Digital Photography: A Complete Visual Guide

by Michael Wright

Lean to shoot—and edit—stunning, professional-quality digital photographs. The single greatest advantage to digital photography is the limitless freedom it gives a photographer. Thanks to brand-new innovations, you can take hundreds—thousands—of photographs with endless digital possibilities. This includes the simplest iPhone captures to the most advanced compact camera shots. Further complementing your work is the amount of creative editing you can do! Digital Photography will release the creative photographer in you. This comprehensive guide features over three thousand full-color illustrations, the most practical advice, and the best step-by-step techniques. With over eighty before-and-after photos, the author makes learning photography a faster-than-ever visual process. Simple and complex retouching techniques are also explained. Whether you want to apply text to your image, or completely change your background photo, look no further. Subjects Composition Color theory Lighting Editing And much more! The techniques in this book can be used with any image-editing software. The author offers in-depth instructions on advanced printing techniques, teaching the reader to make brilliant albums, formal slide shows, and cards. This is an essential book for anyone serious about digital photography.

Genres: Photography, Nonfiction, Reference, Art

319 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

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Reviews

[John · Rating 2 out of 5]

Full disclosure: This book was already several years old when I bought it used, and it took me several more years to get around to reading it. Still, I don't think any of my criticisms relate to the book's age. There's not a lot of information here. Lessons are literally and unnecessarily repeated from section to section, while some basic concepts go altogether unexplained. Plus, many of the photographs used to illustrate various points simply aren't very good--either before or after having been edited. The book has a pleasing visual quality, but only if you don't look at it very carefully. I've read several books on digital photography and would consider this among the least helpful, though it does provide a good hint here and there and is easy to read through.

[Nathan · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is a not bad photo book, it covers everything you should already be doing in taking pictures but forget to do.
Nothing ground breaking in it.
Layout is well put together.
Information is easy to find quickly.
This should have been a check out from the library book not a buy book.

[Matt · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is a Digital Phootgraphy 101 book--- it was very simple and basic. All in all a pretty weak treatment of the subject. I expected more... an was disappointed.

[Vickie · Rating 3 out of 5]

I wished I could do all this. I am a visual learner, so this book was interesting, but not a help to me. I enjoyed it though.

[Serge Pierro · Rating 2 out of 5]

Covers a lot of different topics, but nothing in depth. Excellent for a beginner, but others should look elsewhere.