Digital Nature Photography Closeup

This book is gorgeous! Jon really has outdone himself. The photos are not just accurate, naturalist recordings of nature... they go far beyond that. The images are inspiring and will motivate you to become both a better photographer and a better person - one who treats the environment with respect. Jon's writing is accessible, accurate, and useful. I particularly benefited from his explorations of the histogram, camera raw and the digital darkroom. I highly recommend this guidebook to anyone looking for help with digital nature photography. This will prove to be a valuable tool for those interested in macro technique as well as those shooting larger subjects in the natural world.

Whether you are new to digital or an old hand at it this book has something for everyone. In easy to read style it not only gives you information about macro photography in nature but, help with working on the computer with your images. It tells you how digital macro photography is different from film macro photography and how to adjust for just that. I found this book most useful and carry it with me when I am doing macro photography. It also covers important basic photography information.

This book is essentially a discussion of macro digital photography. There are many macro books in print for film cameras, few for digital photography and very, very few that are for digital photography macro that excel like this book does. It is thorough- every detail is covered of how to shoot macro in practice yet it is in language that anyone with a semblance of knowledge in photography can understand. This book is a rare book - one you wish you could award more than five stars for.

Digital cameras have some special requirements for close-up photography of nature, and this one covers all of them very well. It's easy to follow and tells you everything you need to know. I have always found picture-taking of skittish living things very challenging, and this book helped me a lot. My pictures are now 100 percent better. Thanks!

For me, I found Jon Cox - "Close-up" book to be the perfect companion book for "John Shaw's" Close-up book. (John Shaw's books are for film. Jon Cox's- Closeup book, are for digital cameras). Both books are "easy to read" and are packed with information. Sometimes,I don't care how knowledgeable a photographer is. If a book is a "chore" to read or understand, (because the author is a lousy writer or the layout is lousy or both)..... the book is practically usless. Readers quickly grow tired of books that are badly written, (regardless how "chock-full" of information)... and soon stop reading the book. This is not the case with Digital Nature Photography Closeup by Jon Cox. (or John Shaw's Close-up book). I love the beautiful photographs. But, more so, I love how Jon Cox photographs are shown in duplicates of the same image,(side by side), shot with different "lenses" or "field of depth" or "white balance" or "exposure" etc. etc. etc.... So the reader instantly see's identical photographs "change" when settings are tweeked. AND, if you don't understand what "field of depth" or " white balance" or "Diopters" or "exposure" or "f-Stop" etc. etc. etc. are.... he explains in easy to understand writing .... what all these are and how to use them efficiently. This book isn't just for beginners. It is also for intermediate photographers and even advanced photographers who are switching from Film to Digital. I highly recommend this book!