Ebook Review: Trick Photography and Special Effects by Evan Sharboneau
We
recently got our hands on a fresh copy of a new ebook by photographer
Evan Sharboneau. Evan has a really informative blog with some amazing
tutorials at PhotoExtremist.com. Not knowing what to expect, I ended up
being really delighted with the way the book was organized. It doesn’t
matter if you are a beginner, an advanced, amateur, or a seasoned
professional. This book was written and organized in a way so that all
that read it will take something home with them. I was pretty
overwhelmed with the amount of techniques and lighting variables in this
ebook. There are so many real examples, all clickable that link to the
web for even further review. This book even has clickable links to
step by step tutorials for many of the techniques illustrated.
Sometimes you don’t know what to expect
with ebooks, and may be a little skeptical, like I am. Online only
ebooks sometimes catch a bad rap because there are a lot of them, and
most can be really poorly put together. Everyone and their cousin is
taking their best blog posts, and shoving them together in a pdf,
calling it an ebook. This is definitely not your average run of the
mill information. As photographers, we can sometimes get a little stale
or get stuck in our own comfort zone. This ebook teaches some great
tricks and techniques that will get your creative juices flowing. The
hundreds of images and visual eye candy will inspire you to attempt some
of these on your own.
Trick Photography and Special Effects covers the following topics very thoroughly:
-photography basics for beginners: cameras, lenses, tripods, aperture, iso, shutter speeds, white balance, etc.
-360 degree panoramas
-HDR and infrared photography
-painting and drawing with light
-fundamental trick lighting tools and techniques
-long exposure photography: skies, water, people, star trails
-advanced lens filters
-lightning photography
-the Droste effect
-shaped bokeh
-double exposures
-multiplicity
-tons of Photoshop tutorials, projects and ideas
That’s only scratching the surface. To
view the entire table of contents and to get an actual preview of some
of the e book’s many pages, click here
I really enjoyed this e-book and would
highly recommend it – all 190 pages. It’s worth it’s weight in gold,
even if you are able to implement just a few of the techniques into your
skill set. The quality and content of this book is better than most
printed books I’ve thumbed through at the bookstore or library. It took
me over a few hours just to quickly skim through it, but I plan on
going back and reading it more in depth when I need to get inspired with
some new photography and Photoshop techniques. This book is chock full
of them, that’s for sure. Check it out yourself – I’m sure you won’t
regret it.
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