Chapter Twelve. Yet Even More Photo Recipes to Help You “Get the Shot”: The Simple Ingredients to Make It All Come Together

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The most popular chapter in the previous three books in this series has been this chapter—Photo Recipes—and I have to tell you, as an author that really makes me happy, because I always like to add something at the end of my books that takes it up a notch. Kind of the “icing on the cake,“ or the “crème de la crème,” or the “maple syrup on the spaghetti.” Anyway, these photo recipes have become so popular that I actually created a DVD/book combo called (wait for it...wait for it...) Photo Recipes Live: Behind the Scenes, where I take the same photos I featured in volume 1 of this book series and recreate how to do them live, from scratch, all filmed in a very cool New York City studio. It turned out to be a huge hit, but of course, it would be inappropriate for me to mention that here (or that it’s published by Peachpit Press, ISBN: 0-321-70175-5, street price around $30), so I won’t mention it or its hugely successful follow-up, Photo Recipes Live, Part 2: Behind the Scenes (also published by Peachpit Press, ISBN: 0-321-74971-5, also street-priced around $30). Plugging those would be out of the question, so if you think that for one minute I’m going to mention that both of these have been made available by Peachpit Press (Pearson Education) as downloadable apps for the iPad (where they both only cost $19.99, which is insanely cheap by the way), then man are you way off. You see, I think that using what should be an utterly nonsensical page in the book and turning that into a thinly veiled advertisement for other training products I’ve produced, and then using that as a springboard to promote my daily blog at www.scottkelby.com, where you can find out when and where I’m teaching the live seminars I do for http://kelbytraining.com/live, well, you’re just not going to see that type of stuff from me, because frankly, I deplore it when other authors do stuff like that. Not me, mind you. Just other authors. ;-)