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Digital Photography Outdoors: A Field Guide for Travel and Adventure Photographers

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With every passing year, digital cameras are becoming more 'user friendly', more popular, more effective, and more versatile. Now in a thoroughly updated and significantly expanded second edition, James Martin's "Digital Photography Outdoors" continues to be the premier instructional manual and guide for the use of digital cameras in taking memorable and dramatic photographs in the field. Still providing novice digital photographers with a comprehensive and basic grounding in how a digital camera works, special considerations for its use and maintenance in the field, and how to select the best equipment and most useful accessories for capturing outdoor action and then storing those images safely, this new edition goes on to provide up-to-date information on the latest changes in Photoshop (CS3 version) and an illustrative description of the latest equipment options. Profusely illustrated throughout in full color, "Digital Photography Outdoors" provides digital camera users with a wealth of invaluable tips on photographing outdoor subjects in all manner of field conditions. Superbly organized and presented, practical and portable, "Digital Photography Outdoors" is a welcome and enthusiastically recommended addition to personal, professional, and community library Photography instructional reference collections.

This was my first ever book about photography (actually, the first edition of this book). Not that I was an absolute beginner; I just never bothered to read any photography books. James Martin's book nicely surprised me since in the first chapters I found a lot of ideas I was subconsciously aware off before. I am not sure this is the right book for someone who does not know what 'shutter speed' is but it is highly recommended for someone who wants to go over photography theory quickly and get some nice tips. It covers photo-shooting techniques, basics of composition, information on archiving photos and digital darkroom skills. My skills are definitely improved after reading the book, instantly I started to take better pictures!

The other day I wanted to purchase a digital photography guide as a birthday gift. 'Digital Photography Outdoors' book would not be available in the stores so I went through almost everything that was on the shelf. There would be lots of books for absolutely beginners in the book stores, "Dummies" books etc, we are not talking about these. Among 'serious' books, I did not find any one that can beat 'Digital Photography Outdoors'. I ended up purchasing this book via Amazon and going to the birthday party with the excuse that the gift is still on the way! This also motivated me to write this review, hope it helps.

Very interesting book with several useful tips. It is focused in the "digital darkroom" processes and it becomes an interesting handbook while working with image processing software. Moreover, it gives some advices on photographic techniques specially oriented to digital cameras and their particular performance.

I'm surprised that this book has so few reviews. I picked it up in one of Utah national park's visitor centers and loved it. It is better, in my opinion, then the books by Scott Kelby, which I bought based on reviews on Amazon.

I found James Martin's book well written and well organized. It provides a clear guide to the basic rules of photography, such as light, shutter speeds, aperture, and composition. It also gives lots of insight into the standard photographer's equipment: types of lenses, filters, tripods, photo editing software. Martin also provides friendly guidelines for photographing specific objects (water, slot canyons, mountains, cities, people etc.).

I really appreciated the chapters dedicated to post-production process. A good chunk of the book goes over rules of processing the photographs and provides very helpful and easy to follow advice on using Photoshop features (with screen shots) and organizing photographer's work flow.

Overall it is a solid book targeted at DSLR beginners.

It is a good basic book on digital photography. I found it o.k. with so many good books on digital photography, I found the information lacking, with the photographs somewhat dated..and the information too basic.. If you are just getting into digital photography, look at this one and others at this level of photography, then decide.

This book is packed with solid information. It's really helping me take better travel pictures now that I have upgraded to a digital single lens reflex camera.