Canon Eos 60D From Snapshots To Great Shots

Congratulations! You have the very best DSLR the Canon EOS 60D in your hands. If you have just met your camera let me introduce you a bit with regards to it. The 60D replaces the frequent 50D and boasts an 18 MegaPixel CMOS sensor with a DIGIC 4 engine, Full HD Video recording, wireless flash, and a very new vari-angle LCD screen. Also on board is a 3.5mm stereo microphone jack. All in all a great camera with evenly outstanding looks.

Now moving on to the Top Accessories your Backpack will have to hold are listed below.

5 Most Needed Accessories For Canon EOS 60D

1. EF 50mm f/1.8 II Camera Lens

2. LP-E6 Battery Pack

3. SanDisk 16GB Extreme – SDHC Class 10 High Performance memory card

4. Tiffen 67mm UV Protection Filter Canon 2400 SLR Gadget Bag

5. SquareTrade 3-Year Camera/Camcorder Warranty Plus Accident Protection

5 Upgrades to 60D Kit Lens

1. EF 50mm f/1.8 II

2. EF 50mm f1.4 USM Standard & Medium Telephoto Lens

3. EF-S 55-250mm f/4.0-5.6 IS Telephoto Zoom Lens

4. EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III Telephoto Zoom Lens

5. EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM

5 Best Tripods for your 60D

1. Dolica AX620B100 62-Inch Proline Tripod and Ball Head

2. Vista Explorer 60″ Lightweight Tripod with Tripod Bag

3. Joby GP2-D1EN Gorillapod Flexible Tripod with Bubble Level

4. Manfrotto 7302YB M-Y Tripod with Ball – Replaces 725B

5. Digital Concepts TR-60N Camera Tripod with Carrying Case

5 Essential Flashes for the 60D

1. Speedlite 430EX II Flash

2. Speedlite 580EX II Flash

3. Speedlite 270EX Flash

4. Sigma EM-140 DG Macro Ring Flash

5. Canon MR-14EX Macro Ring Lite

5 Best Books for Canon 60D

1. Your World 60D – The Still Photographer’s Guide to Operation And Image Creation by Douglas Klostermann

2. Canon EOS 60D (The Expanded Guide) by Tracy Hallett

3. Canon EOS 60D: From Snapshots to Great Shots by Nicole S. Young

4. Canon EOS 60D Digital Field Guide by Charlotte K. Lowrie

5. Canon EOS 60D For D by Julie Adair King, Robert Correll

Canon Eos 60d From Snapshots To Great Shots

This book has one goal: to instruct you how to make great shots using your Canon EOS 60D. Starting with the top ten things you need to know regarding the camera—charging your battery, setting your ISO, reviewing your photos, and more—photography pro Nicole Young then cautiously guides you through the modes of the camera, providing practical counsel on choosing your settings, expert shooting tips, and end-of-chapter “challenges” to get you up and running with your EOS 60D.

This book is for any individual who wants to upgrade from a point-and-shoot, or who wants to jump right into photography with the control and capablenesses of a powerful DSLR. Canon EOS 60D: From Snapshots to Great Shots shows not only what makes a great shot work—but how to get that shot using your EOS 60D.

Follow along with your friendly and welleducated guide, and you will:

• Learn the top ten things you need to know regarding shooting with the EOS 60D
• Use the EOS 60D’s modern camera settings to gain full control over the look and feel of your images
• Master the photographic basi principles of composition, focus, depth of field, and much more
• Learn all the best tricks and proficiencies for getting outstanding action shots, landscapes, and portraits
• Find out how to get outstanding shots in low light
• Learn the fundamental principle of shooting video with your EOS 60D and begin making movies of your own
• Fully perceive all the conceptions and proficiencies as you go, with challenges at the end of each chapter

And once you’ve got the shot, show it off! Join the book’s Flickr group, part your photos, and talk about how you use your EOS 60D to get great shots at http://www.flickr.com/groups/canon60dfromsnapshotstogreatshots.

About the AuthorNicole S. Young is a full-time photographer specializing in mercantile photography and licenses a lot of of her images through iStockphoto and Getty Images. Nicole is an accredited Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) in Photoshop and a Help Desk Specialist with the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. The author of Canon 7D: From Snapshots to Great Shots, Canon 60D: From Snapshots to Great Shots, and Food Photography: From Snapshots to Great Shots, she blogs at nicolesyblog.com.

Most helpful customer reviews

38 of 39 people found the following review helpful.
Great starter book
By P. Mullin
So far this book has been a great help when using my 60d. It starts with 10 basic settings that the author recommends you tweak. Although you can find them in the camera’s manual there is no explanation on what they do. This book provides an explanation, along with the steps needed to change them. For example she recommends turning off the setting that allows you to take a picture without a camera card in the camera. I have actually run in and grabbed my camera to take a quick picture only to find out my card is still in my computer after I take the picture. I never even thought about changing that setting.

This book seems more geared toward the novice-intermediate but every level will get something out of it.

Once I get deeper into it I will update but for now I recommend it for new 60D owners.

Update: I wanted to add that now that I have finished the book I would recommend it more for the beginner 60D user. A majority of the chapters get into photo techniques that many users who have DSLR experience might already know. I still recommend the book and loved the rather large photo examples she uses to point out the techniques used.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
Great For All Levels
By TimS
I bought this book immediately after buying a 60D as a supplement to the Canon manual. This book is great for photographers of all levels because it covers many of the common photograhy techniques with explanations for how to achieve the desired effect with the features available on the 60D. New photographers learn technique and mechanics, while experienced photographers will quickly learn how to adapt the 60D to their existing style of photography.

I have almost 30 years of nature photography experience at a hobbiest level. The 60D was my first digital camera at this level. Having only used digital Rebels before, this book quickly showed me the new features and I particularly liked the first chapter on 10 initial tips for setting up your camera. It’s one thing to know a feature exists, it another to know when you should or shouldn’t use it. This books helps clarify the questions.

I highly recommend this book to all photographers with a 60D. The explanations are clear and the photos not only provide good examples of the cameras features but also provide inspiration for your own creative abilities.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
Perfect book to learn to use the Canon EOS 60D
By M. Walcott
I love this book. It not only tells you to turn a dial or control but also circles the dial/control on a photo of the camera so that you don’t have to keep referring back to the beginning to find where that control exists on the camera.

It also tells you things like this setting will revert back after each shot unless you do such and such or the opposite–your setting will be retained for the next shot.

I am a newbie and so much of what is in the book is soooo very helpful to me. It not only helps with this particular camera, but also contains a lot of general information about photography and the reasons you might want to use such a feature.

I highly recommend this book!

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