The Art of Digital Wedding Photography: Professional Techniques with Style (Amphoto) (Paperback)

by Bambi Cantrell (Author), Skip Cohen (Author) "As a wedding photographer, the key to your success is the respect you have for your client..." (more)
Key Phrases: The Art of Digital Wedding Photography, Phase One

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
• Documentary-style wedding photography is the hottest sector of an always-hot market
• Covers art and business, from taking pictures to telling the story to making the sale

Every photographer—and every bride—needs The Art of Digital Wedding Photography! With this book, pros and aspiring pros can get in on the perennially hot wedding market, using the newest digital technology to get compelling, cutting-edge results. And for today’s sophisticated bride-to-be, this is the perfect idea book, packed with great images that will inspire beautiful, unforgettable photos of that special day. Authors Bambi Cantrell and Skip Cohen show how to create traditional formal, photojournalistic, and magazine-style pictures and tell the story of each couple in a unique, romantic way. Their cutting-edge style appeals to big-spending first-timers as well as to the lucrative love-is-lovelier-the-second-time-around crowd. The Art of Digital Wedding Photography is the best book out there for love and money!

About the Author
Bambi Cantrell, a recipient of the International Photographic Council’s Professional Photographer Award and many other honors, is one of the most sought-after photographers in the San Francisco Bay area.

Skip Cohen is president and COO of Rangefinder Publishing and Wedding and Portrait Photographers International. With Bambi Cantrell, he is the coauthor of Watson-Guptill’s top-selling The Art of Wedding Photography.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Amphoto Books (March 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0817433244
• ISBN-13: 978-0817433246
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 9.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #135,208 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A picture book and not much else., June 19, 2006

By	Anesh "Anesh" (South Africa) - See all my reviews

The title of this book is mis-leading as there's hardly any technique. There's plenty of gorgeous photo's with associated exposure information, camera settings and lenses used (good of the author's to include these). As other's have mentioned there is heavy usage of Nik filters. However the author's are open and frank about the use of such filters and the results are great indeed. Reading content is not much more than a few hours long and wedding photographers will learn very little. This is a picture book with general comments and opinion, "professional techniques" it is not!

23 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars disappointed, November 15, 2006

By	B. Stenman - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I purchased and read Bambi's first book on wedding photography published in 2000 and also this one expecting new information and an updated on all that has changed over the past 5+ years. I was disappointed to find little new information other than a lot of plugs for Canon equipment.

Many images that illustrate the value of NIK filters for Photoshop but little discussion of when to use them or why. One example is provided on an approach to converting images to black and white but no mention of the literally dozens of ways to do this and the many after-market action sets by Kubota and others to make this easy and efficient.

Strongly suggest anyone getting into wedding photography or making the transition to digital from film purchase first the excellent book "Digital Wedding Photography" by Glen Johnson. Then fill in the gaps with books such as Bambi's - though I believe her 2000 book was better than this latest one which is largely a cosmetic makeover.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Icing without any cake, June 22, 2006

By	J. Giles "Photo Geek" (Canada) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book is definately pretty to look at and it offers a few tips that any amateur photographer could make good use of, but the title is certainly misleading and overall its not a good buy if you're hoping to learn something. I found it to be very light on practical wedding photography information and heavy on photos.... It might answer your basic "what" questions, but it doesn't come close to answering any "why" or "how" questions. If you're looking for a book with several beautiful pictures that would look great on your coffee table, than this book is for you, but if you're actually hoping to learn something, I'd recommend buying something else.