Digital Photographer's Handbook: Third Edition (Paperback)

by Tom Ang (Author) "People who have made a large investment in film-based photography will wish to keep their legacy work but also fully participate in digital photography..." (more)
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Product Description
In this fully updated third edition, award-winning photographer and bestselling author Tom Ang offers concise, practical, easy-to-use information and advice to help readers create truly extraordinary images.

About the Author
Tom Ang is a widely exhibited professional photographer, teacher, and has worked as a technical editor and photo editor on many magazines. Ang is also the author of numerous books, including DK's Digital Video Handbook. .

Product Details

• Paperback: 408 pages
• Publisher: DK ADULT; 3 edition (August 21, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0756623553
• ISBN-13: 978-0756623555
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 6.9 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #556,779 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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34 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great all around book for the beginner, February 12, 2007

By	M. A. Filippelli "Marc12074" (Elk Grove, CA, US) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Digital photographers handbook.

This book is about the preparation that goes into planning trips, the digital darkroom, file maintenance and to a certain extent the composition of the photo.

The photos in the book are ok but not great. They are normal day to day shots that most people take but I think thats part of the concept of the book was to use photos that most people could take so that they don't think to themselves "I cant take that shot". As an example there are shots of kids playing on a beach.

Where this book hits the mark is in it coverage photo manipulation, the hardware involved and how it works, cameras, computers, memory cards and card readers as well as software applications used in image manipulation. In detail it covers how a camera works. How lens's work. The book also describes how to compensate for environmental and lighting conditions and what can be done upfront while taking the picture to minimize any negative effect of light or environmental condition.

One of the helpful things about this book is that he uses the same photo in various stages of manipulation so that you can see what the effect is going to look like in all the stages of manipulation that he describes.

Also covered in the book are different conceptual ideas of photography like photo journalism, architectural photography, macro photography and landscape photography to name a few.

Overall this is a good book for the person just getting into digital photograph but I'm not sure that it will be of much use to the intermediate to advanced photographer thats already familiar with digital image manipulation.

4.0 out of 5 stars Book Review, June 17, 2009

By	Ronald Cruz (Dubai City, UAE) - See all my reviews

Overall, the photography book was very good. Very useful information for beginers like me. However, I noticed there were slight little folds on the book cover and pages.

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Digital Photographer's Handbook: Third Edition , January 7, 2009

By	S. Y. LaI (Kearny, NJ) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Digital Photographer's Handbook: Third Edition

Quick service. Delivered on time as promised and product came in as shown in picture.

Thanks you!!