A Short Course in Nikon D40x Photography book/ebook!

This book/eBook package is your guide to getting more interesting and creative photos with the 10.2 megapixel Nikon D40x digital SLR. If you want to learn more about the concepts of photography, this book/ebook is for you. It discusses every camera setting on these almost identical cameras in a clear, well-illustrated style, but it also does much more. You'll see why and when you use specific settings, not just how to set them. You ll find that this guide helps you quickly master your camera so you ll be getting the kinds of photos you hope for. The book is printed in black & white and has a well-liked spiral binding that lets the book lie flat or be folded back. The accompanying eBook on a CD disc is a printable and searchable full-color version of the same book in Adobe's popular PDF format. It can be read on a PC or Mac using the free Acrobat Reader or any current Web browser. It also has links to many animations that bring alive the concepts of photography. Just some of the things you'll learn are how to take pictures in fully automatic point and shoot mode and how your camera captures digital images; how to play back and manage your images; use buttons, dials, and menus; control image size and quality; use all of the camera s exposure modes and exposure controls to get photos that show the scene exactly as it is, or as you want to interpret it; using histograms and the RAW format for the highest possible quality; how to control sharpness in your photographs; and how to use focus, depth-of-field, sharpness, softness, and blur creatively. Learn all about light and color and how to use them creatively. Understand how they change throughout the day and seasons, how they re affected by the weather, and how light's direction and quality affects highlights and shadows. See how to set white balance to capture colors the way you see them. Learn how to use the zoom lens and lens converters creatively when photographing scenery, interiors, people, and very small subjects. See how zoom, wide-angle, normal, telephoto, and macro mode affects your images. See how to creatively use an external flash both indoors and out and in good light and bad and how to use studio lighting for product shots and portraits. Explore special techniques such as fill and slow sync flash. See how to shoot continuously, bracket exposures, white balance and flash, control image qualities such as tone, sharpness and hue, select color modes, and use the setup, custom settings, and playback menus. Finally, learn when and why to use the RAW format for the highest possible image quality.

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Getting started with the Nikon D40 and Nikon D40x!

The Nikon D40 and Nikon D40x were developed to enable you to take great photos immediately. This tutorial shows you step-by-step how to get started, from loading the battery to setting up the camera and using the various photo modes.

Thanks to NikonDifferent for posting this!

Nikon - Look Good in Pictures for your D40!

Look Good in Pictures is a unique new series starring style guru and television personality, Carson Kressley. Carson shares entertaining and helpful insights and will give real practical advice on how to embrace photogenic qualities in a variety of everyday situations such as vacations, holidays, nights out on the town and weddings.

Pretty Cool, Check it out Here!

How to Photograph Fireworks with your Nikon D40 & D40x

The 2008 4th of July is just days from now and it's my first opportunity to use my D40 to shot the fireworks so i was looking around for the best advice to get some great shots and i found this info.

Thanks to the guys at Digital Photography School for this great info:

How to Photograph Fireworks Displays

Image above from Stuckincustoms One of my all time favorite pictures.

If you have any more suggestions for fireworks please let me know. Hopefully i can get at least one good shot to share on here next week. Remember lot's of towns do fireworks on the 3rd also so I'm going to count that as a free practice day!
Happy 4th of July...........Hope you get some awesome pictures

Technique to quickly change Digital SLR Camera lenses

Thank's to s8m2s for this easy and quick way to change our lenses!

Photomatix - HDR for your D40 & D40x

Photomatix Increase the dynamic range of your photographs!

If you have ever photographed a high contrast scene, you know that even the best exposure will typically have blown out highlights and flat shadows. Photomatix offers two ways to solve this problem

Exposure Blending: Merge differently exposed photographs into one image with increased dynamic range.

Tone Mapping: Reveal highlight and shadow details in an HDR image created from multiple exposures. The tone mapped image is ready for printing while showing the complete dynamic range captured.

See examples of how it works
View more examples in the User Gallery
Get started with a quick tutorial
Download a free trial version

Photomatix

PhotoCamel - Photography Forum

PhotoCamel - Your friendly Photo Community!

This is a great forum! They have everything, like tutorial's and lots of contests to help make you and me a better photographer. You definitely want to hang out here!

PhotoCamel

Photography Articles & Tutorials for you and your D40 & D40x

This is a simple and easy to understand little website i found for some of the basic stuff to learn.

Photography Basics
Using Aperture
Telephoto Tips
Maximizing Sharpness
Commanding Exposure

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Nature Photography
Photographing Birds
Photographing Waterfalls

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http://www.outdoorphoto.com/guides/

Nikon D40 & D40x Sensor Cleaning Video

Do you need to clean your sensor yet? I just noticed a dust spot on my sensor and needed to get rid of it but wasn't sure exactly how to do it till i found this cool video. This guy is cleaning a Nikon D70 sensor but it the same as our D40 and D40x. After watching this video i had no problem getting rid of that dust spot. Thank God!

2 Great Nikon D40 Tutorial's to Watch!

Nikon D40 Tutorial's. Watch and learn Digitutor all about your D40 and Picture Project tutorial, all about the software that came with your D40/x.

These are great to watch and learn. I must of watched them both 10 times before my D40 arrived. Enjoy!




Watch and Learn D40 Digitutor




Watch and Learn Picture Project Digitutor