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    <![CDATA[For serious amateur photographers who already shoot perfectly focused, accurately exposed images but want to be more creative with a camera, here’s the book to consult. More than seventy techniques, both popular and less-familiar approaches, are covered in detail, including advanced exposure, bounced flash and candlelight, infrared, multiple images, soft-focus effects, unusual vantage points, zooming, and other carefully chosen ways to enhance photographs. The A-Z format make sit easy for readers to find a specific technique, and each one is explained in jargon-free language. Top Tips for each technique help readers achieve superb results, even on the first attempt.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is awesome.  My understanding of photography has grown leaps and bounds since reading it.  The author gives the perfect balance of technical jargon and metaphor to explain how things work and why you would do something so that those going into the book with absolutely no knowledge of what ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26980519">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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