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Canon EOS Digital Rebel Digital Field Guide [Paperback]

Charlotte K. Lowrie (Author)
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July 8, 2005 0764588133 978-0764588136 1
What do you want to photograph? Nature? Fascinating places you visit? Family activities? Whatever your passion, your Canon Digital Rebel lets you leave limitations behind and express your creativity. This convenient guide is packed with helpful information you'll use almost every time you pull out your Digital Rebel ? camera essentials, photography basics, and fail-proof formulas for creating dynamite photos, all richly illustrated in full color. It'll be the second most important tool in your camera bag.


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What do you want to photograph? Nature? Fascinating places you visit? Family activities? Whatever your passion, your Canon Digital Rebel lets you leave limitations behind and express your creativity. This convenient guide is packed with helpful information you'll use almost every time you pull out your Digital Rebel — camera essentials, photography basics, and fail-proof formulas for creating dynamite photos, all richly illustrated in full color. It'll be the second most important tool in your camera bag.
  • Learn to use every feature and setting on your EOS Digital Rebel
  • Refresh your knowledge of aperture, shutter speed, and depth of field
  • Explore different lighting effects
  • Check out ideal formulas for more than 30 common shooting scenarios, including tips on lighting, lenses, exposure, and more
  • Get tips on converting RAW images, editing, and printing
  • Discover the powerful new features of the Digital Rebel XT

About the Author

Charlotte Lowrie is an award-winning freelance journalist and professional photographer based in the Seattle area. She was the managing editor of MSN Photos for more than four years, and is currently the managing editor of Photoworkshop.com’s Double Exposure online magazine. In addition, she writes for several newsstand photography magazines and Web sites. She shoots commercial and editorial assignments as well as stock photography. She is also the author of Teach Yourself Visually Digital Photography, 2nd Edition, also published by John Wiley & Sons.
You can see more of her work at www.wordsandphotos.org.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (July 8, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0764588133
  • ISBN-13: 978-0764588136
  • Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (44 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #302,243 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Charlotte Lowrie is a professional photographer and an award-winning writer based in the Seattle, WA area. Beginning her career as a newspaper writer and photographer, she later moved from newspapers to corporate writing, and then to magazines. She became the founding editor and photographer of two trade magazines based in Dallas, TX.

In the mid-80s, Charlotte moved to the Seattle area and spent the 16 years as an award-winning writer and editor, and as an editorial manager for a large software company. She wrote documentation for a variety of popular consumer software programs, as well as writing software manuals. She also contributed to the ongoing redesign of instructional models for various learning systems.

During her last four years with Microsoft, she was the editor, writer, and a photographer for the MSN Photos Web site (now discontinued).

Today, Charlotte divides her time among writing books and photography magazine articles, shooting stock images, shooting editorial assignments and weddings, and making portraits for various private clients. She also teaches three monthly photography courses at BetterPhoto.com (http://www.betterphoto.com/courseOverview.asp?cspID=79).

Charlotte shoots with a variety of Canon 35mm cameras and lenses.

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214 of 218 people found the following review helpful
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I wish this book had been available when I first got my Rebel...it would have saved so much frustration and very possibly provided instant gratification. Charlotte Lowrie is an excellent teacher, and this book covers every single aspect of the camera's controls, the Whys, What's, and How to's. As she writes in the Introduction: "Most important, these chapters will help you understand how controls and functions on the Digital Rebel work together with your photography knowledge to make a picture. When you know how the exposure is made, you'll be much more confident when changing settings and knowing what results you can expect."

The book is divided into three parts: Part I, Using the Digital Rebel. The Introduction begins with A Quick Tour, where the camera is set up and pictures taken. The next few chapters go through each of the camera's programmed modes...what they do, how to set them and how to change them. Part II, Creating Great Photos with the Rebel. Discussion of photography basics, lighting, lenses, techniques for taking great photos (broken down into subject categories that include the usual suspects, plus an excellent section on night photography and fireworks, as well as how to take photos for online auctions), then on to how to download and edit pictures. There are example photos with specific information on how the picture was taken, including lighting, lens, modes and settings. I am really grateful for her explanation and how to's of the RAW format, as well as how to convert from RAW to JPEG. This has added significant pleasure to my photography experience.

