Experimental Digital Photography [Amazon] by Rick Doble, Lark Books; 1 edition (May 4, 2010)

About The Author

Rick Doble has written several books about digital photography and his award-winning work has been exhibited at museums and symposiums around the world and been used globally by school, university and graduate students. He taught photography for over ten years at various locations, including Duke University. His photos and articles have been reviewed in eDigitalPhoto and published in Sanskrit Magazine, among other publications.

About the Book

Thanks to the popularity of digital photography and user-generated Internet content, interest in experimental photographic techniques continues to build. This unique guide helps photographers go beyond the snapshot, flex their creative muscles, and push the boundaries of their art.

Rick Doble presents a wealth of imaginative concepts, from creating ambience through a mix of flash and available light to panning the camera and zooming the lens during an exposure. He explains how to manipulate time and motion in an image, use inventive white balance methods, and “paint” with light in time exposures. There are even original self-portrait techniques.

Our Take

This digital photography book jumps around quite a bit from basic and advanced technological information to aesthetic and visual practice and it just doesn’t seem to flow well.  This book focuses, as far as “experimenting with digital photography”, on slower shutter speeds and moving the camera more than almost any other “technique”.

This book is for…

Someone who doesn’t have access to the Internet?

Conclusion

There really isn’t anything new or inspiring in this book on digital photography that you couldn’t accidentally stumble upon reading a decent digital photography tutorials blog.

While this book attempts to help new digital photographers experiment with their cameras I feel most photographers would actually grow more by simply playing with their camera settings and seeing if they like what they get.

We’re giving this book on experimental digital photography a

2 out of 5