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This Digital Photography book has begun one of my favorite companions to learn how to get nice shots and deal with difficulties. The description and explanation are very understandable. I have started to study Introduction to Digital Photography and my teacher recommended it to everyone.
The book is quick and easy to work through and provides "assignments" at the end of each section to help you work through the information with your camera. It was exactly what I needed. I am brand new to the Digital SLR world and got this book to help me learn the basics in order to quickly get started. At first, I thought the assignments were cheesy, but I did try them and they absolutely did help me get a better handle on the information. It is a basics book- not sure it would provide much help to an intermediate photographer. It helped me to quickly understand aperture, shutter speed and f-stop and how to adjust each component based on my surroundings and subject. There are lots of picture examples and the book is written in an easy and quick reading format with the author conversing with you and walking you through his process. Great book for a beginner photographer.
The chapter about Exposure is simply awesome. I bought this book several weeks ago, and after reading it completely I feel much more confident when photographing with my DSLR. I didn't realize what my camera and I were able to do until I read this book. Digital photography concepts are clearly explained to those who are newbies in the digital world. I found examples very useful and I put every assignment into practice; my pictures are now "different", they look like more, let's say, elaborate. Congratulations for your book Jim. It's a great help for people who want to start learning photography but don't know how or where to do it.
I purchased this book after taking a photography class through my local parks and recreation center. It was an easy read, interesting and engaging assignments and was filled with several lovely photos. As a novice photographer, the parks and recreation course provided me with a very nice and solid foundation of the basics. I feel this book was an excellent compliment to that course and took those basics to a great "next level" in my knowledge and understanding of photography fundamentals. I also found the information on focal length, f-stop and ISO to be very beneficial. I would highly recommend this book to anyone with a budding interest in photography.
Another 25% is about composition - rule of 3rds, getting closer, point of view, etc. I've also purchased a few as gifts. This is one of the first books I purchased about digital photography, and I still refer to it occasionally, mostly for visual inspiration. And the rest of the book is about getting to know your camera and understanding file formats, determining your subject, and all about light. It is well organized, easy to understand, and contains beautiful photographs to inspire the newbie. In fact, many of my own early photographs were variations of the images contained in this book (which the author encourages, maintaining that you'll put your own spin on the photograph).About 25% of the book is dedicated to the "Exposure Triangle", or the relationship between ISO, shutter speed, and aperture in a correctly exposed photograph. Each chapter contains a few assignments - the bulk of them being in the exposure and composition chapters - and I probably did about half of them in the book and found them to be very valuable -- particularly the ones for getting the properties of shutter speed and aperture fixed in my head.I highly recommend this book for anyone who new to photography or who is trying to learn to take their camera off of auto-everything mode.
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