Digital Photography
Scott Kelby, the man who changed the “digital darkroom” for a limitless time with his groundbreaking, #1 bestselling, award-winning book The Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers, now tackles the most indispensable side of digital photography–how to take pro-quality shots using the same tricks today’s top digital masters use (and it’s posing no difficulty than you’d think).
This entire book is written with a brilliant premise, and here’s how Scott describes it: “If you and I were out on a shoot, and you asked me, ‘Hey, how do I get this flower to be in focus, but I want the background out of focus?’ I wouldn’t stand there and give you a lecture in regards to aperture, exposure, and depth of field. In real life, I’d just say, ‘Get out your telephoto lens, set your f/stop to f/2.8, focus on the flower, and fire away.’ You d say, ‘OK,’ and you’d get the shot. That’s what this book is all about. A book of you and I shooting, and I answer the questions, give you advice, and percentage the mysteries I’ve learned just like I would with a friend, without all the technical explanations and without all the techno-photo-speak.”
This isn’t a book of theory—it isn’t full of mixing up jargon and elaborate concepts: this is a book of which button to push, which setting to use, when to use them, and closely two hundred of the most almost guarded photographic “tricks of the trade” to get you shooting dramatically better-looking, sharper, more colorful, more professional-looking photos with your digital camera each time you press the shutter button.
Here’s another thing that makes this book different: each page covers just one trick, just one single conception that makes your photography better. Every time you turn the page, you’ll learn another pro setting, another pro tool, another pro trick to transform your work from snapshots into gallery prints. There’s never been a book like it, and if you’re tired of taking shots that look “OK,” and if you’re tired of looking in photography magazines and thinking, “Why don’t my shots look like that?” then this is the book for you.
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361 of 381 humans found the following review helpful.
How you may get professional results with your equipment.
By Rosco I. Pirtle
I have enjoyed photography as a sideline for 50+years. I own a Canon 20D and am a Scott Kelby fan. He is a great photoshop expert, yet emphasizes the importance of getting the best possible shot when taking the picture, to make your time in photoshop more enjoyable. You don’t have to work as hard if you make the rectify exposure to start out with.
Scott approaches each chapter with some humor, and in truth grasps what you genuinely need is a clear bottom line on how to approach the person or subject you want to photograph.
I received my book Sept 4th, read it and employed a heap of of his tips shooting 500+ volleyball pictures Sept 5th. I think I may see some betterment in my pictures already.
He has instrumentation recommendations and shooting tips for the person that has just purchased a digital camera to the person that uses it to make a living.
He has worked alongside of masters learning tips on how to procedure the digital photographs and how to best print them. Scott believes photography may be more fun if you get results you like by using numerous of the basic principles used by professional photographers.
I have unhesitatingly commended this book to assorted of my friends.
This is one of the least highpriced camera related purchases that I have made to fetch my excitement of photography to a new level.
I am rather sure you won’t be disappointed, exceptionally if you own a Nikon or Canon digital SLR.
I suppose my copy to become dog eared from use.
239 of 251 humans found the following review helpful.
If you Own a Digital Camera You Will Benefit from This Book
By David De Sousa
This is the most practical and utile book on digital photography that you will find on the shelves. The book is Filled with tips and tricks of the trade that the professional photographers use each day to get fantasti looking pictures using not one thing but a digital camera similar to the one you have. Why their photographs look better than yours? Well is not always the camera, most of the credit is to know how to take vantage of the camera you have: selecting the right settings for dissimilar situations, choosing the right location, etc.
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