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The Gallery above shows images that were created using a few of the playful techniques detailed in the book. All images in the gallery are copyright John Neel.

Open your eyes and RETHINK DIGITAL!

Rethinking Digital Photography is not your average digital photography book! Instead, this book shows you, ways to play with your camera and your photography in order to create unique images. The book is meant to inspire creative thinking and promote the concept of exploration and play. While the book is written primarily around digital cameras, lenses and techniques, nearly every concept will work for analog cameras as well.

This inspirational book is filled with great examples of unique and playful creative imagery covering many great techniques such as HDR photography, alternative lenses, digital zone plate photography, 360˚panorama imaging, camera and lens hacks, homemade tilt-shift lenses, TTV cameras, digital pinhole, digital painting, homemade photographic macro and fisheye lenses, stereo imaging, alternative software and a multitude of other great ways to produce fun, creatively satisfying and unique photographic images.

Never too technical, full of great examples and galleries, easy to read and to understand, Rethinking Digital Photography is meant to appeal to all levels of photographer, from beginners to advanced professionals.

"Photography is changing at the speed of light--and this imaginative manual offers an amazing look at unconventional imaging methods, both digital and analog. Detailed and playful, it presents ideas for repurposing old cameras, making photo devices out of common household items, and creating unique images with today's cameras, mobile phones, software, and other digital technology. From using a TTV cameras lens to panorama and 3D shooting, these techniques will expand any photographer's repertoire!" - Pixiq

 

Here is a short excerpt from the chapter about HDR:

"In photographic terms, dynamic range can be defined as the ability of film or a sensor to capture a range of tones from very dark to very bright.  In photography, capturing details in low light areas of the image scene (the shadows) as well as information details in the bright areas (the highlights) is desirable but usually difficult to achieve. The human eye sees a larger brightness (luminance) range than a digital sensor. At this point in time, neither film nor digital sensors are capable of showing detail in the deep shadows and the brightest highlights at the same time due to their limited dynamic range. High Dynamic Range Imaging is a technique used to capture levels of brightness from selective portions of the scene that can be merged together to achieve an expanded tonal range. Images are shot at different exposures and combined through a blending process to retain details across the entire scene. HDR is used to reveal detail in the whole image including extreme light and dark areas of the captured scene." 

Rethinking Digital Photography can be purchased at your local Barnes and Noble or online at Amazon , Barnes and Noble, Hastings, Powells, and Tower Books in the USA.  It is also sold in Canada at Chapters Indigo and other fine bookstores in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and other countries worldwide.