- ISBN13: 9781592004713
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Digital Wedding Photography offers an easy-to-follow introduction to wedding photography. It provides information about the skills you need to take great wedding photos in the digital age, including selecting the correct lenses and digital equipment, as well as the most appropriate digital imaging techniques. This book also looks at the various ways of presenting the material to the happy couple and their friends and relatives. It presents all material in a step-by-… More >>
#1 by Anesh on March 29, 2010 - 10:29 am
This book is useful only if you’re really inexperienced in photography and particularly wedding photography. It also suffers from a serios lack of content.
Rating: 2 / 5
#2 by Michael Lafford on March 29, 2010 - 12:37 pm
Wow. Blown away, this is so helpful, I already knew a lot about photogrpahy, but this book by Paul Gero has been so very helpful. Thank you Paul, thank you Amazon
Rating: 5 / 5
#3 by petergar on March 29, 2010 - 1:01 pm
This book is okay for an introduction to digital wedding photography. I recommend this book for people who understand the basic concepts of photography and are looking for a guide to shooting weddings. People who need to learn the basics of photography should get a different book. Also, people who are familar with wedding photography and want a book that provides new ideas for exposure, compostion, posing, and general artistic ideas also should get a different book. This book is a good basic guide to wedding photography, and I recommend this book only for people who want just that.
Rating: 4 / 5
#4 by J. W. Semmelink on March 29, 2010 - 1:38 pm
I bought this book based on one of the other positive reviews, and based on the beautiful cover photo. The intended reader is someone who is just starting out with photography, for example the book explains the difference (with photos) between different types of cameras. Similar basic topics include the difference between wide angle and tele lenses and the Photoshop tips assume you have never used Photoshop, so it illustrates basics like the histogram, clone stamp, and so on. My problem with the book is that half of it is wasted on introductory topics that one would assume a photographer will have under control long before trying to move into wedding photography.
On the positive side, there are many pages loaded with text on various topics of the wedding. I can say that the topics cover the wedding quite comprehensively.
However, the book is broken down in small topics that are covered in two facing pages each. This fragments the book – there is no coherence. I sometimes failed to see how one topic leads or builds up to the next one. Sometimes, I felt that the two pages limit on each topic (photos included) means that the author had to summarize greatly to fit the text in. I kept looking for more depth as I read.
On one page I spotted a bad typing error, mentioning a “slow shutter speed of 800 ISO”.
The book mentions that the author has 30 years of experience, and one should not take such an author lightly – there is much to learn from photographers with that much experience. However, although I like a journalistic approach, his documentary style did not appeal to me. I was drawn to buy the book by the cover photo, but having paged through it, I drew little inspiration from the photos. He made an important point that you should first work on capturing the moment, before worrying about perfecting the image in other respects such as composition; but I feel more inspired by the artistic pictures from other books.
Therefore, I gave this book away the day I received it: I felt it was intended for beginner photographers, the topics were not handled in depth enough, and I did not like the photos.
Personally, I liked more reading Rick Ferro’s “Wedding photography” or Bill Hurter’s “Digital Wedding Photography”, or George Shaub’s “Professional techniques for the wedding photographer”.
Rating: 1 / 5
#5 by Conan on March 29, 2010 - 2:43 pm
This book is excellent, except for the size of the print. The print is terrible. It is real, real, real, small print. I can’t understand why the publisher would ruin a great book like this by making the print so small. No offense to you, Mr. Gero. You are an excellent photographer. Your pictures are great. This book is so well written. Thank you so much for sharing your experience and knowledge with us. My hat is off to you, sir. If you come out with a second edition, please tell the publisher you want bigger print, much bigger print. Or, if you have this book on a CD or DVD, please let me know. I would gladly pay more for a book of this quality, in order to pay for the extra pages it would take to print the book in a lot larger print. For some reason, almost all photography books are written in print that is way to small. Are you listening publisher’s? Please, publisher’s, we DO NOT want tiny print in our photography books.
Rating: 5 / 5