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31 of 32 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A good Book, 15 Sep 2004
By A Customer
It took me quite a while to find a book like this as all the other books on photography seem to be geared either towards education (IE GCSE course book) or otherwise if you look at any book with "Digital" in their title then they are all about Photoshop and not about taking pictures.This book is simply about taking pictures. It assumes little about what camera you use (Digital or Film), although people with higher end compact (eg Canon G5) and entry level SLRs (eg Nikon D70) would get most out of the book as it goes through the features you can play with on those cameras. As this is not an educational "Text Book" you wont see a description of how light goes through a lens or what are things like chromatic distortion and barrel distortion are, and by removing such background coverage it makes the book immediately more readable. It covers various situations in enough detail to allow you to understand how to get a better shot, or how to tweak the settings to get a more interesting shot eg by changing the depth of field, or choosing a different shooting position. The main situations I have found useful are: Night time photography, Portraiture and Photographing Children and Babies, the latter being the most important to me as I have just recently had my first child. All in all a good book especially if you don't want to know how light goes through a lens and if you prefer to take a good shot in the first place rather then digitally retouch it afterwards.
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