Shoot to Thrill: A Hard-Boiled Guide to Digital Photography by Derek Pell

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Synopsis

The fully-loaded, laugh-and-learn handbook for anyone who's dead serious about improving the quality of their digital photos!

Once photographers know the basic technical stuff — aperture settings, depth of field, and so forth — where do they go to learn how to shoot an interesting picture? Today's auto-focus cameras can hardly miss, so why are there so many mediocre images around? What's missing? A visual eye. Spirit. Excitement. Can that be taught? Can photographers learn how to bring themselves to their images, building on what the camera can do for them? Yes - and Shoot to Thrill will show them how. Former UPI photojournalist Derek Pell shows photographers what it takes to develop their own winning style... offering crucial insights they'll never find in a typical digital photography book. Drawing on his own long experience, he also presents powerful creative techniques such as: how to achieve dramatic Film Noir lighting... how to get the Ring Flash look that's currently the rage in fashion photography... how to experiment with portrait lighting when you can't afford to hire a model or get a friend to sit... how to improve everything from still lives to action photos. Pell's inimitable stylemakes this book as much a pleasure to read as it is to look at - and it's the one book that'll take photographers from where they are to where they want to be.

Biography

Derek Pell  a former press photographer for UPI, is Editor in Chief of Zoom Street (www.zoomstreet.org), a monthly magazine devoted to digital photography. Pell's photographs have appeared in many newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times Magazine, The Times of London, Rolling Stone, New York, Interview, L.A. Weekly, The Village Voice, American Forests, and Zink.