The Enthusiast's Guide to Multi-shot Techniques ― 49 Photographic Principles You Need to Know

If you’re a passionate photographer and you’re ready to take your work to the next level, The Enthusiast’s Guide book series was created just for you. Whether you’re diving head-first into a new topic or exploring a classic theme, Enthusiast’s Guides are designed to help you quickly master a topic or subject you want to learn more about. These handy books don’t waste your time covering all the photography basics you already know. Instead, they build on that knowledge so you can quickly advance your photography skills. The Enthusiast’s Guide to Multi-Shot Techniques: 50 Photographic Principles You Need to Know addresses everything you need to know in order to shoot compelling images that require multiple exposures. Chapters are broken down into a series of numbered lessons, with each lesson providing all the information you need to improve your photography. Divided into five chapters that include 50 photographic principles to help you create great images, photographer and author Alan Hess covers double exposures, high dynamic range (HDR) images, panoramas, time lapse images, focus stacking, and image stacking. Example lessons include: • #4. Using a Flash to Create Double Exposures • #6. Double Exposure Portraits • #13. Tripod, Release, and Mirror Lockup • #17. What Is Tone-Mapping? • #23. The Need to Overlap Your Panoramas • #25. Handholding for Panoramas • #33. Software Settings for Image Stacking • #37. Focus Stacking in Landscape Photography • #42. Exposure Settings for Time Lapse • #43. Doing the Math for Time Lapse SequencesWritten in a friendly and approachable manner and illustrated with examples that drive home each lesson, The Enthusiast’s Guide to Multi-Shot Techniques is designed to be effective and efficient, friendly and fun. Read an entire chapter at once, or read just one topic at a time. With either approach, you’ll quickly learn a lot so you can head out with your camera to capture great shots.

Alan Hess is a San Diego-based commercial photographer. He has photographed hundreds of concerts, three songs at a time. From small club shows to big arenas, Alan enjoys the fast pace of shooting on the fly, the rush of the house lights going down, and the drive to capture the "show" in the images of first three songs. ??The wide variety of bands that Alan has shot include Billy Idol, Black Eyed Peas, Bruce Hornsby, Bullet for my Valentine, Citizen Cope, The Dead, Death Cab for Cutie, Cher, John Legend, Madonna, Marilyn Manson, Robin Williams, Slayer, Steel Pulse, Widespread Panic, and Willie Nelson, just to name a few. Alan is currently the house photographer for a large concert venue in Southern California.When he isn't out shooting concerts, he is writing photography books. He is the author of more than a dozen books covering everything from concert and low light photography to the basics of exposure and composition and the Nikon Creative Lighting System. Alan has contributed to Photoshop User magazine and has been a part of the Instructor Dream Team at Photoshop World since 2009. Alan blogs regularly at www.alanhessphotography.com.