Product Description

This book/eBook package is your guide to getting more interesting and creative photos with the 8 megapixel Canon PowerShot S5 IS. If you want to learn more about the concepts of photography, this book/ebook is for you. It discusses every camera setting on this high-quality camera in a clear, well-illustrated style, with many integrated tips and QuickSteps, but it also does much more. You'll see why and when you use specific settings, not just how to set them. You'll find that this guide helps you quickly master your camera so you ll be getting the kinds of photos you hope for.

The book is printed in black & white and has a well-liked spiral binding that lets the book lie flat or be folded back. The accompanying eBook on a CD disc is a printable and searchable full-color version of the same book in Adobe's popular PDF format. It can be read on a PC or Mac using the free Acrobat Reader or any current Web browser. This eBook also includes clickable links to over 50 interactive animations that illustrate the core concepts of digital photography. With these new features you'll be able to interact with such concepts as exposure compensation, lens focal lengths, histograms, and much, much more. (To use these features you do need an Internet connection.)

Just some of the things you'll learn are how to take pictures in fully automatic point and shoot mode and how your camera captures digital images; how to play back and manage your images; use buttons, dials, and menus; control image size and quality; shoot continuously, use all of the camera s exposure modes and exposure controls to get photos that show the scene exactly as it is, or as you want to interpret it; use histograms for the best possible exposures; see how to control sharpness in your photographs; and how to use focus, depth-of-field, sharpness, softness, and blur creatively. Learn all about light and color and how to use them creatively. Understand how they change throughout the day and seasons, how they re affected by the weather, and how light s direction and quality affects highlights and shadows. See how to set white balance to capture colors the way you see them. Learn how to use lenses creatively when photographing scenery, interiors, people, and very small subjects. See how zoom and macro mode affects your images. See how to creatively use flash both indoors and out and in good light and bad and how to use studio lighting for product shots and portraits. Explore special techniques such as fill and slow sync flash. See how to shoot panoramas, store your own settings, control image qualities such as tone, sharpness and hue, shoot in black & white, and enter a print order.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #250768 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09-05
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• 152 pages

About the Author
For the past three decades Dennis Curtin has been an editor, author, and publisher in photography and computing. His latest books on digital cameras and digital photography have been widely praised for their quality and simplicity. They have been used by most of the armed services, many police departments, and even some camera companies to train specialists in photography. On the publishing side, Dennis was editor-in-chief of one of Time-Warner's educational divisions and also held similar positions in Prentice-Hall's technology and engineering program and Prentice-Hall International. In those roles, he has worked extensively with Ansel Adams and other leading photographers of our generation. In his roles as publisher, editor, and author Dennis has been fortunate to publish or write many best-selling books in photography and computing.

Customer Reviews

Excelent
Easy to read and understand. Excellent step by step explanations. Not only for the use of the Canon s5 but to learn about photography.

Great coverage of the S5 features
If you've purchased the camera, now you can learn how to effectively use it. Dennis Curtin's book explains how to use the many features of the S5 IS in a way that your owners manual could never do! I am very glad I purchased it.

S5 IS short course review
really terrific guide for the s5 is.

i replaced my two S1 IS's just recently with a S5 IS, so i've got a fair amount of experience with this type of camera. but this short course was worth ever penny.

the short course covered quite a few topics that were in the camera manuals, but in a easier to grasp manner. i particularly liked the sections on manual focus, macro and super macro.
(i virtually never used these on the S1 IS since the camera manual explanations were a bit dense and hard to follow)

the spiral bound copy was great since i spent a good bit of a plane flight to a destination
reading the text and then practicing on the camera.

the included cd-rom has all the same text, but colour pictures and web links to animation
explaining some of the photographic concepts.

i think that both budding photographers and experienced shooters new to this camera will find this short course useful.