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 Books on Photography that I have found helpful

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Photoshop for Nature Photographers: A Workshop in a Book by Ellen Anon and Tim Grey

    An indispensible guide to Photoshop for nature photographers.  This is the book that Tim recommended following a workshop if I only bought one of his books.  Includes a CD.  Right picture is revised edition for PS CS4 and includes coverage for PS Elements users.

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  Color Confidence: The Digital Photographers' Guide to Color Management by Tim Grey

        An excellent guide for managing all aspects of color.   Another in the series by Photoshop guru, Tim Grey.

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Photo Finish: The Digital Photographer's Guide to Printing, Showing, and Selling Images by Jon Canfield and Tim Grey

   Takes you through the process of bringing your photographs from the camera to items for sale and display.

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Photoshop CS2 Workflow:  The Digital Photographer's Guide by Tim Grey

   A more comprehensive guide to workflow than the one above for Nature Photographers but one intended for general photography.  Right picture is revised edition for PS CS4.

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The DAM Book: Digital Asset Management for Photographers by Peter Krogh

    Wondering what to do with those thousands of digital images or multiple hard drives or how to be organized enough to find that single shot taken two years ago?  Then  the DAM book is for you.  Krogh leads you through a process of getting your digital stuff in order.   Right picture is revised edition 2009.

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Fine Art Nature Photography: Advanced Techniques and the Creative Process by Tony Sweet

A book filled with many wonderful photographs and on the facing page, a description of the techniques used to create that photograph.

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Fine Art Flower Photography: Creative Techniques and the Art of Observation by Tony Sweet

A book that will help you transform photographs of flowers into fine art images.  Each image has a description of the technique used to create it on the facing page.

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Photography and the Creative Life by Nancy Rotenberg

The author says in the letter to readers  "I like to think of this book as a buffet.  Offered to you are the dishes that have nourished my own creative life."   The book is filled with beautiful photography and a collection of memorable quotations from some of the most creative minds in different disciplines.  It's the kind of book you will return to many times for inspiration.

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Digital Books available only on CD:

THE ART OF BIRD PHOTOGRAPHY II  by Art Morris

An indispensible guide for bird photographers but also useful for other nature photography.  Contains hundreds of Art's images.

From the Birds as Art website: The Art of Bird Photography II (on CD only) is the all-new continuation of the How-To classic, "The Art of Bird Photography; The Complete Guide to Professional Field Techniques." One chapter covers all aspects of Digital Photography and includes a section on understanding histograms. It also includes Artie’s digital workflow along with tons of great Photoshop tips. Other chapters include "Equipment; What's New?," "Advanced Composition and Image Design," "It Ain't Just Birds," "Exposure and Flash Simplified," and "Advanced Sharpness Techniques & Creating Pleasing Blurs." The "Practicalities" chapter includes a detailed section on setting up your backyard for bird photography as well as sections on photographing on safari and on the tundra. Each image in the book includes the all technical data and is accompanied by the legendary educational captions that have made Artie’s free on-line Bulletins so popular. Most chapters will include one or more galleries designed to illustrate and reinforce the principles covered in the text. There are two copies of the book on the CD. Open the "Spreads" version to best enjoy the beauty of the images and the layout and design. Open the "Single Pages" version for easy reading. You can order your copy of ABP II right now for $40 plus $2 shipping by calling Birds As Art  at 863-692-0906 between 8am and 9pm Eastern Time with your credit card information, or by going to the Birds As Art website where you can use PayPal. 

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John Shaw's Photoshop Guide

A very useful and complete basic guide to using Photoshop for nature photography by one of the top nature photographers.  For additional information and to buy go to John Shaw Photography.  The CD is a bargain at $30.

 

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