Digital Photography: An Introduction | 
 enlarge | Author: Tom Ang
Publisher: DK ADULT
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
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Pages: 224
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Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.7 x 0.8
ISBN: 0756626013
Dewey Decimal Number: 775
EAN: 9780756626013
ASIN: 0756626013
Publication Date: December 25, 2006
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Book Description
From improving casual snapshots to learning the secrets of lighting, composition, and digital image manipulation, this concise guide by one of the leading photographers working today provides readers with an easily accessible approach to producing better digital photographs.
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 A Good Little Book, Fun to Read August 20, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
AS FOR THE QUALITY, there are tons of photos and examples in glossy vivid color. I think one of the best things about the book is that it gets your creating juices flowing. It does discuss a lot of Photoshop techniques, so those without an editing program may not enjoy it. And perhaps there is too much on printers; I prefer to send mine over the internet to companies like [...].
Really advanced digital users may find it somewhat basic, but I think most users are basically intermediate, and this book fits the bill. It's chock-full of information, and there's just enough to send you in the right direction to go and explore on your own.
I think it's a great "intermediate introduction" and I look forward to purchasing other books by Tom Ang.
 Photography? Where? March 12, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book, like all DK books, is very pretty and full of full-color graphics and pictures and so on. Unlike most DK books, the content is minimal and poorly written. Ang has great difficulty explaining things clearly. Of the books 220+ pages, about 40 deal (in a very nonspecific way) with the actual process of taking photos. The rest of the book consists more or less of a few dozen tips for using Photoshop. Some of the figures are wrong, and some of the sets of comparison photos are printed so small that it's impossible to tell the difference between them, stare though you will. Oh, and there's an annoying piece of Mac-evangelism towards the beginning. Avoid, avoid, avoid!
 Exactly What I Needed to Decide to Go Digital February 18, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've never really liked taking pictures. I like looking at them, but not taking them. A whole bunch of people told me that by going digital I wouldn't dislike taking pictures so much. He then handed me this book, along with the admonishment that a lot of things like the number of megapixels change before the ink has time to dry on any book. ==I read the book and became convinced that the problems I had had before of not knowing if I had the picture, the endless changing of lenses, all the junk you had to carry with you has been replaced by a camera with a big memory card, and a 10X optical zoom that will also take movies.
I see some comments about this book that it is too simple, not enough material, not enough detail, etc. Could be. But it was exactly what I needed to tell me what I was getting into by going digital.
Most of my pictures are being taken to put on the web. Just the few pages he has on JPEG, GIF, etc. are again exactly what I needed. It told me what I needed to know without going into a bunch of extra detail.
 There are better books July 20, 2004
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
The problem with this book is that it attempts to cover a lot of material, but with very little depth or detail. I provides a broad overview, but doesn't provide much needed detail. The are many better books out there on digital photography. Better of spending more money to get a better book than wasting $10-$15 for this one.
Waste of Money..... I want my wasted time back. June 14, 2004
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
This books drags on, explains little and for someone like myself that is just starting in Photography and wants an understanding in common Photographic terms is useless. The following terms are not explained in Mr. Ang's Glossary at all, and too much space is given to Computer for Dummies dialog.Following terms are not at least touched upon or even explained:
Effective Resolution
Aperture
F Stop
Metering
Depth of field
Digital Optics
Exposure Control What Mr. Ang Spends most of his time doing is reprinting what has been written a thousand times over in Photoshop Books and Computer for Dummies circa 1987.
The Cameras that he compares, six models, three of the best and three of the absolute worst, are in so horrible detail, three paragraphs, that I would expect this kind of effort from a Junior High Student. Of course one will get great looking photos operating a Nikon D100 but the why is not even explained in detail, what we get instead is: How to have your eyes set from optimal monitor viewing!
I would swear that most of this material was Plagiarized for "how to set up your Computer manual" and "Photoshop for Dummies". The only saving grace to the whole book is the "Quick Fix" sections but this material I have also seen many times over in PC Week and MacWorld. If you know nothing about computers and Don't need certain Photographic terms explained and studied, and would also like to just get another tip book get the Photoshop Bible, that would be better than this outdated, ill informed over bloated drivel.
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