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The Art of Digital Wedding Photography: Professional Techniques with Style (Amphoto)

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Authors: Bambi Cantrell, Skip Cohen
Publisher: Amphoto Books
Category: Book

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Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars

19 reviews
Sales Rank: 73075

Media: Paperback
Pages: 160
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 9.1 x 0.5

ISBN: 0817433244
Dewey Decimal Number: 771
EAN: 9780817433246
ASIN: 0817433244

Publication Date: May 8, 2006
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Product Description
Today's modern brides want hip, cutting edge photographs to commemorate their weddings. They want magazine quality images; they want photographs good enough to display in fine art galleries. These brides expect their photographer to visually depict the unique and romantic fairy tale story that brought them to this special day - and these brides are willing to pay a good price for this. Author, Bambi Cantrell, one of today's hottest wedding photographers, teaches professional and aspiring wedding photographers the techniques they need to achieve this sophisticated, documentary style in their own work. THE ART OF DIGITAL WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY guides photographers through everything they need to know about planning and executing perfect wedding photographs - from art to the business of perfect picture storytelling.

Customer Reviews: Read 14 more reviews...

2 out of 5 stars

disappointed November 15, 2006
B. Stenman
20 out of 24 found this review helpful

I purchased and read Bambi's first book on wedding photography published in 2000 and also this one expecting new information and an updated on all that has changed over the past 5+ years. I was disappointed to find little new information other than a lot of plugs for Canon equipment.

Many images that illustrate the value of NIK filters for Photoshop but little discussion of when to use them or why. One example is provided on an approach to converting images to black and white but no mention of the literally dozens of ways to do this and the many after-market action sets by Kubota and others to make this easy and efficient.

Strongly suggest anyone getting into wedding photography or making the transition to digital from film purchase first the excellent book "Digital Wedding Photography" by Glen Johnson. Then fill in the gaps with books such as Bambi's - though I believe her 2000 book was better than this latest one which is largely a cosmetic makeover.

3 out of 5 stars

A picture book and not much else. June 19, 2006
Anesh (South Africa)
13 out of 14 found this review helpful

The title of this book is mis-leading as there's hardly any technique. There's plenty of gorgeous photo's with associated exposure information, camera settings and lenses used (good of the author's to include these). As other's have mentioned there is heavy usage of Nik filters. However the author's are open and frank about the use of such filters and the results are great indeed. Reading content is not much more than a few hours long and wedding photographers will learn very little. This is a picture book with general comments and opinion, "professional techniques" it is not!

3 out of 5 stars

Icing without any cake June 22, 2006
J. Giles (Canada)
11 out of 12 found this review helpful

This book is definately pretty to look at and it offers a few tips that any amateur photographer could make good use of, but the title is certainly misleading and overall its not a good buy if you're hoping to learn something. I found it to be very light on practical wedding photography information and heavy on photos.... It might answer your basic "what" questions, but it doesn't come close to answering any "why" or "how" questions. If you're looking for a book with several beautiful pictures that would look great on your coffee table, than this book is for you, but if you're actually hoping to learn something, I'd recommend buying something else.

2 out of 5 stars

Not worth $18 April 21, 2006
Mellow (Ocean City, MD USA)
10 out of 22 found this review helpful

This book has some cute pictures in it, but most of the info is misleading like how to find dust on your lens/sensor on your digital, they say to shoot wide open at a light source but everyone knows you stop your lens down to f/16+ to see dusty sensors or lenses. Alot of the pictures look amature at best, and the use of Nik filters on alot of them just does not look right.

The print is a so so job, alot of the pictures look like blobs, but then again that might be from the original photo.

I can only recommend this book if you find it on sale for under $9.

5 out of 5 stars

An amazing book & worth the LONG LONG wait!! May 4, 2006
Kandice N. Ledford (Chattanooga, TN)
10 out of 12 found this review helpful

The person who wrote that horrible review for Bambi's new book is clearly an idiot!! I'm impressed with the flow, the writing and the images featured in this new book. My only complaint is that it took 2 years to actually be released, the suspence was enough to kill a person! Compared to her first book, this one has all new images, new ideas and new advice. I've been a pro wedding photojournalist for 6 years now and from a professional stand point I learned a number of things from it. It's also written in a way that anyone interested in becoming a photographer could understand. I highly recommend this book, pay no mind to the fool talking smack... he's just jealous! :o)

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