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Whistle Stopper - The Digital Photography Book
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List Price: $19.99
Our Price: $11.84
Your Save: $ 8.15 ( 41% )
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Manufacturer: Peachpit Press
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 775
EAN: 9780321474049
ISBN: 032147404X
Label: Peachpit Press
Manufacturer: Peachpit Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: 2006-09-02
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Studio: Peachpit Press
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Summary: GREAT for the beginner photographer
Comment: This book is so valuable I would have paid three times its current price. Kelby reveals the common sense behind the mystery of f-stop, shutter speed, ISO, exposure, aperatures, and every other alien thing that tends to intimidate beginning SLR camera users. He shows example pictures of what the camera settings discussed will produce, and provides the "recipe" for many of the common kinds of shots people go for. It's very readable, even "front to back" like a novel. I highly recommend this book!
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Summary: No detail. Only Table of Contents.
Comment: I downloaded a sample of this hoping to get a chapter or two, and all I got was the Table of Contents. Not enough to see if I wanted to buy it.
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Summary: Another Winner
Comment: For anyone who has ever thought to themselves, "Just tell me what I'm supposed to do...never mind all the technicalities", this book is for you. I have never been disappointed by a Scott Kelby book and recommend several of them to both my photography and graphic design students.
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Summary: This is one lame book
Comment: Scott Kelby makes fun of his own lame humor however, in an approximately 200 page book, you don't need 25% in lame humor, making fun of lame humor and repetition of his pontificating.
While there is some good information here, there isn't much that one can't find in the most basic references or for free online.
I've never read one of Kelby's books before and looked forward to getting this one due to his reputation. However, if his style is consistent with this edition, I won't be reading or purchasing any others.
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Summary: One of the Best Photography Books on the Market
Comment: An excellent photography book with excellent tips. A must read book. Anyone can get something out of this book. A must read book and a must keep book to read again later.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Scott Kelby, the man who changed the "digital darkroom" forever with his groundbreaking, #1 bestselling, award-winning book The Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers, now tackles the most important side of digital photography--how to take pro-quality shots using the same tricks today's top digital pros use (and it's easier than you'd think).
This entire book is written with a brilliant premise, and here’s how Scott describes it: "If you and I were out on a shoot, and you asked me, 'Hey, how do I get this flower to be in focus, but I want the background out of focus?' I wouldn't stand there and give you a lecture about aperture, exposure, and depth of field. In real life, I'd just say, 'Get out your telephoto lens, set your f/stop to f/2.8, focus on the flower, and fire away.' You d say, 'OK,' and you'd get the shot. That's what this book is all about. A book of you and I shooting, and I answer the questions, give you advice, and share the secrets I've learned just like I would with a friend, without all the technical explanations and without all the techno-photo-speak."
This isn't a book of theory?it isn't full of confusing jargon and detailed concepts: this is a book of which button to push, which setting to use, when to use them, and nearly two hundred of the most closely guarded photographic "tricks of the trade" to get you shooting dramatically better-looking, sharper, more colorful, more professional-looking photos with your digital camera every time you press the shutter button.
Here's another thing that makes this book different: each page covers just one trick, just one single concept that makes your photography better. Every time you turn the page, you'll learn another pro setting, another pro tool, another pro trick to transform your work from snapshots into gallery prints. There's never been a book like it, and if you're tired of taking shots that look "OK," and if you’re tired of looking in photography magazines and thinking, "Why don't my shots look like that?" then this is the book for you.
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