- Paperback: 295 pages
- Publisher: Wiley; 2 edition (Oct 14 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0764598066
- ISBN-13: 978-0764598067
- Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 20.4 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 962 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #203,865 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"A lively approach to to manipulating your pictures." (Daily Telegraph, April 2007)
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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
"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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Today's digital cameras are both rich in features and highly capable of helping you get good photos when used in one of many auto modes without requiring you to know much about your camera or photography. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
Today's digital cameras are both rich in features and highly capable of helping you get good photos when used in one of many auto modes without requiring you to know much about your camera or photography. Read the first page
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Outstanding tips for a 'Pro-Sumer' digital camera,
By Rudy "pain-doc" (Columbia, SC USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: 50 Fast Digital Camera Techniques (Paperback)
This book resolved numerous unanswered questions I had about my 'prosumer' Canon PowerShot G3 (see review). What benefit is the histogram, for instance? Now I know not only what it's for, but how to use it for proper exposure - that alone was worth the reasonable admission price. I learned about exposure lock, focus lock, exposure (and flash) bracketing, why results with the built-in flash may be disappointing, why fast-action sports photos require a fancier (SRL) camera, the pros and cons of the red-eye prevention pre-flash, and dozens of other tips and features that the camera's instruction manual describes in detail, but leaves it to you to find out the why's and the how-and-when-to-use-it's.As expressed by some disappointed readers, this is NOT a book for point-and-shoot photographers and/or cameras [you'd be better served by one of the "Dummy" books]. It is meant for the more richly endowed cameras with many selectable functions, some of them mysterious. The title certainly falls short in not making that difference clear. But I found the contents enormously helpful in grasping the camera's potential (even though I couldn't tell apart the black-and-white original and edited vignettes that start each section). The enclosed CD has full-sized color photos that you can edit in graphics software, and a 'slide-show' that shows each and every book illustration in color (albeit compressed to web size). Also on the CD is a protected Acrobat version of the entire book [ie, you can view, but not print individual pages - using PrintScreen, you can copy a page to the clipboard, paste it in Word, then print the page]. Overall: a superb guide to familiarize the reader with the arcane buttons, dials and menus of a complex digital camera. Other books might better serve snapshot photographers.
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Great Book to Learn as You Are Ready,
By Jeanann G. Power (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: 50 Fast Digital Camera Techniques (Paperback)
I bought this book to take on a trip with me with my new digital camera, to have a quick and thorough reference -- I wanted to learn ASAP so as to put my camera to the best use in the shortest time possible. I read the first few chapters in chronological order to get the basics, then jumped around as my curiousity and experience dictated. I found the book's contents immensely helpful to get a basic understanding of techniques that I could then go out and practice using in my daily shooting. Each technique is short enough to be able to digest and even re-read fairly quickly, yet pithy enough to give you plenty to put to use. My pages are all dog-eared and underlined at this point -- the sign of a book being put to good use -- and some weeks later I know there's still a lot more to be gotten from it.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Lots of help here!,
By MS Birder "digidiva100" (Columbus, Ms USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: 50 Fast Digital Camera Techniques (Paperback)
This book has been a great help to me. I am on my 4th digital camera but the first three worked fine in Auto mode and I never challenged myself to learn how to use all the features of the cameras. Having no photography background with advanced film cameras, I was not familiar with using white balance, f stops, depth of field, etc. This book has helped me to understand how to really get the most out of my more advanced "prosumer" camera and it is also full of tips and techniques for taking better photos of all types from landscapes to portraits, panoramas, pets and kids, using off-camera lighting and tripods. Highly recommended for anyone who wants to take better digital photos!
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