Choosing The Best Digital Photography Books & Manuals

Posing Secrets - The Photographer's Essential Guide

The Digital SLR Handbook

40 Digital Photography Techniques

Complete Digital Photography

Digital Photography for Dummies

Posing Secrets - The Photographer's Essential Guide, Malcolm Boone.

Whether you are an amateur or professional, Posing Secrets - The Photographer's Essential Guide, is an important source for you if you are ever thinking of photographing people. Ahem, I guess, that means it is a great guide for anyone who owns a camera....

Taking pictures of people is one of the toughest things to do well. This book explains in clear words which techniques to use to do different types of shots, e.g. head shots, three-quarter shots and full lengh shots. It also discusses techniques for when people are in motion, seating, standing, basically any pose you will need as a photographer.

The book teaches you how to focus on the body to help with the posing. It also helps you understand how to re-create a successful pose, discusses suggestions to help analyze photos and poses. After you have read this guide you will be a lot more comfortable with taking photos of people. You will find that your level of photography will be taken to a new level and as you practice with the techniques you learn, you will only get better and better.

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The Digital SLR Handbook, Michael Freeman.

The ultimate reference for serious photographers making the switch from film to digital, The Digital SLR Handbook tackles head on all the issues with which traditional photographers struggle when getting to grips with shooting digital and digital image processing.

Drawing on his own experience and his discussions with fellow photographers, best-selling digital photography author Michael Freeman answers the questions that photographers ask most often, and explains matters they can find confusing or difficult to understand.

From sensors, storage media, and resolution, through formats, histograms, and dynamic range, to digital noise vs. film grain, color management, and image work flow - this book gives you all the information you need.

Comprehensive in its scope and unrivaled in its depth, The Digital SLR Handbook is the definitive reference source for every professional or enthusiast photographer. We found this to be a firm favorite and one of our best digital photography books reviewed.

40 Digital Photography Techniques, John Kim.

40 Digital Photography Techniques will show you how to:

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The Complete Guide To Digital Photography, Michael Freeman.

This guide has been completely updated and revised to reflect technological advances. It offers essential techniques and professional tips for digital camera work and guidelines for choosing suitable digital equipment, including cameras, computers, monitors, scanners and printers.

The book covers all aspects of photography from actually taking the pictures (probably the most important part!) through digital enhancing (the main part) to printing, including the necessary theory of each.

This digital photography book is well designed, well laid out, and diagrams and illustrations are generally of a high quality. We do agree that sometimes it is difficult to see the difference between "before" and "after" shots but this really is a minor gripe and close scrutiny will pay off in this respect. This was also one of the few that didn't waste 30 pages showing what you can do with the "artistic" and "3D" effects that come with most photo software. As earlier reviews have said, the author is clearly first and foremost a photographer and this shows. In terms of useful content, this is one of the best digital photography books we've reviewed.

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Digital Photography for Dummies, Julie King.

If you are already fairly comfortable with the concept of photography but find the digital part a stumbling block then Digital Photography for Dummies should get you over the hump.

Julie Adair King, a photographer and graphics-software specialist, deftly explains such concepts as resolution, f-stop, and compression. King is also refreshingly up-front about the differences between film-based and digital photography, spelling out the shortcomings of the latter in the early pages of the book.

The author herself claims this is one of 'the' best digital photography books around. We agree. Her advice, from the most basic to the more advanced aspects of the field, is well thought out and simple without being condescending. She informs readers, for example, that you needn't use high pixel resolutions simply for placing images on a Web page. Such tips come as a relief to fledgling photographers on a budget, or novices who may be led to believe they have to use the highest-quality settings at all times. This was YDP's selection for 'best digital photography book' in January. This is probably the best digital photography book for beginners. A sure fire winner!

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