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40 Digital Photography Techniques | 
 enlarge | Author: John Kim
Publisher: Sybex
Category: Book
List Price: $16.99
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You Save: $15.29 (90%)
Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 1267562
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Pages: 215
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 7.2 x 7.1 x 0.6
ISBN: 8931435118
Dewey Decimal Number: 775
UPC: 025211335116
EAN: 9788931435115
Publication Date: October 11, 2004
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Product Description
40 Digital Photography Techniques will show you how to:
* Choose, use, and accessorize your digital camera
* Understand and exploit various sources of light
* Get creative with filters
* Become effective with low-light and night photography
* Capture expressive portraits of adults, children, and yourself
* Photograph objects in motion and get great action shots
* Catch the mood of your vacation, a snowy or rainy day, a brilliant sunrise or sunset
* Shoot everything--panoramas, architecture, landscapes, products, food, cars, pets
* Take animated photos with your camera phone
* Transfer, edit, and print your images, or share them on the web
* And more!
How is this book different?
Written for new digital camera owners in a language that's easy to understand
* Presents inspiring, full-color images on every page
* Lets you dive right in and have fun with your digital camera
* Helps film photographers make a smooth transition to digital
* Combines technical instruction with creative ideas to help boost your skills
* Groups topics thematically for quick reference
* Provides a thorough explanation of how digital cameras work
* Uses practical step-by-step instructions, explanations, shortcuts, and tips
* Shows you how to shoot professional-looking images with any digital camera
Who is it for?
* Anyone interested in correcting, enhancing, or creating digital images--for home or professional use
* Photography hobbyists, professional photographers, print and web designers
Contents
* Using Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0 effectively
* Correcting lighting and contrast
* Coloring black-and-white photos
* Removing red eye, eliminating blemishes, and enhancing facial features
* Using Lens Blur
* Cleaning up, combining, and resizing images
* Creating reflections and text effects
* Whipping up photographic and other special effects
* Making a web banner
* Creating a photo gallery for the web
* Effective Masking
* Correcting Inaccurate White Balance
* And more!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
 Good entry level book August 25, 2008
Marti
I purchased 8 books on photography after I completed a photography course.
This book was one of them. It covers many of the things I already learned in my course but gave some specific f-stops that my course instructor never told us.
My teacher felt we would learn more by taking the shots ourselves.
I disagreed.
I felt this book gave practical advice on how to set your f-stop to achieve the desired photo.
It is a book for the beginner and easily read.
There are lots of photos but I would have liked them to be a bit larger.
For anyone who did not take a photo course or has not figured out how to play around with your f-stops to get the desired shot, this is a handy book to read.
It also briefly touches upon diffusing the flash, exposure settings and other topics every photographer needs to know about, but in a general way.
Definitely not the book for intermediate or advanced photographers, but recommended for the beginner.
 The best book for starters! July 9, 2007
Vanessa Rabayda (PA)
This book is great for starters in digital (or even film) photography. If you don't quite understand what all the settings in your digital camera are or used for, this book will open your eyes and will have you using all different settings really soon.
The book is very easy to read and explains a lot with pictures to show you the results.
Also, this books talks about lightining, how to take better photos of people, how to adjust the settings to take inside and outside photos. It gives plenty of neat tricks for you to try out with your camera without having to buy extra equipment.
Although if you really want to spend some money, this book also talks about good equipment, like lenses, light bouncers, and more.
Great starter book May 17, 2007
Nand K. Kokle (Chicago)
This book is written in simple lucid language, with good clear pictures makes it perfect for beginners and 'getting semi serious' photographers,
my pictures have become much better as result of the knowledge out of this book plus i have a better eye on photography on the whole, in the past had never put a thought on clicking a button on the camera..no complains
An excellent overview for beginning digital photographers March 12, 2007
Jeremy Hall (Pleasant Grove, UT USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
As a semi-professional photographer I am often asked for camera and photography advice which I gladly provide. What I am more at a loss for is what you get is the best resource for someone trying to learn a little bit more of their own. This book is a great solution, for which I am keeping a copy around simply to loan out to those in this situation.
40 Digital Photography Technique is designed for the beginner and maturing intermediate photographer and does an excellent job covering everything from the basics of how to use your camera, to composition, how to shoot in various lighting situations, macro photography and much more. Though it does not go into great depth in any one of these subject areas, it is a great overview and touches on a lot of areas that new photographers may not think of. It attempts to be a beginner's guide and provide ideas and how to use on a wide variety of areas pertaining to photography, and it does a great job.
I highly recommend this title to anyone who has picked up a new digital camera or may have one laying around that they have not gotten as much use of as they thought they might have won about it. Your camera along with this book may become a new hobby and passion that you never knew you had within you.
Great book for those with consumer point-and-shoot cameras January 4, 2006
James Harper (NYC)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book teaches the principles of digital photography--the quirks, the problems, the peculiarities, and how to work with these to get the most out of your camera. Most of the other books on the market spend one chapter on these fundamentals and then spend the next 400 pages discussing the functions of expensive, prosumer DSLR's like the Canon Rebel or Nikon D50/70, and post-processing on the computer. This is great if you have a DSLR and are looking to do a lot of post-processing.
However, if you have a consumer level point-and-shoot camera like the Canon Elph, Nikon Coolpix, Kodak Easyshare or Sony Cybershot, this extra material won't apply to your camera because it doesn't have these advanced manual controls. What this book does for the P&S user is teach you why some of your photos are coming out blurry, overexposed or dark. How to frame an exciting picture. How to use the flash to improve some pictures, and when the flash isn't appropriate. How to use the manual controls that are included on these cameras and how these controls can help you succeed in taking better pictures.
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