- ISBN13: 9780756636722
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
It’s easy to see why digital photography has overtaken analog in popularity-it’s affordable, convenient, versatile, and, above all, it makes photography more fun than ever before. Tom Ang’s latest book is an in-depth, inspirational, and uniquely practical guide to every aspect of digital photography. There are assignments and analysis spreads, and step-by-step tutorials to help you hone your skills. He teaches you to look at the world with a photographer’s “eye” and… More >>
Digital Photography Masterclass
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#1 by Larry E. Holman on April 29, 2010 - 1:17 am
A big book telling you how to photograph a situation, if you ever encounter that situation.
Rating: 3 / 5
#2 by Armageddon Aviator on April 29, 2010 - 3:35 am
The author attempted to cover (too) many topics, unfortunately, the space that was allocated in the book doesn’t allow for an in-depth coverage of each subject.
Among other annoying details, most of the photo samples are way too small (more like tiny thumbnails), you can barely figure out what the author is trying to explain.
In my opinion, the author should have presented less material but, at the same time, he should have provided more detailed coverage of each topic.
Less is more !
Rating: 2 / 5
#3 by JackOfMostTrades on April 29, 2010 - 5:55 am
Tom Ang has the right idea in showing various aesthetic uses of the camera, but this material is really suited for people who have not experimented on their own. Ang tries to dispel certain myths, like a photo should not be blurry because it will not be satisfying, or that the perfectly exposed photo is the “best” photo. If you treat photography as a means to express your own vision, you know all this stuff implicitly I hope. It might help people who basically see the camera as a technology, but a visit to a good museum and looking at painting, sculpture and photography, and viewing the work critically, will help a lot more than the illustrations in this book.
Rating: 3 / 5
#4 by Paul S on April 29, 2010 - 6:35 am
Some reviewers here have commented on the difficulty in comprehending the writing style of the author of this book. I concur. He clearly doesn’t make his writing user friendly. He seems to write at times for the purpose of being different from other photography manual writers, not to instruct or impart info. Then there’s just the bad English, like on p. 101: “This the commonest and most visible method used in images to help the viewer to decode information about distance and depth, and it provides the fundamental movement in the photograph.”
The book also suffers from what I’ve now seen in 3 Ang books – tackling too many subjects (many ancillary) with too little depth. So you have the danger that someone will come away thinking they know a topic when there is so much more to read.
This book lacked the useful glossary and website listing of his “Digital Photographer’s Handbook”, which I rated a 3 for those 2 sections only.
By way of background, I’m a pro photographer looking for books to use in tutoring beginning to intermediate students. I wouldn’t use this with that cleintele or for a “masterclass”.
Paul
Rating: 2 / 5
#5 by sylvia plath on April 29, 2010 - 6:35 am
Have received reports from my son in Hawaii for whom the book was purchased that he was very pleased. Information is up to date and complete.
Rating: 5 / 5