Mark Hatasaka's Digital Landscape Photography: The Complete, Easy to Use, Ultra-Powerful Digital Workflow for Landscape Photographers

85 full-color photographs
112 pages
Trade cover
12.5 x 9 inches
ISBN 0-9745121-1-7
$29.95 USD

Here are just a few digital camera advantages you will learn about in Mark Hatasaka's Digital Landscape Photography.

• Simplicity. Digital cameras have the power to vastly simplify scores of photographic processes. Utilize this simplicity to spend maximum energy creating immortal landscape photographs.

• Photographic Fundamentals. The basics of Subject, Lighting, Composition, Color, Focus, and Exposure are the true power behind consistently awesome landscape photographs. Use digital cameras to master photographic fundamentals in record time.

• Huge Capacity. Turbo-accelerate your productivity with the virtually limitless capacity of digital cameras.

• Low Cost. Drive your costs for equipment and ongoing, professional-level picture-taking to unbelievably low levels.

• Great Lens Selection. A large focal length range is vital for high-level landscape photography. Secure this large range with single-lens digicams offering up to 15X optical zooming, or digital SLR cameras covering 12-500mm with just 3 lenses.

• Light Weight. Weight is a hugely important factor in professional landscape photography. Use digital cameras to achieve excellent weight to image quality ratios.

• Digital Darkroom. Landscape luminaries from Carlton Watkins to Ansel Adams have always relied on darkroom magic to create big, spectacular prints. Digital cameras now offer you simple and affordable access to digital darkroom magic.

In Mark Hatasaka's Digital Landscape Photography, every other page is a large, 9 x 12.5-inch example photograph that clearly illustrates the techniques under discussion.

With Mark Hatasaka's Digital Landscape Photography, each chapter is no more than a single page. This means you get the absolutely highest value, most cutting-edge, most advantageous information available with no fluff or bulk filler reference material.

Also, the book's easily accessible, well exposed table of contents makes the book a superb field reference manual.

Digital photography really is a radical improvement over film, but it requires innovative new tactics and strategies to gain the full benefits of digital. In Mark Hatasaka's Digital Landscape Photography, you get exactly these kinds of innovative new, outside-the-box methods for photographing landscapes. The book was written by a professional nature and travel photographer whose business depends on creating large numbers of professional photographs under extreme time and logistics pressures. In the book, you get every single last one of his gritty, dusty, street slogging, mud slinging, alligator chasing, salt soaked, desert baked tricks of the trade.

By careful design, the combined chapters in Mark Hatasaka's Digital Landscape Photography describe a seamless, simple, efficient, ultra-powerful landscape photography workflow. This workflow covers a full range of innovative field and digital darkroom techniques. After reading the book, you will have all the A-Z knowledge needed to generate production quantities of spectacular landscape photographs.

• Section 1: Digital Field Techniques
  • Digital Simplicity
  • Capturing the Impossibly Beautiful
  • Living Landscapes
  • Pixel Resolution vs. Photographic Fundamentals
  • Quality of Light vs. Image Quality
  • Artistry vs. Technical Perfection
  • Bracketing and Experimentation
  • Lines and Optical Roaming
  • Flow
  • Action Landscape Photography
  • Photographing Extemporaneously
  • The Color of Light
  • Finding Magic Light
• Section 2: Photographic Fundamentals
  • Back to Basics with SLCCFE
  • Preventing Overexposure
  • Exposure Baselines
  • Maximum Data Capture
  • Sidelighting
  • Backlighting
  • Diffuse Lighting
  • Center of Interest and Visual Pathways
• Section 3: Equipment
  • Lenses and Photographic Fundamentals
  • Telephoto Lenses
  • Wide-Angle Lenses
  • Closeup Lenses
  • Logistics and the Minimum System
  • Digital SLR Camera Bodies
  • Storage Memory, Batteries, Tripods, and Cases
• Section 4: The Digital Darkroom
  • Digital Darkroom Magic
  • Equipping Your Digital Darkroom
  • Color Management
  • Image Management
  • Image Postprocessing
  • Image Editing
  • Color Saturation and the Curves Filter
  • Color Balance and Warming
  • Dodging and Burning
  • Selections
  • Spotting with the Clone Stamp Tool
  • Retouching with Selections
  • Layers and Master Files
  • Enlarging and Cropping
  • Sharpening
  • Printing
  • Black-and-White Printing
• Glossary
• Index

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With terrific winter and spring 2006 photo ops happening right now, learn how to take maximum advantage of these opportunities by ordering your copy of Mark Hatasaka's Digital Landscape Photography today.

Here's to all the magnificient landscape photographs in your future.

Mark Hatasaka

Mark Hatasaka's Digital Landscape Photography
The Complete, Easy to Use, Ultra-Powerful Digital Workflow for Landscape Photographers

85 full-color photographs
112 pages, trade cover
12.5 x 9 inches
ISBN 0-9745121-1-7
$29.95 USD

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