Sony A200 – Focal Digital Camera Guides
John Shaw’s Nature Photography Field Guide
Rule of Thirds
Wedding Photography Tips for the Ceremony
Canon EOS 5D Mark II Digital Field Guide
Why is cropping frowned upon by some, and used heavily by others?
HDR Photography Photo Workshop
Macro Floral Photography: Up Close and Personal
The Creative Digital Darkroom
Digital Camera World – March 2010 (UK)

Archive for the ‘Photography Books’ Category

Pet Photography 101  Tips for Taking Better Photos of Your Dog or CatDescription : With the aid of this handy guide, photographers of all skill levels can produce heartwarming shots that are certain to delight any pet parent. Andrew Darlow offers advice on composition, lighting, setting up fun shots, and printing the best quality images so you can produce top-quality work that will set you ahead of the pack. One of life`s greatest joys is our pets. Dogs, cats, and other animals represent love, joy, and boundless fun. Bravo to Andrew for creating an inspiring book! Just follow his guidance and you`re unleashed to creating works of art. As a celebrity pet photographer, I believe the book identifies great tips. Wishing you joy & wags! Read the rest of this entry »

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Digital Portrait Photography For Dummies

Posted by admin On April - 18 - 2010

Digital Portrait Photography For DummiesA full-color guide to the art of digital portrait photography

Portrait photography entails taking posed photographs of individuals or set scenery and is the most common photo style among the most novice photography hobbyist to the most advanced photographer. With this easy-to-understand guide, bestselling author and professional photographer Doug Sahlin walks you through the best techniques for getting professional-quality digital portraits.

Packed with hundreds of full-color photos and screen shots, this book discusses best practices for taking formal portraits, Read the rest of this entry »

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Nikon D3000 For Dummies

Posted by admin On April - 18 - 2010

Nikon D3000 For DummiesExplore your camera’s creative options and learn to get great shots with your dSLR!

Congratulations — you’ve chosen to take greater control over your photos with a dSLR camera! Now get expert advice on making the most of your Nikon D3000. Learn how to use its many settings, how to get the best results in automatic mode, when to use the built-in flash, how to produce prints that look as good as they do on your monitor, and more.

* Lenses, modes, and more — learn to attach and remove lenses, set the focus mode, and use all the controls Read the rest of this entry »

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How to Photograph the Moon and Planets with Your Digital CameraSince the advent of astronomical CCD imaging it has been possible for amateurs to produce images of a quality that was attainable only by universities and professional observatories just a decade ago. However, astronomical CCD cameras are still very expensive, and technology has now progressed so that digital cameras – the kind you use on holiday – are more than capable of photographing the brighter astronomical objects, notably the Moon and major planets.
Tony Buick has worked for two years on the techniques involved, and has written this illustrated step-by-step manual for anyone who has a telescope (of any size) and a digital camera. Read the rest of this entry »

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Location Photography: Essential Skills

Posted by admin On April - 18 - 2010

Location Photography Essential SkillsCovers all the fundamental skills required for location photography when using Digital, 35mm SLR and medium format cameras working with both existing light sources and introduced light.

Assignments are provided for genres such as landscape, environmental portraiture and the photographic essay. Illustrated throughout with student and author work, including a new 8-page colour plate section, Location Photography is an inspirational guide as well as a structured learning tool for mastering the essential techniques. Read the rest of this entry »

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Still Life Photography Tips – How to Take Good Photos (2)

In thhe previous post, you can see my another post about still life photography. Still photography has many uses. You might want to take a picture of a beautiful shell or perhaps a picture of the product that you sell on eBay. Learning photography is still alive can give you the possibility of your pictures [...]


Still life Photography

Still life photography is the most exciting fields of photography? It is up to each individual and personal interests of the individual, but still live photography requires much care and imagination. Award for photographers who are still alive and can be very large. Most of the advertising market with photographic images of still life. Most [...]


White Balance tips – How to Set which White Balance will you Use

The stupid phrase “White Balance” comes from professional video. Filmmakers Studio to use a special type of oscilloscope or a waveform monitor in the parade mode (or a vector scope in the old days) is equal or “balance” the signals from the camera, red, green and blue channels. A balance between these three signals is [...]


What is the exposure triangle?

The triangle of exposure is a useful way to describe the relationship between the three aspects of exposure. Each vertex of the triangle represents one of the three variables, aperture, shutter speed and ISO. Adjust only one will make the picture darker or brighter and will alter the appearance of the picture based on what [...]


Adobe releases Creative Suite 5 bundles

Adobe has released the final versions of its Creative Suite 5 software bundles that include Photoshop CS5. The five bundles contain various tools selected for use at different levels of print, web and video design and editing. Many of these tools, including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premier and After Effects are also available separately. Adobe Ships [...]


recreating a vintage Hollywood portrait

A few months to a few friends and I did a test shoot, rebuilding a vintage Hollywood portraits. While a number of features of the shoot, I would like to share some general thoughts about the shot approach to this as a test. Each photographer has his own way of doing things, but here are [...]


Apple Release RAW Compatibility Update

Apple inc has release a digital camera raw compatibility update for their photography software. That is Aperture 3, and Iphoto ’09.This Camera RAW update is version 3.2. And support for nine additional digital cameras and processing issues of file from the canon eos 30D, Pentax K-7 Digital SLR, and Pentak K-X. This update is available [...]