Good, Concise, Practical AdviceThis book is really aimed at people who know a bit about photography, but who want to improve. I'm not sure I'd recommend it to a complete novice, as the aim is to tell you how to get your photos how to look like the example, not the theory behind it. However, if you have a DSLR and you just want to know what you need to do with it to get a certain effect, then this is ideal. Some other points of note:
- you do have to put up with Scott's, um, humour (-should that be humor?), which can be a bit annoying at times
- this is concise and too the point: most topics are covered in one page (-and that page includes the photo as well), so it's great if you don't want to spend days reading around the topic
- similarly it's great for reference
- pocket sized for portability!
All in all, it does exactly what it aims to do, without wasting your valuable time : that alone merits 5 stars
Quick and EasyI feel this is a good practical beginners book with useful tips. Scott should stop being funny. Good humour when used like a pinch of salt, makes consumption pleasurable. Scoops of mediocre humour makes it unreadable. The author posts an apology for his humour and then relates the rest of the book after page 7 in a more serious note. He cannot help his personality which from time to time throws up bad humour!
Advice to Readers "Start reading after page 7!".Continue to ignore humour if you find any after that!!
Advice to Scott Kelby "Look up the Amazon catalogue and buy and read a book which might teach you how to be funny. Your humour is the worst I have read in years. Your book is good. Keep it simple by stopping your verbal diarrhoea!!"
You won't become a pro after reading this, but...... it's a good starting point. Set aside his lame sense of humour, the book has good advice for beginners and it can definitely help improving one's skills. It's easy to read and full of useful information. I would not recommend it for advanced photographers (even advanced amateurs), but for beginners it's a good book.
The Digital Photography BookFabulous book, full of handy hints and tips for quick brilliant results. Well worth the money and especially informative for beginners and veterans alike
DO NOT BUY!!!!!!I did not find this book useful at all. Though there were lots of reviews and good comments about. In brief the book is:
1.put your camera at aperture priority mode
2.put aperture at f(something)
and shoot
if you are lucky you'll get nice photo if not you still have 32 gb memory card just keep shooting at least some few photos would look professional ,even if after shooting some 2000 photos they don't look good still you have photoshop.
ye and the book was buy this, buy that especially tripod.
About the author's humour just one word Rubbish.
So what I did after this disappointing reading.
I went to Waterstones,picked up couple of photography books ,bought a cup of coffee from Costa and start to review them. My selection stopped at Bryan Peterson's Understanding Exposure and Michal Freeman's Photographer's Eye . Then I got them from Amazon great books,5 stars out of 5. As a starter photographer (bought my SLR camera a month ago) I've find them very useful books. Even my friends already long time with photography find these books great.
So my advise do not rush to buy anything , go to your book store , choose some books and review them and only after this order the best ones for you from Amazon.
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