affect your pictures in ways other than image brightness. Also get acquainted with tools that can help you solve exposure problems.

Take better flash pictures by adjusting flash power or flash mode and using other tricks of the flash-photography trade.

Find out which autofocusing settings work best for different subjects, and discover how to use depth of field to emphasize your subject and diminish distracting background objects.

Use your camera's White Balance setting and other color-related features to accurately capture the hues in a scene.

Get help putting together all your newfound knowledge with a summary of settings and strategies for shooting portraits, landscapes, action shots, and close-ups.