Tony Northrup's DSLR Book: How to Create Stunning Digital Photography

Tony Northrup

Nov 2012 · Mason Press

About this ebook

The world's #1 rated and best-selling digital photography book, and the first ever Gold Honoree of the Benjamin Franklin Digital Award, gives you five innovations no other book offers:

1. FREE VIDEO TRAINING. 6 HOURS of video training integrated into the book’s content (requires Internet access). Travel around the world with Tony and Chelsea as they teach you hands-on. Appendix A lists the videos so you can use the book like an inexpensive video course.
2. TEACHER AND PEER SUPPORT. After buying the book, you get access to the private Stunning Digital Photography Readers group on Facebook where you can ask the questions and post pictures for feedback from Tony, Chelsea, and other readers. It’s like being able to raise your hand in class and ask a question! Instructions are in the introduction.
3. FREE LIFETIME UPDATES. This book is regularly updated with new content (including additional videos) that existing owners receive for free. Updates are added based on reader feedback and questions, as well as changing photography trends and new camera equipment. This is the last photography book you'll ever need.
4. HANDS-ON PRACTICES. Complete the practices at the end of every chapter to get the real world experience you need.
5. 500+ ORIGINAL PICTURES. Detailed example pictures taken by the author and his wife in 15 countries demonstrate both good and bad technique. NO STOCK PHOTOS. Many pictures include links to the full-size image so you can zoom in to see every pixel. 

In this book, Tony Northrup (award-winning author of more than 30 how-to books and a professional portrait, wildlife, and landscape photographer) teaches the art and science of creating stunning pictures. First, beginner photographers will master:

• Composition
• Exposure
• Shutter speed
• Aperture
• Depth-of-field (blurring the background)
• ISO
• Natural light
• Flash
• Troubleshooting blurry, dark, and bad pictures
• Pet photography
• Wildlife photography (mammals, birds, insects, fish, and more)
• Sunrises and sunsets
• Landscapes
• Cityscapes
• Flowers
• Forests, waterfalls, and rivers
• Night photography
• Fireworks
• Raw files
• HDR
• Macro/close-up photography

Advanced photographers can skip forward to learn the pro’s secrets for:

• Posing men and women. including corrective posing (checklists provided)
• Portraits (candid, casual, formal, and underwater)
• Group photos
• Remotely triggering flashes
• Using bounce flash and flash modifiers
• Using studio lighting on any budget
• Building a temporary or permanent studio at home
• Shooting your first wedding
• High speed photography
• Location scouting/finding the best spots and times
• Planning shoots around the sun and moon
• Star trails (via long exposure and image stacking)
• Light painting
• Eliminating noise
• Focus stacking for infinite depth-of-field
• Underwater photography
• Getting close to wildlife
• Using electronic shutter triggers

Ratings and reviews

This photography book is very helpful to me. I got my DSLR gears but did not know how to come out from Auto exposure mode from it. Now after reading this book I am confidant to go manual mode. Book is simply excellent. Plus video tutorial is also well explained.

I purchased this while on vacation for a morning read with my coffee, but I kept coming back to it during the day. The book is professionally written as are the videos that accompany the material. I highly recommend this book to anyone who buys a DSLR, not to make money but for the enjoyment of taking photos, and gaining the skill to take good ones.

This book strikes a difficult balance between providing content for the complete beginner and the intermediate photographer. It contains a great variety of content and great ideas to inspire you to try new things with your camera. the included videos really give you some hands on examples of the content in the book. I would highly recommend it without reservation!

About the author

Award-winning author and photographer Tony Northrup has published more than 30 books covering photography and technology. Among other titles, Tony is author of Stunning Digital Photography and Windows 8 Inside Out. Tony lives in Waterford, CT with his wife and daughter. You can learn more about Tony by liking his Facebook photography page at http://www.facebook.com/NorthrupPhotography, following him on Twitter (@TonyNorthrup), viewing his photography portfolio at www.northrupphotography.com, or emailing him at [e-mail].