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INVESTIGATING A NEW APPROACH TO LEARNING PHOTOGRAPHY
Photographers of all levels appreciate informative,
well-written books. So many books out there are advanced and challenging to understand. Terms like f-stop, shutter speed, focal length and depth of field can be difficult to understand. Websites explaining these concepts can get very technical and mathematical in their explanations. The answer to these challenging questions are rarely simplified in books and on websites so that the emerging amateur photographer can understand them. One key to understanding these terms is providing a complete description of what they are and some examples of how they work. People learn faster when they are given examples, in the same way students in school learn by getting an explanation of a concept and then doing exercises applying the concept. The focus of Matthew Bamberg's photography books is to present professional photography concepts so that the amateur photographer can comprehend them. As an example, take the terms f-stop and aperture. They can be confusing, but they don't have to be when one is explained in terms of the other. The key term here is inverse. Given the f-stop on a camera, a whole number, the aperture will be the inverse of that. For example, if the camera's aperture reading (f-stop) is 4, then the aperture is 1/4. You might be thinking that if you were a film photographer, you already know that information. Matthew Bamberg's book goes further than just teaching the basics and their applications; he always transfers the concept from the way it occurs in film photography to the way it is in digital photography, so those who are familiar with film and not with digital, can quickly grasp the change of concepts. In Matthew Bamberg's new books, he goes beyond photography to explain to beginners the emerging advances in the field and how it affects the snap-shooters and those taking a deeper interest in the field. Those books include the recently released New Image Frontiers--Defining the Future of Photography, Beginning HDR Photography and Photography Applications for the Cloud, each addressing the new innovations that all photographers--amateur and professional need to know. Matthew Bamberg's writings are also a good read, filled with tips, spoken in informal language, and relating to the reader on a personable level. There you have it, that's the scoop about Matthew Bamberg. Have a great shooting day! |
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Everything you wanted to know about storage, online editing, sharing and backing up your photography in the cloud.
Everything a beginner needs to know to make compelling HDR photos AND a refresher of photography terms and techniques.
