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Take a look here, there's some great books and all will link you through to Amazon so you can read some reviews as well. There's more than enough on TP to keep you going too. Have a look in the tutorial guide part of the forum. There's some well written stuff in there to help you get to grips with he basics - And it's free :thumbs:

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I spent years buying books and getting nowhere. All these books had nice glossy pictures and descriptions of how the author had taken the wonderful pictures. When I got my 50D I realised where I was going wrong. All of the books I had been reading started with the assumption that the reader had a basic knowledge which I didn't have.

I went back to basics and bought "teach yourself photography" by Lee Frost. It starts from the very basics and assumes no knowledge at all. There are no fancy pictures, just black and white line drawings. It was exactly what I needed, once the basics made sense everything else dropped into place.

Once you've got the basics it's worth having a look at understanding exposure.

Mike
 
A visit to your local library will probably give you more books on photography than you can shake a stick at, I suggest going and having a good browse.
 
I like Scott Kelby's "The Digital Photography Book". There's three in the series. Very easy read - basically one tip per page. Some people don't like his chatty and, sometimes, corny writing style, but I think theses books work well along side more formal photography tutorials.
 
gazzag said:
I like Scott Kelby's "The Digital Photography Book". There's three in the series. Very easy read - basically one tip per page. Some people don't like his chatty and, sometimes, corny writing style, but I think theses books work well along side more formal photography tutorials.
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The 1st one in the series got a good write-up --- even if you can stand the American humour[?]
but the next 2 got a right pasting -- so spend your money on the first..................:thumbs:

when you want to move up.....2 good books from Amazon ..........

"Understanding Exposure" by Bryan Peterson

"Creative Nature and Outdoor Photography" (Paperback)
by Brenda Tharp
 
Got to agree with the Scott Kelby and Bryan Peterson suggestions!
 
I got "The Photographers Eye" by Michael Freeman for christmas and have found it helpful so far.
 
I like Scott Kelby's book. Also Digital Photography for Dummies.
 
Mike Jackson said:
All of the books I had been reading started with the assumption that the reader had a basic knowledge which I didn't have.

Mike
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This is called expert's disease. I once bought a book called "Teach yourself Computer Programming in Pascal". The first chapter was completely incomprehensible to anyone who wasn't an expert in Pascal.
 
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