Product Description

Through easy-to-follow lessons, this handy book offers a complete class on digital photography, tailored specifically for people who use the Nikon D90. This is not your typical camera guide: rather than just show you what all the buttons do, it teaches you how to use the D90's features to make great photographs-including professional-looking images of people, landscapes, action shots, close-ups, night shots, HD video, and more. With Ben Long's creative tips and technical advice, you have the perfect, camera-bag-friendly reference that will help you capture stunning pictures anywhere, anytime. "The Nikon D90 Companion" will show you how to: take creative control and go beyond automatic settings; learn the basic rules of composition; capture decisive moments, including fast-moving objects; discover ways to use a flash indoors and outdoors; learn about different lenses, and the best time to use them; understand the options for shooting RAW, and whether it's right for you; and, use the D90's ability to shoot high definition video.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3249 in Books
• Published on: 2009-03-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 300 pages

About the Author
Ben Long is a freelance writer, photographer, and videographer based in San Francisco. A long-time computer journalist, he has written hundreds of features, reviews, and how-to's for magazines such as Macworld, MacWeek, Macworld UK, MacUser, Computer Graphics World, Maximum PC, and eMediaWeekly. He is currently a Senior Editor for CreativePro.com, where he writes a regular digital photography column. His most recent books include Apple's Pro Training guide for Aperture, Real World Aperture, Getting Started with Camera Raw, and Complete Digital Photography, 3rd edition.

As a photographer and videographer, his clients have included Blue Note Records, 20th Century Fox, the Pickle Circus, Global Business Network, Head Start, the Oklahoma Arts Institute, and the National Endowment for the Arts. You can learn more about him and his work at www.completedigitalphotography.com.

Customer Reviews

Great Beginners Guide to D90
Being new to DSLR's I needed all the help I could get in order to get the most from my Nikon almost instantly. This is a great book, which I would recommend as your first purchase after, or maybe even before you get your camera.

I have found the book most helpful and continue to pick up the book to read certain areas. Book is full of pictures in order to make comparisons which helps and the guy who wrote the book knows exactly what new photographers are going to want to do....i.e run before you can walk and he encourages you to follow him through the book, with guidance on the various settings, in order for you to make progress and most importantly.....understand.

This Gent has also written a book on Nikon Capture NX which is written in the same easy to understand style.

So would recommend......enjoy

Reading between the lines of the manual
The Nikon D90 comes with a fat manual that tells you absolutely everything but explains absolutely nothing.

Ben Long's Companion book takes a far more practical approach, moving in easy stages from automatic point-and-shoot use of the camera to topics so esoteric that I cannot believe even professional photographers really need them.

It covers most features of the camera, and includes practical examples of how to use it in its various modes---and explains what you can gain from learning to control the camera yourself instead of leaving it in Auto.

As a bonus, there are chapters on how a DSLR works, the technical details of photography (for example the relationships between aperture, shutter speed and "film" speed), plus practical help with how to take good photos.

Written in a clear and easy-to-understand way, this book is definitely recommended, either for a beginning photographer or someone new to the D90.

I would even recommend it for anyone who just wants to know more about digital photography in general.

So why not five stars? Well the book is let down by a few spelling mistakes, missing words, and one strange contradiction. Is the camera 12 MegaPixels or 10? The author seems to have two views on this subject.

Maybe it's the way you count them.

Stops you using a DSLR like a compact camera
This book is quite superb and stops you being a muppet with an expensive camera. For all those people who have forgotten what all the buttons do on a camera and actually how to use one correctly after years of not being able to afford a DSLR camera and using a compact you should buy this book.

It explains everything really well (with diagrams and red circles- I still am a muppet really) and explains how to get the best results from the kit you have. Also really useful advice on different lenses and the advantages and disadvantages of using them top notch. It has given me the confidense to fiddle with the buttons and use different mode settings and try different things and if that fails it describes how to get the settings back to before your fiddling.

Ace book that even none muppets will find useful to get the best from their D90. I will be double checking what to do before I try to take some sports pictures this afternoon, my pictures are getting better all the time. Don't buy the D90 without buying this book.