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Our Price: $24.95 (Check link for Current Discount) Paperback - 144 pages (January 1998) Amphoto, Dimensions (in inches): 0.44 x 11.01 x 8.35 Mastering Flash Photography by Susan McCartney Any time you mix low cost, but very good digital cameras with amateur designers and photographers, you've got problems unless all the photography is going to be done outside on nice days. The obvious difference between the pros and the wanna-bees, is in studio and flash photography. McCartney's book is carefully focused on equipment and techniques, with lots of examples and situations where flash actually makes or breaks the image. She addresses fill flash and bounce flash -- two subjects seldom even thouched upon in the 'new' digital world. I was recently chatting with a trendy young designer, letting him tell me all about his impressive victories with his new digital camera equipment, and photo shoots for the high-brow clients. He lamented about one particular shot, an outdoor shot, and how the camera didn't capture certain areas of the scene. I could see right away what was wrong, and it wasn't the camera. "What you need is a little bounce in there" was my comment, and he said: "What's that?" It was obvious he hadn't studied professional photography, nor read "Mastering Flash Photography" Fred Showker Keywords: Photography: digital photography, cameras, manipulation, montage, retouching, (Photo) - - 9/14/99