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Digital Wedding Photography: Capturing Beautiful Memories | 
 enlarge | Author: Glen Johnson
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
List Price: $29.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  88 reviews
Sales Rank: 13054
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 310
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.1
Dimensions (in): 9 x 8 x 0.8
ISBN: 0471790176
Dewey Decimal Number: 778.993925
EAN: 9780471790174
ASIN: 0471790176
Publication Date: August 7, 2006
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Product Description
Capture unforgettable moments of that special day
Professional wedding photographer Glen Johnson knows there's a huge difference between being able to take good pictures and being a good wedding photographer. In this exquisite, full-color book, Glen dispenses sage advice and solutions for taking impressive digital wedding images -- posed or candid, in any weather, in any setting, at any locale. You will also learn the secrets of creating a successful digital wedding photography business, and much more. Whether you're an aspiring professional or an amateur who wants to improve your skills at digital wedding photography, this book will help you succeed.
Discover what makes wedding photography a unique specialty
* Find out how to make people feel relaxed and comfortable while you're shooting
* Explore ways to capture the emotion as well as the moment
* Understand different photographic styles and adapt to your client's wishes
* Prepare for all types of lighting situations
* Learn appropriate etiquette for shooting in dressing rooms and during the ceremony
* Know what to take when traveling abroad
* Set up the perfect digital studio to process your images
* Find out how to price your work realistically
* See why your business skills may be more important than your photographic talent
Beautifully illustrated with full-color photographs, each showingthe camera settings and other details used to create the image
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 Planning a wedding? January 6, 2009
Being part of planning a family wedding, and being an avid armature photographer stimulated me to buying this book. I was looking for knowledge about what makes good wedding photography and hints and suggestions when picking a wedding photographer. I got a lot more!
Digital Wedding Photography - Capturing Beautiful Memories is exactly what the title implies. It explained the photographic style of Portrait Journalism. A form that mixes a little of the traditional with fine art and emotion, creating pictures that portray everyone as being at ease, comfortable, celebrating, and romantic. It helps tell the love story that makes up the wedding.
I was looking for a "must have" list and I got it. I was looking for tricks and I got many of them. I was looking for portrait tips and I certainly got that as well, plus a way of looking at wedding photography (for me) in a totally new light. Digital Wedding Photography showed the little moments that make up that special day, in a reflective, but natural style.
We will be hiring a photographer but now we know what to look for, and the pictures that we will have, and the ones I personally take that day, will be better-much better because of this book. I highly recommend it for anyone planning a wedding!
Outstanding book for it's intended audience. December 9, 2008
As the author clearly states in the introduction, this book is not intended for rank amateurs, but neither is it intended for seasoned digital wedding pros. It's primary intended audience is an advanced amateur or a pro shooter with no exposure (unintentional pun retained) to digital weddings. *IF* you are the "sweet spot" audience (advanced amateur who's never shot a wedding but wants to go semi-pro) I heartily rate this book a strong 5. It's a very well written book which gives a great intro to most aspects of the wedding business. It is quite comprehensive in it's scope. The downside of this is the more comprehensive a book is, the less detail on any one subject it can go into. This book strikes a good balance. Sometimes, the details seemed silly, such as devoting a few pages defending why a wedding photographer should use a dSLR instead of a point-and-click camera like my mother uses. The author should have named it "Digital SLR Wedding Photography" and omitted the granny-camera discussion.
For someone like me who's experienced with traditional Hasselblad weddings and is new to photojournalistic dSLR weddings, it's still a good book, but you won't get as much value out of it since you already know how to shoot weddings. For you, I would rate it a 3 or 4 at least for it's breadth and production quality. Even a seasoned wedding pro can pick up a few bits of new information and ideas from the well-organized common sense it contains.
One thing I would point out... the author's inclusion of common sense minutia, i.e., charging batteries and deleting old photos from your cards (I generally prefer reformatting) the day before the shoot, initially seem like trivial "duh" filler. Actually such items are a good example of what to include when developing your personal workflow checklists (which I highly advise you do before shooting anything, *especially* weddings).
What? You never forgot anything at the studio?
Wow, maybe YOU should write a book!
;-{>
Good purchased November 24, 2008
Very good book, shows the effect of pictures taken with natural flash, and shutter speed etc... it helps a lot.
Down to earth, excellent wedding photography guide November 23, 2008
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A lot of real good general knowledge about wedding photography. Excellent for both experienced and first time wedding photographers with a great deal of easy to follow instructions..this book delivers.
Gary
Out of a few dozen, one of the very best! November 22, 2008
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LORD...I recently added up all the dollars I've spent on wedding photojournalism and bridal portraiture "how to" books and arrived at a figure north of six hundred bucks! This is in my top-five. The title is accurate. This very well-thought out and clearly-written guide actually
SHOWS either a fledgling or ultra-experienced wedding shooter HOW to do it. Short on fuzzy theory and long on great specifics, "Digital Wedding Photography" has not spent much time on my bookshelf collecting dust.
By the way, I do weddings and bridal engagement shots...plus formal bridal portraits...across Northern Virginia and in southern West Virginia from my base in Winchester, VA. I've been a photographer for 40 years. Let's phrase it (just for yucks) stiffly and judicially---"I, Christian Carswell, with Nikon D3 and D700 in tow, do solumnly swear that 'Digital Wedding Photography' should be required-reading"!
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