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Summary: Digital Yes, But a Lot of Basic Photography Principles
Review: With about a thousand pictures (I didn't really count.) spread over a bit more than 400 pages this book illustrates photography carried to any level from the (almost) beginner to the professional. In quite a number of situations he shows a picture, says here are the half dozen rules that this picture has broken, yet the final result is dramatic and appealing.
The title says Digital, and there is a lot at the beginning of the book on digital camers, computers, scanners, software and the like. The rest of the book, however, is more general in nature with much of the material illustrating that the actual photo taking techniques are not too different with digital than with film. The sections on lighting or depth of field are not different, both types of cameras work the same.
If there is an area that I'd like to see lengthened in the next edition, is a more complete section on the various software packages that are available to process and manipulate digital images. For instance, really compare Photoshop, PhotoImpact, Paint Shop Pro, Painter, PhotoRetouch Pro, and Corel Photo-Paint. Which should I buy when I want to do what?
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