Learn Digital Photography in a Weekend (In a Weekend (Premier Press)) [Paperback]

Brad Braun (Author), Marc Braun (Author)

Book Description

Series: In a Weekend (Premier Press) | Publication Date: November 1998

This book guides readers through the essentials of both "pure" and "hybrid" digital photography using a hands-on style of instruction. Beginning with the fundamentals of photography, this guide addresses how shooting differs when using digital methods. Other subjects covered include hardware and software needs, shooting tips for a variety of settings, and manipulating and outputting images using a variety of techniques and formats.

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Amazon.com Review

Thanks to digital cameras, it's now easy to shoot a picture while traveling, record it in a digital file, and send it over the Internet to the folks back home. This guide gives you information on digital camera hardware and solid photography techniques in one source.

Digital camera hardware is, if you'll pardon the pun, developing fast. For that reason, the authors don't make many specific make-and-model recommendations and instead focus on features and technical terms that you'll see mentioned in cameras' promotional material for some time to come. If you're wondering what an IrDA port is (an Infrared Data Association port) and whether you should pay extra for smart-card storage media, the brothers Braun can advise you. It would be nice if this book included more information on recording audio and full-motion video with digital cameras--several units have those capabilities--but the still-photography information here is quite good.

You can probably learn more about digital photography by experimenting--after all, digital mistakes don't cost anything and are easy to erase. But if you want some help deciding what kind of camera to buy and a little guidance in the art and science of photography, this book will prove valuable to you. --David Wall

Product Details

• Paperback: 378 pages
• Publisher: Prima Publishing (November 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761515321
• ISBN-13: 978-0761515326
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,272,559 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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31 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Warning! This book is NOT for beginners., July 23, 1999

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This review is from: Learn Digital Photography in a Weekend (In a Weekend (Premier Press)) (Paperback)

Unless you are already very familiar with photgraphy terms and techniques, you are buying a lot of frustration and wasting your time and money. The author many time talks as if he is talking to another professional photographer. For example the author did not explain by a simple diagram what he means by 'angle of the subject from the sun' or 'exposing off the ground' or 'exposing off the sky'. Before start using many photography terms in the book, the author does not define or explain terms like exposure compensation, flash fill mode,etc. or at least does not explain clearly. The author wastes a lot of paragraphs on useless talk that is rather obvious or does not add to the understanding of the subject matter. This is dangerous to the poor trees that get cut. In the enire book there is not even a single diagram! Color pictures are only in the center of the book. Most photographs are small size black and white newspaper quality.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Book is better that the last review, February 4, 2001

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Donald G. Brenner (Hayward, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Learn Digital Photography in a Weekend (In a Weekend (Premier Press)) (Paperback)

I don't usually write reviews, but I was prompted by the previous review. I was looking for this book because I had given my copy to my son and I wanted another. I have been an amateur photographer for more than 30 years, so I guess that the jargon was not a problem. Digital and film have much in common, but there are some serious differences, highlight loss or blowout to mention just one. I found this book provided me with the insight (within the limits of digital cameras) that I needed to make digital photographs as good or sometimes better than conventional photos

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great book for Beginners, Chocked Full of Information, June 3, 2001

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L. Curtis "Millicent Y. Curtis" (Memphis, Tennessee) - See all my reviews
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I really enjoyed reading the Braun brother's book, "Learn Digital Photography in a Weekend". I appreciate the authors no nonsense and humanistic approach to teaching the basics of digital photography. The sections on nighttime shooting, image resolution and color correction were some of my favorites to read. One of the books pluses is that it's loaded with important information and it's easy to read. The downside of this book is the lack of color examples. For example, it's hard to see the effects of lossy, color resolution and photo sharpening with a simple black and white image. I suggest that in thier next book to add more color images for examples. Otherwise this book is worth the money because of the information alone. I would definitely read it again.