Your digital camera can do so much! And Digital Photography For Dummies, 6^th Edition helps you shoot, edit, and share great photos. This full-color guide is packed with stuff that’s not in your camera manual - tips on upgrading your equipment, working with focus and exposure, shooting like a pro, organizing and enhancing your images, and printing them or getting them online.

Are you already you’re hip-deep in images? Here’s how to manage them. This guide helps you learn what you need for the way you take pictures, how to prolong battery life, the pros and cons of digital SLR, and more. Baffled by the lingo? The glossary explains all those terms and acronyms. You’ll also learn to:

• Set up your camera for basic shooting and learn to use automatic mode, common scene modes, and all the camera’s features
• Manage depth of field, exposure, and white balance, and make easy fixes with your photo editor
• Compose your photos for better pictures
• Easily transfer your pictures to the computer, print them, or distribute them electronically
• Edit your images and fix common problems like dim photos and red-eye
• Send photos to a cell phone
• Organize your pictures so you can find what you want
• Decide if your camera needs updating, what equipment you need, and what your digital darkroom should have

Rich, full-color examples show what you can achieve. Digital Photography For Dummies, 6^th Edition will make your digital camera a lot more fun!

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Advanced Techniques for Beginning Photographers is a mini-course to take you from shooting snapshots to fine art!

Hello! My name is Chip Clark, of Chip Clark Photography, and I am excited about the opportunity to introduce to you my self-study mini-course, Advanced Techniques for Beginning Photographers!

While I have been involved with photography on a professional level for several years, I am just as passionate about simply making great photographs. I am also just as passionate about helping beginning photographers with some of the challenges we have all encountered when first bitten by the ’shutter bug’. This became the inspiration for me to develop this mini-course for beginning photographers!

In a nutshell, Advanced Techniques for Beginning Photographers addresses, step-by-step, some of the most perplexing challenges beginning photographers encounter, and teaches you how to work with them in easy-to-understand instruction.

This guide will teach you, step-by-step, many of the same techniques used by the most famous photographers around the world; because much of what separates a snapshot from a fine art photograph, can be learned. The technical aspects of making a photograph are no different than the step-by-step procedures for putting a bicycle together. Notice I said the technical aspects! Talent, of course, cannot be taught.

The mini-course alone will normally be priced at $24.95 but for a limited time you can have all this for only $9.95!

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A fascinating look at the perils and possibilities of photography in a digital age. After Photography examines the myriad ways in which the digital revolution has fundamentally altered the way we receive visual information, from photos of news events taken by ordinary people on cell phones to the widespread use of image surveillance. In a world beset by critical problems and ambiguous boundaries, Fred Ritchin argues that it is time to begin energetically exploring the possibilities created by digital innovations and to use them to better understand our rapidly changing world.

Ritchin-one of our most influential commentators on photography-investigates the future of visual media as the digital revolution transforms images into a hypertextual medium, fundamentally changing the way we conceptualize the world. Simultaneously, the increased manipulation of photographs makes photography suspect as reliable documentation, raising questions about its role in recounting personal and public histories. In the tradition of John Berger and Susan Sontag, Ritchin analyzes photography’s failings and reveals untapped potentials for the medium.

50 color illustrations.

Price: $18.33

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Looking to take your photography to the next level? Need guidance on the basics, from choosing cameras to perfecting capture, managing files, editing images and developing a creative, critical eye?

Packed with quality images to inspire and enthuse, Digital Photography: Essential Skills takes a refreshingly practical, focused approach to cover exactly what you need to know develop a creative, competent style and a seamless photography workflow.

As a working photographer and teaching lecturer, Mark Galer is the perfect guide to take you through the skills and knowledge needed to take fantastic images. Now updated to cover file management and editing in Lightroom, Adobe’s popular workflow software, for a stream-lined process from capture to output.

* Covers all the basics, from choosing a camera, managing files and editing images, to exposure, composition and lighting
* Clear, detailed explanations make understanding the concepts a breeze and activities help you to put theory into practice
* Packed with inspiring photographs to illustrate what you can achieve with skills and knowledge covered in the book

Price: $19.77

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The 2008 Wildlife Photographer of the Year Exhibit brings the wild things to Edmonton, Alberta through mid-September (PRWeb Aug 17, 2009)

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Price: $23.07

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The Nature Photography Cookbook …by Esther Beaton will show you “the 60 Easiest and Most Effective Techniques of Professional Nature Photography that get Salable Results Fast”.

