| Overview
Your digital camera is more than new incarnation of your old film
camera. Yes, it still produces photos, but it also offers new
outlets for creativity, including instant gratification of seeing
your photos now, the ability to experiment without worrying about
expense, the technology to fine-tune your photos with advanced
professional techniques, and the means to share your work
instantaneously with anyone, anyplace in the world. It's no wonder
that digital cameras are outselling traditional cameras for the
first time ever. But the question most digital camera users ask is
this, "How do I get from taking 'decent' photos to doing the things
I'd really like to do? How do I tap into that potential?"
Digital Photography Hacks is your passport to taking the
kind of digital photos you've always aspired to. Written by Derrick
Story, photographer and author of Digital Photography Pocket
Guide and other books, it goes beyond the standard fare of most
digital photography books--such as camera basics, understanding
memory cards, and when to use a flash--to the things that
professional photographers have learned through thousands of shots'
worth of experience, years of experimentation, and fiddling and
hacking. The book includes a foreword by photographer Rick Smolan,
author of America 24/7. With exquisite, full-color photos
throughout, the book presents a collection of tips, tricks, and
techniques for photographers ready to move beyond the basics. And
if you don't have the latest in digital camera photography, this
book will show you how to extend the life and functionality of your
existing camera. All the hacks in the book are platform-agnostic,
designed for use on both Mac on Windows-based computers. You'll
find 100 proven techniques in the areas of:
This book is for the photographer you are now, and the one you want
to be. Digital Photography Hacks is for the creative
adventurer who resides in each of us.
Editorial ReviewsProduct DescriptionYour digital camera is more than new incarnation of your old film camera. Yes, it still produces photos, but it also offers new outlets for creativity, including instant gratification of seeing your photos now, the ability to experiment without worrying about expense, the technology to fine-tune your photos with advanced professional techniques, and the means to share your work instantaneously with anyone, anyplace in the world. It's no wonder that digital cameras are outselling traditional cameras for the first time ever. But the question most digital camera users ask is this, "How do I get from taking 'decent' photos to doing the things I'd really like to do? How do I tap into that potential?" Digital Photography Hacks is your passport to taking the kind of digital photos you've always aspired to. Written by Derrick Story, photographer and author of Digital Photography Pocket Guide and other books, it goes beyond the standard fare of most digital photography books--such as camera basics, understanding memory cards, and when to use a flash--to the things that professional photographers have learned through thousands of shots' worth of experience, years of experimentation, and fiddling and hacking. The book includes a foreword by photographer Rick Smolan, author of America 24/7. With exquisite, full-color photos throughout, the book presents a collection of tips, tricks, and techniques for photographers ready to move beyond the basics. And if you don't have the latest in digital camera photography, this book will show you how to extend the life and functionality of your existing camera. All the hacks in the book are platform-agnostic, designed for use on both Mac on Windows-based computers. You'll find 100 proven techniques in the areas of: - Daytime and nighttime photo secrets
- Flash magic
- Digital camera attachments
- The computer connection
- Photoshop magic
- Fun photo projects
- Camera phone tricks
This book is for the photographer you are now, and the one you want to be. Digital Photography Hacks is for the creative adventurer who resides in each of us. |
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Reader Reviews From Amazon (Ranked by 'Helpfulness') Average Customer Rating: based on 23 reviews. Be prepared to spend money to take advantage of hacks, 2007-08-18 Reviewer rating: Weaknesses: A surprisingly large percentage of the hacks require you to spend money on devices or software. To take best advantage of this book you should own an SLR camera, Photoshop, and a camera phone. Some of the advice, such as fill flash, is drawn from standard photographic techniques that you could get from any book.
Strengths: Here and there one can find useful techniques. For example, he has good ideas on eliminating red eye. Some of the recommended items are inexpensive and worth looking into. The book also does a good job of telling the advantages and disadvantages of the devices and software he recommends. | Excellent Book, Very Clever Ideas, 2007-03-26 Reviewer rating: I was very pleasantly surprised to finally get a book on digital photography that was page after page, completely full of all new ideas! The title says it all. In this book you will find various work arounds, short cuts and generally smarter way of doing things. Lots of insiders tips that the pros know, but the rest of us plebs don't.
This is one book you will come back to again and again. Extremely useful!
Enjoy
| Useful Hacks for you digital camera, 2006-01-14 Reviewer rating: Digital Photography Hacks is a part of O'reilly's hacks series, which provide tricks and solutions for different fields. This book gives you tips and tricks when dealing with your digital camera.
I read this book after reading Digital Photography Guide for the same writer, Direck. So, I found myself comparing between the two books and found the Digital Photography Hacks is an extension for the Digital Photography Guide. These tips and tricks complete your knowledge with some useful methods to create professional photos using tools and things around you.
If you know your camera well, you will find this book very useful and open your mind for new tricks to produce professional photos. However, if you were a beginner in digital photography I would prefer to start with Direck's Digital Photography Guide.
| Useful Tips, But Lots of Tips are Neither Hacks nor Industrial-Strength, 2006-01-14 Reviewer rating: I am an amateur photographer and I did learn a number of useful things from this book. However, I am rating it a 3, primarily because it contains few information on what I really bought this book for: to take better photos using my digital camera. I got the Digital Photography Pocket Guide, 2nd Edition by the same author at the same time as this book, and that one taught me more about how to take better digital photos.
There are really cool and useful stuff written in this book like eliminating bars from animal cages and using pantyhose to get some special effects; good suggestions on using tripods and flashes. These are what makes this book worthwhile.
But then, this book also contains lots of "tips" that I do not find very useful. Perhaps it is because it lacks focus and it doesn't consider what most readers already have. Whether this book is geared towards the novice photographer or someone who has a point-and-shoot or an SLR is unclear. Most "hacks" suggested by computer books will assume you only have the main software and may suggest you download few additional ones that are mostly free. This book has a number of tips that need additional equipment costing more than $100. I wanted to try out taking portraits using two external flashes as this book suggested, only to find out that the two external flashes can cost me $500!
Furthermore, there are a few suggestions that although useful, I find to be inappropriately labeled as an industrial-strength hack. Yes, an iPod can be used to store your photos. Even if there may be iPod owners who may have missed that, I don't own an iPod and I surely know it can store photos already even before this book told me so. It is cool that you can take photos and use your camera phone to communicate in a foreign country, but again, this info did nothing to make me a better photographer | Neat Little Photo Book, 2005-11-07 Reviewer rating: Be prepared, this book has no real theme. It is a hodgepodge of interesting stuff. The photoshop section is very good, which is surprising, as that is not the focus of the book. However, I learned a good deal from that section. Some of this stuff most people will never use, but it definately gets you thinking. My favorite was using the camera as a scanner, when you don't have one handy. |
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