When it comes to learning a new skill, you want to be taught by the best--someone who truly specializes in what you want to learn. In these pages you'll find just that: a team of professional photographers ready to coach you in every aspect of digital photography--from what you need to know about your digital camera to how to capture a great image and how to use your computer to output an even better one. Interested in travel photography? Who better than an ex-National Geographic photographer to show you the ropes? Want to take lasting portraits of family and friends? Let an official White House photographer give you some hard-won tips. Need to document you daughter's soccer team in action? Get the inside skinny on capturing motion from a successful sports photographer. David Schloss and the team of pro shutterbugs at Blue Pixel pool their knowledge here to provide everything you need to know to create compelling digital photographs -- regardless of what camera or software you're using.
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This review is from: Blue Pixel Personal Photo Coach: Digital Photography Tips from the Trenches (Paperback)
Title: Blue Pixel Personal Photo CoachAuthor: David Schloss Publisher: Peachpit Press (September 28, 2004) Paperback: 304 pages ISBN: ISBN: 0321305280 List Price: US $24.99 Blue Pixel was founded with one mission: to have leading digital photographers teach their craft from an unbiased, real-world perspective. Each of the contributing photographers for the Blue Pixel Guide to Travel Photography have from 20 to 40 years of photography experience (photojournalism, commercial, teaching). The book is divided into 12 chapters. Just about every page has at least one color photograph (with red colored descriptive text) to further explain the topic being discussed. Most pages also have a blue colored text tips section in which the authors/contributors give their real-world experience (tricks of the trade). Having just read the Blue Pixel Guide to Travel Photography, I didn't know what to expect from the Personal Photo Coach by Blue Pixel. Chapter 1 describes how to use your digital camera. This title is misleading. It does not teach you how to use your digital camera. Refer to the owner's manual of your camera for detailed instructions on this topic. Chapter 2 describes how to compose your pictures. This chapter provides some good rules, tips and suggestions on composing your pictures. Chapter 3 describes how to use your digital camera's settings. This chapter thoroughly explains shutter priority, aperture priority, ISO settings, and color balance. This is a must read for the beginning photographer. Chapter 4 describes how to use your flash. This chapter covers various flash settings and their affect on your picture/subject. I liked the use of showing the same photograph with and without the proper flash setting to see the affect of various flash settings and techniques. Chapter 5 describes how to download and organize your photos. This chapter describes USB 2.0 card readers, EXIF and IPTC formats and backup/archival recommendations. Chapter 6 describes how to fix your photos. This chapter attempts to provide the reader/photographer with some image editing techniques to improve/fix your digital photos. Your time will be better spent reading the owner's manual of your image editing software and or buying a third party book or video on your software. Chapter 7 describes how to share your photos. This chapter describes resizing your photos for uploading to websites. Chapter 8 describes how to make a great print. This chapter describes the theory of sensors, pixels and image resolutions. All of which are good to know if you plan to make your own prints. Chapter 9 decribes how to take a great family photo. Using many photographs and tips the author does a nice job providing the reader on how to shoot portraits in different settings and situations. Chapter 10 describes how to take a great sports photo using various techniques like panning and zooming. The author follows the same method (photos and tips) as chapter 9 to explain the concepts. Chapter 11 describes how to take artistic photos. Here the author allows the reader to explore their imagination and different camera settings to achieve a different look to their photographs. Chapter 12 describes how to trick out your camera. Finally the author mentions additional equipment (like a tripod) to consider to enhance your photographs. Overall I recommend this book for the beginning photographer. Earlier I mentioned that I had just read the Blue Pixel Guide to Travel Photography. The Photo Coach does include some of the same information but there is enough unique information in the Photo Coach to make it a worthwhile read. It is a good value if you buy it online with a discount from Peachpit Press or Amazon.com.
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Blue Pixel Personal Photo Coach: Digital Photography Tips from the Trenches,
By Barbara A. Lawrence "BabLaw" (Indianapolis, In USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Blue Pixel Personal Photo Coach: Digital Photography Tips from the Trenches (Paperback)
I got this book to self-tutor before a trip to South America and I wasn't disappointed. It is a must-have book for any camera buff...Has a great mix of pictures with "how-to" text and examples of real-life situations. Highly recommend!!
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