Category: Photographer

The Sony a7 and a7R: The Unofficial Quintessential Guide – #photography #bookreview

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The Sony a7 and a7R The Unofficial Quintessential Guide Brian Matsumoto and Carol F. Roulland (Rocky Nook – paperback, Kindle)   Rocky Nook has gained a hard-earned reputation for publishing excellent digital camera how-to guides. And this new one does not disappoint. The Sony a7 and a7R: The Unofficial Quintessential Guide is aimed at both … Continue reading The Sony a7 and a7R: The Unofficial Quintessential Guide – #photography #bookreview

Mastering the Nikon D610 – Another helpful how-to from Digital Darrell – #photography #bookreview

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Mastering the Nikon D610 Darrell Young (Rocky Nook – paperback, Kindle) Today’s digital SLR cameras have many more features than most of us can possibly use. And, certainly, they have many more features than most of us can readily employ without cracking open a how-to guide. Still, I am both a fan and user of … Continue reading Mastering the Nikon D610 – Another helpful how-to from Digital Darrell – #photography #bookreview

Our Beautiful, Fragile World – Excellent photographs by an environmental artist – #bookreview

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Our Beautiful, Fragile World The Nature and Environmental Photographs of Peter Essick Peter Essick (Rocky Nook – hardcover, Kindle) Most of us are content to take a photograph and just settle for what we get under the current circumstances. That’s not how Peter Essick works. Essick has spent more than 25 years traveling to remote … Continue reading Our Beautiful, Fragile World – Excellent photographs by an environmental artist – #bookreview

Mastering the Fujifilm X-E1 and X-Pro1 – Are you ready for some RAW+JPEG? – #photography #bookreview

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Mastering the Fujifilm X-E1 and X-Pro1 Rico Pfirstinger (Rocky Nook – paperback, Kindle) As a photographer, I enjoy reading other photographers’ first-person books–even when their books that happen to be how-to texts created to supplement and expand upon the lackluster user manuals typically shipped with new cameras. Rico Pfirstinger’s latest book is a well-composed guide … Continue reading Mastering the Fujifilm X-E1 and X-Pro1 – Are you ready for some RAW+JPEG? – #photography #bookreview

Mastering the Nikon D600 – Digital Darrell’s excellent new how-to guide – #photography #bookreview

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Mastering the Nikon D600 Darrell Young (Rocky Nook – Kindle, paperback) Digital Darrell is at it again. This time, he has delivered an excellent how-to guide for using the Nikon D600 camera. This high-quality new digital SLR, he says, “can deliver some of the highest-quality images out there.” Furthermore, he notes, the D600 offers “a … Continue reading Mastering the Nikon D600 – Digital Darrell’s excellent new how-to guide – #photography #bookreview

HDRI, Digital Zone System, Canon EOS 5D Mark III – 3 new #photography books – #bookreview

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Rocky Nook, based in Santa Barbara, Calif., recently has released three handsome new how-to works focused on digital photography and image processing. The books are: The HDRI Handbook 2.0, The Digital Zone System, and Canon EOS 5D Mark III. The HDRI Handbook 2.0 Christian Bloch (Rocky Nook – paperback, Kindle) Every chapter has been significantly … Continue reading HDRI, Digital Zone System, Canon EOS 5D Mark III – 3 new #photography books – #bookreview

Panobook 2012: Award-Winning Panoramic Photographs – #bookreview

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Panobook 2012: Award-Winning Panoramic Photographs The Kolor Team (Rocky Nook, hardback) Beautiful.There are few other words to describe this gathering of 150 prize-winning panoramic color photographs. The photographs were judged as the best of the 1,647 entries in the Panobook 2012 competition sponsored by Kolor, developer of Autopano image-stitching software. The software enables individual images … Continue reading Panobook 2012: Award-Winning Panoramic Photographs – #bookreview

The Lens – A Practical Guide for the Creative Photographer – #photography #bookreview

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The Lens NK Guy (Rocky Nook, paperback) NK Guy’s new book is billed as “A Practical Guide for the Creative Photographer.” It is that–and more. It also is a celebration of excellent photography made possible by great glass and having several interchangeable lenses available for your digital SLR or film SLR. Forget about megapixels vs. more … Continue reading The Lens – A Practical Guide for the Creative Photographer – #photography #bookreview

Mastering the Nikon D800 – An excellent guide to a very powerful DSLR – #photography #bookreview

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Mastering the Nikon D800 Darrell Young (Rocky Nook, paperback ) Darrell Young has written so many books about Nikon digital cameras (this is number eight), he is now widely known as “Digital Darrell.” His latest, written in a friendly style and nicely illustrated, covers the powerful (and, yes, pricey) Nikon D800 and D800E. “Few photographers … Continue reading Mastering the Nikon D800 – An excellent guide to a very powerful DSLR – #photography #bookreview

The Sony SLT-A77: The Unofficial Quintessential Guide – #photography #bookreview

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The Sony SLT-A77: The Unofficial Quintessential Guide Carol F. Roullard and Brian Matsumoto (Rocky Nook, paperback) The Sony SLT-A77 “single lens translucent” digital camera is a remarkably feature-rich device for shooting still photographs and HD video. Unlike a digital SLR camera, which must move its mirror out of the light path to its sensor, the … Continue reading The Sony SLT-A77: The Unofficial Quintessential Guide – #photography #bookreview