You may remember that one of the things I packed for our west coast trip was a rather large digital photography guide I had been meaning to read for about 18 months. I now wish I hadn't bothered because after slogging through it, I stumbled across this little ebook online.
The huge digital photography guide I had was 408 pages and left me baffled, this ebook is just 18 pages and condenses the basic important stuff into 3 points (Hurray!) Personally I'll go for simple and concise any day!
The bulk of the book is a cheats guide of the manual settings to use when taking portraits in different lights, brilliantly illustrated with example photos. I have already tried a few of the tips and will be turning to this a lot once I have baby photos to take.
Being an ebook, you download it in its 4x6 format and then choose how to make a hard copy, which can be as simple as printing it at home and stapling it together. I chose to print the 4x6 inch pages as photos (using the machine at Tesco) and then used a hole punch and bound it with ribbon. I also laminated mine for extra durability, as I think it's going to get carried around in the camera bag a fair bit.
If you, like me, have a DLSR that you know you can do so much more with, but are stuck in the comfort zone of the auto setting, I thoroughly recommend this as an easy (non scary!) step to significantly better photos - To find out more and purchase/download it, click on the image below. I just wish I lived a bit nearer Kristen so I could do one of her workshops!
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