Books published by Dorling Kindersley

This book is not a text book. It doesn't tell you how to do a particular technique, instead, it shows you a great collection of images and explains how and why they were taken. The book is full of well-taken images which are beautiful to look at and supported by the author's notes. All the images are split into chapters which are headed by explanations and have an abundance of photographs for you to admire. Many subjects are covered and it's the perfect book to sit down and just browse for...

Tom Ang is a respected photographer and has already written several highly successful photography guides so this one, with it's DK publisher comes already stamped with a proven formula. It takes a different approach to covering the broader photographic subject by splitting it down into genres, 10 to be precise covering Sports, Travel, Fashion and Nude, Events and Milestones, Architecture, Documentary, Portrait, Landscape, Fine Art and Wildlife and Nature. Within each category we see the ...

Branded as "the definitive guide to photography in every format" this book, by arguably the most famous photography author, is published by the most illustrative book company Dorling Kindersley. It doesn't have the same graphical design treatments that we're used to with DK but does have a very clear layout with clean pages, and loads of illustrative photos. My first photography book was a Hedgecoe and I like his style - to the point and full of useful snippets of info. This one continues in the...

The new manual of photography is a huge guide which is jam-packed with explanations, tips and photographs to aid you on your photography road of discovery. Text is written in very manageable chunks and you can easily pick-up and put this book down at your leisure. If the main body of text doesn't give you enough information, there's also large captions, found under each image, which tell you how, when and what the image was taken on. There's plenty of images which are well taken and aid in...