Overview
An experienced workshop instructor, Rick Sammon has an approach to photography that is best described as "learning to see and seeing to learn." Rick avoids the technical jargon in favor of narrative captions. Throughout the book's seven parts, the photographic process unfolds for the reader from taking, making, editing, storing, and printing to sharing better digital images. Each lesson reveals itself through instructional photographs accompanied by narrative captions that lead fluidly from one image to the next.Newcomers to photography will enjoy the opening parts of the book, "Before We Begin" and "Build on the Basics." Shooters making the transition to the new realm of digital photography will be drawn to the middle parts of the book, "Welcome to the Digital Darkroom" and "Working and Playing in Photoshop." Photo hobbyists already dabbling in the digital world will want to examine the closing parts of the book, "Special Digital Effects and Techniques" and "More Photography Tips." Over 1,000 images from Rick's library form a visual travelogue of beautiful sites around the world. The book's package includes the Digital Photography Tutor, a CD-ROM fully compatible with PC/Mac computers that features Rick's "The Camera Looks Both Ways." Many images in "The Camera Looks Both Ways" -- a mini-course in the photography process -- are unique to the CD-ROM and do not appear elsewhere in the book. The book's CD-ROM also offers other digital learning tools, including Photoshop 7 tutorials and fully functional plug-in samples.