- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 1 edition (Jun 25 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0072225823
- ISBN-13: 978-0072225822
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 19.2 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 635 g
- Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,031,135 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Book Description
Get tips and advice for taking better pictures with your digital camera from expert photographer Ken Milburn. Discover all the cool things you can do--like making panoramas, short movies, rapid shot sequences for Web animations, instant greeting cards (both in print and for the Web), restoring and retouching photos--and much more.
From the Back Cover
Extend the capabilities of your digital camera with 99 thoroughly explained helpful pointers. Organized into easy-to-navigate chapters, this handy resource will help you fully utilize your camera's features, perform digital darkroom magic, and manage, print, and publish your images to the Web. Learn photographic techniques such as lighting problem shadows, taking extreme close-ups, capturing motion, and more. Plus--supplement your photographic expeditions with darkroom tricks and magic, including correcting the color and brightness of your images, sharpening the focus, and eliminating imperfections. Read this book and discover why digital photography is fast becoming the leading method of capturing life's most important moments.
- Capture viewer interest with good composition
- Restore old family photographs
- Photograph in rainy or dark conditions
- Compose and shoot breathtaking panoramas
- Hand-color black-and-white photographs
- Calibrate your monitor and camera screen
- Overcome common problems like parallax error
- Freeze fast action or follow motion to blur a background
- Shoot movies and sequences for Web animation
- Optimize images for a Web portfolio
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Anyone, and that includes professionals, who first picks up a digital camera can be a bit intimidated-all those new buttons, screens, and dials. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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2.0 out of 5 stars
not a good books for digital photo, but goob for adobe,
By "msuero" (Miami, Florida United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Digital Photography: 99 Easy Tips To Make You Look Like A Pro! (Paperback)
This books is more focus in how to edit your photos with adobe photoshop, that how to take a picture. the author do not cover the diferents techniques, nor he explain how to improve the shot with you camera or before you take the picture, basilly the books has 4 or 6 chapters on the difirent features in the camera and then goes on in how to edit the photos in you computer. not a good book if you want to improve you technique on taking pictures
3.0 out of 5 stars
Milburn talks the talk, but can't walk the walk,
By A Customer
This review is from: Digital Photography: 99 Easy Tips To Make You Look Like A Pro! (Paperback)
This is a useful book for beginning to intermediate digital photographers. The writing is mostly clear and concise (though a more thorough editing job would have caught a few typos and more than a few awkward sentences), and Milburn does a fine job avoiding geekspeak without talking down to his readers.The cheesy-looking cover is a turn-off though, and a foreshadowing of the lack of visual sophistication throughout. The print quality of the black and white example photos strewn through the book is somewhere between mediocre and atrocious; there seems to have been little effort on the part of the publisher to ensure print quality and a modicum of contrast (all the b/w pics look washed out). But Milburn mostly has himself to blame for the unappealing-looking photography. The guy just isn't that good a lensman. So while he knows his stuff, his pictures are only moderately competent -- and wholly uninspiring. A 16-page color section in the heart of his book is meant to show off his work to its advantage, illustrating different techniques. These pictures are well-printed for change, but their mostly compositional flaws shows that Milburn just can't practice what he preaches. The best example is his picture of a roller coaster, a photo whose surprisingly dreary colors are accentuated by what looks to be a mudfield occupying the whole bottom third of the image. Ugh. Nevertheless, this is a solid and suprisingly exhaustive primer on digital photography. It could have been a great book if Milburn had had the modesty to use high-quality third-party pictures (even stock images would have worked fine), instead of uninspiring samples from his own ho-hum portfolio.
3.0 out of 5 stars
John Nemerovski MyMac.com Book Review,
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This review is from: Digital Photography: 99 Easy Tips To Make You Look Like A Pro! (Paperback)
One of the prime ways to obtain digital pictures is to create them yourself. In spite of the "PHD," or "push here, dummy" tendency of most point-and-shoot digital photographers, a good third-party book always helps with understanding what's what with your equipment and photographic results.Each of the primary topics is explored with a series of detailed questions, followed by numbered steps accompanied by screenshots and illustrations. Digital Photography: 99 easy tips has a center section containing completed examples in color, effective itemized descriptive text, and not-very-good-quality black and white photos that go along with valuable techniques and tips. Tutorials are brief and specific, and encourage readers to practice the lessons on their own with necessary repetition. Photography is so effortless, most of us never understand that to excel at it requires practice and more practice. This book has a decent intro to digital cameras and storage media, with good content on basic photography. I had just read a digital camera manual before picking up Digital Photography: 99 easy tips, and the book really helped me make sense of the gobbledygook in the official manual. You will be a better photographer from working with all the material in this very affordable book. MacMice Rating: 3 out of 5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ John Nemerovski
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