In Part III, the Appendices and resource section, there are web addresses for various photography sites for camera accessories; public photography forums to share experiences, sites to learn more about photography, as well as sites where one can share pictures online.

Whether a newbie or a more experienced photographer, this book is an excellent companion for the owner of the Rebel.
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138 of 144 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
As a professional writer who has written dozens of technical books over the years, I feel qualified to comment on the writing skills of the author. Simply put, this is the best-written book on a technical topic that I've ever read. The writing is crisp and easy-to-read; the material is extremely well-organized and flows well from one topic to the next.

I consider myself a very good photographer, and thought I knew a lot about photography. When I started learning neat new things in the Quick Tour, I realized how much more there is to know. I think I'll read this book several times...
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47 of 49 people found the following review helpful
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The information was a little basic, but that's what I believe she was going for. It is a good book for those just starting out and wanting to know how to use their new XT. If you have already been taking pictures (especially digital pictures) for awhile there are better options out there such as Bryan Peterson's Understanding Digital Photography or John Shaw's Nature Photography Field Guide.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
A Great Book
I have had my digital Rebel since it was first released, and used it the years, and still do. I got the book to learn something new that I did not already know. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Wacky Old Guy
Helpful book
book answers lots of questions about camera.
Easy to follow. Good index. A must to have
in learning everything about Canon EOS digital
camera.
Published 7 months ago by ARK FAN
digital rebel guide
very good info on using this camera. the guide is great if you are a new user and does a good job when teaching you how and what to do to use the camera and its features.. Read more
Published 17 months ago by dale3fan
Good BOOK
This is a GREAT book to have for beginners like myself to have. I've been with other people and they are telling me to set this & to set that. it's not sinking in. Read more
Published 23 months ago by Francis P. Schnupp
Good book
This book has help alot learning things that I didn't know about my camera and tips you could do to take amazing photos
Published on June 24, 2009 by Bayron
Perfect Accessory For The XTi
This book is invaluable to me as a beginning digital slr camera user. Well laid out and written. I highly recommend
Published on September 17, 2008 by Robert Howdeshell
CANON EOS REBEL
This camera is being used by one who just leaped from a Canon AE1 to Canon EOS Rebel. It's a new world that enables owner to shoot and publish in digital. Read more
Published on September 2, 2008 by docgipe
Very User Friendly
The cat's meow! Well written and easy to understand. It goes way beyond the owner's manual written by the Canon people. It will not disappoint.
Published on July 3, 2007 by D. Rosson
Simple field guide for instant gratification
When read with The Digital Photography Book, these two books form a formidable team for the beginning D-SLR photographer who chose the Canon route (or for an advanced photographer... Read more
Published on April 22, 2007 by justChill
Hard Read, Needs to be more Simplistic(sp?)
I find the book hard to read and too detailed to be of much help.
Published on April 8, 2007 by P. Collins
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Any professional photographer knows that the most important first step in photography is learning the camera so thoroughly that he or she can operate it blindfolded. Read the first page
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
turn the main dial, low shooting position, autofocus point, shutter button halfway, practice picture, mode dial, custom white balance, white balance set, accessory flash, metering mode, media card, telephoto zoom lens, handhold the camera, set the white balance, drive mode, exposure compensation, digital noise, press the shutter button, shutter speed, minimum focusing distance, lens choice, weather photos, extensive depth, environmental portraits, set button
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Digital Rebel, Creative Zone, Exposure Practice Picture, Lens Practice Picture, Lighting Practice Picture, Basic Zone, Camera Practice Picture, Camera Settings Practice Picture, Full Auto, Photoshop Elements, Canon's Digital Photo Professional, Custom Function, Center-weighted Average, Shot Settings, Auto Exposure Bracketing, Creating Great Photos, Auto Focus, Image Stabilization, Settings Daylight, Canon Speedlite
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