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Old 06-09-06, 13:34
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Post Books for Beginners - what would you recommend?

As some of you know. I'm quite active in my local camera club, and I'm often asked for recommendations for beginners to improve both thier photographic skills as well as their post processing skills.

As far as improving photographic skills, I think we are talking about: -
  • technical stuff like
    • relationships between shutter speed & aperture
    • depth of field
    • shutter speed & moverment
    • shutter speed & camera shake etc
  • perspective and choice of lens
  • composition
  • use of colour
  • how to photography different types of event
    • action shots
    • family
    • sporting events
    • landscapes
    • portraits
    • abstract
    • travel
    • still life etc
So what books would you recommend to a beginner who wants to take better pictures?

There are already a number of forum recommendations for Photoshop Books (for Photoshop read PS7, CS, CS2, Elements as appropriate as there are vesions of most of them) which I'll list below (with prices from www.amazon.co.uk) and add some of my own: -
  • Photoshop for Dummies by Peter Bauer ~£11
  • Adobe Photoshop for Photographers: A Professional Image Editor's Guide by Martin Evening ~£20
  • The Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers by Scott Kelby ~£19
  • Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop by Bruce Fraser ~19
  • PhotoShop in Easy Steps by Robert Shufflebotham ~7

Any other Photoshop recommendations or recommendation for books dealing with other image editing programmes?
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