2. Understanding Digital Capture
BEFORE YOU CAN LEARN how to minimize your reliance on Photoshop, you need to be able to take better pictures. Taking better photographs means understanding how digital cameras work and how to use their settings. While digital cameras have a lot of smarts built in, you won’t get the best results letting the camera make all your decisions for you. You need to make the right choices at the right time.
If you feel confident in your camera skills, feel free to skip this chapter. However, it’s always good to have a refresher course.
Photographers who come from a traditional film background are familiar with terms like exposure and metering—concepts that may be new to some digital photographers. Film shooters, on the ...
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