Bamberg, Matthew

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Bamberg, Matthew

PERSONAL:

Education: San Francisco State University, M.A., 1996.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Palm Springs, CA. E-mail—matthewbam@aol.com.

CAREER:

Writer, photographer; instructor for online classes; content provider for Web sites. University of California, Riverside, professor of photography.

WRITINGS:

Digital Art Photography for Dummies, Wiley (Hoboken, NJ), 2006.

Author of blogs Digital Traveler, Palm Springs Daily Photo, and Book of Signs; author of column "Spotlight" for the Press-Enterprise, CA; contributor to periodicals, including Desert Post Weekly, Desert Sun, and Palm Springs Life.

SIDELIGHTS:

Matthew Bamberg is a reporter who began taking photographs to accompany the stories he wrote for a California weekly. He transferred his knowledge to a guide for photographers of all abilities with Digital Art Photography for Dummies, a volume in the long-running series. In the first section he discusses approaches to photography and the various elements of composition, including perspective, light, and color. Next Bamberg covers indoor and outdoor photography, black-and-white photography, shooting at night, and how to photograph people and animals. In part four, he provides information on managing digital files, printing, matting, and framing. He then discusses taking photographs on cloudy days and adding text to pictures. More than 300 photographs enhance his instructions.

"Bamberg has written a remarkably clear and comprehensive overview of digital photography," wrote Raymond Bial in Library Journal. In reviewing the volume for KSN Tech online, Howard Carson commented that Bamberg focuses "squarely on the title subject and he rarely strays from that path throughout 75 percent of the book…. In every chapter and section you have the opportunity to skim through or absorb greater detail."