Michael Freeman has done a fantastic job producing a very useful, albeit quite tiny field guide for low light photography. In his book, aptly named "The Low Light Photography Field Guide, Freeman touches upon a great number of issues effecting low light photography. It should be noted however that this book is not necessarily for beginners. The book mixes photographic techniques with post-processing methods, which may be over the heads of some beginner photographers. This book is aimed at the intermediate to advanced photo crowd.

I enjoyed this book by author and photographer Alexandre Buisse. “I felt as though I had just been on my first mountain climbing adventure”. In his book, Remote Exposure; Buisse shares his experience and passion for mountaineer photography. Traveling to four continents to capture the wilderness and majestic beauty of the mountain ranges. Buisse covers a wide range of topics from his choice of photographic gear to offering advice on the many challenges & difficulties associated with mountain climbing. This book is not an instructional guide to learning camera exposures for beginners but rather for the audience of photographers who have mastered those basic skills. Buisse's focuses more on what makes mountain photography different from other types of urban photography.

As with the entire "Revealed" line from Delmar, The Video Collection CS5 Revealed is a textbook.  In this case, it is designed to help you pass the Adobe Product Proficiency Exam for Adobe Premiere Pro.  For the most part, the book assumes you have little to no experience with any of the Production Suite products, although there are places it does assume you have some familiarity with Adobe products in general.

I consider myself to be an intermediate level user of Premiere, and a bit more than beginner level with both After Effects and Encore.  I'm a rank amateur with Soundbooth - at least until this book came my way.  Even with having made some short films previously, I found that this book offered me a continual learning experience by providing me with good, useful information even in the early projects. 

This will be my first review for DMAG, so go easy on me! In this article I will be reviewing the demo of Digital Anarchy’s plug-in for Photoshop, Beauty Box Photo.  I use Photoshop CS5 with Windows 7 most of the time these days, though Beauty Box Photo should work fine on any version of Photoshop 7.0 or newer.

As a digital artist working with photographers, I am often having to do basic touch up work on peoples’ faces. Beauty Box Photo has great potential to save me a lot of time and layers so that I may spend less effort on retouching and more on being creative.