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Michael Freeman's Top Digital Photography Tips (A Lark Photography Book) | 
 enlarge | Author: Michael Freeman
Publisher: Lark Books
Category: Book
List Price: $29.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 210002
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 176
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 8.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 1600594182
Dewey Decimal Number: 775
EAN: 9781600594182
ASIN: 1600594182
Publication Date: October 7, 2008
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Product Description
For the very first time, renowned international photographer and bestselling author Michael Freeman reveals all the insider secrets that professionals keep for themselves alone. Everyone from enthusiastic amateurs to seasoned experts will learn plenty of the tried-and-true, field-tested techniques Freeman has discovered through years of experience. He helps you think and shoot like an expert, providing advice on everything from shooting in poor weather conditions to simulating complex lighting setups, from enhancing depth of field to fixing damaged files and organizing your photos effectively. His easily digestible nuggets of information explain how to make the most of your digital camera…even if you have limited resources. And that’s important, because to get a great photo, you must fully exploit your camera’s capabilities—and this guide shows you how.
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101 Top Tips October 15, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
As reviewers before me have pointed out, Michael Freeman is a very talented and indeed very highly respected photographer and with "Michael Freeman's Top Digital Photography Tips" he has brought a bit of his immense knowledge closer to all the rest of us.
The book is written in roughly the same format as Scott Kelby's "The Digital Photography Book" with one tip taking up one or two pages and all with excellent photographs to illustrate the principle being described. In stark contrast to Mr. Kelby, however, Freeman writes about his subject, photography, in a sincere, easy-going way, omitting the irritating, superfluous 'humour' of his colleague. The language is easily understandable, and you get a feeling that the author speaks to you, not down to you. The advice given is not for professionals, but rather aimed at the novice-notsonoviceyetnotpro. Even though some of the advice may seem a bit trivial or 'basic', I think it never hurts to go over them again every now and then. It just might give you a new perspective on things. And then again, the format of the book makes it entirely possible to skip whichever piece of advice you want or just look up one particular bit of interest. The tips are just that, tips. They're not a formula to succes, but a suggestion as how to go about handling many different situations in photography. It covers a lot of ground and in the back you'll find an appendix of suggested literature and websites covering the subjects treated in this book in more detail.
There are, however, quite a lot of spelilng errors, which just bothers me. It seems unprofessional and, to a degree, sloppy. This is not, I'm sure, the fault of the author, but that of the editor.
Having compared this book with Scott Kelby's "Digital Photography Book", I'll say that, unless you are absolutely camera-just-out-of-the-box new to photography (in which case you should get both, I think), this is the superiour volume.
This book has been my first Michael Freeman book, but it will certainly not be the last.
 Exactly what I needed! September 28, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
There's nothing new about a list of tips, but of course it depends on who's making it. I too am getting frustrated with an increasing number of books about photography by NON-photographers. If I want to learn a skill, a craft or an art, I want to learn it from a professional. Michael Freeman is one of the very few writers who actually IS a renowned professional photographer. More like this, please! Can't wait for the next 101 great tips.
Great pro advice September 28, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
It's great to see a book about how professional photographs are really taken. There are oh so many books being churned out by people who aren't even photographers! Just wannabe book writers. This guy shoots for top international magazines and publishers, and the pictures here show it. Like all Michael Freeman's books, this is the real thing - no-nonsense, professional, no talking-down, written for other intelligent photographers.
 Beautiful book, beautiful pictures, not so great advice September 26, 2008
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is a decent book if you don't know anything about photography. Half of the advice is pretty helpful. But the other half is overly verbose and common sense. For example, 9) Situational Awareness (no duh!!!), 10) Stay with the Situation (duh!). There are of course some helpful sections Color, Composition, etc. In the end I found the organization of the book to be too random for my taste. For example, the author intermixes his stories with the topic that goes off tangent, and throughout the book he keeps talking about how important it is to do post processing.
He's also an advocate of HDR (high dynamic range) using expensive softwares, and has many pages dedicated to using software to make the picture better, even though it really belongs in the processing section. Look, if I'm really interested in post processing, I'd buy a post processing book. Overall, not very impressed with the book.
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