Digital Photographer’s Handbook: 7th Edition of the Best-Selling Photography Manual
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The ultimate step-by-step manual for getting the most out of your digital camera and producing inspiring photos to treasure forever.
Have you ever looked back on the photos on your digital camera to find that what you thought was a stunning sunset picture or a perfect portrait shot, was nothing more than some blobs and blurs?
Then this may be the book for you!
Take your photography skills and techniques to the next level with this inspiring and informative guide brought to you by Tom Ang, as he teaches you how to capture, enhance, and transform your photographs.
Dive straight in to discover:
-Featuring the latest technological and creative developments in digital photography and image manipulation
-Covers all the basics in digital photography
-Featuring an array of top tips and techniques ranging from composition to publishing
-New revised format makes the content clearer and more accessible
Split into two key sections for ease of reference, the first half of the book explains all of the essential techniques that every photographer needs to learn – from how to handle your camera correctly and understand its features, to composing a successful shot.
The second half develops your understanding of photography, guiding you through a range of projects that focus on different photographic genres and subjects, including landscapes, cityscapes, and live events.
It explains how to digitally enhance your images, not only to improve the original shot, but also to apply creative techniques that will take your image to a new level. This section also gives advice on the best way to share your work, choosing and using the most suitable equipment and the very latest technology, and, should you wish, how to develop a career in photography.
A must-have volume for photographers who have a basic technical grounding but would like to improve their skills and techniques, this easy-to-follow accessible guide will explore a range of beginner level and advanced techniques, so that you maximise the potential of your digital camera and unleash your creativity.
Whether you’re looking to develop a new skill this New Year, or hone in on your technical skills,
Digital Photographer’s Handbook is sure to have something for everyone to discover and love.
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Additional information
| Publisher | DK (5 Mar. 2020) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Hardcover | 408 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 0241426413 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0241426418 |
| Dimensions | 21 x 3 x 24 cm |
by Stephen Drew
Good clear text and photos to illustrate the points being made. Good for an amateur like me but in no way patronising.
by Stamatia Karageorgiou
Nice content, lots of useful information, although I would like to see more about indoor photography, some more tricks on how to get better images indoors. In general though, very useful and great for beginners.
by Gary Farrell
Absolutely brilliant. The book is really well written…and great tips from even a seasoned photographer for 40 years. Ang reigns supreme
by Tim Roast
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“With photography you can change the world,” says the author. This, the seventh edition of Digital Photographer’s Handbook (which is celebrating seventeen years in print) is very advanced in my opinion (there is a glossary for technical terms to help novices like me), and gives you everything you need to be a really top-notch photographer, even how to become a professional. So for an amateur like me there is probably too much information in here as it goes way beyond that, but for others this will be fantastic. Indeed it is less a handbook, more a photographer’s bible given it is a big, heavy hardback book with 400 pages.
“The aim of this book is to equip you with as many hints, tips, useful knowledge, and suggestions as can be crammed within its pages. Armed with informed ideas, you can marry your creative intentions with the vast technical capabilities packed into your smartphones, cameras, lenses, and computers.”
The book is easy to navigate with clear contents to chapters and sections. Throughout there are many beautiful photos giving examples to illustrate the points in the text, whilst also giving you something to aspire to in your own photography. The text is nicely laid out including with tips boxes, quick fix sections for common problems, example labelled photos broken down into parts to illustrate how what has been said in the text has been put in place to make a quality photo, tricks of the trade such as camera settings, lenses to use and so on.
There are six chapters within:
01: Core Skills – covering things like picture composition and framing.
02: Photography Projects – e.g. Documentary photography, weddings, portraits.
03: Image Development – covering things like file management and image manipulation software techniques.
04: Showing and Sharing – e.g. output to paper, art printing, photos on the internet.
05: Buying Guide – tips for buying “Your Ideal Camera” (including smartphones), “photographic accessories” and more.
06: Going Further – tips for learning more, including careers advice, building up your business, mounting an exhibition and more.
Overall if you are serious about your photography and want more than an introduction this would be more than suitable.
by Robert Aldred
Lots of really useful tips and techniques.
by David Couch
Absolutely brilliant book. Shows everything you need to know to master the settings on your camera. Then how to edit your pictures in lightroom etc.
Not sure what I was expecting but it’s the all in one book I’ve been looking for.
by nick
Well written but sometimes can be heavy going
by I Read, Therefore I Blog
This is a really helpful handbook for anyone interested in digital photography. This is aimed at people who want to take it more seriously than pointing and clicking with your phone, which is why there’s a section on which types of camera and lenses to buy and what they do.
The book also takes you through Core Skills, which I found really interesting as it takes you through how to frame a photograph and decide whether to take the shot. There’s a lot of good tips here and it’s written in easy to understand language with illustrations that reinforce the lessons.
The Image Development section then takes you through different ways of treating and filtering photographs once you’ve taken them, with ideas for software products, cropping and so forth. Again, a lot of really useful stuff here – to the extent that when I showed a friend of mine who is a professional photographer, he found a lot of useful tips that he didn’t know.
I have to say that the Showing and Sharing sections and Going Further sections were less useful to me but only because I’m not interested in putting my photographs out there right now (and definitely nowhere near close enough to selling them) but it was still an interesting thing to read – if only for the ‘one day’ potential!
This wasn’t a book I felt able to read cover to cover. That’s because it’s quite dense with its information so there’s a lot to take in. I found it easier to take a section, read through it, think about it and try some things out before moving onto the next bit when I felt ready – but if you’re more experienced than I am (and I am an utter novice) then you may get more from reading it front to back.
All in all though I thought this was a great read – very useful, not patronising and left me a lot to think about.