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Improve Your Photography (Beginner) – $7.99

Jim Harmer — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 16:20:13 +0000

“Improve Your Photography: How Budding Photographers Can Get Pro Results” has been purchased by thousands of beginning photographers across the world. This second edition of the book includes updated information and expanded resources for budding photographers.

The book is packed full of quick and easy tips to encourage budding photographers to improve while learning concepts and technical information on photography. Jim explains this book this way, “This is what every photographer needs to know to take clean and stunning photos. If I would have had this book when I started, I would have been two years ahead of everyone else in just 60 pages.”

The book covers topics such as tips for taking better portraits of people, instruction on choosing lenses, tips for landscape and sunset photography, and HDR.
Unlike most photography books that confuse beginning and intermediate photographers with difficult concepts and too much technical data, this book is designed specifically to teach photographers who are just learning how shutter speed, aperture, and ISO work together.

“If I would have had this book when I started learning photography, I would have been two years ahead in learning.”
Buy the book for your Kindle! http://amzn.to/fT4wQm
Or, you can buy a PDF of the book below…

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Improve Your Night Photography

Jim Harmer — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 22:26:07 +0000

Skilled night photographers can leave any shoot knowing they captured the scene in perfect focus and low noise, but beginning photographers often leave night shoots frustrated. After teaching dozens of photographers how to shoot at night, the author compiled this book to explain the most important tips for night photographers.

This book is targeted to intermediate and advanced amateur photographers who are just beginning to learn night photography. Topics discussed in this book include: how to achieve low noise, how to shoot stars and star trails, shooting HDR images at night, practical tips for focusing the camera in the dark, how to shoot fireworks, and dozens of quick tips to improve your images.

You can buy this eBook to read on your computer by using the shopping cart below, or you can buy the book in various eBook stores for your Kindle/Nook/iPad/Nook, etc. Here’s a link to the book in the Kindle Store. Here’s a link to the book in the Nook Store. If you have an iPad/iPhone/iTouch, you can search the name of the book from within the iBooks application.

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Improve Your HDR Photography – $5.99

Jim Harmer — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 22:23:52 +0000

There are thousands of simple HDR tutorials online, but few tips on improving your HDR photography past the absolute basics. This book was designed to fill that void with dozens of easy-to-implement tips and techniques to create realistic-looking HDR images.

The first chapter is a quick HDR tutorial for beginners, and then the remaining chapters build on the basic knowledge with advanced techniques and dozens of tips from the pros. The author’s no-nonsense writing style is easy to understand and makes for a quick read.

This book teaches how to take HDR photos in the field, as well as how to post-process the HDR photos using Photomatix software.

You can buy this eBook to read on ANY computer by using the shopping cart below, or you can buy the book in various eBook stores for your Kindle/Nook/iPad/Nook, etc. Here’s a link to the book in the Kindle Store. Here’s a link to the book in the Nook Store. If you have an iPad/iPhone/iTouch, you can search the name of the book from within the iBooks application.

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Improve Your Wildlife Photography – $3.99

Jim Harmer — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 22:20:51 +0000

In the wake of two fast-selling books on photography, author and award-winning photographer Jim Harmer presents his third book: “Improve Your Wildlife Photography.”

This book is written with the beginning and intermediate wildlife photographer in mind. Not sure what specular highlights are, or never heard of a flash extender? This book is for you. Whether you enjoy shooting birds, deer, or any other type of animal, the techniques in this book will help improve the impact of your wildlife photos.

The book is written in straight-forward and casual language so difficult concepts can be explained in the simplest of terms. With quick and easy tips spread throughout the book, any photographer can get both in-depth information and quick and easy ideas to improve their animal photography.

Some of the topics explained in the book include: how to increase the drama in your wildlife photography, improving your lighting, what makes a winning wildlife photo, how to get close to animals, and techniques to achieve ultra-sharp animal photos. Photographers who shoot any type of wildlife–whether it be birds, deer, african animals, or anything else–will improve their photography by reading this book.

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Improve Your Landscape Photography

Jim Harmer — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 16:26:40 +0000

Most photographers learn basic exposure, the rule of thirds, and other such basic information about landscape photography; however, few photographers spend the time time learn more information.

This book contains valuable information such as how to achieve better compositions by using the Golden Mean rather than the simplistic rule of thirds. In another chapter, the author explains creative techniques for finding beautiful landscape photography locations by using hiking and Geocaching websites. Interspersed within these meaty chapters are dozens of quick tips and tricks used by the pros to capture stunning images.

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