In this thoroughly updated eighth edition of COMPLETE DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY, popular photographer, writer, and teacher Ben Long is your guide through the creative and challenging world of digital photography. In this book is everything you’ll need to know in order to create great digital photos, from how a camera works and how to choose the
In this thoroughly updated eighth edition of COMPLETE DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY, popular photographer, writer, and teacher Ben Long is your guide through the creative and challenging world of digital photography. In this book is everything you’ll need to know in order to create great digital photos, from how a camera works and how to choose the right camera for you, to all the details of shooting, image editing, output, and workflow. The step-by-step tutorials included here offer great tips and techniques on improving your processes from start to finish; you’ll learn about exposure theory, composition, lighting, complex masking, image adjustment, and much more. No prior experience is needed or assumed, and by the end of the book you’ll be tackling complex photographic challenges with your own growing expertise. And the results will astound you.
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Excellent book about digital photography and post processing Excellent book for beginners or near-beginners in digital photography. The author goes into great detail about how digital cameras work. It can get a bit overwhelming at times but just keep reading. He then spends time explaining post-processing of photos. This was the area I was looking for. I am pleased with his coverage of post-processing even though I don’t use the Photoshop programs he recommends.I’m using Corel PaintShop Pro and was able to translate most of what he discusses…
I recommend it for beginning to intermediate digital shooters who are … I’ve been recommending this book to students in my “Basic Photography” classes for several years now, first the 7th and now the 8th edition. It’s bigger and more thorough than Langford’s Starting Photography, a bit denser to read, and fully half of it is about working with image-editng software. Many of the illustrating photos are lack-luster, but the book is quite readable and thorough. I recommend it for beginning to intermediate digital shooters who are seriously interested in…
Huge repository of high-quality, well-written camera operating information Great reference book, goes through a huge amount of the information around how a camera functions, how to start working in manual mode, and how you can work with your camera’s tools to get the look you want in your shots. I haven’t gotten through it all, but so far, I am pleasantly surprised with this book! It definitely will not work for everyone, though. Everyone learns differently, but this method works for me!