Product Description

Digital cameras are the hot new tech toy, but many of the millions of people who are buying the cameras aren't getting the most out of their new purchase. Mysterious icons, strange jargon, a dizzying array of imaging software and hardware...stumbling blocks quickly become tools to create great pictures with THE BETTERPHOTO GUIDE TO DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY. This practical, lesson-based workbook gives readers a step-by-step tutorial in getting bright, crisp, beautiful pictures from their digital cameras every time. Learn about exposure, file formats and quality settings, low-light photography, digital filters and white balance, composition and lens choice, manipulating images, printing, and much more, all in a handy, bring-along format. Everyone who has a digital camera - or who is thinking about getting one - needs THE BETTERPHOTO GUIDE TO DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #281 in Books
• Published on: 2005-06-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

About the Author
Jim Miotke is the founder of www BetterPhoto.com, an online photography resource that receives more than three million hits each month. An online instructor for the site's course on digital photography, He is also a professional photographer with more than twenty years' experience..

Customer Reviews

Very good book on Digital Photography
I started taking pictures with a 35mm SLR 40 odd years ago. After college my photography rate dropped off.

Last September I bought a digital SLR (Sony A100) and was delighted with the photos, and the quick turn-around that digital photography with an DSLR gave (no more $15 and two day wait for 36 slides!). However I felt a need to read more in order to improve my photography.

Jim's book, The BetterPhoto Guide to Digital Photography (and his other two photo books) are among the best that I have read for getting started (or in my case restarting).

I like the way he has assignements and exercises. A very useful book.

The only weakness in the book is composition of photos, but all of the forty or so photo books I have skimmed in the past year seem weak in compostion to me (rule of thirds is great, but does not seem to always apply).

Recommended!

Greg Edwards

Primer with great depth
Excellent book in a variety of ways-- a step by step approach, an overview of all the key elements, and later as a reference book. I liked the fact that Jim's advice and perspective is useful if you are using a low res phone camera or a high-end SLR. The pictures he uses, while good, are not meant to impress but to demonstrate an important principle or technique that is easy for the newbie to aspire to. He suggests exercises to re-enforce these concepts as well as just a way to go out and learn about your equipment and have fun playing around and experimenting. My only complaint is he explains the concepts and benefits of better equipment so clearly I knew I had to get a DSLR when I realized the limitations of my fixed-lens camera. Of course, I took one of the best photo's of my life with that old camera after reading this book but why stop there ;->

Not so good book
This book is not as good as the other I bought. I would not recommend it.
It give reader some information but other books are better to read and understand.