A Short Course in Canon EOS 30D Photography

This book/eBook package and the interactive animations you play by clicking links in the eBook guide you to full mastery of the feature-rich Canon EOS 30D digital SLR camera. The package is really an introductory photography course based on your own camera that teaches you everything you need to know to capture more interesting and exciting photographs.

In this clear and easy-to-understand book you’ll see how every control on your camera affects your images, especially their exposure, color, and sharpness. You'll see why and when you use specific settings, not just how to set them. You’ll find yourself quickly mastering your camera and capturing the kinds of photos you hope for.

The book is printed in black & white and has a popular spiral binding that lets the book lie flat or be folded back. The accompanying eBook on a CD disc is a printable and searchable full-color version of the same book in Adobe's popular PDF format. The eBook can be read on a PC or Mac using the free Acrobat Reader or any current Web browser. Throughout the eBook are buttons you click to run more than 50 interactive animations that bring to life the core concepts of digital photography such as exposure compensation, lens focal lengths, histograms, and much, much more. (To use these multimedia features you do need an Internet connection.)

The author has edited, published, or written many of the best selling textbooks in digital photography so he knows how photographers learn. If you want to take an introductory photography course based on your own camera, you won’t find a better way to do it.

For the past three decades Dennis Curtin has been an editor, author, and publisher in photography and computing. His latest books on digital cameras and digital photography have been widely praised for their quality and simplicity. On the publishing side, Dennis was editor-in-chief of one of Time-Warner's educational divisions and also held similar positions in Prentice-Hall's technology and engineering program and Prentice-Hall International. In those roles, he has worked extensively with Ansel Adams and other leading photographers of our generation. In his roles as publisher, editor, and author Dennis has been fortunate to publish or write many best-selling books in photography and computing.