Wow! What a fantastic book. The digital revolution has completely overhauled nearly every aspect of photographic method. It isn’t just the cameras that are different. The whole process from conception to final output is all new. Now we have sensors instead of film, raw capture instead of negatives, Photoshop instead of the darkroom, lab color space instead of the zone system, ink jet printing instead of silver halide paper, and the web instead of galleries. Till now there hasn’t been a front-to-end guide to this new photography good enough to recommend. Most digital photography guides (there are hundreds!) deal with photoshopping and cameras, and leave everything else to art. I’ve been looking for a guru that will take me to the “why”at the bottom of things like”color profiling,” give me the tools of control in a scientific way, and stitch them together in a way that allows me to consistently produce the image I had in my mind. This masterpiece by Michael Freeman does all that. It is by far the best one-volume operating manual for serious digital photography I’ve seen. In fact, now that it is all digital, this is simply the best introduction to the craft of photography there is. I can’t praise it too much. Forget the Pro in the title; it’s for anyone intent on mastering this technology. Even someone who is new to cameras. The Handbook is extremely visual, with tons of diagrams, examples in color, great insights and practical tips, and a very systematic approach to the new path. Like the best guides, it strikes the perfect balance between simplistic overview and too much nerdy detail; every page has useful information new to me, and I’ve been photographing analog and digital a long time. Freeman is is also incredibly up-to-date. I can’t think of much important that he misses. There are some other great guides for specific tasks, like Raw capture, or digital printmaking, which I will review later, but for all around mastery of today’s photography (more than cell-phone shots), this is the best (re)education I know of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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