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This is a workbook has taken the last three years to write. It is based upon my training "Back in the Day" and, on about 35 years of experience with cameras, film and processing. It is currently used for a course that I teach at Red River Community College, Winkler Campus as a student workbook. It is not intended to be a manual, but rather a course guide.
Up until November 9, 2009, over 700 copied have been downloaded. I asked people to consider a small donation, even as much as $10.00 if they downloaded to workbook. But because no one has contributed anything, I find it necessary to remove the full book. If you wish to have a copy, please write me at thaumadzo@hotmail.com, and make a small donation through Paypal to wbenedet@mts.net to help cover the cost of writing it. I am very grateful for all of the help that people here at dA gave me to help complete this project. Over the last few years many of you have given me permission to use pieces of your work and they have been included in this book as teaching aids or examples of specific techniques. Credit has been supplied for each piece of work used, and permission was gained at the time of inclusion. If however, you do not recall giving permission to use your work or if you do not wish it to be used any longer, please send me a note. The document is in PDF format and is contained in a ZIP file. The full workbook is over 60 pages long and contains some interesting experiments to help people learn about photography. The abbreviated version now available will give people an idea of the material covered. Please comment if you wish. Comments wow, that's kind of you to share your knowledge. Thank you
   thank you my friend!
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 Quite an impressive and informative piece of work. Thank you very much for sharing this with us. I Just did a Journal feature for you, on this, to help pass it along. Everybody can read this and take something away with them for the experiance. -- Please stop by at devikadesilva’s [link] . Also see her calendars [link] Impact Zone [link] surf club  Lovely gift of you....
 -- "Everyone has talent at 25. The difficulty is to have it at 50." Edgar Degas...NEW deviant interview "Technique" 10/02/09 [link]  Seems really interesting ! Thank you for sharing this here. Very kind of you !
-- deylac My Gallery Fine Arts  Can't wait to finish downloading and read it
I have a feeling it's gonna be a good read  --  Check Out My Gallery [link] Check it out for Photography,Stock Photos, And Textures  Now that is an example of an awesome person helping others! You are a credit my friend! Wonderful work Wayne wonderful!!
-- If your fingers stink don't shake my hand.  It looks wonderful and I know it will provide a lot of very useful information. I can hardly wait to get the time to actually read it when I get caught up on my holiday backlog.
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Critiques
I've read the whole workbook and I'm sad that I didn't explore it earlier because it can give useful informations to beginner and professional photographers too. It's very detailed and I didn't find any technical expression without explanation and I didn't have to look them up somewhere else.
The illustrations and the graphics are wonderful and it looks like better than other similar course book. So if someone read this book then he/she will be take much better photos than ever. I can just suggest it for everyone.
I've found a good number of things I knew but instinctively rather than knowledge if that makes sense.
I've certainly found a couple of things I didn't know which is wonderful and I can't find anything that needs to be improved.
If I was deciding to get into photography now and wanted advice I hope someone would give me this to read. It explains all the basics and then some in a very readable package and it makes no distinction between how good the equipment is or what kind of camera a person might use.
The only thing I could find and it's completely insignificant as far as the document is concerned was polarising filters. There is a system on the market that can use one size filter for all different sizes of lenses but as I stated, it's irrelevant to the document it's self.
Lastly, the exercises at the end are a marvellous way to get a budding photographer to try different techniques that will not only help them later but are great fun to carry out and to see the different results.
All in all a superb document that any learning photographer should read and refer too in moments of need.
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