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Digital Photo Madness!: 50 Weird & Wacky Things to Do with Your Digital Camera (Lark Photography Book)

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I teach computer skills at an elementary school and one of my coworkers saw this book on the PBS teacher site and said I had to have it. She was so right. My students were fighting over my only copy so I went to the principal and got some funding to buy a book for every computer station. My students have learned real computer skills in this book and had a lot of fun while doing it. Gaines teaches many of the techniques through experimental learning and the results are both instructional and hilarious!

Get this book if you want your kids to laugh while they learn!

I got this book from the library, but I liked it so much I am going to order a copy for my 13 year old. This book is both interesting and informative. It's a great beginner's guide in a fun wrapper. Yes, you can learn how to do some crazy things and make some weird photos. But more important, there are plenty of useful tips on how to take better photos to begin with. The short sections hold your attention, the plain English makes it easy to understand, and the pictures and humor really illustrate the point. Great for tweens/ early teens with their first digital cameras. Heck, I learned some stuff and I've owned digital cameras for nearly 10 years.

I tried many books for beginner with Digital Camera's and this one is about the best of them and give you extra ideas to explore.

A wonderful book for anyone who is interested in digital photography. The author makes it sound so easy!! The pictures are delightful, and the text very informative. A great book for anyone interested in digital photography.

When I ordered this book from our public library, I hadn't realized the young age of its intended audience. As it is, the book is easy to read and flows smoothly from topic to topic with a consistent format. The examples are mostly easy to do and appropriate for young photographers. It's a book that an adult can read in an hour or two depending on his or her level of interest or expertise.

Not all of the wacky things are done with the camera, however. Many are done with software, a fact that seems to contradict the book's title. Although I've already tried most of the techniques, it was a nice refresher course for me and did give me some ideas for a couple things I want to try.

For a book published in 2006, it's not too dated except for the beginning segment about cameras and memory.

I was slightly disappointed with this book, mostly because I thought it would give me ideas for things I hadn't tried or thought of. It seems mostly geared towards beginners with digital photography since everything in the book I had either tried or already knew. I think it would be a GREAT book for beginners, but that needs to be expressed a bit better.

DPM contains a good variety of information to use, and it utilizes material practical for the everyday point and shoot photographer and everyday point and shoot camera. included is information to enable the photographer to make better pictures overall, mixed in with, as the title suggests, a little photo madness to boot!