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The Digital Photography Book

By Scott Kelby

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| Paperback | 9780321474049

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Book Description

Scott Kelby, the man who changed the "digital darkroom" forever with his groundbreaking, #1 bestselling, award-winning book The Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers, now 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).

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 about 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 share the secrets 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 confusing jargon and detailed concepts: this is a book of which button to push, which setting to use, when to use them, and nearly two hundred of the most closely guarded photographic "tricks of the trade" to get you shooting dramatically better-looking, sharper, more colorful, more professional-looking photos with your digital camera every time you press the shutter button.

Here's another thing that makes this book different: each page covers just one trick, just one single concept 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.

3 Reviews

Scott Kelby is the best for camera and photoshop books :D

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Deanna Kyre said on Aug 18, 2008 | Add your feedback

WONDERFUL BOOK FOR BASIC-INTERMEDIATE PHOTOGRAPHERS

This manual is exceptional to learn some tricks and have tips for better (digital) photography, explained in a friendly, yet precise and rigorous, language. Chapeau for Scott Kelby! To be read by basic and intermediate photographers.

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Halfcrash said on Aug 18, 2008 | Add your feedback

This book is easy to read and quite comprehensible. It introduced tips to get the shots, including composition, setting, equipment, and process. it provided quick remedies to get good shots, although following the process cited in the book may sound banal. However, needless to say, some settings an ... (continue)

This book is easy to read and quite comprehensible. It introduced tips to get the shots, including composition, setting, equipment, and process. it provided quick remedies to get good shots, although following the process cited in the book may sound banal. However, needless to say, some settings and processes come from the experience of photographers. Nowadays those tips still work well!
Though I would say it is more pragmatic than theoretic(i.e. the author didn't spend a lot of pages on explaining photography terms such as shutter speed, aperture, focus, etc.), it worth!

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501 said on Jan 27, 2008 | Add your feedback