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The Magic of Digital Close-Up Photography (A Lark Photography Book) Reviews

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Summary: The magic of digital close-up photography
Comment: This book was a bit harder to follow, but the results are worth the work. Good book to buy.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Worth the Price
Comment: A beautiful and inspiring book. As a retired microscopist I am glad to find this book that not only describes useful equipment and photographs that illustrates the effects of using the equipment. The results are inspiring. Going from photomicrograph's to photomacrographs is a great adventure.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great reference
Comment: This is a really good book for both new photographers and those of us moving from 35mm to digital photography.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: A bit too basic
Comment: I bought this book based on the fact that it was advertising techniques for the enthusiast to advanced users. What I got was a book that gave a fairly basic, broad overview with very little to offer me. I read through the book in only a couple of hours, with nothing grabbing me to go "Wow! I had never thought of that before!" Yes, there is a couple of unusual things in there, with close-up image capture utilising scanners and close-up stands, but the vast majority of people would never use that. A disappointing purchase.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Not exactly what I expected
Comment: I ordered this book along with "Closeup Shooting" expecting to learn some techniques for macro photography with digital and film SLRs. I got a lot out of "Closeup Shooting" - but this one not so much. (Sorry, it's hard for me not to compare the two.)

This one is much more shallow in the areas I'm interested in than what I expected. A key reason for this is that so many of this book's 192 pages cover topics that I didn't expect given its title. For example, over 40 pages are devoted to creating images with scanners. The entire last chapter describes how to use copy stands. And as another reviewer pointed out, there are no exposure details provided with the example photos in the book. For me looking for tips on taking my cameras out into the world to make nice images these were all disappointments.

But it's not all bad. I did learn a few things from this book. The information on lighting, in particular, I found to be pretty good.

I'll keep this book, but if I had found it in a bookstore I never would have bought it. I blame Amazon as much as the author/publisher since there is no good description provided. Chalk it up to the perils of online shopping. I am very happy with "Closeup Shooting" though.

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