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Take Your Photography to the Next Level: From Inspiration to Image

24 reviews
George Barr

Rocky Nook, 2007

Outstanding
Take Your Photography to the Next Level: From Inspiration to Image, by George Barr, is a collection of the most helpful postings from his blog over the past few years. I rank this book right up there with the works of Bryan Peterson in terms of it's importance to photographers in general. In fact, I would declare this a must read. Mr. Barr has taken the liberty (well advised in my mind) of ...

Mastering the Nikon D300
Darrell Young

Rocky Nook, 2008

Mastering the Nikon D300 by Nikonian Darrell Young provides a wealth of information and professional insights for owners of this powerful new camera. Each chapter explores the features and capabilities of the D300 in detail, surpassing basic user manuals by providing step-by-step menu setting adjustments coupled with illustrations and logical explanations for each option. Darrell Young's writing style allows the reader to follow directions in a ...

Scanning Negatives and Slides: Digitizing Your Photographic Archives

15 reviews
Sascha Steinhoff

Rocky Nook, 2007

Excellent Book!
I read this book cover to cover. As someone who has been using scanners since the 80286 days with a hand scanner, I liked to think I knew a thing or two about scanning and imaging editing. After I began to read this book, I quickly realized, I knew little about the intricacies of scanning photo's, and next to nothing about slide and negative scanning. This book comes with a CD with sample ...

Low Budget Shooting: Do It Yourself Solutions to Professional Photo Gear

17 reviews
Cyrill Harnischmacher

Rocky Nook, 2007

Good advice if you have more time than money
For the person with more time than money this book provides specific low-cost methods to make your own ancillary photography equipment. That being said, I should point out that the projects focus almost entirely on lighting and include softboxes, reflectors, and diffusers. In addition, most of the projects are focused on tabletop photography needs. That does not mean that they cannot be applied ...

The Photograph: Composition & Color Design

11 reviews
Harald Mante

Rocky Nook, 2008

Thoght-provoking challenge to conventional approaches
Mante's "The Photograph" joins Freeman's "The Photographer's Eye" as a must read for anyone who takes a serious interest in photographic composition. Though it probably won't be an easy read -- Mante does occasionally make considerable demands on the brain and the eye -- it will almost certainly be a rewarding read. You will likely find yourself taking, looking at, and thinking about photographs ...

The HDRI Handbook: High Dynamic Range Imaging for Photographers and CG Artists +DVD

25 reviews
Christian Bloch

Rocky Nook, 2007

Informative, even for seasoned practitioners
The principle was so obvious to me, and yet as soon I finished the study of this book, I realized just how limited my prior knowledge was. Apparently I did not knew about existing image standards, tools and about a fundamental importance of HDR (high dynamic range) imaging for digital photography as a superior way of preserving images. Foreword is by one of the top gurus in the discipline and ...

Fine Art Printing for Photographers: Exhibition Quality Prints with Inkjet Printers, 2nd Edition

20 reviews
Uwe Steinmueller, Juergen Gulbins

Rocky Nook, 2008

Fine Art Printing, The Sophisticated Inkjet!
This is a title on digital printing by Rockynook, a recently established publishing house specializing in books on computers, digital photography and image production. They distribute their titles through O'Reilly here in the US. They have strong ties to a German publishing house dpunct.verlag, whose specialty is computer science and digital photography. Most of the early titles published by ...

Mastering Landscape Photography: The Luminous Landscape Essays

20 reviews
Alain Briot

Rocky Nook, 2006

A refreshing perspective that may change your life
I own probably 40 books on photography. All were well researched before purchase, so all are good books. Of the 40, 10 were very valuable, 10 more were worth reading, the the other half were not. This is the first that I read cover to cover in just a couple of days. Some mentioned there is not a lot of information in the book. Well, it's not filled with tips and tricks and specifics of how to use ...

The Art of Black and White Photography: Techniques for Creating Superb Images in a Digital Workflow

2 reviews
Torsten Andreas Hoffmann

Rocky Nook, 2008

Black and White is not dead - it has its advantages over the world of color.
Black and White is not dead - it has its advantages over the world of color. "The Art of Black and White Photography: Techniques for Creating Superb Images in a Digital Workflow" is a complete and comprehensive guide to the craft of taking photos in the style of black and white. Chapters discuss when black and white should be used rather than color, how to avoid the cliches so often associated ...

Closeup Shooting: A Guide to Closeup, Tabletop and Macro Photography

13 reviews
Cyrill Harnischmacher

Rocky Nook, 2007

Wonderful Closeup Shooting Guide!!
'Closeup Shooting: A Guide to Closeup, Tabletop and Macro Photography' is a wonderful book that will help you get the most of out your closeup shots that you want to look better and jump off the page at you! Shooting closeup is one of the hardest things a photographer can do. Just simply setting the camera to macro mode and pressing the 'shoot' button is rarely enough. Subjects like what is ...

