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Product Description
Your digital camera can do so much! And Digital Photography For Dummies, 6th Edition helps you shoot, edit, and share great photos. This full-color guide is packed with stuff that’s not in your camera manual — tips on upgrading your equipment, working with focus and exposure, shooting like a pro, organizing and enhancing your images, and printing them or getting them online. Are you already you’re hip-deep in images? Here’s how to manage them. This guide helps you learn what you need for the way you take pictures, how to prolong battery life, the pros and cons of digital SLR, and more. Baffled by the lingo? The glossary explains all those terms and acronyms. You’ll also learn to: - Set up your camera for basic shooting and learn to use automatic mode, common scene modes, and all the camera’s features
- Manage depth of field, exposure, and white balance, and make easy fixes with your photo editor
- Compose your photos for better pictures
- Easily transfer your pictures to the computer, print them, or distribute them electronically
- Edit your images and fix common problems like dim photos and red-eye
- Send photos to a cell phone
- Organize your pictures so you can find what you want
- Decide if your camera needs updating, what equipment you need, and what your digital darkroom should have
Rich, full-color examples show what you can achieve. Digital Photography For Dummies, 6th Edition will make your digital camera a lot more fun!
Amazon.com Review
If you're comfortable with the concept of photography but find the digital part a stumbling block, Digital Photography for Dummies will get you over the hump. Author Julie Adair King, a photographer and graphics-software specialist, deftly explains such concepts as resolution, f-stop, and compression. She is also refreshingly upfront about the differences between film-based and digital photography, spelling out the latter's shortcomings early on. Her advice on all aspects of the field is well thought out and simple without being condescending. She informs readers, for example, that you needn't use high-pixel resolutions simply for placing images on a Web page. Such tips will come as a relief to fledgling photographers on a budget, or novices who may have thought they had to use the highest-quality settings at all times. Aside from the technical concerns of working with the camera and computer, King also gives sound tips on composition and lighting. And since retouching is one of the principal benefits of digital photography, she spends a fair amount of time discussing photo-editing software. And while most of the examples are in black and white, the most important examples, gratefully, are included in a 16-page color plate section in the middle of the book. For those of you considering jumping into the world of digital photography, you'll be hard-pressed to find a better guide to getting started than Digital Photography for Dummies. --John Frederick Moore
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Customer Reviews:
• Schlapia In Dc
06 August, 2009
I bought this book new, for it allowed me to ship my total purchases for free.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Nice Introductory Book To Digital Photography
25 November, 2009
The book delivers on its title. It's not overwhelming. It's simple for anyone to understand, and it is comprehensive enough to graduate any reader from "dummy" to novice.
As for the content of the book, it's nice in that it covers pretty much every aspect you could want to be introduced to, and even some stuff you didn't know existed. There are numerous and frequent little tips that seem like they could only come from people who've been around the photography world for a while -- very nice to skyrocket you out of dummy-dom. The book is easy read and there is a good flow to the chapters and book as a whole. For what it's worth, it only took me 3 weeks, give or take literally a couple days, to finish the entire book reading it about every few days.
The reason for lacking that fifth star is because there was not much information to help with composition. The rule of thirds is mentioned a couple times as well as depth of field, but overall I would have liked to have seen more. I would guess there is probably an entire photography composition for dummies book, however!
All in all, a good book and one that I would recommend to someone who considers him or herself a digital photography dummy. It is important that I should add to that, however, that the book would be mainly useful to someone who wants to take their general knowledge of digital photography to the next level. There is nothing camera-specific, and if you simply want to take better pictures with your point-and-shoot in automatic mode, then this book is probably not going to be the best use of your time and effort.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Informative Book, But Too Much Focus In Technical Aspect
09 October, 2009
This book has almost all technical aspects of digital photography explained in plain language. It is almost like a bible. In the end of the book (if you read it cover to cover) I am sure you will familiar with most of digital photography jargon such as image resolution, ISO, JPEG, RAW, TIFF, AF, Aperture, Shutter Speed and so on.
This book is very well structured. It is aimed for people who is completely beginner and looking for a camera to buy. The book highlights pro and cons of each type of camera (compact, DSLR) very well.
Then, it expand more about how to adjust camera settings appropiately for the condition with examples. It also discuss about editing and printing. The book use Photoshop Elements photo editing software.
For me, the book is too technical. Sample pictures are technically good, but not inspiring. It is not a book to teach you how to take awesome picture, but it is good book to start especially if you don't have a clue at all about technical aspect of digital photography.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Digital Photography Overview
14 February, 2010
I gave this book to my wife after she got her first digital camera. She found the book easy to read and easy to understand. Even though I have a lot of digital camera experience, I periodically refer to it because it contains tons of basic information, tips and tricks that one can forget over time. Both my wife and I consider this book a valuable reference and would recommend it to anyone.
- Amazon Customer Review
• I Learned A Lot
21 November, 2009
I've had a Canon point & shoot for a couple of years, but didn't know to use it. I studied the operating manual, then studied some more. The manual was poorly written, small print and confusing. I saw digital photography for dummies in a retail store. After leafing through it, I bought it through Amazon.com. Now I know a heck of a lot more than I did before using this book.I visited Bryce Canyon NP in Sept. and got some impressive photos.
- Amazon Customer Review
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