Book Review: The Photograph – Composition and Color Design 2nd Edition by Harald Mante

The Photograph – Composition and Color Design 2nd Edition is a beautiful new book by Harald Mante, German photographer, artist and designer who has had great influence on German color photography. The new book is not just a rework of the first edition but a complete new work with new photographs and new textual contents …

Book Review: Tabletop Photography by Cyrill Harnischmacher

This is one pretty little book – hard cover, well crafted, good layout, high quality paper, tasteful images and illustrations, and it’s only 8½ x 8½ inches in size. Its thickness, with 135 numbered pages inside, is only 5/8″ – very easy to hold and read anywhere. The title says Tabletop Photography, but let’s just emphasize its …

Book Review: Photoshop CS6: The Missing Manual by Lesa Snider

An 800-pound gorilla deserves an 800-page book, and I mean that in a good way. Photoshop CS6 is no bloat ware; it is big because it packs so much power with tons of features that are really useful for various types of imaging people – photographers, graphics artists, illustrators, etc. If you have to work with …

Review: The Twitter Book by Tim O’Reilly and Sarah Milstein

What is Twitter all about and why is everybody in it? They say you can use it for business too? These are the questions foremost on my mind when I started to notice that Twitter is getting a lot of attention lately. My interest peaked when cable TV network CNN recently went head-to-head against Ashton …

Book Review: The Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi/450D Companion by Ben Long

If you’re still thinking about buying the Canon EOS 450D (Rebel XSi in the USA), I’ll let you in on one little secret: the $900 XSi can hold its own in terms of image quality against the more expensive ($3000) full-frame Canon 5D and Nikon D700 (see this review here). So, go ahead and buy …

Video Review: Thorsten Ott CHEAP Instructional Photography Video

When it comes to fundamentals, I, The Prince of Cheap, am always looking to sharpen my skills. This week I got a chance to check out an awesome photography video tutorial by Thorsten Ott. Read on to get the full skinny whether or not the video is for you or not … Mr. Ott has been …

Book Review: Practical Artistry: Light & Exposure for Digital Photographers by Harold Davis

Harold Davis is an accomplished photographer, many of his fine art photos have become well known posters such as those published by the New York Graphic Society. He is also a prolific author, with more than 20 books to his name, including Digital Photography: Digital Field Guide (Wiley), The Photographer’s Guide to Yosemite and the …

Book Review: Photoshop CS3 RAW, Transform your RAW images into works of art, by Mikkel Aaland

As a beginning photographer who has just acquired his first digital SLR camera, you might have shot in RAW and maybe even memorized its definition: it’s a digital negative, it’s an unprocessed image file, it has a lot of metadata, etc. But because you have been shooting JPEG all your life and also because RAW, …

Book Review: Barbara Brundage’s Photoshop Elements 6: The Missing Manual

Barbara Brundage’s book, Photoshop Elements 6: The Missing Manual, is a big thick book. When it came in the mail, I thought there were two books in that parcel. No, this is not your pocket-sized guide by any stretch of the imagination; it’s thick and heavy and it’s as big as a house (ok, 7″x9¼” …

Book Review: Photoshop Lightroom Adventure, Mastering Adobe’s next-generation tool for digital photographers by Mikkel Aaland

Browsing through the book feels like pleasantly enjoying a first-rate coffee table book or travel photography book on a relaxed evening at home; the full-page and full-spread photographs of Icelandic scenes were so masterfully done you could be forgiven for thinking this book was intended for something else. But there’s work to do, of course, …