Product Description

This is a new updated edition of the UK's bestselling guide to digital photography. Concise, practical, up-to-date and easy to follow, "The Digital Photography Handbook" is the complete companion for any digital photographer. It covers topics such as: Going Digital - the basics, including choosing a camera and equipment, setting up, taking shots and camera care; Using your Digital Camera - tips for taking great photographs, with inspirational ideas for every genre: portraits, holidays, weddings, children, flora & fauna, abstracts; The Digital Darkroom - improving, adapting and rescuing images on a computer: basic, advanced and professional techniques; and, Output - getting the best end result, on-line or in print, and creating a portfolio.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2974 in Books
• Published on: 2007-12-19
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

From the Inside Flap
Need to know which digital camera and accessories to buy?

Want to know how to take better photographs and retouch images?

Ready to achieve professional results?

The Digital Photography Handbook – the comprehensive guide to digital photography

Includes expert advice on: Types of camera; computers, software and other accessories; pixels and magnification; memory; saving images; composing pictures; exposure; light; camera modes; manipulating images; special effects; scanning; retouching old photos; printing digital images; selecting printers and paper; archiving; e-mailing images; getting your pictures on the web

About the Author
Doug Harman has over 15 year's experience as a journalist, writer, photographer, and digital camera and technology tester. He has written extensively for a multitude of digital photography magazines and websites, including Amateur Photographer, What Digital Camera, Total Digital Photography, Professional Photographer and Photography Monthly.David Jones is a professional photographer with an extensive commercial portfolio, particularly in the fashion and advertising industries. He has also been widely exhibited and contributed photographs to many magazines and books, including Brunel, How to Keep Dinosaurs and Master Chef.

Customer Reviews

Essential reading
If you're relatively new to the world of digital photography, or about to purchase a digicam, then you NEED this book - it's jam-packed with useful stuff! Starting off with what equipment you'll actually need, it looks at effective photo techniques for a range of subjects, together with creative tips to help enhance the resulting shots. There's an in-depth look at digital image-editing software, with plenty of inspiring examples showing the effectiveness of both basic & advanced techniques, all clearly explained in a jargon-free way. this is a pretty essential read!

Loads of book for the money
An excellent book, can't believe it was so cheap. This is a well written book with all you need to know about digital photography from what camera to buy to printing off your well executed photos. It is written in basic terms which is useful as I bought this book as a present for my old man who is a bit of a Luddite who now uses an Ixus instead of his beloved 35mm lump, and even he can follow it.

Good
My first book on Digital Cameras and i can say it teachs basics, advanced levels and i highly recommend this book. its a steal at this price.

Easy to follow and nice clear images, laid out in chapters that make sence and in the right order for learning a digital SLR.