Digital Nude Photography

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Summary: Great basic book for digital AND for nude photography!
Review: A great beginner/serious amateur book with everything from finding a model to lighting for digital photography. An overall good book if you just bought a digital camera and you want to see how to adapt it to your nude photography, and an equally good book if you are comfortable with digital but want to explore nude photo.

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Summary: A gold mine of information!!
Review: As a aspiring photographer in the world of nudes and digital photography, I find this book to be EXCELLENT!

The information given is straight forward, simple to follow, filled with great samples and tutorials. I particurarly like the "tips" and "Fact Files" found in nearly every page.
The book is pleasing to look at and easy to read.

Rod Macdonald is a great surprise as an author and photographer. I'm very impressed with his work and inspired to emulate his results.

If you're looking to get started in photography, or brush up on some techniques, do yourself a favor and check this book out!

I'm looking forward to another volume from Rod.

Ed Schenng
Utah - USA

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Summary: nothing new or informative
Review: I was very disappointed with this book and ended up returning it. This book contains nothing but the most basic information and many very average photographs. The booklet that came with your camera and the help files you get with your software will tell you as much, if not more, than this book on most topics related to digital photography. The discussions of lighting are unbelievable in their brevity. Much more detailed information and variety of quality examples is not only available in other books, but available for free on the internet. In general, most of the topics are covered in less than a couple hundred words and some illustrations are so tiny as to be pointless. Some others are simply mediocre nude photos taken at his home for web sites on the internet.

If this is your first photography book, it might be ok (again, the amount of info is startlingly sparse and available elsewhere). Otherwise, you should certainly skip it.

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Summary: Nothing but the most basic stuff
Review: If you are completely new to digital photography there are better books than this one, if you are experienced or even a pro, there are many better books than this one and if you are looking for pretty nudes there are tons of better books than this one.

Seems to me the nude photography tilte was just a way to sell more books, as there is not too much info in the book related to that, other than the most basic stuff. The images are not that good either, not too many different models, poor lighting, ugly poses in many of them.. it all seems like it was done in a hurry.

If you are an absolute beginner in the field of nude photography the "maybe" this might have some info for you, as a starting point I guess, but that's about it.

Not recomended at all.

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Summary: Good overall reference
Review: This book is obviously aimed at the digital crowd, and therefore, most of the examples and techniques benefit digital camera users. However, there is a lot of basic information in here that pertains to silver-based images, too. I liked the author's approach -- aimed at someone that would like to do nudes but not really knowing where to start. It's a good reference and how-to for aspiring photographers. The post-processing sections are also very good tutorials.
Overall, I recommend it -- even to aspiring photographers that would like to do nudes with a film camera.

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Summary: Good overall reference
Review: This book is obviously aimed at the digital crowd, and therefore, most of the examples and techniques benefit digital camera users. However, there is a lot of basic information in here that pertains to silver-based images, too. I liked the author's approach -- aimed at someone that would like to do nudes but not really knowing where to start. It's a good reference and how-to for aspiring photographers. The post-processing sections are also very good tutorials.
Overall, I recommend it -- even to aspiring photographers that would like to do nudes with a film camera.

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Summary: A Wonderful Guide to Shooting Nudes
Review: This is one of the today's better instructional's on shooting nudes in general, and it's focus on shooting nudes with digital cameras makes it especially useful. Roderick MacDonald knows his stuff and there is really no weak points anywhere in the book. He covers everything from choosing the right digital camera to finding models to camera techniques to image editing software to setting up your own studio. And there's lots and lots more. What makes everything all the more impressive is MacDonald's photographs - this book is packed full of hundred of beautiful nude shots and he uses some very attractive models (which is not relevant to the material but is a nice touch nonetheless). These are all works from MacDonald himself, so it's quite apparent he walks the walk here. All in all, this is an excellent introduction to the medium and we recommend it for beginners all the way to advanced amateurs.