Ken Milburn
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Customer Reviews:
Total reviews: 7
Average rating: 3.5 of 5
The best book I've found! 5 out of 5 stars.
15 of 17 people found this review helpful.
This is the book on digital photography for which I've been searching since first immersing myself in this hobby. Every question that I've been trying to get answered is here. It's like the author wrote this book just for me.
I don't know about Pro but 5 out of 5 stars.
6 of 8 people found this review helpful.
this is a great book to expand your horizons with your digital camera. I like the layout and a digital camera makes it so easy and inexpensive to experiment with all the ideas laid out in this great book.If you have a good background in photography, some of the concepts will not be new to you, but its a great gift for someone starting out with a new digital camera.
Milburn talks the talk, but can't walk the walk 3 out of 5 stars.
6 of 6 people found this review helpful.
This is a useful book for beginning to intermediate digital photographers. The writing is mostly clear and concise (though a more thorough editing job would have caught a few typos and more than a few awkward sentences), and Milburn does a fine job avoiding geekspeak without talking down to his readers.The cheesy-looking cover is a turn-off though, and a foreshadowing of the lack of visual sophistication throughout. The print quality of the black and white example photos strewn through the book is somewhere between mediocre and atrocious; there seems to have been little effort on the part of the publisher to ensure print quality and a modicum of contrast (all the b/w pics look washed out).
But Milburn mostly has himself to blame for the unappealing-looking photography. The guy just isn't that good a lensman. So while he knows his stuff, his pictures are only moderately competent -- and wholly uninspiring. A 16-page color section in the heart of his book is meant to show off his work to its advantage, illustrating different techniques. These pictures are well-printed for change, but their mostly compositional flaws shows that Milburn just can't practice what he preaches. The best example is his picture of a roller coaster, a photo whose surprisingly dreary colors are accentuated by what looks to be a mudfield occupying the whole bottom third of the image. Ugh.
Nevertheless, this is a solid and suprisingly exhaustive primer on digital photography. It could have been a great book if Milburn had had the modesty to use high-quality third-party pictures (even stock images would have worked fine), instead of uninspiring samples from his own ho-hum portfolio.
Editorial Review:
Get tips and advice for taking better pictures with your digital camera from expert photographer Ken Milburn. Discover all the cool things you can do--like making panoramas, short movies, rapid shot sequences for Web animations, instant greeting cards (both in print and for the Web), restoring and retouching photos--and much more.
