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3.63 AVERAGE
John Shaw's Guide to Digital Nature Photography is an extremely comprehensive, yet not intimidating, guide to how to best use your camera, especially with nature photography. It walks you through how to properly set up your camera, managing exposure, many different types of lenses, manual exposure, composition, and much more. Shaw presents this information in a very interesting and approachable way, unlike many photography books that tend to go on and on and lose you in the process.
If you're looking to get more comfortable with your camera and really put it to use, I highly recommend this book. Plus it is littered with amazing pictures!
4/5 Stars
I received this book from Blogging for Books to review.
If you're looking to get more comfortable with your camera and really put it to use, I highly recommend this book. Plus it is littered with amazing pictures!
4/5 Stars
I received this book from Blogging for Books to review.
John Shaw's Guide to Digital Nature Photography is a solid choice for someone seeking to improve their nature shots using a digital camera. Chapters are broken out into gear, getting started, lenses, composition, close-ups, and the photographer at work. I personally use one of the newer Nikon "bridge" all in one cameras, so I was hoping to learn more about the manual aspects of my camera, and which settings to use if I want to learn to adapt to shooting with a digital SLR camera. The book stresses the "why" of doing certain steps, and how shutter speed, lens aperture and ISO work together to deal with light. Shaw simply explains the difference between your cameras A, S, P, and M mode, and in what situations to use each mode. I really enjoyed the examples, and how it listed the settings used to capture the photograph.
Shaw does give you some general all-purpose advice like "Don't underexpose"- with digital captures, noise lives on the dark side. My favorite sections covered lighting and composition. I like the idea of taking the same scene, and showing it in different light to present different options.
My main issue with the book is the small type, which I imagine could be difficult for an older reader. I did enjoy the photos in the book, and the actual description of how Shaw captured the image. I received a copy of this book from Blogging for Books.
Shaw does give you some general all-purpose advice like "Don't underexpose"- with digital captures, noise lives on the dark side. My favorite sections covered lighting and composition. I like the idea of taking the same scene, and showing it in different light to present different options.
My main issue with the book is the small type, which I imagine could be difficult for an older reader. I did enjoy the photos in the book, and the actual description of how Shaw captured the image. I received a copy of this book from Blogging for Books.
John Shaw's Guide to Digital Nature Photography includes many beautiful images in the book. But, overall the pictures do not seem as saturated in color as I would have expected. The author seems well qualified as a photographer and as a reader I appreciate his suggestions to start with what you have and truly evaluate what you need. Cameras and equipment can be amazingly expensive and feel out of reach to a beginner. John Shaw often encourages the reader to discover for themselves what works for them. A lot of detailed information is included in this book and there are many examples. Shaw borders on overwhelming, but just misses it. He starts with the basics and moves on. Most beginners willing to put in the effort will get a lot out of this book.
This title had a table of contents and an index making it easier to refer to individual sections.
NOTE: I received this book from the Blogging for Books program in exchange for this review
This title had a table of contents and an index making it easier to refer to individual sections.
NOTE: I received this book from the Blogging for Books program in exchange for this review
How do you take great photographs of the big natural world? Many of us love to take photos today and one of our favorite subjects is nature.
Often, however, our photos are disappointing. What are we doing wrong? How can we take better pictures?
This book is an excellent place to start. About half of the book tells about ways to better ways to use the equipment and better ways to compose photos. In the section on equipment, I learned about filters and flashes and metering and tripods and lenses and exposures. I’m a new photographer, so much of the information about ways to use the equipment was new to me, and some of it was over my head. But if you have more experience as a photographer, it will probably be perfect for you. For me, my favorite part of the book was about ways to better compose the photos. In this section, I learned about lighting, framing, close-ups, and learning to see “photo-graphically.”
I’ve had this book for several months, and I’ve read over it many times, in preparation for my trip this summer to Yellowstone Park.
Often, however, our photos are disappointing. What are we doing wrong? How can we take better pictures?
This book is an excellent place to start. About half of the book tells about ways to better ways to use the equipment and better ways to compose photos. In the section on equipment, I learned about filters and flashes and metering and tripods and lenses and exposures. I’m a new photographer, so much of the information about ways to use the equipment was new to me, and some of it was over my head. But if you have more experience as a photographer, it will probably be perfect for you. For me, my favorite part of the book was about ways to better compose the photos. In this section, I learned about lighting, framing, close-ups, and learning to see “photo-graphically.”
I’ve had this book for several months, and I’ve read over it many times, in preparation for my trip this summer to Yellowstone Park.
I was drawn to this book because of the nature photography on the cover. I did not realize that it was also an instructional book on how to take wonderful natural photography. The examples of photographs in this book are well worth it, but Shaw also provides a great overview of photography. You do not need to know anything about photography before reading, he explains everything.