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 500 Digital Photography Hints, Tips, and Techniques: The Easy, All-In-One Guide to those Inside Secrets for Better Digital Photography $19.95 500 Digital Hints, Tips, and Techniques is the essential tool for entry-level and improving digital photographers. An irresistible blend of step-by-step tutorials, quick fixes, and bullet point tips, this book can be used as a springboard into digital photography, or as a quick-reference, trouble-shooting ally. Concise and user-friendly, the book covers the five essential aspects of digital photography: digital image capture, scanning existing images, basic image processing (crop, color, contrast, etc.), advanced manipulation techniques (such as montage, changing skies, retouching), and outputting (printing, emailing, and uploading to websites). Effectively illustrated by screen grabs, digital photos, and digitized shots, this is the most efficient how-to manual on the subject to date.  Fog Swirls and Covers All of the Golden Gate Bridge Save the North Tower and the Tips of Skyscrapers Photography Framed Art Poster Print, 49x39 $362.49 AllPosters.com is the world's #1 seller of posters, prints, photographs, specialty products and framed art. We're dedicated to bringing our customers the best selection of high quality wall dcor that is perfect for their home or office. Browse our catalog of over 300,000 items that include entertainment and specialty posters, decorative prints, and art reproductions. Whether you're looking for your favorite movie or music poster, a framed Monet reproduction, or a print of the Eiffel Tower you will find it at AllPosters.com. Visit our Amazon store today at www.amazon.com/allposters to find Special Offers and search by subject category or artist. AllPosters.com provides unmatched service with a 100% satisfaction guarantee. We ship internationally to over 80 countries. Decorate your home today with your favorite pictures.  Tony Sweet's Visual Literacy: Photography Workshop $39.99 In the first DVD you join Tony on a photo hike. If you are an inexperienced landscape photographer with a desire to be shown how to pick motives and choose lenses I guess this could be instructive. To appreciate what he is doing you will need to know the basics of your camera and have a basic understanding of exposure compensation and choice of aperture. Given that, Tony will take you along on a two hour photo hike in the Smokey Mountains showing you how he works and chooses motives. I did learn about variable density ND filters and to use a 10 magenta filter to enhance the look of fog, but if you are a fairly seasoned landscape photographer most of this is plain boring. On the second DVD Tony starts with a presentation and discussion of an early and a recent portfolio of his images which I found a bit interesting. On the next track Tony shows how he creates images of flowers in his studio where I picked up a few tricks. Shooting through a piece of structured window glass was neat. The rest is about equipment and a bit on workflow. I would think that the tracks on workflow are to brief to be very illuminating for the uninitiated and for the more experienced photographer there is nothing to learn. I guess it is unfair to rate this product from the point of view of an experienced photographer who will likely find most of this a waste of time. I think the product may work well for the inexperienced landscape photographer that would like to follow an experienced photographer on a hike before going out and try to create images on his own.  Digital Photography: Top 100 Simplified Tips & Tricks (Top 100 Simplified Tips & Tricks) $15.95 This book has been very helpful for a beginner like myself. I also joined an eight week course on digital photography which I found to be of little use as the lecturer made things more complicated than necessary. The books I've received from Amazon.com are all I'll need to get me on the road to enjoying my photography....Diane |
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