Digital Nature Photography: Use Any Digital Camera to Take Spectacular Nature Photographs by Mark Hataska, 198 full-color photographs, 144 pages, trade cover, 8.25 x 11 inches, ISBN 0-9745121-0-9, $29.95 USD

Hello,

Are you dreaming of creating stunning, awe-inspiring, professional-quality nature photographs?

The Good News

The good news—the absolutely fantastic news—is you can learn to do this in months, not years—with a digital camera you may already own—for as little cost as a dozen or so disposable film cameras.

How Is this Possible?

Approximately 98% of what makes great photographs great is directly attributable to the expert application of just a handful of simple photographic fundamentals.

This means all the extra features of expensive cameras and lenses costing many thousands of dollars play a shockingly small role in the making of great photographs. By shifting your efforts towards photographic fundamentals and away from expensive equipment "solutions," you will quickly increase your production of amazing photographs.

Simplicity and Lower Costs

Digital Nature Photography is the first book to recognize this fact, and it is the first book to pioneer the use of digital cameras to vastly simplify and dramatically lower the costs of your photography.

The book clearly demonstrates how to use simplification and lower costs to turbo-accelerate your photographic fundamentals

Expert command of photographic fundamentals will absolutely blast the roof off your nature photography.

A Dynamite Recipe for Awesome Nature Photographs

In a nutshell, here's the dynamite recipe for spectacular nature photographs you'll find in Digital Nature Photography.

• In one digital camera, thoroughly mix these simple photographic fundamentals:

1. Subject
2. Lighting
3. Composition
4. Color
5. Focus
6. Exposure

• Add heaping dollops of expertly simplified, professionally proven digital camera field techniques.

• Blend in the sage experience and other secret herbs and spices of a professional nature photographer.

• Finish with a rich topping of 198 informative, inspirational, sometimes mind-blowing, example photographs.

And there you have it, a fast, low-cost, super-effective recipe for making amazing, jaw-dropping, collar grabbing, breathtaking, professional-quality nature photographs.

The Proof of the Pudding is in the Viewing

If you haven't already done so, take a moment to view the sample photographs from the book. You'll find them in the box near the top left of this page.

These images represent just a small sample of the numerous inspirational photographs you'll find in the book.

Seeing is believing.

These example photographs have been carefully chosen to fully illustrate the concepts taught in the book, and more importantly, visually show you what you can achieve with your digital camera.

Simply seeing what's possible will unleash a whirlwind of creative talent within you. By being able to clearly visualize the shooting concepts in the book, you'll soon begin returning home with wave after wave of gorgeous nature photographs.

The Supreme Benefits of Photographic Fundamentals

Here are just a few of the many supreme benefits you'll enjoy by following the fundamentals-based approach presented by Digital Nature Photography.

• Select the absolute most effective cameras on the planet by using photographic fundamentals to guide your choice of equipement and accessories.
• Easily save thousands of dollars as a pleasant side benefit.
• Vastly simplify your photography.
• Dramatically lower the costs of your photography.
• Exponentially multiply the fun and creativity of your photography.
• Use simplicity, lower costs, fun, and improved creativity to constantly improve your photographic fundamentals.
• Ride this powerful upward spiral to rapidly achieve photographic mastery.

Works With ANY Digital Camera

One of the best aspects of the dynamite recipe is it works with virtually any digital camera. If you already have a digital camera, be it a compact point-and-shoot or digital SLR, Digital Nature Photography will make that camera sing.

If you have yet to purchase a digital camera, it gets even better. Before you buy any equipment, read Digital Nature Photography RIGHT NOW, TODAY. The book contains scores of expert equipment purchasing tips that will greatly expand your photographic capbilities, and at the same time, save you hundreds and even thousands of dollars. You'll have the satisfaction of knowing you have absolutely the best, most productive equipment, and you won't create a massive hole in your bank account.

Learn HOW to Buy Equipment

A large portion of Digital Nature Photography is spent discussing digital camera equipment, but rather than tell you what to buy, the book teaches you HOW to buy.

