150 Projects to Strengthen Your Photography Skills

Learn to take the best digital photographs that you can and challenge yourself with 150 amazing digital photography projects! In this helpful guide, author John Easterby focuses primarily on digital photography, discussing the art of visual storytelling. He advises on studying the work of professional photographers in galleries, books, and magazines as an important first step in understanding how to look at photos and set your photography aspirations. Carefully structured lessons encourage students to develop their own styles and explore exciting techniques. Tutorial projects include " remaking" a well-known photo by a famous photographer, shooting a natural light portrait, using backlighting, shooting scenes at night, expressing movement in photos, freezing action, keeping a photographic diary, photographing sports events and crowd scenes, using a series of pictures to tell a photo story, and many others. Readers learn how to set up a desktop studio, edit images, and build their portfolio. This comprehensive project guide includes:150 projects to inspire creativity400+ instructive illustrations for easy how-to helpRecommendations for developing your own signature styleTips on posing, lighting, and compositions for stunning photographsTutorials that cover areas in storytelling, nature, sports, night scenes, and moreGuidance on different cameras, lenses, tripods, and other accessories