Complete Digital Photography (Digital Photography Series)
by Ben Long
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Author: Ben LongEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-06-26
ISBN: 1584505206
Number of pages: 576
Publisher: Charles River Media
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Book Review: from film to digital
Summary: 5 Stars
I graduated in photography in 93, just before digital was considered serious photography, unless you wanted to spend $ 13,000 on a less than a megapixel camera. I had a view camera and a decent 35 mm and a canon D60 second generation camera. I used digital for many jobs, but film was still the top choice.
When I decided to upgrade my camera and software, I found that I was behind on both accounts, and needed an information source that would make me understand digital as close to what I know about the film process. This book was the link I needed.
For photographers coming from film and still not so sure about digital, (sometimes, but fewer and fewer times, film beats digital, but not by as much as a film photographer thinks anymore). This book was a great source to understand the digital process as well as I understood film. Although it has explanations that are for true beginners, I still had things to learn.
But when it came to digital workflow and photoshop CS3 resources, it made me realize how many hours I had lost in post processing doing things using older versions of photoshop, and missing out in many features that did the work for me, it made me regret not buying it sooner, it now saves me 70% of the time I used to take from organizing to processing and preparing the photos for their different outputs. I was a film photographer in a digital world, doing things the hard way, and not knowing it.
For film photographers needing to upgrade, and for beginners this is a MUST, even if some of the basic information is not new, the way we do it now is. You will need more books after this one, sometimes more technical ones, sometimes to detail newer techniques (like HDR photography). But this should be digital photo 101 for old school photographers and semi-pro enthusiasts.
The exercise CD was a great help, especially when I needed to learn more about ps curves and masks, things that I barely used before (used to do it by hand), since when I was in school we had photoshop 3.0, I had a lot of tricks to learn. Great job Ben, I will look more carefully at all your books, this one "hit the spot" for me.
Summary of Complete Digital Photography (Digital Photography Series)
Complete Digital Photography has become a classic book for helping traditional photographers move to digital! It's also the book of choice for many new digital photographers who want to learn how to take great digital photos. Now in its 4th edition, it's better than ever. Thanks to the availability of new technologies and digital cameras at all ends of the price spectrum, today's digital photographers can produce amazing, high-quality photos rivaling the best from the film world. For those who have shifted from traditional to digital photography and need to know what's different about shooting digital, this is also the book for them. The fourth edition of this bestseller has been fine-tuned and updated to provide the most current information available. Covering everything from the inner workings of the camera to the subtle intricacies of image editing software, the book is divided into four sections. The first section provides the basic technical foundation needed throughout the rest of the book. It details the basics of how digital cameras work and provides a quick photography primer. The second part explores everything needed to make an informed decision about which camera, computer, and software to choose. Section three has been thoroughly updated and expanded to cover the nitty gritty of shooting, including metering, choosing the right exposure, using histograms, flash photography, and much more. And the final section, teaches the latest digital editing and correction techniques, including new coverage of workflow and raw conversion. This is the one digital resource all levels of photographers need: for those new to photography, all of the traditional theory is covered along with the latest digital tools and techniques, and for the experienced film photographers, they'll see how to translate their knowledge into the digital realm.Digital Photography Books
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