The Digital Photography Book, Part 5: Photo Recipes
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The Digital Photography Book, Part 5: Photo Recipes Details
About the Author Scott Kelby is the world’s #1 best-selling author of photography books, as well as Editor and Publisher of the highly acclaimed Photoshop User magazine. He is co-host of the influential weekly photography webcast talk show The Grid, and he teaches digital photography workshops and seminars around the world. Scott is an award-winning author of more than 60 books, including The Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers, The Lightroom Book for Digital Photographers, and Light It, Shoot It, Retouch It: Learn Step by Step How to Go from Empty Studio to Finished Image. For more on Scott, visit his daily blog at http://scottkelby.com. Read more
Reviews
This was Scott Kelby's last book I've read after reading all his Digital Photography Book Part 1, 2, 3, 4. I think the way he wrote Part 5 was entirely different than he did in all previous 4 books. What I liked about this book was he was shooting in all different environments with different lightening set ups giving you the all the necessary parameters related to all the aspects of capturing high quality photos. You can see the THOUGHT PROCESS where he tells you all the preps and BEHIND THE SCENES outside image of how the object and lightening were position in relation to his camera. Next he tells you all about his choices of the lens he uses, the chosen f/stop, shutter speed, ISO and why he decided to use them. Next he goes into POST-PRECESSING section of the flow and he teach you what actually should be done there, either in Light Room or in Photoshop Camera Raw. Finally, you see the final image so you can judge the result and mentally to connect that with all the details he gives as how to get that quality of the capture. I think this book is not like a tutorial but like a reference. The only thing I wished to clear up for me and I could not find some explanation was as how he could use 1/60 shutter speeds with zoomed lens at 135 mm while hand-holding his camera and having camera-shake-free photos without using a tripod. As we know that your shutter speed should be at least the reciprocal of your lens focal length to get shake free sharp images. Using the 135 mm focal length, should call for at least 1/160 shutter speed or even faster to be on a safe side. Actually, he did mention couple times about setting higher shutter speed (faster) to avoid camera-shake problems, but at the same time he did not followed that rule religiously. In conclusion this book is very good for a photographer who is already has good working knowledge and who wants to sharpen up his/her skills in variety of different shooting situations. I do recommend this book for all the enthusiastic photographers professional or hobbyist.
