Understanding Digital Photography: Techniques for Getting Great Pictures
Dec/095
Product Description
• Readers love Peterson’s easy-to-grasp bad image/good image pairings—and every photo in the book was taken with a digital camera
• Covers every popular genre: nature, people, sports, interiors, travel, and more
Using his popular bad image/good image pairings of real-life examples, Bryan Peterson takes the reader through all the techniques need to succeed with digital photography in every popular genre: nature, people, sports, interiors, travel, low-light conditions, travel, weather, commercial portraits, macro, and wildlife—even how to use creative tricks such as reflections. As a bonus, Peterson explains, in straightforward text, the techniques of Photoshop as well as the basics of publishing, printing, and archiving and storing for personal or professional use. Full of great examples for beginners and serious photographers, Understanding Digital Photography makes it easy to create great digital pictures every time.
Understanding Digital Photography: Techniques for Getting Great Pictures
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5:29 pm on December 17th, 2009
A pioneer of bad/good images adjacent to each other to illustrate his point, Mr. Peterson has written this generalized book on nearly every aspect of digital photography. This is not a book for the point and shoot folk, it clearly is aimed at the higher end advanced amateur or professional level. This includes chapters on things like aperture, shutter speed, and composition. He also clearly illusrates the advantages of the big 8+ pixel high end cameras with interchangable lenses.
Of course he has a lengthy chapter on Photoshop, but unlike many other writers, he does not consider Photoshop to be the end all of digital photography. He explains what Photoshop can do but his first priority is to get the best possible image in the camera before going to Photoshop. Much of his Photoshop emphasis is not on fixing images but on using Photoshop to create images that the camera can’t see.
This is a book aimed at getting the most out of digital cameras regardless if the subject is nature, people, sports, interior, travel and more!
Rating: 5 / 5
7:06 pm on December 17th, 2009
I enjoyed the book. Good for someone with a basic understanding of his or her camera and ready to take the first steps in improving their photographic skills
Rating: 4 / 5
9:19 pm on December 17th, 2009
This book is a good guide for digital fotography, easy and funny reading and full of rules of thumb to improve our skills.
Rating: 5 / 5
11:48 pm on December 17th, 2009
I have bought all Bryan Peterson books, and am somehow sad there is no more to read, so much it’s INVITING & USEFUL.
As not to remain on my hunger, i have already booked his Sept 06 book “Beyond Portraiture: Creative People Photography”.
I find the content really revealing and the way Bryan puts it makes it so simple yet enticing to understand. Having read all his books and got used to one style of terminology … i found my photography skills improving S T E A D I L Y….. towards getting it right in the view finder – as he says.
Rating: 5 / 5
12:57 am on December 18th, 2009
One of the better guide books to help the photographer understand the basics of digital photography – easy to read and understand.
Rating: 4 / 5