Shooting Digital: Pro Tips for Taking Great Pictures With Your Digital Camera (Mikkel Aaland)

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Shooting Digital: Pro Tips for Taking Great Pictures With Your Digital Camera (Mikkel Aaland): Nifty book that covers what it promises to. Twelve chapters of suggestions on how to improve your photography skills and post-shooting tweaking, with examples of what professional photographers or very serious amateurs do with their cameras. It's very useful, but a slightly tough read for me, since it uses the technical vocabulary - f-stops, aperture, white balance, depth of field - that I have very little experience with and can mostly merely approximate with my splendid little camera. It makes me eye the expensive professional and "prosumer" models frequently referenced with dreams of avarice. The two driving themes of the book seem to be "with forethought and practice, you can take great pictures with any camera" and "more equipment and more software never hurt, if you know how to use them." Both are true; one of them is much more useful for people who aren't planning on sinking lots of money into their photography in the near future. I'm tempted to say this book was pitched for people a little more familiar with photography and cameras than I am, but it was still really useful. Though I suspect I'm not going to understand what f-stops and aperture do until I get a camera that lets me experiment with them.

Comments

[trolleypup.livejournal.com]

This is one reason I went with the Nikon 4300...you actually can mess with stuff like this. But it is a lot easier to do on a real camera, rather than digging though menus to get to the settings.

[me want D100]

[ase.livejournal.com]

I'm still very much a young grasshopper in the photography field; I ogle and otherwise admire the shinier, more expensive cameras, but my sweet little Fuji 2650 is about all I really need at the moment. I've been known to mutter about the need for accessories, but I think I'd die from shock if I had all the functions of some of the more sophisticated models at my fingertips.

That said... D100. Pretty. *Ogles*