Camera & Craft: Learning the Technical Art of Digital Photography

Foreword

Photography is the easiest thing to make, and one of the hardest things to make well.

—Jerry Saltz

Knowing how each Photoshop slider or camera setting works does not create compelling images. On a similar note, having great ideas without mastering the skills to realize them will also produce unsatisfying results. To produce outstanding images, you must be dedicated to craft, vision and creativity. Being an artist is simultaneously exhilarating, challenging, frightening, pleasurable, difficult—and rewarding.

With this book, you are privy to the real-world knowledge of many talented, creative and smart photographers. I had the privilege of meeting Andy Batt, Candace Dobro and Jodie Steen in outstanding educational environments. Andy ...