It has been years since I've reviewed a book here, but I feel compelled to review this one. I read this book cover to cover in two days, during a vacation, and my photos as well as my understanding of photographic concepts and technique improved dramatically as a result.
I have a feeling most people who have recently purchased a Nikon D7000 are upgrading from another camera. I moved up from a D50 that served us well, but as photography is becoming a hobby, I wanted a more serious camera. If you've even glanced at the Nikon D7000 manual, you know it is largely unreadable and completely devoid of descriptions of practical applications for the functionality it covers. This book is just the opposite: it is a perfect APPLIED how-to for the Nikon D7000.
The author is an excellent photographer and a very good writer. He makes complex photographic concepts easy to understand. He demonstrates his lessons with great photographs, providing EXIF data, as well the story and the lesson behind each photo in the captions.
The first few chapters of this book cover photography basics like aperture, shutter speed, ISO, etc. and specifically how to manage them with the D7000. Then, he dives into the applications: there are chapters on portraits, landscapes, and motion photography -- all within the context of the D7000.
For those readers who want to learn about photography with their D7000, and get more serious about their photographic journey, this is the book for you. If you are an high-level intermediate photographer, and certainly if you are an advanced photographer, this is probably not the book you should be buying. This book teach good photography through the viewfinder of the D7000.
For me, it was the perfect book at the perfect time -- as I am becoming more serious about the art and science of digital SLR photography with my D7000.