Perfect Digital Photography

by Jay Kinghorn, Jay Dickman

Master the art of digital photography

"Jay Dickman and Jay Kinghorn again have brought an insightful book on digital photography based on creating your best digital photographs, regardless of the rapid changes in the digital technology... From cover to cover, this book is filled with priceless information on how to get the great photos, and how to make sure they are your best." --John Knaur, Senior Marketing Manager, Digital SLR, Olympus Imaging America

In this completely updated, full-color work, a Pulitzer Prize-winning National Geographic photographer and an Adobe Photoshop Certified Expert guide you through the entire photographic process, from composition to printing and archiving.

The expert techniques inside this masterful guide help you greatly improve both the quality of your photographs and your proficiency in the digital darkroom. Perfect Digital Photography, Second Edition covers the latest technologies, including digital SLR cameras, Adobe Photoshop CS4, and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, and offers tips for developing an efficient workflow. Stunning color photographs throughout the book show you the results that you too can achieve.

Genres: Photography, Nonfiction

528 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 15, 2005

Reviews

[April · Rating 3 out of 5]

I did learn a few things from this book, but like many photography books I've read it seems to be geared toward people who have the money to purchase expensive equipment. I have a DSLR, but's not high end and I only have the kit lens that came with it. While I'd love to have a couple more lenses and some other equipment, it's just not in the budget right now. However, this book did encourage me to experiment with manual settings more instead of leaving my camera on auto. If nothing else I enjoyed looking at the author's photos. He's very talented.

[Erin · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the best overall photography book I have read. And I have read a lot of them. Each chapter gave great tips on how to take certain kinds of photos. Then the last part breaks down editing. The part on Lightroom (albeit LR 2) is excellent. It goes into detail about so much more than other books gave done (workflow, collections, curves!!! and more). I wish that they did an update. You should have a good working knowledge of your camera, which lens to use when, and how to use LR. This is not for a beginner IMO.

[Jaq Greenspon · Rating 4 out of 5]

To be honest, I only read the first half on shooting pictures and not the digital darkroom stuff. I'll get back to that when I have the time and own the software.