You Can Take Better Pictures in One Hour: Nighttime shooting

By Robert Kerner

This book shows the techniques and skills to take awesome pictures at night. The tools and accessories shown in the book are inexpensive so anyone with a camera can take great night pictures. Most of the accessories are household items put to good use. The book begins with landscape pictures at dawn or dusk, proceeds to timed exposures, and ends with night pictures of people using creative methods of lighting. The chapter about creative lighting at night shows how to use handheld flashes, flashlights, color gels, and even a laser pointer to get pictures that most people would need to hours of Photoshop to produce, but you will be able to take them directly with the camera. The chapters are short and without technical terms. You will quickly be able to understand the concepts and put them to immediate use in your photography.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Robert Kerner
• Release date: Mar 31, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310186219

Robert Kerner

There's a reason I chose an F4U Corsair as my profile picture. I am a lot like this WWII warbird - the Corsair was a rough, tough, and ready fighter plane back in the day when it was pilot vs. pilot in a dogfight, not electronics vs. electronics. I am like the F4U in that I might not look the sleekest, might not be the most politically correct, and might not be the most popular person in a room, but I am rough, ready, short and to the point, no-nonsense writer to give you the information you need to take better pictures. The Corsair was about results in a dogfight, my books are about results in photography.I've seen so many books in which it was clear the primary focus of the book was making the page count worthy of a high price tag for the book. I couldn't find a short, simple to understand guide giving the information you need to know to take better pictures without confusing rhetoric and fluff to fill pages. Photography is my only focus, giving you the information so you can go out and take better pictures with just about any camera you own. After I finished the first book about the basics of photography, ideas for other books came to mind as I was asked numerous questions about more advanced topics. So started my series of ebooks about photography.Currently I have two ebooks published and available in all of the e-reader formats and as a .pdf for computer reading and printing. The first is the basics book mentioned above and it was followed up by a book about posing people to flatter just about anybody you photograph. I am in the process of writing a third book about getting into modeling and being a successful at it, which will be published early this summer. This fall I will be back to photography topics, publishing a book about concert and stage show photography. Following that I will be publishing books about advanced outdoor and indoor photography using inexpensive accessories so everyone can get great pictures. I love getting reviews and ideas from readers about future books to write.

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You Can Take Better Pictures in One Hour

Nighttime Shooting

By Robert Kerner

Copyright 2014 by Robert Kerner

Published at Smashwords

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Contents:

Preface

Night shooting – fascinating and frustrating

Night landscapes and timed exposures

Night portraits without an important background

Night portraits with an important background

Fireworks and lightning

Creative ideas to play with light

Final thoughts and tips

Preface

I wrote my first photography ebook to fill the need for a short, easy to understand, basic photography guide. In You Can Take Better Pictures In One Hour – The Basics, I covered the topics and concepts you need to know to take good pictures without all the confusing rhetoric most other books have. It was about knowing your camera and using to the limits of its features. Good photography is only 10 percent about the camera. It is 90 percent about the person taking the pictures.

I published my second ebook to start the series of more advanced topics. That second ebook is about posing. I published a third ebook about being successful at modeling since I hire models for my ebooks and saw mistakes many models make that cause them to lose money. My fourth and fifth books began the photographic topic of outdoor lighting and ways to get great pictures on sunny and cloudy days. This sixth ebook continues the topic of lighting in specific conditions. This is about shooting outdoors at night and will be followed up with ebooks about indoor lighting on a budget, and finally shooting at concerts and stage shows. I’m sure I’ll come up with a few more topics for more books following those.

The more you know about photography, the better your pictures will be, and the more you will enjoy photography. I want you to quickly understand the concepts and learn the techniques without a lot of words to confuse you so you can go out and take some awesome photographs. Page count was never a concern to me, covering the concepts was. I’d rather have 50 very informative and useful pages than 300 pages of fluff. An average reader should be able to get through this book in about an hour and see an instant improvement in the pictures they take. You will not need to take out a loan for the tools I’ll show you. The most expensive tool I recommend is about $40, with most of them being far less than that, down to a few pennies or free. This book includes one accessory that runs about $50.

I couldn’t have completed this without the love and support of my family. It is for them that I do all that I do. I would also like to thank my models Anjelica (www.facebook.com/pages/Anjelica-Model/217565675112396), Sharyn (www.modelmayhem.com/SharynModelz), Shelby, Nikki (www.nikkinukkem.wix.com/nikki), and Chelsea who you’ll see throughout this book. And of course to all photographers young and old, those just starting out and those with experience, professionals and hobbyists,