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Summary: John Nemerovski MyMac.com Book Review
Review: One of the prime ways to obtain digital pictures is to create them yourself. In spite of the "PHD," or "push here, dummy" tendency of most point-and-shoot digital photographers, a good third-party book always helps with understanding what's what with your equipment and photographic results.Each of the primary topics is explored with a series of detailed questions, followed by numbered steps accompanied by screenshots and illustrations. Digital Photography: 99 easy tips has a center section containing completed examples in color, effective itemized descriptive text, and not-very-good-quality black and white photos that go along with valuable techniques and tips. Tutorials are brief and specific, and encourage readers to practice the lessons on their own with necessary repetition. Photography is so effortless, most of us never understand that to excel at it requires practice and more practice. This book has a decent intro to digital cameras and storage media, with good content on basic photography. I had just read a digital camera manual before picking up Digital Photography: 99 easy tips, and the book really helped me make sense of the gobbledygook in the official manual. You will be a better photographer from working with all the material in this very affordable book. MacMice Rating: 3 out of 5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ John Nemerovski
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Summary: Digital Photography 99 Easy Tips
Review: The title says it all. This is my fifth book on Digital Photography and none of them has explored Digital Photography as clear as Ken has with this book. What makes it all the more interesting is that you can put into practice what you have read as you go along. It's a well earned 5 stars.Check out its comprehensive index and judge it yourself.
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Summary: One of best teachers for cameras; but imaging falls short.
Review: This book would have rated 5 stars, if only a CD with digital images were provided for the part II "Digital Darkroom" techniques. An excellent text for easily learning a lot about digital cameras - and worth the $20 for that part alone. But talking about digital image processing, supported only by poorly reproduced black-and-white shots on greyish paper, doesn't hack it. Had the author provided a CD with practice images to support his well-done imaging tips, it would have been masterful. But words alone are incapble of giving you the "feel" for fine-tuning options and sliders in PhotoShop Elements or similar programs. The author does provide a website address that perhaps will have the missing pictures? But no, I receive a puzzling message of "account unavaiable; contact your support rep". Huh? Anyhow, even if the images could be downloaded, it would be an inexcusable waste of the reader's time, and once again no substitute for an included CD. Ken Milburn is an excellent teacher - let's hope a 2nd edition of this potential winner will address these issues.
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Summary: Milburn talks the talk, but can't walk the walk
Review: This book would have rated 5 stars, if only a CD with digital images were provided for the part II "Digital Darkroom" techniques. An excellent text for easily learning a lot about digital cameras - and worth the $20 for that part alone. But talking about digital image processing, supported only by poorly reproduced black-and-white shots on greyish paper, doesn't hack it. Had the author provided a CD with practice images to support his well-done imaging tips, it would have been masterful. But words alone are incapble of giving you the "feel" for fine-tuning options and sliders in PhotoShop Elements or similar programs. The author does provide a website address that perhaps will have the missing pictures? But no, I receive a puzzling message of "account unavaiable; contact your support rep". Huh? Anyhow, even if the images could be downloaded, it would be an inexcusable waste of the reader's time, and once again no substitute for an included CD. Ken Milburn is an excellent teacher - let's hope a 2nd edition of this potential winner will address these issues.
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Summary: not a good books for digital photo, but goob for adobe
Review: This books is more focus in how to edit your photos with adobe photoshop, that how to take a picture. the author do not cover the diferents techniques, nor he explain how to improve the shot with you camera or before you take the picture, basilly the books has 4 or 6 chapters on the difirent features in the camera and then goes on in how to edit the photos in you computer. not a good book if you want to improve you technique on taking pictures
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Summary: I don't know about Pro but
Review: this is a great book to expand your horizons with your digital camera. I like the layout and a digital camera makes it so easy and inexpensive to experiment with all the ideas laid out in this great book. If you have a good background in photography, some of the concepts will not be new to you, but its a great gift for someone starting out with a new digital camera.
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Summary: Milburn talks the talk, but can't walk the walk
Review: This is a useful book for beginning to intermediate digital photographers. The writing is mostly clear and concise (though a more thorough editing job would have caught a few typos and more than a few awkward sentences), and Milburn does a fine job avoiding geekspeak without talking down to his readers. The cheesy-looking cover is a turn-off though, and a foreshadowing of the lack of visual sophistication throughout. The print quality of the black and white example photos strewn through the book is somewhere between mediocre and atrocious; there seems to have been little effort on the part of the publisher to ensure print quality and a modicum of contrast (all the b/w pics look washed out). But Milburn mostly has himself to blame for the unappealing-looking photography. The guy just isn't that good a lensman. So while he knows his stuff, his pictures are only moderately competent -- and wholly uninspiring. A 16-page color section in the heart of his book is meant to show off his work to its advantage, illustrating different techniques. These pictures are well-printed for change, but their mostly compositional flaws shows that Milburn just can't practice what he preaches. The best example is his picture of a roller coaster, a photo whose surprisingly dreary colors are accentuated by what looks to be a mudfield occupying the whole bottom third of the image. Ugh. Nevertheless, this is a solid and suprisingly exhaustive primer on digital photography. It could have been a great book if Milburn had had the modesty to use high-quality third-party pictures (even stock images would have worked fine), instead of uninspiring samples from his own ho-hum portfolio.
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Summary: The best book I've found!
Review: This is the book on digital photography for which I've been searching since first immersing myself in this hobby. Every question that I've been trying to get answered is here. It's like the author wrote this book just for me.
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