There are countless Photography Guide courses, tutorials, articles available online, but for some, having a book is still a necessity to learn. This is an up-to-date list of recommended books.
- The Beginner’s Photography Guide: The Ultimate Step-by-Step Manual for Getting the Most from Your Digital Camera (2016)
- How to Create Stunning Digital Photography (2012)
- Mastering Digital Cameras: An Illustrated Guidebook for Absolute Beginners (Digital Photography 101) (Volume 1) (2013)
- The Beginner’s Photography Guide (2013)
- The Photographer’s Guide to Posing: Techniques to Flatter Everyone (2017)
- David Busch’s Canon EOS Rebel SL1/100D Digital SLR Photography (David Busch’s Digital Photography Guides) (2013)
- Photography Demystified: Your Guide to Gaining Creative Control and Taking Amazing Photographs! (2016)
- Stoppees’ Guide to Photography and Light by Stoppee, Brian and Janet. (Focal Press,2008) [Paperback] ()
- Extraordinary Everyday Photography: Awaken Your Vision to Create Stunning Images Wherever You Are (2012)
- David Busch’s Sony Alpha SLT-A77 Photography Guides) (2012)
- BetterPhoto Basics: The Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Taking Photos Like a Pro (2010)
- David Busch’s Canon EOS 6D Photography Guides) (2013)
The Beginner’s Photography Guide: The Ultimate Step-by-Step Manual for Getting the Most from Your Digital Camera (2016)
The Beginner’s Photography Guide, 2nd Edition is DK’s bestselling manual for any novice photographer who wants to unlock the potential of their new digital camera.Assuming no prior knowledge, this guide’s easy-to-follow, step-by-step layout makes it accessible as it takes you through every technique you need to create stunning images, from exposure to flash to image enhancement.
How to Create Stunning Digital Photography (2012)
Stunning Digital Photography is much more than a book; it’s a hands-on, self-paced photography class with over 14 hours of online training videos and free help from the author and other readers. That’s why award-winning author and photographer Tony Northrup’s book is the #1 photography book with over 250,000 readers. This book gives you five innovations no other book offers: 1) .
Mastering Digital Cameras: An Illustrated Guidebook for Absolute Beginners (Digital Photography 101) (Volume 1) (2013)
Are you tired of learning photography by trial and error?If you understand how a camera works, everything else about photography will make more sense. What if you understood why certain Aperture and Shutter settings work so well and had a mental image of how these settings affect the light entering the camera?
The Beginner’s Photography Guide (2013)
In contrast to the jargon-filled manuals that come with most digital cameras, The Beginner’s Photography Guide presents step-by-step digital slr camera basics, while introducing and demonstrating a wide variety of techniques that will inspire the novice digital photographer.
The Photographer’s Guide to Posing: Techniques to Flatter Everyone (2017)
When photographing people, you can have a great composition, perfect light, and the right camera settings, but if your subject doesn’t look right―if the pose is off―the shot will not be a keeper. Posing is truly a crucial skill that photographers need to have in order to create great photographs.
David Busch’s Canon EOS Rebel SL1/100D Digital SLR Photography (David Busch’s Digital Photography Guides) (2013)
The Canon EOS Rebel SL1/100D is one of the most advanced entry-level cameras that Canon has ever introduced. This compact, lightweight dSLR boasts 18 megapixels of resolution, blazing fast automatic focus, and cool features like the real-time preview system called live view, full high-definition movie shooting, and a touch screen that allows you to make many settings with a tap of the LCD.
Photography Demystified: Your Guide to Gaining Creative Control and Taking Amazing Photographs! (2016)
Are you stuck on the auto mode on your camera? Frustrated by the fact that you know you own a great camera but are unable to use it to capture the photographs you’ve always wanted and that you “see” in your mind but can’t get the camera to take?
Stoppees’ Guide to Photography and Light by Stoppee, Brian and Janet. (Focal Press,2008) [Paperback] ()
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Extraordinary Everyday Photography: Awaken Your Vision to Create Stunning Images Wherever You Are (2012)
Photographers are born travelers. They’ll go any distance to capture the right light, beautiful landscapes, wildlife, and people. But exotic locales aren’t necessary for interesting photographs. Wonderful images are hiding almost everywhere; you just need to know how to find them.
David Busch’s Sony Alpha SLT-A77 Photography Guides) (2012)
The Sony a SLT-A77 is one of the most innovative cameras Sony has ever introduced, with sensational features like a full-time, real-time preview system called Live View, GPS logging, and an amazing 12 frames-per-second shooting rate. The camera boasts 24 megapixels of resolution, blazing-fast automatic focus, a full high-definition movie making mode, and a pioneering transparent mirror that allows light to pass to the sensor at all times.
BetterPhoto Basics: The Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Taking Photos Like a Pro (2010)
Absolutely anyone can take better photos! If you can press a button, you can take great pictures. It’s as simple as that. In BetterPhoto Basics, Jim Miotke, founder of the popular online photography school BetterPhoto.com, shares tips and tricks to improve your photos right away, no matter what camera you’re using. Too busy to read a book?
David Busch’s Canon EOS 6D Photography Guides) (2013)
The Canon EOS 6D is the most affordable full-frame camera that Canon has ever introduced. It boasts 20.2 megapixels of resolution, blazing-fast automatic focus, and cool features like full high-definition movie shooting. As the owner of a Canon EOS 6D, you demand the ability to take outstanding pictures with your new camera.
Best Photography Guide Books Worth Your Attention
We highly recommend you to buy all paper or e-books in a legal way, for example, on Amazon. But sometimes it might be a need to dig deeper beyond the shiny book cover. Before making a purchase, you can visit resources like Library Genesis and download some photography guide books mentioned below at your own risk. Once again, we do not host any illegal or copyrighted files, but simply give our visitors a choice and hope they will make a wise decision.
David Busch's DJI Mavic Air 2/2S Guide to Drone Photography
Author(s): David Busch
ID: 3623128, Publisher: Rocky Nook, Year: 2023, Size: 55 Mb, Format: epub
David Busch's Canon EOS R10 Guide to Digital Photography
Author(s): David D. Busch
ID: 3639071, Publisher: Rocky Nook, Year: 2023, Size: 45 Mb, Format: mobi
The Complete Guide to Food Photography: How to Light, Compose, Style, and Edit Mouth-Watering Food Photographs
Author(s): Lauren Caris Short
ID: 3278948, Publisher: Rocky Nook, Year: 2022, Size: 54 Mb, Format: epub
Please note that this booklist is not final. Some books are truly hot items according to The New York Times, others are written by unknown authors. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant links you could recommend? Drop a comment if you have any feedback on the list.