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Quick Snap Guide to Digital SLR Photography: An Instant Start-Up Manual for New dSLR Owners If you’re a serious photographer, you know that no other camera offers as much sophistication and versatility as the digital SLR. The drawback to this sophistication comes in the form of tedious and lengthy user manuals that can make it difficult to find the essential information you need to get started. Quick Snap Guide to Digital SLR Photography provides you with a concise introduction to the most important features of your dSLR camera. Each topic is covered in two- or four-page spreads with plenty of illustrations and images, making it easy to follow along. Eliminating the frustration of timeconsuming user manuals, this book is the ideal guide for any new dSLR owner who wants to start taking great pictures right away.
Customer Review: It’s okay
I’m not a pro photographer but I knew about half this book from common sense as an animation and film student. This book is only for people who have never touched a camera.
Customer Review: Just like it says
It is exactly what it advertises. It helps you understand the SLR world and what you would want out of a camera. I loved it.

A World History of Photography This sumptuously illustrated volume, hailed as an indispensable work on the fascinatingly expressive photographic medium, has been revised and expanded to cover images by contemporary photographers working in the twenty-first century.
Customer Review: textbook
World History of Photography

The Complete Guide to Light & Lighting in Digital Photography (A Lark Photography Book)

Customer Review: Beyond the light and darkness
Michael Freeman seems to be a passionate traveler and artist before being a talented professional photographer.
With ” Light and Lighting”, he shares with us his experience, taking us on a captivating journey from the nature of light through the technical intricacies and complexities that the serious and dedicated photographer is bound to encounter (staying clear, from the pitfalls of pedantry and tediousness) to lead us beyond the limitations of technology into the wide open space of our own limitless creativity and freedom of expression.
If you have been inspired by this book, I would also recommend its companions, “Mastering Color Digital Photography” and “Mastering Black and White Digital Photography”. They are of the same caliber.

The Business of Studio Photography: How to Start and Run a Successful Photography Studio Portrait and wedding photographers will find scores of proven-effective strategies for starting a new studio or improving an existing one in this thoroughly updated edition of an industry classic! Filled with real-life insights only a professional studio photographer would know, The Business of Studio Photography provides practical advice and surefire strategies for every aspect of operating a photography studio: from choosing a location, financing, and equipping the business to pricing jobs, negotiating with photo labs, and selling to the public. There are scores of no-nonsense guidelines for devising short- and long-term business plans, handling paperwork effectively, conducting public relations and self-promotion programs, and more. This updated and expanded edition includes an all-new section on the use of digital photography by the studio photographer, as well as completely updated lists of websites, equipment, books, and other photography resources. The book also features dozens of sample equipment checklists and forms, all ready to copy and use immediately. This is the definitive one-stop reference of professional tips and techniques for every studio photographer!
Customer Review: Great Resource.
Easily the best recommendation for starting a photography service. Contains great advice and samples of documents needed to run a studio. Read it twice and then keep it on the handiest shelf.
Customer Review: Excellent book
This is definately full of great information that anyone starting a photography business needs to know. Well written.
-Pam