Throughout there are many beautiful photos giving examples to illustrate the points in the text, whilst also giving you something to aspire to in your own photography. The book is easy to navigate with clear contents to chapters and sections.
Armed with informed ideas, you can marry your creative intentions with the vast technical capabilities packed into your smartphones, cameras, lenses, and computers.” “The aim of this book is to equip you with as many hints, tips, useful knowledge, and suggestions as can be crammed within its pages. Indeed it is less a handbook, more a photographer’s bible given it is a big, heavy hardback book with 400 pages. So for an amateur like me there is probably too much information in here as it goes way beyond that, but for others this will be fantastic. This, the seventh edition of Digital Photographer’s Handbook (which is celebrating seventeen years in print) is very advanced in my opinion (there is a glossary for technical terms to help novices like me), and gives you everything you need to be a really top-notch photographer, even how to become a professional. “With photography you can change the world,” says the author. I am a Sony NZ Digital Imaging Ambassador. I have served on juries of Hamdan International Photography Award, Wildlife Photographer of the Year, World Photography Award, Czech Press Photo. This took a Bronze at the New York Film and TV Festival the following year. I also presented an 8-part TV series for CNA (Channel News Asia) in Singapore which was broadcast in August 2009. A second series, entitled 'Britain in Pictures' was transmitted in 2007. I presented the BBC series ‘A Digital Picture of Britain’, first transmitted in 2005 on BBC4. I have written over thirty books on photography and video including Digital Photography Masterclass (now 3rd edition), Fundamentals of Photography,Tao of Photography, Digital Photographer’s Handbook (now 7th edition), Picture Editing (2nd edition), Eyewitness Companion: Photography, and Digital Video Handbook, How to Photograph Absolutely Everything. I led a Know How Fund project that helped equip a radio studio for radio students and which reformed the journalism curriculum for the Kyrgyz Russian Slavonic University in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. For over 10 years I photographed in Central Asia, traveling in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. I was senior lecturer in photographic practice at the University of Westminster for over 12 years (1991–2004) and created the MA Photographic Journalism course. I also won the Thomas Cook award for best Illustrated Travel Book for my coverage of the Marco Polo Expedition. This work was recognised by the award of the HIPA Content Producer Award in 2019. An early pioneer in digital photography, I have written over 30 books on photography as well as on video. Photographer, author, traveler and academic.
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