Our customers have been asking us to create tutorials for using a camera for years, we think it was worth the wait. Pay by credit card in our secure on line shop or you can also order and pay by credit card over the phone and Goods are normally dispatched that day or the next working day. See our contact page for up to date contact info. Our CD's and DVD's are designed to run in Windows Media Player for PC and Quicktime for Mac. In some cases the images used by the author are available on the CD's and DVD's to allow you to follow the tutorials using the same images as the author, but the copyright does remain with Beckham Digital. The images should only be used to allow you to follow the tutorials.

Barry has become well established for his clear and easy going tutorial style that he applies to his image editing tutorials. Here he has applied the same skills to learning to use a Digital SLR. Read some of our customer comments regarding tutorials and lectures HERE

 

Creative Digital Photography





We hear the words Creative Digital Photography quite a bit, but what does it actually mean. Its probably means different things to different people, but to us it means creating images that would generally be considered image with appeal, impact and above average.

We think you need three skills to do this. We need our Photographic skills, technical and composition, but we also need to know what makes a good picture. We need to know that before we press the shutter button, but we also need to know what makes a great picture when we look at the thumbnails we have shot. Unless we can appreciate the digital negatives we have captured, how can we get the best from them.

Finally, we need Photoshop skills to to be able to create our final image. Someone said recently that the original raw file is our score, but the final image we create is our symphony. This is exactly what we have been saying for years and we even used the term digital negative long before Adobe and others did. We have always seen the press of the shutter button being the starting point of making our symphony. This disk touches on all these skills

Customer comment

A quick thank you for the Techniques and Manipulation disk that arrived this morning. Although I have not yet had the chance to see it all, I can already tell that, in my opinion, it is the best one yet. The exposure and bracketing section is an excellent refresher course and reminds amateurs like me about many things we have forgotten, or maybe got lazy about.
The Pelican section is brilliant - and that is as far as I have got.