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Digital Wildlife Photography
by David Tipling Author David Tipling divides his attention equally between the artistic
and technical issues to teach you about wildlife photography in the
digital age. Having a solid foundation in the traditional camera era,
I have usually felt that the inexpensive point-and-shoot digitals that
I have relied on over the years have only begun to approach the quality
of the images I could produce with my trusty Canon A-1 or even my first
SLR, the classic Minolta SRR-101. But with prices for DSLRs falling
to within the reach of a broad audience of amateurs like me, its clear
that the current crop of consumer-level DSLRs can produce very high
quality images. Tipling's qualifications as a wildlife photographer are
enviable, and he brings his professional experience to bear in teaching
how to approach your subjects, and frame them in a pleasing manner. Then
he takes you through the technical issues of working with digital images
for both print and electronic reproduction. Naturally, he bases much of
his lessons on Adobe Photoshop. I was pleased to see him pay special
attention to the RAW image format that is popular among professionals for
reducing the artifacts produced by the software that digital cameras use
to enhance and compress images for storage on memory cards. On top of
all that, the pictures in the book are stunning. What a bargain!
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Date Reviewed: 2008-02-01
This review was published in our February, 2008 Non-Fiction reviews.
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