50 Fast Digital Camera Techniques (50 Fast Techniques Series)
Praise for 50 Fast Digital Camera Techniques "Applying the lively techniques in this book will make anyone's digital camera a more productive tool." -Al Francekevich, professional photographer, on the first edition Your digital camera is an amazing and versatile creative tool, with features and capabilities you probably haven't even explored-until now. Here are step-by-step instructions for 50 hot new techniques that take advantage of all the latest camera features, fully illustrated with stunning color photos taken by the author. No matter what type of digital camera you have, this book will help you create more professional pictures. Your guide to amazing results with your digital camera * Select the right shooting mode and change critical settings in seconds * Use exposure and focal length to get sharper photos * Shoot fantastic candid, nature, and pet pictures * Learn the secrets of shooting dramatic skyscapes and urban landscapes * Plan shots for creative digital manipulation * Download and print your photos or share them on the Web * Create a photographic essay or convert color shots to artsyblack-and-white
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User Reviews about 50 Fast Digital Camera Techniques (50 Fast Techniques Series)
From the title "50 Fast ... Techniques" I'd simply hoped for a collage of tips to quickly apply to different photo taking situations. Surprise! This is a comprehensive, clearly written and generously illustrated text designed to get the new digital photographer beyond "Auto" and on to understanding and using the settings and features of his camera. The 20 Techniques in the first 4 Chapters build the foundation. Learn these first and you'll understand your camera and how to use its features and settings - including scene modes, shutter speed, f-stop, color balance, focal length, and the histogram - to control image quality features like exposure, sharpness, depth-of-field, and noise. And you'll learn enough good photo basics to appreciate when and why which features are important. It also goes well beyond the camera controls - covering composition, natural and flash lighting, tripods, and even care of memory cards and batteries. Beyond those opening chapters, there's seemingly a Technique for every common photographic challenge - e.g. kids, portraits, pets, sports, nature, macro, waterfalls, stars and sky, landscapes, and panoramas. The illustrations are high quality, in color and well chosen; "tip boxes" highlight many special tidbits, and a 15 page index helps find everything. Techniques even cover the oft neglected image handling challenges of digital photography - including editing, resizing and printing, sharing, organizing, and backing up. Although less complete and dated as software and services quickly evolve (this 2nd edition uses Photoshop Elements 3 and Elements 6 is out), these Techniques will get you started. This book should get you started and be a great reference whenever you try something new. -- An excellent book - much more than its title!
I found the book to be a great introduction to new users of the Digital camera. After you get past the 20 Techniques in the first 4 chapters, you will have learned the basics of Digital Photography. These include shutter speed,focal length, f-stop, exposure and histogram plus many other important Digital camera functions. The remaining chapters include Techniques that will help not only new Digital camera users but also, those that might be considered more experienced. Features such as image handling, editing and printing are very helpful to all. I found that all the Techniques in the book to be well presented and very easy to follow. I highly recommend this book. -- Great for New Users
This book was very useful when I first started using a digital camera. I was fairly new to photography and had very little knowledge of the subject. Not only did this book help me to expand on technique, it also gave me inspiration to learn more about photography in general. I am hooked. Not obsessed but certainly inspired. I still page through it from time to time, always getting a new perspective. -- Useful Information
I have been using digital cameras for the past five years and film for the 30 years before that. I found this book to be very informative and up-to-date. The advice varies from very basic to advanced, but each technique is thoroughly explained and the pictures are well reproduced and seem reasonably current. As with most books like this, the eye-glazing point is approached quite early, but regular re-reading seems to allow the advice to "take." I feel this was a worthwhile addition to my technical library. -- Useful for beginners and pro's alike.
This is a rather useless book most of the techniques are known even to amateurs. Its title is misleading you think you will get something about digital cameras and instead you get techniques that have already been given for analog camera. -- Much ado about nothing
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