New G5 user:Any good photography books???

[xkops]

Hi,
i am new to photography, not in the sense that i have not taken any photos ever, but i decided to dive deeper and so i purchased a Canon Powershot G5.

I have read the manual, taken a couple of pictures... everything is ok, except that i do not have any knowledge on photography, so it is quite difficult to understand and really use any features of the camera, besides the obvious, except of course playing around on manual mode, and learning by trial and error.

I decided to buy a book, so i found Mastering Digital Photography on Amazon
ISBN: 1592001149.

Does anyone have any suggestion on where to start? tutorials, books would be helpfull, especially if they refer to canon g5.

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[RockSlut]

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1928873383/qid=1091615182/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-8587782-6590302?v=glance&s=books

A Short Course in Canon Powershot G3 Photography Book/eBook

This is an excellent resource. I highly recommend it. I think you'll find many other users will too. I know it relates to the G3 but the G3 and the G5 are essentially the same camera as far as I know. The only real difference is the megapixels (4meg for the G3 aqnd 5meg for the G5), oh and the colour!

This book covers many of the basics of photography with particular reference to using the controls of the G3.

I hope this helps!

[Lone Wolf 75]

The Short Course in Powershot G5 Photography is a highly recommended book, it shows you some of the basics and how to perform them with your G5.

I also picked up a free subscription to PC Photographer (I think the link is on here somewhere) and I will buy Outdoor Photographer from time to time.

I recently bought (from Borders) and read "The New Manual of Photography" by John Hedgecoe. I'd recommend it, especially if you are like me and knew nothing of photography other than point and shoot and film speeds prior to picking up the G5.

"How to do Everrything with Digital Photography" by Dave Huss was also a pretty good book, but not as in depth as the Hedgecoe book.

Also, read here, this is a great forum and I have learned a ton of info at this forum.

If you are curious about camera settings (especially how to take a certain type of picture) I think pbase has galleries that you can look at based on the type of camera, and quite a few of them list the entire exif file data.

Lastly, when you read about a particular setting, go out and take a few photos with it - vary the settings and see what happens.

Have fun!
I have been, and I am considering actually enrolling in a digital photography course this fall and possibly upgrading to another camera.

[zakmckracken]

If you are curious about camera settings (especially how to take a certain type of picture) I think pbase has galleries that you can look at based on the type of camera, and quite a few of them list the entire exif file data.



Excuse my ignorance, but what's (who's) PBASE ? :roll:

[Lone Wolf 75]

If you are curious about camera settings (especially how to take a certain type of picture) I think pbase has galleries that you can look at based on the type of camera, and quite a few of them list the entire exif file data.



Excuse my ignorance, but what's (who's) PBASE ? :roll:

No problem, perhaps I should have clarified a little more. Pbase is an online photo gallery:
http://www.pbase.com/cameras

It will let you search images taken with a particular camera, and there are quite a few images that you may wonder, "Hey, I wonder how they did that," and you can view the exif data file (a lot of the photos posted have this info underneath the photo), which records the camera settings.

[xkops]

Thanks a lot guys,

i ordered a couple of books on Amazon,
i will try to comment on them as soon as i read a couple of chapters...