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The Digital Photography Book |  | Author: Scott Kelby
Brand: Pearson Education
Category: Book
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Rating:  698 reviews
Sales Rank: 875
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 219
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 5.9 x 0.6
MPN: 0-321-47404-X
ISBN: 032147404X
Dewey Decimal Number: 775
EAN: 9780321474049
ASIN: 032147404X
Publication Date: September 2, 2006
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In this book, author Scott Kelby tackles the most important side of of digital photography--how to take pro-quality shots using the same tricks today s top digital pros use (and it s easier than you d think). This isn t a book of theory - full of confusing jargon and detailed concepts. This is a book of which button to push, which setting to use, when to use them, and nearly two hundred of the most closely guarded photographic tricks of the trade to get you shooting dramatically better-looking, sharper, more colorful, more professional-looking photos with your digital camera every time you press the shutter button. Another thing that makes this book different is that each page covers just one trick, just one single concept that makes your photography better. Every time you turn the page, you ll learn another pro setting, another pro tool, another pro trick to transform your work from snapshots into gallery prints. So if you re tired of taking shots that look OK, and if youre tired of looking in photography magazines and thinking, Why don t my shots look like that? then this is the book for you.
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 Decent info, horrible sense of humor July 28, 2010
Barry B. Huang
This book can be quite useful as a learning tool for budding photographers. It is frustrating to read, however, mainly due to the countless time-wasting "gotchas". I was immediately annoyed to learn that he lied about the term "tack sharp" in the opening chapter. He said: "TACK stands for Technically Accurate Cibachrome Kelvin, and SHARP stands for Shutter Hyperfocal At Refracted Polarization". Now this may seem like technical terms, but it was actually all made up. There are countless, plainly stupid gotchas like this all over the book. Half the time you spend reading this book will be wasted on these not-so-funny, lame, jokes.
I also do not like the tone of the book. For example, the author simply tells you to shoot landscape only in around sunrise and sunset. (He then proceed to tell a lame joke about Joe McNally killing a person who dared to break this rule with a tripod). This may be the norm in professional circle, but I think a beginning photographer may want to at least explore during day time. In other books, the author generally patiently explains the different results from different lighting condition. While they tend to urge the reader to shoot during twilight, they also give helpful tips on what to do should you want to shoot in broad daylight.
This book is a time waster, go buy Understanding Exposure and The Photographer's Eye. Both books are awesome and they do not waste your time with senseless jokes.
 Easy learning... July 22, 2010
William E. Liberatore (Yorkville, Ohio USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Kelby makes it clear from the get-go.... he's not interested in lecturing... he'll just tell you how to do something just like he'd tell a friend out on a shoot with him. After reading the book, I'd love to go out on a shoot with him. I learned a lot, I still go back to the book frequently and he is very easy to read. Great book for digital photography and especially if you own a digital slr.
 The tone ruined it for me. July 18, 2010
chibaraki
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm going to come straight out and admit it: I hate this book.
Sure, the photography advice is fine. If you're not interested in the theory and you just want to know the best way to shoot X or Y, this book can be quite helpful and would probably be a good one to tuck into your camera bag when you go on vacation.
Unfortunately Kelby's writing is so abrasive to me that despite owning this book and knowing it's on my shelf I will scour the internet and spend hours on trial and error before I resort to consulting it. The author likes to make jokes that I find incredibly condescending. He spends a paragraph spinning an elaborate false definition of the term "tack sharp" only to go "ha ha, just kidding, it just means it's really sharp, like a tack!" at the end. Anyone at all familiar with the term will see through it immediately. Anyone who isn't familiar with it will be pointlessly led on and potentially confused. I can't figure out what the point of these digressions is -- apparently some people find them funny but I found myself wondering if the book needed padding. I felt like the attempts at humor were a waste of paper and of my reading time.
It's also worth noting, although this isn't necessarily a problem with the book, that The Digital Photography Book does not cover the camera theory basics. You won't learn why the relationship between aperture, shutter speed, and ISO is how it is. You will learn specific ways to do specific things but you won't necessarily know why those things work. Personally I learn better when I understand the why as well as the how, so this doesn't really fit my style.
Four stars for the photography advice. Minus two stars for writing so irritating I can't use the advice.
Every Beginner Should Own This July 6, 2010
Malika
I first grabbed this book as a complete amateur who only knew that taking a picture required me to click a button. Kelby's writing style and easy going nature made it easy for me to understand what he was talking about and enjoy reading his instructions. I'm not very technical when it comes to photography so I was thankful that he made it possible for me to understand and execute his tips. I believe every starter should grab his books, I loved this one so much I ended up purchasing the other books in this series as well. If I could give more than five stars I definitely would.
Nice book for starting out July 1, 2010
born not to follow
I highly recommend this book if you are just starting out or have not been a serious photographer. It's most useful as a reference that you can refer to quickly about particular topics or situations but it also stands up to continuous reading if you want to go through it from cover to cover. If you have just purchased a new digital camera and want to improve the quality of the pictures you take - and fast - this book is hard to beatThis is a terrific beginner's book on Photography. It doesn't teach much about photographic theory but the author makes it clear from the beginning that is not his goal. I already understood the basics of exposure, focal lengths, etc. and still found it very enlightening. It offers over a hundred tips and techniques covering topics from shooting sharper pictures to photographing weddings in an easy-to-read format.
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