Monday, March 26, 2007

Book Review - The Digital Photography Book by Scott Kelby

This is a terrific "little" book, and as I've waitlisted for two months at the library to read it, I'm not the only one who thinks so. At first glance, it's unassuming, a rather small paperback. The pages are heavyweight, glossy. While the book contains eleven chapters, each page neatly covers one topic within the subject, and half the page is taken up a terrific photograph furthering the subject. The text is brief, entertaining, and easy to read.

The book cover promotes, "Great for point-and-shoot digital camera owners, too!" I didn't find this to be true. I have an okay camera, but this book is written more for those who can make fancy adjustments, use various lenses, etc. I'd like to get such a camera down the road (although the last book I read almost has me questioning my learning curve), and at that point, I'd probably buy a copy for myself. Even though it doesn't benefit me or my camera right now, I'm still glad I was able to read it.

Fun stuff. Recommended.

1 comments:

Kathy in WA said...

Kristine -- I'm always crazy about photography bookes. Thanks for passing along a new title. I enjoyed the last one you shared and my dad was so impressed with my review that he went out and bought it. Not sure he's read it yet. Ha!

I'll have to see if the library has this one.