This indispensable reference guide gives amateur photographers everything they need to know to take their photography to the next level no matter what kind of camera they use - from low end and high end point and shoot cameras to SLRs (single lens reflex), traditional, and digital cameras. Designed to be as comprehensive as it is easy to use, this book is organized into the genres most popular with both amateur and professional photographers - sports and action, travel, pets, zoos, wildlife, close-up and macro, flowers, landscape, aerials, and underwater. Activities are color-coded so that readers can skip around to exercises specific to their camera level, and instructive, yet attractive "before" and "after" photographs give the reader solid, visual comparisons to the tricks and techniques necessary to go from taking "nice" pictures to "wow" images.
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Jenni Bidner is a photographer and the former editor of Peterson’s Photographic, Outdoor and Travel Photography, and Canon Insight. She lives in Chicago. Russ Burden is a well-known and widely published professional photographer who specializes in nature and people photography. He lives in Highlands Ranch, CO.
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Recommended for any amateur or professional photographer,
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This review is from: Amphoto's Complete Book of Photography: How to Improve Your Pictures with a Film or Digital Camera (Paperback)
Amphoto's Complete Book Of Photography: How To Improve Your Pictures With A Film Or Digital Camera is a comprehensive resource to improving the quality of one's pictures, no matter what the medium one works with. Advice for both technical issues (learning when and how to use fill flash, selecting the most appropriate camera angles) and artistic inspiration (watching for moments of interaction between people, simplifying images to give them more power) and much more pack this thorough compendium. In addition to color photographs throughout, the pages of Amphoto's Complete Book Of Photography are color-coded for quick and easy lookup of specific types of photography - blue for stripped down point-and-shoot, green for more advanced situations, red for using a traditional or digital SLR, and much more. Highly recommended for any amateur or professional photographer seeking to improve.
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Great book on general photography!,
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This review is from: Amphoto's Complete Book of Photography: How to Improve Your Pictures with a Film or Digital Camera (Paperback)
This is a great book on photography that really works for me. It's a concise course on the general aspects such as depth of field, aperture speed, composition, filters, landscape and macro photography. What I really liked about it is that it's a relatively thin book, but every page counts. If you're new to photography or you want to get into it more, this is a winner. If you're looking for a specialized course on digital, look elsewhere.
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Great for beginners who are learning to use their first SLRs,
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Excellent step-by-step examples, hints and tips for beginners (especially DSLR and SLR beginners); not sure if very useful for semi-pros or pros.
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autoflash mode, accessory flash units, important picture elements, macro flash, narrower apertures, minimum focusing distance, fill flash, removable memory cards, exposure compensation, household bulbs, flash output, macro lenses, shutter speed, widest aperture, exposure modes, wide aperture, distant subjects, shooting angle, existing light Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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autoflash mode, accessory flash units, important picture elements, macro flash, narrower apertures, minimum focusing distance, fill flash, removable memory cards, exposure compensation, household bulbs, flash output, macro lenses, shutter speed, widest aperture, exposure modes, wide aperture, distant subjects, shooting angle, existing light Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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