Review: A GOOD BOOK FOR BEGINNERS NEW TO DSLR PHOTOGRAPHY - MATERIAL PRESENTED IN A FUN TO READ FORMAT!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 20, 2014
Books on photography are often a boring maze of F-Stops, Appeture sizes and shutter speeds. I have read many books for folks like me new to Digital Photography. I am a computer nerd so I did not need to learn how to move my pictures from camera to computer for post production editing.  However the introduction to the mechanisms needed to control how the little sensor experiences the light needed to capture a great picture was something I needed to learn.This book explained the TRIAD of appeture, shutter speed and ISO to a degree that I finally understood it as an equation. Each part of the photographers triad unleashes certain effects that if accessed correctlymake for great pictures.  But like any equation the photography triad carries with it certain demons if shutter, appiture or ISO is pushed too far. This is NOT an exhaustive book that will make you a master photographer overnight.The book encourages new photographers to venture beyond the confines of AF = Auto Focus and play with the settings. The book is very liberating as it tells new photographers go out risk making mistakes as you learn the limits and trade offs imposed by appeture, iso and shutter speed in various environments. Photography should be fun because; you use your imagination to create the shot. Sure the world is filled with many things most of them mundane and ordinary. However your camera can use light, angle shade, contrast, saturation, exposure and more to redine the world as we know it.Photography allows us to employ the camera to reshape our perceptions of the simplest things. A door lock for example is something we see every day. However with a macro lens, the right exposure and some creative angles or lighting a simple lock can take on a whole new life as art.  I am still a new wet behind the ears picture taker, I am not anywhere near good enough yet to call myself a photographer.  I'm barely past the all auto focus all the time stage. The author of DSLR Photography for Beginners LOVES photography and wants to infect this readers with the joy that comes from engaging in the photographic arts as a hobby or an eventual profession.The writer of DSLR Photography for Beginners is more than just a photography book for beginners that outline the parts of the camera and what they do.  DSLR Photography for Beginners shares the joy of taking pictures. The author of DSLR Photography for Beginners loves photography and it shows in the passionate way he teaches the subject in this book I'm a computer analyst and I LOVE computers. I still get that Christmas morning joy just starting up a new computer and getting it ready for its tasks. This Brain Black guy who wrote DSLR Photography for Beginners loves photography and for him taking pictures is like Christmas morning joy for him. I learn best from people who LOVE WHAT THEY TEACH WITH A PASSION! I read many Kindle books about photography and they were all informative. It took reading DSLR Photography for Beginnersto make me find the passion to start experimenting with my camera settings, going out and capturing images with almost child like reckless abandon. Heck many of my shots were terrible but a few shots were really awesome well composed and well lit. Best of all I enjoyed creating my pictures even the bad ones. Rather than delet my bad pictures I am keeping them so when I am finally good I can see how far I've come.DSLR Photography for Beginners does more than just teach you about your DSLR it awakens the passion of photography in you if you let it and for $3.99 thats a small price to pay for such a heaping helping of artistic joy!