National Geographic Photo Basics: The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Great Photography

Excellent book for beginners at bargain price. Clearly explained, nice color photos make the examples meaningful. Valuable book to have, read and use for future reference. Useful hints for taking pictures with iPhone.

Great book for a beginning photographer like myself. Very well written

This book is designed to keep your interest about how to approach your subject matter. I purchased it for my niece for Christmas. It is in beautiful color, simple wording and step by step process to get the best shot. Wonderful book, she was thrilled.

I like this book. I’ve been trying to learn how to make photographs for the past several months using a combination of a few YouTube subscriptions, two video courses, and now two books. This particular book was the second. It consists of 10 short chapters each comprised of 8-10 two-paged lessons, and includes 10 (or so) exercises. Appropriate to the beginner, the book includes but does not deal in depth with the technical aspects of exposure or post-processing. Even after finishing the book it’s a nice book to thumb through, examining the many example photos and re-reading the short accompanying text. The book can stand on its own for a leisurely quarter- or semester-long self-study course, but as I mentioned at the start I came into this book about mid-way or so in my pursuit. The author also is the instructor for one of the video courses that I’m using, and I find the book and videos complementary, albeit with a different focus.

Ideal book

Grandson starting out a new hobby. Had great tips for him.

We have are expression class and this is great beginners guide. Easy to understand and simple to learn. We recommend

Nice loved it as part of early photo learning