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This attractive boxed set includes:
The Digital Photography Book (ISBN 0-321-47404-X)
The Digital Photography Book, Volume 2 (ISBN 0-321-52476-4)
The Digital Photography Book, Volume 3 (ISBN 0-321-61765-7)
Scott Kelby, the man who changed the "digital darkroom" forever with his groundbreaking, #1 bestselling, award-winning book The Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers, shows which button to push, which setting to use, when to use them, and hundreds of the most closely guarded photographic "tricks of the trade" to get budding photographers shooting dramatically better-looking, sharper, more colorful, more professional-looking photos with their digital camera every time they press the shutter button.
Scott tackles the most important side of digital photography--how to take pro-quality shots using the same tricks today's top digital pros use (and it's easier than you'd think). Each chapter is packed with plain English tips on using flash, shooting close up photography, travel photography, shooting people, and even how to build a studio from scratch, where he demystifies the process so anyone can start taking pro-quality portraits today! Plus, he's got full chapters on his most requested topics, including loads of tips for landscape photographers, wedding photographers, and there's an entire chapter devoted to sharing some of the pro's secrets for making your photos look more professional, no matter what you're shooting.
The Digital Photography Book (ISBN 0-321-47404-X)
The Digital Photography Book, Volume 2 (ISBN 0-321-52476-4)
The Digital Photography Book, Volume 3 (ISBN 0-321-61765-7)
Scott Kelby, the man who changed the "digital darkroom" forever with his groundbreaking, #1 bestselling, award-winning book The Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers, shows which button to push, which setting to use, when to use them, and hundreds of the most closely guarded photographic "tricks of the trade" to get budding photographers shooting dramatically better-looking, sharper, more colorful, more professional-looking photos with their digital camera every time they press the shutter button.
Scott tackles the most important side of digital photography--how to take pro-quality shots using the same tricks today's top digital pros use (and it's easier than you'd think). Each chapter is packed with plain English tips on using flash, shooting close up photography, travel photography, shooting people, and even how to build a studio from scratch, where he demystifies the process so anyone can start taking pro-quality portraits today! Plus, he's got full chapters on his most requested topics, including loads of tips for landscape photographers, wedding photographers, and there's an entire chapter devoted to sharing some of the pro's secrets for making your photos look more professional, no matter what you're shooting.
About the Author
Scott Kelby is President of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) and Editor-in-Chief of both Photoshop User and Layers magazines. Scott serves as training director for the Adobe Photoshop Seminar Tour and is the technical chair of the largest Photoshop gathering in the industry, Photoshop World. He has written numerous best-selling creative technology books, and has been the #1 computer book author for five straight years.
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34 of 36 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
Overpriced and overrated,
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This review is from: Scott Kelby's Digital Photography Boxed Set, Volumes 1, 2, and 3 (Paperback)
I had high hopes for this set, but I was very disappointed. While it does contain some nuggets of good advice, they are interspersed with lots of bad attempts at humour and padding.Consider the first book, which has 209 pages (excluding the index). Kelby spends the first seven pages telling you that he has a casual style, that he uses three symbols for price ranges, that you should shop at B&H in New York, and that for technical details you should look elsewhere. Every chapter starts with a picture and a page of lame jokes and ends with a blank page, which takes up another 33 pages. So that's 40 pages out of 209 that don't deal with photography! After three pages about buying a tripod (one recommending three tripods, one recommending three ballheads, one recommending a cable release) he then spends another two pages telling you to use a tripod. That's five pages to convey one paragraph of information, and while there are five pictures none actually illustrate the effects of using a tripod (or not). Throw in ten pages of advertising and there's even less room to talk about actual photography. When Kelby does get down to business his advice is good, but spread over far too many pages: he makes one point per page, which leads to a lot of wasted space. For example, he takes one page to tell you that leaving a lens hood on your camera all the time will help protect your lens from scratches, dust, and fingerprints, and that pros do this. One page to convey two sentences of information! The boxed set is even worse, because books 2 and 3 repeat information from the first book. For travel photography I'd recommend The Photographer's Eye Field Guide: The essential handbook for traveling with your digital SLR camera. For portrait photography buy Beyond Portraiture: Creative People Photography. The two together will cost you less than the price of this boxed set, and you'll learn a lot more.
15 of 17 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
You can't beat this set,
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This review is from: Scott Kelby's Digital Photography Boxed Set, Volumes 1, 2, and 3 (Paperback)
Scott Kelbey's 1st Digital Photography Book is still the best selling book on the subject ever published. His 2nd is still selling briskly and now his recently published 3rd volume has been packaged with the other two in a convenient boxed set. When you are out on a shoot you don't want too much weight with your gear but these are handy sized pocket books with tons of worthwhile set-up and how to information. They are full of tips ie. spraying water on flowers when shooting a macro close-up. A few times when I've been out on a shoot I have left them behind and truly regretted it. Scott also gives us hints on the best equipment to purchase and at various cost levels to match any budget from the poverty stricken to the ultra super expensive stuff. He never hesitates to encourage and fits his suggestions to streamline post production in Photoshop or Lightroom for once you get your shots downloaded. Panoramas, tripods, ball heads and even lens filters and lenses themselves are discussed in detail. The best feature of this series is that it is eminently portable and easy to keep on hand. I highly recommend all 3 volumes and this is a great way to get them all at once.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
A Mix of Useful Information & Immature Gibberish,
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This review is from: Scott Kelby's Digital Photography Boxed Set, Volumes 1, 2, and 3 (Paperback)
I purchased this book believing it would have a lot of useful information. Although it's not lacking in some very useful tips for users of digital cameras, the book's quality is lessened substantially by a huge amount of childish, immature gibberish relating to his personal life and other references that have no purpose here, whatsoever. Although I have noted some useful tips, I would definitely recommend a pass on this book.It would appear that the author has a problem with white space on a printed page, and lacking anything relevant to the chapter, fills the page with personal nonsense. He thinks that his anecdotes are humourous, but they are far from it in the context of a technical writing. I would also be wary of anything else Scott Kelby has written, assuming he uses the same writing style in all his publications.
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