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The Magic of Digital Nature Photography (A Lark Photography Book) | 
 enlarge | Author: Rob Sheppard
Publisher: Lark Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 39182
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 208
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.7
ISBN: 1579907733
Dewey Decimal Number: 778.93
EAN: 9781579907730
ASIN: 1579907733
Publication Date: September 28, 2006
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Product Description
For anyone who has waited for just the right moment to capture a blazing sunset or tried to catch the stark and simple beauty of bare tree limbs in winter, this manual will prove irresistible. Rather than simply providing ideas of what to photograph, Outdoor Photographer and PCPhoto magazine editor Rob Sheppard presents invaluable insider techniques and insights: use a histogram to get the ideal exposure, or white balance to create atmospheric images. Find out how to shoot crisp close-ups or awe-inspiring panoramic shots, and how to enhance pictures by using filters such as grads and polarizers. See how computer and image-editing software can turn ordinary images into extraordinary photos. Each section offers a listing of 10 Quick Tips for handling common outdoor photography challenges.
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 Nice book for beginners. March 31, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I enjoyed this book and got a lot of good information out of it. The writing style is good and the photos are very nice.
I would say this makes a nice digital compliment to Shaw's Field Guide and Focus on Nature books.
 Extremely Disappointing Book--Buyer Beware January 27, 2008
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
If you are looking for a helpful book on nature photography, keep looking. This book's focus is not on technique (or even nature photography) but mostly on gear and simplistic ABCs.
55% of the book is photos. None of the photos give detail of how it was shot or any twist on a technique used. This drops the page count from 207 pages to 93 functional pages. The first 61 pages offer nothing different than that of a camera's manual on shutter speed, white balance, etc. More wasted space is used on "gear" about tripods and cameras. Doing the math, we are now down to 66 pages. This process continues to where we have just a few pages that may offer some value.
Much of the remaining reduction comes in wasted space on "gear" which Sheppard rehashes multiple times. This book's only purpose would be to get someone not the slightest interested in photography to perhaps spark an interest. For any photographer at any level, the book offers nothing than what you find on camera manufacturer websites and manuals inside camera boxes. It is so basic that even beginners would be hard pressed to learn much. In the end, you are left wondering where the pages are about nature photography. Look elsewhere in Amazon for more suitable photography books.
 Very creative photography techniques December 3, 2007
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book is excellent for photographers wanting to expand their capabilities and improve their technique. It provides great ideas and examples for taking your photographs to the next level.
Excellent Book November 15, 2007
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book has taught me so much about exposure and everything you need to take a beautiful nature photo. I recommend to everyone....beginner to professional.
 Good,, but not great November 5, 2007
23 out of 25 found this review helpful
At first glance, the book is amazing. It is very well written with all sorts of useful advice. It is useful for a beginner, but he never sounds as if he is talking down to anyone. It has plenty of more technical advice for the more advanced, but it never becomes overwhelming. And the photos are simply amazing.
But... I do have one problem with the book, and it is fairly glaring to me. As amazing as the photos are, the author makes little to no attempt to tie them into the text. There is no attempt to use the photos as a way to explain difficult or confusing topics. It is almost like the author wrote the entire book and then simply added a bunch of photos randomly throughout the text. Photographers by nature are visual learners. It would have been much more helpful if the author had use the photos to teach us and let the text add the details instead of relying so heavily on the text itself.
The end result is that many times the beautiful photos seem more of a distraction than helpful examples. This book is very good, but it easily could have been so much better.
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