Rick Sammon's 24/7 Photo Buffet
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Description
Rick Sammon’s 24/7 Photo Buffet: an expert photographer in your pocket.
This app will make you a better photographer by providing photographic advice, tips, and techniques collected during Rick's 30+ years of professional experience. The interactive app is packed with detailed mini-articles, live-action movies, screen movies, and over 200 great photos.
Use this app to learn basic and advanced techniques, or as a searchable guide to find a fix for a tricky photographic situation. This is like having Rick – one of today’s top professional photographers and authors – with you 24/7.
The app was developed for SLR photographers, but it's valuable for compact camera and iPhone shooters who want to make great pictures.
NOTE:
This is NOT an app to process images or take photos. Please do NOT buy it to manage your photo library - it will not do that. It is an app to teach you how to take better pictures using a real camera.
USER COMMENTS:
★★★★★ Rick points out the simple things that most of us don't see…
★★★★★ Perfect reference tool for in the field or just for reading. Also they're fantastic in taking users suggestions and correcting any faults.
★★★★★ As someone who is just getting into photography with a DSLR, this is brilliant.
★★★★★ This app is a great example of (in my humble opinion) the next phase of online training. Best thing, you can take it with you as you are out photographing.
ORGANIZATION:
Content is divided into five major sections, each with a scrollable collection of topics, including:
• Seeing – Learn how to see a picture in your mind’s eye, before you snap the shot. Subjects covered include composition, framing, and lighting.
• Making – Discover how to make a great picture rather than simply take a picture, applying your knowledge of exposure, color balance, flash, filters, and even taking pictures with the iPhone itself.
• Editing – Find out how to enhance your pictures in the digital darkroom by tweaking the white balance, levels, saturation and contrast, and selectively controlling sharpening.
• Tips – Search Rick’s A-Z photo tips for advice on everything from aerial shooting and underwater photography to sunsets and panoramas.
• Help - A powerful Search function lets you quickly find anything in the app, and a direct link to the Digital Photo Experience web site provides extra content that is continually updated.
• Notes - Use the Notes page to capture and email tips and tricks you want to remember.
SUBJECTS:
Take better pictures of kids, nighttime subjects, sunrises and sunsets, fireworks, animals, people, scenery, waterfalls, rainy day subjects, wildlife, and more. Use this app to increase your knowledge of HDR, panoramas, lenses, aperture, shutter speed, white balance, exposure, fill flash, filters, lighting, ISO, photo editing software, workflow, accessories, and computers.
SIZE:
This app is over 120 MB in size, so you need a WiFi connection to download it.
What's New in Version 1.4
Bug fixes
Support for iOS 5
iPhone Screenshots
Customer Reviews
Less of buffet more like Mickey D's
I am a professional photographer with some 20 plus years of experience. A good chunk of that was as a photojournalist. Let me say this off the bat, I am a Rick Sammon's fan.
This app is meant for beginning photographers. The more advance you are the less useful it is. I did find some useful concepts to try on my future shoots.
There is a saying that goes like "Jack of all trades, master of none". That is the most basic issue with this app. Simply put this covers a lot of topics but spreads itself too thin.
It simply is not in-depth enough to be really useful. It gives the user a very superficial quick answer without enough practical examples. Two examples of this is when talking about soft light. One tip is given with a video but not enough of explanation of why to use soft light.
The explanation of why to shoot manual is confusing, and to be blunt here is more about post processing than getting the right exposure.
Lets talk about the videos for sec. They are very well done. They are informative and well produced, but there are to few of them and seem to recycled from other Rick Sammon's products.
One the minor issue is this app is very, very Cannon brand specific. For those who shoot other Brands like Nikon and Sony may feel like they are being left in the cold. There are a couple of examples of this. When talking about ISO you can tell in general he is talking about Canon brand cameras. When showing mode dial for setting exposure it is Canon. When talking about Aperture Priority Mode they use the Canon abbreviation "AV" while the rest of the world uses "A". The same is true of Shutter Priority Mode, they use the Canon abbreviation "TV" while the rest of the world uses "S".
Rick's product placement ads in this app is as subtle as a sledge hammer. Like when talking about reduce harsh flash lighting it really about promoting the Ray Flash. Another example of this "Portrait Art" using Topaz Filter. If the app was free or cheap this would not be as big an issue, but this app is $3.99.
Finally lets talk about interface. It is clunky. This again seems because this app is covering to many topics. The tips section is a mess. If you do not watch the introduction video, learning the ropes of this app is painful.
This app is really meant for the beginning Canon and for them it is useful. This app is over priced when compare it to other apps Like PhotoCalc which is $2.99 which has a better tip section, Depth of field calculator, sunrise and sunset table and glossary of photo terms.
What you are paying for is Rick Sammon's Name.
- $1.99
- Category: Photo & Video
- Updated: Nov 09, 2011
- Version: 1.4
- Size: 109 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: David Wilson
- © 2010 Rick Sammon and Dave Wilson
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 3.2.2 or later
