Part 6 of the book

     Part six of the book is a pretty small chapter and it mainly talks about the Digital Darkroom Equipment, and then how you can set up images that you would like to present to others. The first chapter of part six is called the Digital Darkroom Equipment. As well as needing camera equipment while trying to take and create amazing wildlife photographs, photographers also need equipment such as a computer with a editing software and compact flash cards.
     Usually more than one flash card would be good for a days worth of shooting, usually two cards per day, seeings that it only takes about half of a day to fill one card up with heavy shooting. Once the flash card is full the pictures can be placed onto a computer for storage. Portable storage drives can come in handy if you don't have access to a laptop while out on shooting trips. These storage drives have a built in card reader which allows you to transfer all of your photos taken in a quick manner.
     Once you are all done on your wildlife shooting trip you need to upload the photographs onto your computer's hard drive. The picture is processed in this stage and transformed into a JPEG image. Also once the photographs are all uploaded onto your personal computer you are free to begin downloading. You can use all sorts of tools in Adobe Photoshop, such as brightness and contrast, color balance, saturation, and dodging, along with several other tools.
      The next chapter for part six is called Preparing Images for Presentation. This chapter talks all about how you can use the computer to edit and prepare a photograph that can be presented to an audience. Most photographers with a dslr camera shoot their photographs in RAW mode so that all of their images are being saved in their original states. When saving you pictures to your computer you should convert your photographs to either TIFF or PSD, but not JPEG because that will only lose some of the data within the image.
     Once in Photoshop you can use all sorts of functions and tools to modify your photographs. Such function that you can take advantage of are the color spaces. The three color spaces most people use are ProPhoto RGB, Adobe RGB, and Adobe sRGB IEC619962.1. You can easily change the brightness levels by using the Levels Adjustment layer. This tool fine tunes your camera exposure as well as giving an overall brightness to your picture. The color saturation can be easily modified by using a Adjustment Hue/Saturation layer, which enhances the colors that are already in the picture. The contrast can also be adjusted in the photograph, which measures the degree of difference between adjacent colors. Shadows and highlights added to your photograph can also help add contrast. Retouching areas that need to be taken out of picture can be done by using either the healing brush or the clone stamp tool. Sharpening is probably the most important thing to check for when putting your photograph into photoshop and it is usually the final stage in preparing your image for presentation. Sharpening can be used to put certain areas of your picture back into focus or as close to being in focus as they can get. After sharpening your photograph you can save the photograph and then start printing the image for people to have copies of your great piece of work.