Creative Optical & Digital Filter Techniques

Meehan walks both complete beginner and advanced amateurs through the various ways they can employ neutral density or polarizing filters to even out exposures or use soft-spot and diffusion filters to add atmosphere to portraits. There’s also in-depth instruction on working with digital in-camera filters such as monochrome and sepia, as well as filters in image processing software (like Photoshop and plug-ins) to sharpen, distort, or create brush-stroke effects.

This is the definitive guide that photographers have been waiting for!

In the most comprehensive book on the subject, renowned author Joe Meehan details the use of both optical and digital filters in creative digital photography.

Meehan walks both complete beginner and advanced amateurs through the various ways they can employ neutral density or polarizing filters to even out exposures or use soft-spot and diffusion filters to add atmosphere to portraits. There’s also in-depth instruction on working with digital in-camera filters such as monochrome and sepia, as well as filters in image processing software (like Photoshop and plug-ins) to sharpen, distort, or create brush-stroke effects.

This is the definitive guide that photographers have been waiting for!

JOSEPH MEEHAN has been a professional photographer, writer, and teacher for more than 35 years. Hundreds of his photographs have appeared in advertisements, books, magazines, and on Web sites all over the world, and The New York Times has characterized his style as “alive with color and sparkling with light.” Meehan was the Senior Technical Editor of Photo District News for over a decade and is the former editor of the Photography Yearbook. He has written 25 books on photographic technique, several of which have been translated into multiple languages.