Complete Digital Photography, 8th
Category: Books,Arts & Photography,Photography & Video
Complete Digital Photography, 8th Details
About the Author Ben Long is a San Francisco-based photographer, writer, and teacher. The author of more than two dozen books on digital photography and digital video, he is also a senior contributing editor to Macworld magazine, a contributing editor at CreativePro.com, and the author of several best-selling Lynda.com photography courses. His photography clients have included 20th Century Fox, Blue Note Records, Global Business Network, the San Francisco Jazz Festival, the Pickle Family Circus, and Grammy-nominated jazz musicians Don Byron and Dafnis Prieto. He has taught and lectured on photography around the world, including workshops at the Santa Reparata International School of the Arts in Florence and a class for imaging engineers at Apple, Inc. He occasionally dabbles in computer programming and has written image editing utilities that are used by National Geographic, the British Museum, and the White House. Read more
Reviews
Excellent book for beginners or near-beginners in digital photography. The author goes into great detail about how digital cameras work. It can get a bit overwhelming at times but just keep reading. He then spends time explaining post-processing of photos. This was the area I was looking for. I am pleased with his coverage of post-processing even though I don't use the Photoshop programs he recommends.I'm using Corel PaintShop Pro and was able to translate most of what he discusses without much problem.It may take more than one reading of a chapter to really understand what is being said. I suspect I will continue to reread sections as a refresher.If you buy the paper version from Amazon, you can get the Kindle version for $2.99. Ended up being cheaper than buying the Kindle version alone.The only complaints I have:The pictures in the Kindle version are a bit difficult to see even when you expand them.In the book some of the screen prints are difficult to read because there is not enough contrast in the darker sections of the screen.
