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The Digital Photography Book | 
 enlarge | Author: Scott Kelby
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Category: Book
List Price: £13.99
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Rating:  55 reviews
Sales Rank: 74
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 240
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.5
MPN: 0-321-47404-X
ISBN: 032147404X
Dewey Decimal Number: 775
EAN: 9780321474049
ASIN: 032147404X
Publication Date: August 31, 2006
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 Great nuggets of wisdom September 28, 2006
pcbookreview.com (UK)
135 out of 140 found this review helpful
There are lots of big shiny books out there that tell you all about digital photography and while many of these are great books, they can be a little intimidating too.
Scott Kelby, author of many of the better photography boooks out there has now come up with the antidote. The Digital Photography Book is a mere 200 odd pages and is just slightly bigger than A5 in size yet contains a whole lot of useful information that will almost certainly improve anyone's photography.
Each page is a self-contained tip or concept, often with an inspiring image for illustration. The text is rarely more than a paragraph or two yet manages to get important and useful stuff covered concisely and clearly.
Taking for instance, a chapter on tips for getting sharp pictures. You get a page for tripods, ballheads, cable releases, self-timers, mirror lockup (for really sharp pictures), Image stabalization, aperature, lens quality, ISO, sharpening, pro-sharpening and steadier hand held shots. All in a few pages and without leaving you feeling short changed.
The rest of the book continues with coverage of flower photography, weddings, landscapes, portraits and so on. Unlike many digital photography books, the bulk of the information presented is aimed at getting the original photos right, not in fixing things in Photoshop. Best of all, as the cover notes, much of it applies to point-and-click cameras as well as Digital SLRs.
Another useful (albeit potentially expensive) side effect of this book is the discovery of all sorts of interesting accessories you could or indeed should be considering. Things like flashguns and tripods are pretty obvious but things like spirit levels, extension tubes and neutral density filters may be news to some. Certainly, for landscape photography, a graduated nuetral density filter is a must have.
Excellent and very readable introduction December 3, 2006
ianjt67 (Devon, England)
42 out of 44 found this review helpful
If you are stepping up to to digital SLR photography and want to know the absolute essentials in as easy a format as possible, together with plenty of illustrations, then this book is for you.
Each individual page addresses an issue or technqiue related to the theme of the chapter. For instance, the chapter 'Shooting Landscapes Like a Pro' has pages entitled 'how to show size', 'why you need a wide-angle lens', 'where to put the horizon line' and so on.
The pictures are of subjects that illustrate the topic in hand, or of buttons on the common cameras, or screenshots of settings menus. In this book you are rarely, if ever, confronted by a page full of nothing but text.
This book is a joy to read and one to which I will regularly refer - and I'm now ready, after some practice, to read some of the larger, more technical books.
It does exactly what it says February 10, 2007
A. Armstrong (Colchester UK)
45 out of 48 found this review helpful
Some of the reviews posted seem put out that there is not enough information contained, it can be finished in one sitting and that other books are much better ie more technical. Personally I can't understand where these people are coming from. The author states that this is not a technical book, it won't go into the science behind exposure and depth of field etc rather if you want a certain type of shot you get told the settings to use ie keep it simple. So if you are new to photography and want a point in the right direction on how to start achieveing some decent results then this is a great book. I would only recommend this book to someone who knows nothing or little about photography, if you are already an expert then don't buy it. As for the references to photoshop that others complain about, well if you haven't got it you should have, it is an excellent program that can do all sorts to help sort out mistakes in your pictures (I've only got elements - it's enough for me).
In all it's a great book to get you started and yes you will still need to practice but at least you'll know where to begin!
If you've got a camera...you need this book! September 21, 2006
Glyn Dewis (Buckinghamshire, UK)
37 out of 41 found this review helpful
Well as the title says, "If you've got a camera, then you need this book" ... that's it in a nutshell. This book is outstanding. Packed full of tips from cover to cover that will improve you photos no end...regardless of your experience. What makes it that much more special too is that every single page has a new tip / technique that reveals how you too can create some stunning images just by changing something really simple. No more will you take a photo that get's the reaction 'ah that's nice' but 'WOW'.
This book really is that good; and coming from the number 1 author of computer / techology books you'd expect nothing less!
Buy it cos if you don't, you'll just be average!
Tack Sharp! February 2, 2007
Nick (London)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This book is fully of useful tips. Many are obvious when you read them so it comes as a surprise that you didn't think of them yourself. The American humour is a little annoying and in references to American shops where you can buy camera equipment isn't that useful here in the UK. These are minor points and overall the book is an essential purchase if you have a digital camera.
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