Total Digital Photography: The Shoot to Print Workflow Handbook [Paperback]

Serge Timacheff (Author), David Karlins (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 29, 2004 | ISBN-10: 076456952X | ISBN-13: 978-0764569524

This full-color title is designed to be a classic reference for the millions of photographers going to digital, from enthusiasts shooting family events and vacations with their SLRs, to professionals creating journalistic prints and fine art. It?s the only book on the market with a focus on complete, end-to-end workflow from shoot to print. It?s tied to Adobe?s latest version of Photoshop, which boasts an installed base of 4 million! Serge Timacheff is a professional photographer living in Pacific Northwest. He is the official photographer for the International Fencing Federation, based in Lausanne, Switzerland, and he photographs fencing at World Championships and the Summer Olympics. His 100-percent digital studio provides portraiture, event, commercial, and boudoir photography, and his fine art photographs appear in galleries and individual collections worldwide. David Karlins is a digital imaging expert, Web designer, teacher, consultant and author of numerous books and magazine articles.

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

At last—your complete guide to the digital photography process, from concept through delivery

Whether you're a professional or a serious enthusiast, digital photography offers you so many exciting opportunities and advantages. But working with digital requires a unique procedure, and until now, there was no single source to guide you through. In this landmark work, two respected professionals help you develop an efficient workflow that incorporates Photoshop, leading RAW file software, and other essential technological tools. Richly illustrated with full-color photographs by the authors and packed with the wisdom they've acquired, this volume smoothes every step of the way from planning a shoot to delivering perfect digital images.

• Transition smoothly from film to digital
• See how your workflow encompasses photography, computing, and graphic design
• Explore hardware and software and choose what's right for your purpose
• Optimize the quality of your images with Photoshop®
• Choose the appropriate file types to display your images
• Recognize the capabilities and limitations of digital files
• Select the best method of printing your photos
• Understand the principles of color calibration and how they affect your prints
• Organize and manage a large volume of digital photos efficiently and safely
• Transfer images from your camera and set up an efficient archiving system
• Plan to have the right equipment on a shoot

About the Author

Serge Timacheff is a professional photographer who recently made the switch to a fully digital operation. He's the official photographer for the International Fencing Federation and photographs fencing events at the Olympic Games.

David Karlins teaches graphic design at San Francisco State University. He is the author of PC Magazine Printing Great Digital Photos, also from Wiley.

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Wiley (October 29, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 076456952X
• ISBN-13: 978-0764569524
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 8 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,262,892 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nice overview with lots of tips as well, November 19, 2004

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Zach Pine "nature sculpture artist and photog... (Berkeley, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Total Digital Photography: The Shoot to Print Workflow Handbook (Paperback)

This book delivers on the promises made on it's back cover. It is well-written, well-organized, with up-to-date information. It's greatest strength comes from the "insider's view" it gives of professional digital photography. Readers who are not professionals can easily skip the extra information about goals such as selling photographs through the web. I read the book cover to cover, so I was sometimes annoyed when some points were repeated - but this is of course an asset for the reader who uses the book as a reference, who needs to get needed information from a given chapter, without undue cross-referencing between chapters. I would have liked more information on best practices for common image editing problems like altering exposure or color balance. Lots of well-reproduced color photographs - with interesting content as well.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A window into digital workflow, February 11, 2005

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Chuck K. - See all my reviews

This review is from: Total Digital Photography: The Shoot to Print Workflow Handbook (Paperback)

I'm a serious amateur photograph who made the switch to digital after 20 years of shooting film. This book really helped to clear up a lot of the confusion I was having about the flow of work from the point of taking a digital photograph to having something you can hang on your wall.

This book is primarily aimed at professional photographers who work in studios or shooting weddings and the like, but there is much in it for the amateur looking to get a better understanding how to work with a digital image. I found the chapters on digital photo processing, storage and backup, and image editing to be especially helpful and informative.

By breaking down the overall process into a series of discrete steps, the authors definitely made the book more readable and useful as a reference source.

This isn't a book about a specific piece of software or a single approach to capturing an image, but rather a somewhat philosophical examination of the basic process of digital photography from before you shoot the image until you have a finished print. It is not, however, devoid of practical applications and advice. On the contrary, the authors do a very good job at balancing the philosophical with the practical at every stage. As a result, I felt like I came away with a much deeper understanding of the overall process.

I'd highly recommend this book to any serious amateur looking for a complete discription of how to capture, store, edit, and print digital photographs.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Instant Classic, December 16, 2004

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Michael J. (Nashville, TN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Total Digital Photography: The Shoot to Print Workflow Handbook (Paperback)

As a serious photographer just now getting into digital, this book has been a godsend, clearly explaining and providing useful context to the often daunting new world of digital workflow issues. The all-color approach with plenty of photographic examples is an added, eminently useful benefit. I'm a Mac-based guy, but this book is platform-agnostic. Bottom line: When it comes to real world digital photo issues, Timacheff and Karlins cover it all beautifully.