Aspire: 150 Projects to Strengthen Your Photography Skills : Essential Techniques, Exercises, and Projects for Aspiring Photographers (Paperback)

The ultimate guide to beginner's photography

Learn to take the best digital photographs that you can and challenge yourself with 150 amazing digital photography projects!

In this helpful photography book, distinguished photographer John Easterby teaches aspiring artists the basics of digital photography. A comprehensive guide to visual storytelling, this serves as a gift or resource for any new photographer. To start, Easterby 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 will help you develop your own style 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. Covering the process from beginning to end, you'll finally learn how to set up a desktop studio, edit images, and build a portfolio.

This comprehensive art book includes:

• 150 projects to inspire creativity
• 400+ instructive illustrations for easy how-to help
• Recommendations for developing your own signature style
• Tips on posing, lighting, and compositions for stunning photographs
• Tutorials that cover areas in storytelling, nature, sports, night scenes, and more
• Guidance on different cameras, lenses, tripods, and other accessories