Shooting Digital: Pro Tips for Taking Great Pictures with Your Digital Camera
Amazon.com Review
A digital camera is functionally identical to a traditional film camera in all respects except image storage, right? Not at all, and Mikkel Aaland shows exactly why in his excellent Shooting Digital. He shows why digital cameras–the point-and-shoot variety as well as fancier models meant for professional photographers–are overall neither better nor worse than cameras of older design, and goes on to show you how to take advantage of their special traits. He shows how to compensate for their shortcomings, too, notably shutter lag (for which he documents a useful testing procedure) and color fringing. Though there’s some coverage of creating animated GIFs, this book generally sticks to shooting time and leaves editing to other volumes.
Aaland never forgets that digital cameras should be more cameras than digital, and his book serves as an excellent photography text for hobbyists and aspiring professionals. The author’s advice in this area is both technical (how to light a still life and how to best a strobe to eliminate shadows) and artistic (why kids should be encouraged to photograph other kids, and how you can use perspective to create weird effects). He’s an accomplished photographer who obviously loves his work, and his enthusiasm for making art with a camera–and, for that matter, just playing with one–come through brilliantly. –David Wall
Topics covered: Photography–of objects, people, places, action, nature, and other subjects–as accomplished with a modern digital camera. Emphasis falls on the relationship between camera and subject, as defined by focus, lighting, composition, and motion. Further attention goes to image manipulation accomplished via camera settings (like white balance and exposure, and, a little bit, to post-shoot processing with image software. There’s also nice coverage of the differences among various image file formats.
–This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Shooting Digital: Pro Tips for Taking Great Pictures with Your Digital Camera
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Good book for taking digital photos – intermediate
It’s a good book – easy to understand – not necessarily what a pro would need but very good for the beginner to intermediate.
Great for the intermediate digital photographer
This book is clearly not pointed at true beginners (and says as much). It fills a huge gap in the existing material, a book for the intermediate shooter.
Most up-to-date book for the “transitioning” photographer
Wonderful book for the experienced hobbiest/prosumer film photographer finally making the transition to serious digital work.
not very useful
I’m not sure what this book is supposed to accomplish. It doesn’t teach fundamentals of photography — it assumes you already know a lot; it uses some technical terminology that…
Review of 2nd Ed: Not much appears to have been updated since 2003
There are numerous tips and tricks revealed in ‘Shooting Digital, SECOND Edition’ published in the fall of 2006, with xvi + 287 pages.
OK, but wish there were better examples
I enjoyed the book.
I felt like I learned things about taking digital photos from this book, but I was left wanting more side by side examples.
A great book!
I am totally satisfied of this book. It seems to be very useful for a digital amateur, enthusiast or pro. All I can say is that the book is very valuable.
Great information
This book does a great job of of explaing how a digital camera works. It uses real life examples to demonstrate the information presented to you.
shooting digital
practical information for the digital camera enthusiast who is also in search of fundamental photographic priciples and techniques for shooting portraiture, still life,…