Product Description

Understanding RAW Photography offers enthusiastic amateur photographers everywhere a beginning to discover their potential and opens up a whole new world of image processing, allowing you to perfect your images simply and quickly. A RAW image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of a digital camera or image scanner. Raw files are so named because they are not yet processed and ready to be used or printed and yet they allow far more flexibility than a JPEG will. Understanding RAW Photography takes the form of an easy-to-follow workflow, covering everything that you need to know right from the start of a shoot, to processing your image and ultimately displaying it in print or on screen.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #17609 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 144 pages

Synopsis
"Understanding RAW Photography" takes the form of an easy-to-follow workflow, offering enthusiastic amateur photographers everywhere a beginning to discover their potential. It opens up a whole new world of image processing, allowing you to perfect your images simply and quickly. Raw files are so named because they are not yet processed and ready to be used or printed and yet they allow far more flexibility than a JPEG will. "Understanding RAW Photography" covers everything that you need to know right from the start of a shoot, to processing your image and ultimately displaying it in print or on screen.

From the Author
I wrote this book as a follow up to the very successful DSLR Masterclass that has helped many novice photographers get to grips with their new digital cameras. Understanding Raw Photography is targeted at the novice RAW photographer and you should not buy it if you are experienced with RAW workflow and expecting an in-depth technical hints and tips book. What this book does do is put everything that you need to start your own RAW workflow in a single book, as usual written in plain english. It takes all of my experience at the RAW workflow and provides handy hints and tips throughout to help the novice RAW photographer get the most from their images. Like I said it is not a comprehensive technical manual but a damn good overview!

About the Author
Andy Rouse is a world-famous photographer, specialising in wildlife photography. He has also been consulted by several software manufacturers during the course of their RAW software development and in Understanding RAW Photography he uses no-nonsense language outlining exactly what amateurs need to understand, without becoming mired in jargon.

Customer Reviews

RAW explained using some stunning images.
It is always difficult to give credence to any book about photography where the quality of the published pictures is suspect. The digital revolution as far as cameras are concerned have led those of us who were previously successful with film format into a whole new area of learning. Consequently, there are books and tutorial DVDs which seek to assist in that process of education. Those products generally fall into the 3 broad categories of Good, Not so good, and Abysmal.

In this case, however, we have an exception. This is a product which falls into the category of Excellent!

Quite seriously, this man knows his stuff, is able to take some pretty amazing photographs and also quite able to put his skills into book form so that we who wish to learn may do so.

His photography is of the highest calibre and, whilst I did not buy the book to look at his pictures - but, instead, purchased it in order to learn about RAW, I would have found it very difficult to accept anything written by someone who was not able to practise what they preach.

If you are at the stage where you also need to understand RAW, this is the book for you. It will not disappoint.

NM

Poor Raw
I read this book in about 4 hours. When I say 'read', I actually mean that I spent 4 hours ingesting Andy Rouse's self indulgent Wildlife portfolio. Andy manages to weave a woeful plug of his own work into every piece of advice on offer. Of all the pages, at least 50% of them are photo's. Andy's photo's, obviously. the text is large and each Chapter begins with a double page spread stating 'CHAPTER 3!!!! How to promote your own work in every way possible whilst camouflaging it in a self-help disguise'.
As you can tell, I wasnt impressed. It tells you what to do, but very little on how to do it! for example..ensure you manage your files. back up your data. buy Photoshop CS3.
It also includes some shamful plugs for companies who probably paid for this book to be produced, reminiscent of Wayne's World 2.
There is nothing in this book that you couldn't source in half an hours web hunting.
Save your money and buy a new SD card or something. Your time would be better spent shooting than reading this book.

Good but not great
The book is nicely written, has fine images. It should only be targeted to inexperienced photographers and for those new to digital. Chapters that discuss RAW are not extensive and the book is actually a work-flow tutorial. Overall I was disappointed and felt that the title was bigger than the contents.