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1 JohnMcPherson 1 __Get The Picture You Want__: Essential Digital Photography Techniques<br>
2 by "the Element K Journals Creative Team"<br>
3 Published by PeachPit Press<br>
4 ISBN:0321303385 <br>
5 [In the WLUG library|http://library.wlug.org.nz/show.pl?id=30]
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7 Reviewed by JohnMcPherson
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11 I feel like exactly the type of person that this book is aimed at;
12 someone with a low-to-mid-range consumer-level DigitalCamera,
13 with no formal training but lots of enthusiasm :)
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15 I have definitely picked up a lot from the book, especially how the
16 terms ''aperture'', ''[ISO]'', and ''shutter speed'' are used when
17 talking about digital cameras, and knowing how they inter-relate and
18 need to be balanced together to get good photos.
19 There is also a lot of information about the gadget side of
20 digital photography (storage formats, archiving, adapters, file
21 formats, etc) but this stuff was less useful to me personally
22 than the photography side of the book (although I can imagine it
23 being very useful to people who aren't computer geeks).
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25 There are also many general hints and tips through-out the book for things to
26 keep in mind when thinking about how the final image will look, although these
27 aren't digital-camera specific. Also, they seem to be subjective --- in art,
28 beauty is in the eye of the beholder --- so I'll just use them as
29 guidelines. But it is better to at least be aware of these things and thinking
30 about them (such as sense of balance and positioning between foreground and
31 background objects).
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33 The book has lots of images demonstrating the concepts and examples
34 discussed in the text, and these really help explain some of the
35 points (especially those to do with colours and exposure settings).
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37 Some of the things discussed seem to be common sense (especially things
38 to do with the physical care of the camera and peripherals), although
39 one of the repeated themes through-out the book, play around with the
40 camera to see what all the settings do, is a very important message
41 despite seeming obvious. (I had my camera for over 2 years before
42 discovering and playing with the long shutter exposure time setting).
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44 I recommend this book to anyone who doesn't know particularly much
45 about photography but is enthusiastic about using their camera, and
46 wants to get more out of it.
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