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Book List: Digital Photography
As digital cameras have improved, their professional use has increased dramatically — persnickety pros finally satisfied that, for some things, bits are better than photosensitive film.
In the Factual Reports section of my website, I have posted the first in a series of articles on my adventures in improving my mastery of digital photography in the service of providing material for designs in my online shop, and in selling low-cost stock photographgy as an ancillary source of revenue.
This page is by way of a partial wish list for stuff to buy from revenue generated by sales of stock photography, where “stuff” doesn’t include the most crucial item — the camera itself.
Fiction
(coming soon)
Books About Digital Photography:
Digital Photography
Advanced Digital Photography
Digital Photographer’s Handbook
by Tom Ang
These three books are at the top of my wish list, to purchase from funds generated by sale of digital stock photos.
Advanced Digital Photography
Digital Photographer’s Handbook
by Tom Ang
These three books are at the top of my wish list, to purchase from funds generated by sale of digital stock photos.
Mastering Digital Photography
by David D. Busch
Another take on how to get the most out of your digital camera.
by David D. Busch
Another take on how to get the most out of your digital camera.
Step-by-Step Digital Photography
by Jack & Sue Drafahl
A small-format book that starts easy, stays easy, and has lots and lots of clear photographs to show you what to do. Great for someone getting their first digital camera.
by Jack & Sue Drafahl
A small-format book that starts easy, stays easy, and has lots and lots of clear photographs to show you what to do. Great for someone getting their first digital camera.
sellphotos.com
by Rohn Engh
How to set up a website to market and sell your digital photographs. Not my cup of tea: I prefer letting someone else deal with the overhead required to run such a site. I pay for the convenience, but not sweating those details is worth it.
by Rohn Engh
How to set up a website to market and sell your digital photographs. Not my cup of tea: I prefer letting someone else deal with the overhead required to run such a site. I pay for the convenience, but not sweating those details is worth it.
These books are more for after the picture is in hand:
Digital Photography Workbook
by Simon Joinson
Work through neat things you can do to the photographs after the shutter has clicked.
by Simon Joinson
Work through neat things you can do to the photographs after the shutter has clicked.
Secrets of the Digital Darkroom
by Peter Cope
More neat things, but applicable towards how to use the photographs rather than how to take the photographs.
by Peter Cope
More neat things, but applicable towards how to use the photographs rather than how to take the photographs.
202 Digital Photography Solutions
by George H. Wallace
From purchasing equipment to composing photographs to fixing what gets downloaded.
by George H. Wallace
From purchasing equipment to composing photographs to fixing what gets downloaded.
The digital cameras already available to me are either early middle-grade (given to my husband shortly after digital cameras grew beyond the novelty gadget phase) or current low-end (my own, purchased originally to take on business trips so I could email snapshots to our children).
Neither comes anywhere close to the 6 megapixel lower limit for professional high-cost stock photography.
However, they both slide past the 2 megapixel lower limit for low-resolution low-cost stock photography at websites such as iStockPhoto and Fotolia.
That relieves me of immediate forced research to purchase a new camera, thereby violating one of my rules for this exercise: no upfront cash, or vanishingly little.
It doesn’t remove the restrictions imposed by low resolution on use of the photographs in designs, though. If I want to move up from postcards and mini-posters to full-sized and over-sized posters, I’ll have to lay out money for a better camera.
Later.
