Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Pro Secrets for Raising the Bar on Quality -- Technical Quality Busters -- Understanding Image Sharpness -- What's Sharpness, Anyway? -- Optimizing Sharpness -- Lens Sharpness -- Choosing the Right Aperture for Sharpness -- Testing Your Lenses for Sharpness -- A Simple Lens Test -- Shutter Speed -- Testing for Camera Motion Blur -- Fixing Camera Motion Blur -- Getting Some Support -- Your Support Options -- Do-It-Yourself Support -- Focus on Focus -- Focus Challenges for dSLR Users -- What's in Focus, and What's Not -- Autofocus Basics -- Choosing Autofocus Modes and Parameters -- Testing for Back Focus and Front Focus -- Tonal Rendition -- Enter the Histogram -- Noise and ISO Settings -- Next Up -- 2 Using Telephoto Lenses Like a Pro -- Lenses and Focal Lengths -- Telephotos and Long Lenses -- Choosing a Telephoto Lens -- Image Quality -- Lens Aperture Range -- Zoom or Prime? -- Autofocus Accuracy, Speed, and Distance -- Build Quality -- Dealing with Bokeh -- Add-ons for Your Telephoto Lens -- Lens Hoods -- Extending Your Telephoto's Range -- Using Telephoto Lenses Creatively -- Compressing Distances -- Producing Images of Isolation -- Getting Close to Sports Action -- Getting Close to Nature -- Trompe L'oiel -- Taking the Stage -- Macro Photography -- Next Up -- 3 Pro Wide-Angle Lens Tips -- Telephotos versus Wide Angles -- How Wide Angles Work -- Optical Problems -- Chromatic Aberration Again -- Barrel Distortion -- Angle on Wide Angles -- Internal Reflections -- Rectilinear versus Intentional Distortion -- Testing for Distortion -- Choosing a Wide-Angle Lens -- Add-ons for Your Telephoto Lens -- Up Front -- Polarizer Problems with Wide Angles -- Behind the Scenes -- Working with Wide Angles -- Minimizing Barrel Distortion -- Small Move, Big Change -- Using Size Distortion -- Emphasizing the Foreground.

Working with Perspective Distortion -- Using Depth-of-Field -- Wide Angles and Flash -- Wide-Angle Tips -- Next Up -- 4 Advanced Infrared Photography -- What's Infrared Photography? -- The Eyes Have It -- How Sensors Perceive Color -- Characteristics of Infrared Photography -- Technical Requirements for Infrared Photography -- What Can You Photograph? -- What Kind of Light Do You Need? -- Is Your Camera IR Capable? -- Testing for IR Sensitivity -- Desperate Measures -- Obtaining an IR Filter -- Make Your Own IR Filter -- Taking Your First Infrared Photo -- Set White Balance -- Mount the Camera on a Tripod, Compose, and Focus -- Set Exposure, Mount the IR Filter, and Shoot -- Infrared Post Processing -- Next Up -- 5 Close-Up, Macro, and Product Photography -- Elements of Close-Up and Macro Photography -- Magnification -- Perspective -- Depth-of-Field -- Equipment Required -- Your Macro dSLR -- Image Stabilization: In the Camera or In the Lens? -- Lenses for Macro and Product Photography -- Using Your Existing Lenses -- Using Special Macro Lenses -- Close Focus Gadgetry -- Close-up Lenses -- Extension Tubes -- Bellows -- Other Useful Gadgets -- Lighting Equipment -- Flash Light -- Flashlights -- Practical Close-Up and Product Photography -- The Chessboard -- Ode to a Glass -- Knock Yourself Out -- Outdoors, with Glass -- It's a Jungle out There -- Making Your Own Subject Matter -- Part of the Whole -- Next Up -- 6 Pro Lighting and Studio Techniques -- Vive Les Différences! -- Your Studio Camera -- Studio Set Up -- Deep Background -- Lighting Equipment -- Types of Electronic Flash -- Flash Accessories -- Studio Lighting Basics -- The Qualities of Light -- Balance of Light -- Working with Multiple Light Sources -- Main Light -- Fill Light -- Hair Light -- Background Light -- Common Lighting Techniques -- Short Lighting -- Broad Lighting.

Butterfly Lighting -- Rembrandt Lighting -- Side Lighting -- Backlighting -- Next Up -- 7 More Build-It-Yourself Gadgets and Tricks -- No Camera Left Behind -- Reversing Ring on the Cheap -- Pinhole Camera -- The Amazing Multi-Color Shutter -- Three Discrete Exposures -- Making and Using the Harris Shutter -- Digital Harris Shutter -- Soft Lights Are Your Friends -- Milk Bottle Soft Light -- Milk Bottle Tent -- Clean Your Sensor -- Identifying and Dealing with Dust -- Avoiding Dust -- Removing Unsightly Dust -- Sensor Cleaning -- Making Your Own Tools -- Rocket Blower -- Sensor Brush -- Sensor Swab -- Next Up -- Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.