Improve Your Photography: How Budding Photographers Can Get Pro Results [Kindle Edition]

Jim Harmer (Author)

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Product Description

"Improve Your Photography" has been purchased by thousands of beginning photographers across the world and has been recently updated in this second edition.

The book is packed full of quick and easy tips to encourage budding photographers to improve while learning concepts and technical information on photography. Jim explains this book this way, "This is what every photographer needs to know to take clean and stunning photos.  If I would have had this book when I started, I would have been two years ahead of everyone else in just 60 pages."

The book covers topics such as tips for taking better portraits of people, instruction on choosing lenses, tips for landscape and sunset photography, and HDR. 

Unlike most photography books that confuse beginning and intermediate photographers with difficult concepts and too much technical data, this book is designed specifically to teach photographers who are just learning how shutter speed, aperture, and ISO work together.

"If I would have had this book when I started learning photography, I would have been two years ahead in learning."

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 696 KB
• Publisher: Improve Photography LLC; 4 edition (October 5, 2010)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B0048EKIQK
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,616 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
  • #4 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Arts & Entertainment > Photography > Reference
  • #7 in Books > Arts & Photography > Photography > Reference
  • #11 in Books > Arts & Photography > Photography > How-to

More About the Author

Jim Harmer is an award-winning photographer and author of three photography instructional books. Each of the books are written in a series entitled "Improve Your Photography."

Mr. Harmer, originally from Boise, Idaho, currently lives in Naples, Florida and enjoys photographing the beautiful oceanscapes and wildlife that Florida has to offer.

The author practices a wide range of photographic techniques and subjects, but specializes in HDR and nature photography.

In 2010, Mr. Harmer changed from Canon to Nikon. This allows him to teach photography to students who use either brand. Also, Mr. Harmer favors the consistently superior low-light performance of Nikon cameras.

In his personal life, Mr. Harmer is a full-time law student, husband, father of two children, and a Mormon.

Mr. Harmer's first book, "Improve Your Photography: How budding photographers can get pro results" sold rapidly throughout the world for its ability to explain the basic concepts of photography in a way that is simple to understand.

Subsequent to the first book, the author wrote "Improve Your HDR Photography" and then "Improve Your Wildlife Photography." All of Mr. Harmer's books are written in a casual writing style so as to aid readers in understanding difficult concepts without struggling to understand the author's language.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Beginner book, July 29, 2011

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Kelly (Laurinburg, NC United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Improve Your Photography: How Budding Photographers Can Get Pro Results (Kindle Edition)

I found the book very useful and easy to read. There was just enough technical information in the text to be informative without being overwhelming. I did order the Kindle edition of the book and unfortunately many of the example photos were missing (some were included, but not all). So several of the examples in the book would refer to a picture that was missing. These missing picture are what lead me to rate the book a 4 star instead of 5.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Excellent Resource, March 31, 2011

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Kaleb - See all my reviews

This review is from: Improve Your Photography: How Budding Photographers Can Get Pro Results (Kindle Edition)

This is a good resource to keep handy. It's well written, easy to understand. I've enjoyed photography for many years, and think even experienced photographers would do well to follow these common sense tips that really make a difference.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The reasons why you should buy this book, October 29, 2011

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Idan Livni - See all my reviews

This review is from: Improve Your Photography: How Budding Photographers Can Get Pro Results (Kindle Edition)

1. the book is relatively short.

2. The book describes in human terms the terminology so you slowly can get into the scene

3. While reading the book even if you don't own a DSLR camera, you can still learn what you like in a camera in order to better buy a camera in the future.

4. The book explains to you how to buy a camera and the lens to match

So that about 4 things I really liked about this book :), I must say that since I started reading the book I begin discovering the mistakes I make while taking a photo, and as it appears those were critical to the results of my camera.

The book was very helpful also in teaching me new techniques and I feel that now I can take a decent picture at any given scenario, and in some scenarios an awesome photo.

The book doesn't cover photography from A to Z but it certainly cover it from A to F, the rest is more advanced books or just plain old self tutoring.

If your interested in getting into photography - I highly recommend this book.