I recently purchased my first DSLR (a Nikon D50) and I want to buy a book that will teach me alot about DSLRs. I seldom know much of the lingo that the experienced photographers talk about - it's practically foreign to me!
2007-01-29 13:22:13 · 4 answers · asked by chiaroscuro 4 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Cameras
I have two recommendations:
1 - "The Digital Photography Book" by Scott Kelby. This is an easy to read book and can serve as a field guide. This book covers lot of different shooting situations and covers common settings for those situations. His approach is to write like the reader and he are on location and he is answering the questions in a fairly straight forward way without a lot of the technical stuff.
2. "Understanding Exposure". I think the author's last name is Peterson. This book goes into more depth on f-stop and shutter speed. He talks about situations that are best for wide open aperatures, situations that are best for mid-range aperatures, and situations that are best for small aperatures. The book also has lots of great photos so it is almost a coffee table book. I've taken pictures for a long time and this book really helped open my eyes to f-stop & shutter speed relationships.
Both of these books are fairly cheap on sites like amazon.com.
2007-01-29 14:32:06 · answer #1 · answered by k3s793 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it's practically foreign to you, you might consider the "National Geographic Field Guide to Photography: Digital." It's available on Amazon and that's the exact title. I had a book from them called the "Ultimate Field Guide to Digital Photography" and I returned it because it was about 398 pages of basic information that I could have written myself and 2 pages that made me say, "Oh yeah, I forgot about that." I do not see this "ultimate" guide listed, even on the National Geo site store, so maybe they had too many returns.
Anyhow, I see a few of the reviews of the first book on Amazon say it was too basic for them, so maybe this is a good place to start. Go to Amazon and search using the full title and you'll find it.
2007-01-29 14:09:12 · answer #2 · answered by Jess 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Join a local photographic club or go on a college course, its the quickest way to get the basic knowledge, trying to do it by 'book learning' can be a case of the blind leading the blind, remote learning via the web doesn't work much better either, having a tutor right there with you is priceless at least at first. Chris
2016-03-29 09:02:18 · answer #3 · answered by Regenna 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yup, "Understanding Exposure" by Brian Peterson. Just wanted to 2nd that opinion for a very helpful and informative book.
You might want to also take a look at "learning to see creatively" also by Brian Peterson. Highly recommend this one as well.
2007-01-30 06:54:20 · answer #4 · answered by Cinco13 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