With Esther’s step-by-step recipes, you’ll learn how to turn ordinary subjects, ordinary situations, ordinary places, into truly amazing artwork. By following her secret nature photography recipes, you will learn how to:
* get it all in focus
* use color to create exciting compositions
* compose with reflections, clouds and shadows
* create dramatic landscapes
* use different lenses for different effects
* create soft even lighting without a flash unit
* use the built-in flash on your camera
* make captive animals look wild
* eliminate distracting backgrounds
* get close, closer, closest
* stalk wild animals
* take advantage of “bad” weather
* set your camera to not miss important shots
* use fill flash technique properly
* and much, much more.

Find out more about Esther Beaton and her achievements as a wildlife and nature phtographer from her website, Estherbeaton.com

After 25 years as a full time, award-winning nature and wildlife photographer, Esther is ready to teach you all she knows. You’ll love dipping into this book one recipe at a time!

Price: $47.00

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Scott Kelby, the man who changed the “digital darkroom” forever with his groundbreaking, #1 bestselling, award-winning book The Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers, now tackles the most important side of digital photography–how to take pro-quality shots using the same tricks today’s top digital pros use (and it’s easier than you’d think).

This entire book is written with a brilliant premise, and here’s how Scott describes it: “If you and I were out on a shoot, and you asked me, ‘Hey, how do I get this flower to be in focus, but I want the background out of focus?’ I wouldn’t stand there and give you a lecture about aperture, exposure, and depth of field. In real life, I’d just say, ‘Get out your telephoto lens, set your f/stop to f/2.8, focus on the flower, and fire away.’ You d say, ‘OK,’ and you’d get the shot. That’s what this book is all about. A book of you and I shooting, and I answer the questions, give you advice, and share the secrets I’ve learned just like I would with a friend, without all the technical explanations and without all the techno-photo-speak.”

This isn’t a book of theory-it isn’t full of confusing jargon and detailed concepts: this is a book of which button to push, which setting to use, when to use them, and nearly two hundred of the most closely guarded photographic “tricks of the trade” to get you shooting dramatically better-looking, sharper, more colorful, more professional-looking photos with your digital camera every time you press the shutter button.

Here’s another thing that makes this book different: each page covers just one trick, just one single concept that makes your photography better. Every time you turn the page, you’ll learn another pro setting, another pro tool, another pro trick to transform your work from snapshots into gallery prints. There’s never been a book like it, and if you’re tired of taking shots that look “OK,” and if you’re tired of looking in photography magazines and thinking, “Why don’t my shots look like that?” then this is the book for you.

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Digital photography has revolutionized the way people take, print, and share photos. But if you’re wondering why your digital photos don’t measure up to the terrific shots that some people take of sunsets, people, pets, and everything else, you probably need a little help from Digital Photography Workbook for Dummies.

With great, easy-to-follow instruction and lots of practice tasks, this roll-up-your sleeves workbook is packed with exercises to help you become a better digital photographer and photo editor. You’ll learn the basics of classic photocomposition, find out how to capture and accentuate movement in action photos, and get comfortable adding even more pizzazz to your pics using Photoshop Elements. More than 100 step-by-step procedures, illustrated in full color, help you discover how to:

• Get familiar with your camera’s features and tools
• Control depth of field
• Minimize reflections
• Photograph children and pets
• Calibrate your monitor
• Notice and remove stray objects from photos
• Take great landscape, cityscape, and nature photos
• Cope with adverse weather and lighting conditions
• Find, organize, and archive your images

Complete with lots of tips and suggestions on how to share your photos via email, create your own Web gallery, compose slideshows and flip books, and more, Digital Photography Workbook for Dummies offers all the help, instruction, and hands-on guidance you need to boost the quality of your digital photographs from so-so to sensational!

Price: $19.79

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Adventure Collection, an alliance of ten premium adventure travel companies, announces the launching of its newly designed and engineered outdoor adventure travel web site, with information about more than 1,000 outdoor adventure journeys on all 7 continents. In celebration of the site launch Adventure Collection has also launched an adventure travel photo contest, "Adventures of a Lifetime" (PRWeb Aug 12, 2009)

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