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Digital Photography in Available Light: Essential Skills, Third Edition (Photography Essential Skills) (Photography Essential Skills) | 
 enlarge | Author: Mark Galer
Publisher: Focal Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 111373
Media: Paperback
Edition: 3
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 234
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 7.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 0240520130
Dewey Decimal Number: 775
EAN: 9780240520131
ASIN: 0240520130
Publication Date: April 27, 2006
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Product Description
Digital Photography in Available Light is an inspirational guide as well as a structured learning tool for mastering the essential techniques. Learn how to choose the most appropriate digital camera for your workflow, manage your image files and process images using camera RAW. Try key capture techniques including exposure, framing the image and how to work with the available light in all situations. Explore different styles: panoramas, landscapes, environmental portraits and photo journalism. Understand ethics and law, how to plan a shoot and sell your work. Throughout youll learn the importance of image design, communication of content and essential techniques for competent and consistent image capture and creation. Includes a full glossary of terms.
* Everything you need to know to photograph in available light using a digital camera
* Learn all the essential skills and try out the invaluable activities and assignments
* Covers the whole workflow, including choosing a camera, asset management and camera RAW, shooting techniques, ethics and law and selling your work
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 helpful for entry level December 29, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I do agree with several of the reviews written on the misleading title. A book should not be judged by it's cover, make sure you do your research. This book does a great job of breaking down the fundamentals of photography. Explains simple rules, and formulas that produce quality photos, however explains the benefits of breaking the rules for creative results. I like how much of the book is not so much focused on the functions of the camera but rather how to capture moments. Not the greatest book about lighting, but the content for technique is great.
 Don't Judge by the Cover! September 30, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
The previous reviewers who commented on the lack of substantive information about available light shooting techniques, are correct. I've looked through this book carefully and it is like a dozen other beginning photography books I've seen, and that's how it should be titled. Sadly I believe the assertion that this book was mis-labeled intentionally, because there is so little inside that actually relates to available light shooting. This book, while it has some good information for beginners, is another inch deep, mile wide digital photography overview. When what it should be is mile deep, inch wide, pertaining mostly to working with available light indoors and out. A chapter on reflectors or flash is OK but as an extra, not the "meat".
Unless you're new to digital photography, look elsewhere. Focal Press should know better. They usually produce outstanding titles. This one OTOH, is average in every way except the photographic examples provided. But examples without detailed context, are useless.
A good book mainly because of the last chapter. February 3, 2007
Up until this last chapter this is a basically just another how-to digital photography book. Nothing that 10 other books don't already have. However the last chapter covers the "photo-essay" which is almost worth the price of the book. This chapters covers a lot about making a photo-essay that I have not seen in other books.
 Not About Available Light Photography January 21, 2007
21 out of 21 found this review helpful
The authors of this book should be fined for false advertising. This book is NOT about available light photography. There is not a single chapter on available light photography. This book has a chapter on picking out a digital camera. This book has a chapter on using a FLASH and picking out a FLASH. This book discusses using reflectors and LIGHT MODIFIERS to beautify your pictures. This book is a basic, generic, all encompasing book about digital photography. I have read dozens of books that have nearly the exact same information as this book, which is probably why the authors tried to sell the book under a missleading title. If they tried to sell the book under an accurate title. . . "A beginners guide to digital photography." it would have dozens of other books with the same information and premise to compete with.
As a generic digital photography book, it is not bad, though not at all original. If you are looking for a generic digital photography book, you may whant to buy this book. If you want to buy a book on available light photography, you should not waste your money because there is not a single sentence in this book dedicated to photography using only available light.
An Engaging Book December 17, 2006
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
First and foremost, this is an attractive book as every book on photography
should be. It is rich with relevant and interesting color photographs on each page.
It is not just a book about digital photography but one that shows how to use digital
photography to capture and manipulate images. If I were still teaching and teaching
a basic course in photography this certainly would be a book to consider. A well
written, well illustrated and engaging book
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