ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book helps the readers to select excellent camera equipment and teaches them how to use it efficiently to capture superb wildlife images easily and consistently. It emphasizes photographic techniques that are simple, precise, fast, and produce high-quality images. Thirty-five years of active full-immersion nature photography teaching have allowed us to help improve the photography of more than 60,000 clients in person. Moreover, far too many digital camera users come to us unaware of the still largely unknown, but digitally helpful techniques of back-button focusing, manual metering, Shutter-priority with Auto ISO, main flash, fill-flash, multiple flash, the all-important RGB histogram, and precision focusing techniques. Every image in the book is a digital capture. There are no digitized film images. The chapter covers many excellent and widely available digital file management and digital post-capture.
