The title of one of Scott Kelby’s most recent books can be misleading. “Photoshop CS4: Down & Dirty Tricks” suggests to me, well, “down and dirty tricks,” which aren’t something that I am particularly interested in learning. However, with this title, Kelby, the well-known “#1 best-selling Photoshop author,” has turned out another great one.
To help you better appraise Kelby’s “Down & Dirty Tricks,” let me suggest a new name for the book:
“Scott Kelby’s Impressive Scope of In-Depth Photoshop CS4 Projects with Continue reading “Kelby’s CS4 “Tricks” Are Closer to Magic”
Tags: Book Learning Resources, Book Review, CS4, Learning Resources, Photoshop CS4, Photoshop CS4: Down & Dirty Tricks, Postproduction Techniques, Scott Kelby
Photographed brilliantly by Layne Kennedy and featuring wonderful essays by Greg Breining, “A Hard-Water World: Ice Fishing and Why We Do It” is a great book in its own right, and a fabulous example of how images and words in book form – when handled with such intelligence – can still illuminate a topic like no other media.
Frankly, when I split open “A Hard-Water World” I wasn’t really expecting that much. For one thing, too many topical photography books disappoint. And for another, ice fishing isn’t Continue reading “Inspiring Little Book on a Strange, Cold World”
Tags: A Hard-Water World, A Hard-Water World: Ice Fishing and Why We Do It, Book Review, Documentary Photography, Editing, Greg Breining, Ice Fishing, Image Editing, Inspiration, Layne Kennedy, Photojournalism, Picture Stories, Sports Photography, Storytelling
If you are a successful photographer secure in you image making there’s no need to turn to “Rick Sammon’s Exploring the Light: Making the Very Best In-Camera Exposures.” If however, you need help with your process, your composition, your use of natural and strobe light, not to mention critical fundamentals regarding exposure, this book is a fantastic, easy and enlightening read.
“Exploring the Light” is also a perfect book to recommend to the would-be photographers or amateurs you encounter who need a good, helping hand, but that find that most basic photography how-to books fall short. The reason most basic photography books fall short is because they miss critical fundamentals or over-explain over-rated technical fine-points.
A respected photographic educator, Rick Sammon has written more than twenty books and scores of articles as well as Continue reading “Fantastic Book on In-Camera Digital Fundamentals”
Tags: Basic Techniques, Book Review, Educational, How-To, In-Camera Techniques, Rick Sammon, Rick Sammon’s Exploring the Light
“Learning to Breath: One Woman’s Journey of Spirit and Survival” by acclaimed photojournalist Alison Wright is definitely a book of note for picture professionals. Whether you will find it amazingly and uniquely inspiring or whether they will find it frustratingly lacking will depend utterly on personality, interests and taste in literary style. From my point of view, each perspective – that the book is a soaring success or a frustrating failure – seems entirely valid.
“Learning to Breath” revolves around Wright’s horrifying, very-near-death accident in a bus in the windy, isolated mountain roads of Loas, just after New Year’s 2000. As always, Wright was busy both globetrotting around the world to photographically record endangered cultures as she also Continue reading “Inspiring Photojournalist Shares Gasping Buddhist Learnings”
Tags: Alison Wright, Book Review, Buddism, Documentary Photography, Inspiration, Learning to Breath: One Woman’s Journey of Spirit and Survival, Photojournalism, The Photographer's Life
I try to avoid writing reviews of books I don’t deem worthy of reading. But I feel that it is important to steer you away from Scott McNulty’s “Building a WordPress Blog People Want To Read.”
McNulty is one of the few people actually earning a living blogging, and he is certainly an expert on the topic, having a wealth of information to share. But that wealth is not shared well in “Building a WordPress Blog.” The book definitely contains valuable tidbits, but this information is Continue reading “A Blogging Book To Avoid”
Tags: Blogging, Blogging Strategies, Book Review, Building a WordPress Blog People Want To Re, Scott McNulty, WordPress
