Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #223 in Books
• Published on: 2006-08-31
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

Synopsis
Why are there so many books on digital photography? It seems like a new one comes out every week, and it's been like that for years. We think it's because the books that keep coming out miss the mark on what most photographers really want: a book that cuts through all the techno-stuff, and uncovers the secrets the pros use to create amazing photos. After all, that's what we all want, right? We want to create photos that make our friends and family say, Wow, that's incredible. Did you take that? But even though we have great digital cameras - in fact, we often have the exact same makes and models that the big pros use - somehow they're still the ones getting all the Wows! Until now. Scott Kelby, the man who forever changed the digital darkroom with his groundbreaking, #1 best-selling, 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 that today's top digital pros use. This isn't a book of theory - it isn't full of jargon and confusing concepts.

This is a book that tells you exactly which button to push, which setting to use, and over 100 of the most closely guarded tricks of the trade to get you shooting dramatically better looking, sharper, more colorful, professional looking photos with your digital camera every time you push the shutter. 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; if you're tired of taking shots that just 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.

Customer Reviews

Good beginner guide
Superb hand book for beginners and those with a bit more experience with digital cameras. Scott Kelby's humour is an acquired taste (high school geek IMO!) but if you put this to one side, this book is filled with helpful tips on how to take better pictures. If you read this, your technique will improve. Recommended buy for under a tenner.

Well worth the money
I bought this for more than what it costs now (which is less than a tenner). That's the cost of two issues of a magazine! I read it cover to cover on one flight, then re-read it cover to cover on my second flight. When I landed at my destination I was taking better pictures than when I left the ground.

If all the advice I haven't used yet is as good as what I have then this is pound for pound one of the best pieces of kit I have bought as a beginner.

(I should add - if you don't have photoshop, download Gimp and do the same things for free!)

Good but flawed
Kelby's book does a good, nearly great, job at teaching you (or suggesting as it were) how to take all kinds of different pictures. It's packed with good, illustrative photos and covers a lot of ground. The best thing by far though is that you, within minutes really, are capable of putting the information to use in real life. You don't need to read it from cover to cover. You can look up any subject that interests you and just read that one page and then you're off shooting. The size of the book also allows you to take it with you in your bag while shooting, which is a big plus.

It's not perfect though. Reading "The Digital Photography Book" I coulden't help but feeling that Mr. Kelby was paid by the word writing this book. There is a quite a lot of useless text in the book ("humour" as the author calls it), which really got on my nerves. This gives a feeling of the author "not caring" in a sense (he had a quota to fill, not a goal of giving the reader the best possible book).That space could have been used to give the reader even more photo advice (not that it's scarce as it is, but still).

However, if you ignore the "humourous" parts of the book it's really good. The quality of the advice given far exceeds its flaws. More than worth the price.
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