The Digital Photography Book

With The Digital Photography Book, author Scott Kelby has created a unique resource that every beginning and intermediate level photographer should purchase, read and keep in the camera bag right along with the lenses, filters and other photography essentials. Kelby's approach goes far beyond theory by providing the nuts and bolts details you need to take great pictures with your digital camera under a wide variety of conditions and situations. Much of the book is indeed dedicated to theory, but there is just enough of it to enable you to understand why the practical techniques and camera settings detailed in later chapters work. I found the most useful part of the entire book to be the chapter entitled "Photo Recipes To Help You Get "The Shot". This is a very accurate title because of the way the information is presented. Every page in this chapter features a different photograph accompanied by a detailed explanation of how it was taken - which shutter speed and f-stop were used, the time of day the photo was taken, whether flash or a filter were used... In short, Kelby provides every pertinent detail on how the image was captured. Even if you decide to ignore everything in the book except for the "recipe" chapter, you'll still find it well worth the cost. At just 219 pages, The Digital Photography Book isn't the largest photography reference book on the market, but those pages are jam-packed with nothing but practical information that you can use right away to start taking better pictures with your digital camera. If you own a digital camera, this book belongs in your camera bag.   Title: The Digital Photography Book Author: Scott Kelby Publisher: Peachpit Press ISBN: 0-321-47404-X Retail Price: $19.95