Digital SLR Pro Secrets
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Digital SLR Pro Secrets Details
About the Author With more than a million books in print, David D. Busch is the world's #1 selling digital camera guide author, and the originator of popular digital photography series like David Busch's Pro Secrets and David Busch's Quick Snap Guides. He has written more than a dozen hugely successful guidebooks for Canon and Canon digital SLR models, as well as many popular books devoted to dSLRs, including Mastering Digital SLR Photography, Second Edition, and Digital SLR Pro Secrets. As a roving photojournalist for more than twenty years, he illustrated his books, magazine articles, and newspaper reports with award-winning images. He's operated his own commercial studio, suffocated in formal dress while shooting weddings-for-hire, and shot sports for a daily newspaper and upstate New York college. His photos and articles have appeared in Popular Photography & Imaging, The Rangefinder, The Professional Photographer, and hundreds of other publications. He has also reviewed dozens of digital cameras for CNet and Computer Shopper, and his advice has been featured in National Public Radio's "All Tech Considered." When About.com named its top five books on Beginning Digital Photography, debuting at the #1 and #2 slots were Busch's Digital Photography All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies and Mastering Digital Photography. During the past year, he's had as many as five of his books listed in the Top 20 of Amazon.com's Digital Photography Bestseller list--simultaneously! Busch's 120-plus other books published since 1983 include bestsellers like David Busch's Quick Snap Guide to Digital SLR Lenses. Visit his website at http://www.dslrguides.com. Read more
Reviews
The book's title really is a bit of hyperbole; it should be titled something more along the lines of "Advanced Digital SLR Use" because, with the exception of a single chapter, I doubt much of the content of this book is either aimed at professionals or contains secrets known only to professionals.The book begins with an advanced discussion of digital SLR topics such as sharpness and similar topics, then moves on to a reasonably detailed discussion on the use of telephoto and wide-angle lenses with a full chapter dedicated to each type of lenses. This information is helpful, but, again, does not quite rise to the level of "pro secrets" while at the same time providing material appropriate for advanced users.The book includes a fascinating chapter on infrared photography, and provides detailed information for those interested in pursuing this esoteric type of photography. Infrared photography does produce interesting images, so it is understandably a topic more of interest to advanced users than those who are new to digital SLR photography.The chapter on lighting is particularly good, and it is the only chapter in the book that lives up to the promise of the book's title. This chapter presents much useful information for those interested in setting up a professional studio, and it generally provides an advanced discussion on lighting techniques both inside and outside a studio. However, the emphasis is on studio lighting techniques.The book closes with a chapter on do-it-yourself tricks, mostly centered on lighting tricks and sensor cleaning. The material on sensor cleaning was particularly valuable.Despite the book's over-hyped title, it contains a good amount of material which is useful for taking a digital SLR user from a basic level to a more advanced one.