This means recommendations for specific makes and models of cameras are kept to an absolute minimum. Instead, the book teaches you to select features that maximize your expert application of photographic fundamentals. For example, Digital Nature Photography teaches you HOW to:

• Use one critical lens attribute to expand your composition capabilities by at least one full order of magnitude. Hint: not lens resolution.
• Use two features that, in numerous situations, enable a digital point-and-shoot camera to beat the pants off of professional cameras/lens combinations costing $10,000 to $30,000. Hint: more megapixels is not one of them.
• Pay more attention to the quality of your light than the quality of your equipment, and end up with awesome photographs even from surprisingly inexpensive equipment.
• Condense the photographic power of 30 pounds of traditional film gear into a complete, 2-3 pound digital camera system.
• Safely forego the hassle, expense, inefficiency, and imprecision of optical filters, and in the process, greatly improve your photo finishing capabilities.
• Completely prepare for major photo expeditions at literally the last minute while you're rushing out the door.
• Use simplicity to capture fleeting magic light lasting only seconds.
• Perform all these, and many, many other masterful feats with your digital camera.

Cut Through All the Hype and Bull

Much of the digital camera advice you find on the Internet or at your local camera store comes primarily from non-photographers who are, in one way or another, trying to sell you something.

In general, this has a tendency to skew advice towards megapixel mania, laboratory resolution measurements, specs, non-photographer opinions, manufacturer mongering, and unfortunately all too often, lines with the juiciest profit margins. While this information can be helpful in comparing and qualifying specific camera models, it often completely overlooks equipment that actually performs best in the field—where it really counts.

Furthermore, all the specs, measurements, and armchair opining teach you virtually nothing about how to actually photograph in the field. Ultimately, the whole goal of all the armchair advice is to keep you continuously buying the latest, greatest, and most profitable camera models.

In sharp contrast, the whole goal of Digital Nature Photography is to help you become a master nature photographer—fast— and with the least expense possible. The author himself is an anonymous, full-retail paying customer for all the equipment used in the book. He uses his independence to give you objective, hype-free, bull-free, photography-driven advice. For example, he advises you to:

• Forego the use of optical filters.
• Not constantly chase after more megapixels.
• Use just three or four well chosen lenses to handle all your digital SLR needs.
• Cherry-pick the best lenses from among many different brands.
• Purchase lenses based on fundamentals and results rather than on price and status.
• Use the same digital camera over a period of years rather than months.
• Maintain a bare minimum system.

This is a camera salesperson's worst nightmare, but it is your sweetest photography dream come true.

Much of this advice is so radical and so new, you may have some difficulty accepting it. This is why the nearly 200 photographs in the book are so valuable. They offer incontrovertible proof of the effectiveness of the fundamentals-first approach advocated by Digital Nature Photography.

Once you begin proving this to yourself with your own spectacular photographs, it becomes easy to cut through all the hype and bull.

Learn Professional Insider Secrets

Digital Nature Photography is written by a professional photographer whose business depends on creating large numbers of publishable, salable photographs in short periods of time. In successful pursuit of this goal, the author has pioneered numerous innovative and unique techniques, and you get them all in the book. Nothing is held back. Only in the pages of Digital Nature Photography will you find:

• The photographic fundamentals broken down into six distinct, easy to understand and apply categories.
• Clear, effective, and professionaly proven techniques for masterfully combining all the six fundamentals into each and every photograph you take.
• Powerful techniques for using creative visualization to manifest phenomenal nature photographs.
• Ways to photograph virtually for free.
• Ways to exploit virtually free photography to turbo-accelerate your photographic mastery.
• Methods for using digital technology to substantially raise the artistry of your nature photographs.
• All this and much, much more.

Buy Today

The winter and spring months of 2006 are currently providing TONS of fantastic nature photography opportunities. Don't miss out. Take full advantage of these opportunities by ordering your copy of Digital Nature Photography today.

Have fun out there.

Mark Hatasaka

Digital Nature Photography
Use Any Digital Camera to Take Spectacular Nature Photographs
by Mark Hatasaka

198 full-color photographs
144 pages
8.25 x 11 inches
ISBN 0-9745121-0-9
$29.95 USD

Text and Images Copyright © 1999-2007 Mark Hatasaka    Contact

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