Color Management in Digital Photography: Ten Easy Steps to True Colors in Photoshop

7 reviews
Brad Hinkel

Rocky Nook, 2006

A must read for any serious digital photographer
For years I struggled with how to deal with a simple problem of getting what I see on screen to be the same as what I print a photo lab. Color management shouldn't be such a difficult task though it usually is unless you know some preparation and steps you need to take. Most casual photographers don't give a thought, and photo ops do a pretty decent job producing printed photos that make us ...

Software Testing Practice: Test Management: A Study Guide for the Certified Tester Exam ISTQB Advanced Level
Andreas Spillner, Tilo Linz, ...

Rocky Nook, 2007

Aimed at experts who are dedicated to software testing, The Software Testing Process: Test Management addresses the major issues related to advanced, state-of-the-art test management. This book covers the syllabus required to pass the Certified Tester Examination - Advanced Level as defined by the International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB). Software developers, project managers, quality managers, and team leaders will ...

Practical HDRI: High Dynamic Range Imaging for Photographers
Jack Howard

Rocky Nook, 2008

In this book, well-known expert Jack Howard leads you on an exploration into the exciting new frontier of High Dynamic Range Imaging. HDRI is a method to digitally capture, store, and edit the full luminosity range of a scene in ways that are just not possible with a single captured image. Jack's illustrated text is easy to understand as he takes you from the initial image capture and into the digital darkroom. Here is where you will learn ...

Digital Infrared Photography
Cyrill Harnischmacher

Rocky Nook, 2008

To record the "invisible light " has always been an intriguing and fascinating experiment. The infrared part of the light spectrum is outside the range of what the human eye can see, but with a digital camera, we are able to record only this "invisible light " while blocking the "visible " part. The results are often unusual, yet beautiful, renderings of otherwise fairly common scenes. Since as far back as the 1960 's artists have ...

Canon EOS 40D: The Rocky Nook Manual
Artur Landt

Rocky Nook, 2008

Your new Canon EOS 40D arrives, gets unpacked, batteries are fully loaded, and you are ready to go. For the next few weeks you will be in experimental mode, trying out your camera "and you often end up with a basic and limited set of functions and modes, which you will use for the rest of the camera's life. Why? Because you, like most of us, are lazy, and because the manual that comes with the camera is too dense and confusing. Get the ...

Digital Astrophotography: A Guide to Capturing the Cosmos

10 reviews
Stefan Seip

Rocky Nook, 2007

Wonderous Book For Seeing the Cosmos Through The Lens
'Digital Astrophotography: A Guide to Capturing the Cosmos' is a wonderful guide for any hobbyists that enjoy looking up at the night sky and wishing to record the images they see for prosperity. Like all of the photography genre there is so much more to taking pictures than just pressing a button and aiming, no matter what the subject matter is. When you look up at the sky and all you see for ...

Managing the Test People

5 reviews
Judy McKay

Rocky Nook, 2007

Judy McKay Tells It Like It Is, with a Big Smile
I have had the pleasure of working with Judy for almost a decade now, first as a consultant working in her test team at a (long defunct) dot-com era start-up, and more recently with her as an associate working with RBCS from time to time. Judy is always ready to tell the honest truth, and always in a friendly, happy way, and that's the way reading this book feels: Like a friend giving you ...

Photoshop CS3 Photographer's Handbook: An Easy Workflow

6 reviews
Brad Hinkel, Stephen Laskevitch

Rocky Nook, 2007

Novice and moving up
I consider myself pretty much a beginner with Photoshop, but I've found this book a great resource for me on my way to learning the software. It's helping me to anticipate all the possibilities the program offers at this early stage in my learning curve (there are so many it's somewhat intimdating!), which can only help me as a nonprofessional but still ambitious photographer. The photo examples ...

GIMP 2 for Photographers: Image Editing with Open Source Software

17 reviews
Klaus Goelker

Rocky Nook, 2006

The Gimp is no gimp
The Gimp has evolved over the years, with pieces tacked on here and there to add features that help it keep pace with Photoshop (at a much lower "price.") Originally a program written by propeller-heads for propeller-heads, the program has actually become useful for photographers who don't have a computer-programming bent. Even so, the interface can be confusing, and that's where this excellent ...

The Software Test Engineer's Handbook: A Study Guide for the ISTQB Test Analyst and Technical Analyst ...
Graham Bath, Judy McKay

Rocky Nook, 2008

There are a lot of books around covering functional testing techniques, but relatively few cover both functional and technical testing. This book will fill that gap. Authors Graham Bath and Judy McKay are core members of the ISTQB Working Party that created the new advanced level syllabus, which will be rolled out worldwide this year. This book brings both functional and technical aspects of testing into a coherent whole, which will benefit ...

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