Start With a Digital Camera: The Indispensable Guide to Getting the Most Out of Your Digital Camera - Softcover

Odam, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0321219007 ISBN 13: 9780321219008

Publisher: Peachpit Pr, 2003

Synopsis

Explains how to take professional digital photographs and offers advice on maximizing the impact of digital photographs in advertising, art, and graphic design.

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Review

A lavishly illustrated demonstration of what you can do with a digital camera, Start with a Digital Camera mimics a traditional photography text. It teaches how to choose a subject, arrange lighting, compose frames, work with models, and capture fast action. The author, a graphic designer, also discusses various styles of photography (landscapes, still lifes, portraits, and so on) available for exploration. But rather than discuss film, chemical development, and darkroom techniques, Odam digs into the special quirks and capabilities of digital photography. He explains--with the help of many beautiful color illustrations--how to manipulate electronic photographs on a personal computer.

Rather than focus on the mechanics of image editing, the book explains digital manipulation terms and techniques in a mostly generic way. For example, he provides a page full of variants of the same image, each under- or overexposed to a different degree. He treats color correction and other techniques similarly. However, he acknowledges the power and popularity of Adobe Photoshop by explaining specifically how to achieve certain effects--such as those created with filters--in that program. The examples of clipping and combining photographs involve Photoshop too. The result of his work: a superior guide for anyone wanting to get into photography via the digital route. --David Wall

From the Back Cover

As digital cameras drop in price and the images they produce grow in quality, more and more people are finding the lure too strong to resist. If you're in the market for a camera, or already own one and want to know how to get the most out of it, Start with a Digital Camera will provide you with both hands-on knowledge and creative examples. This book combines simple instructions with beautiful full-color photographs to teach you how to create high-quality digital photos and incorporate them into graphic designs. Whether you're an amateur searching for buying advice and digital basics or a design pro looking for new inspiration and the latest technological advances, you'll find Start with a Digital Camera an invaluable resource.

Edition details

• Publisher: Peachpit Pr
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0321219007
• ISBN 13: 9780321219008
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 192