Step-by-Step Digital Photography: A Guide for Beginners

"This unique guide uses a step-by-step pictorial format to fully illustrate the steps required to take great digital imagesùfrom how to hold the camera to basic exposure and flash photography to cleaning and caring for the camera. Fledgling digital photographers learn how the camera stores captured information and converts it to an image, how to adjust the camera's settings to ensure correct exposure, how lens settings can be altered to dramatically improve compositions, and how various lens accessories can add a special effect, help to improve compositions, or eliminate unwanted color casts. A simple, straightforward presentation of techniques and appended illustrations make this a practical reference to be reached for again and again."

Jack Drafahl and Sue Drafahl are a husband-and-wife team of professional journalists, lecturers, and multimedia producers. They have written more than 500 articles for publications including Petersen's PhotoGraphic, Photo Lab Management, Rangefinder, and Ranger Rick and are the authors of Digital Imaging for the Underwater Photographer and Photo Salvage with Adobe Photoshop. They live in Portland, Oregon.