Start With a Digital Camera

By John Cdam and John Odam

Explains how to take professional digital photographs and offers advice on maximizing the impact of digital photographs in advertising, art, and graphic design. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0321219007
• ISBN13: 9780321219008
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Peachpit Press
• Length: 192 Pages

Customer Reviews

Start with a Digital Camera

some of the material was a little dated, but overall, it was well written and it contained some excellent information and ideas for handling images.

Buy this book before you buy your camera

I was shopping for a digital camera to use for studio still-life photography. It's a confusing world full of technospeak and options. I bought this book and it was clear as day what I needed to buy and my camera ended up costing me a lot less than I would have guessed. I realized I didn't need most of the features on the higher-end cameras. This book also clarified "flash" on digitals and lighting requirements which had previously been mysterious to me. It's easier than you think.Since getting my camera this month, I have used the camera to create large high-resolution images for 3 projects: a tradeshow booth, an ad slick, and a product spec sheet. I wouldn't have attempted these projects without reading this book.This book also helps one see how Photoshop and digital cameras go hand in hand to create profession images. Opened my eyes.

a stimulating showcase of what can be done with a digicam

Printed in full color, this about 140 page-long book suggest a lot of ideas what pictures can be taken with a digital camera. It has a small section on the principles of digital photography and necessary computer equipment, a couple of chapters on photography in general (lighting, background, etc.), and finally gives many examples of what can be done with the pictures by editing them in Adobe Photoshop. After all, the major fun of digital photography is that you can edit an image before printing it! The only problem is that you need to have Photoshop (along with a vector drawing program) and should know how to use them to take full advantage of this book's advice. My overall impression is that although one can find a more detailed and serious books on digital photography and image processing, this one may be a good gift to a person who just got his/her digital camera and needs to read somewhere how to start with it.

Easy to Understand and Visually Stimulating

I work with digital cameras and young students.This is the only book I've found which meets both of our needs. It covers technical information, yet provides visual examples that beginning students can understand. I love it!