The Digital Photography Book, by Scott Kelby ★★★★
Kelby is a fairly well-known photographer, author, and personality in the digital photography circuit, having not only written several books on digital photography, but he also has published books on photoshop techniques and is found on AdobeTV and in numerous podcasts from the Apple site. Kelby is more a hands-on author, describing how he does things, rather than why he does things. Thus, he offers much concrete advice, mostly all good, regarding practical aspects of how to take a good photo, and then process it for publication or personal use. Reviewing other books in this series, there tend to be many repetitions, thus, I will probably not purchase those books.