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If you want to be inspired, wowed and want to pick up a few essential photography tips along the way, you need to take a look at this book. You are taken on an exciting journey around the world in 191 pages where the varied collection of imagery and stories that flow through the book really do bring the experience to life. You share David's thoughts before, during and after his shoots and within this diary like approach, you also find tips and shooting advice you can use while out in the ...
First in a new series of step by step books, this one takes the popular subject of landscapes and shows you how to take and edit pictures using digital cameras and Photoshop. The book is very colourful, a visual treat, and takes you through all the traditional photographic principles so you can master composition, focusing and exposure, the second half explains with ease how to enhance the photos you take. Overall a very comprehensive book and ideal for beginners or more experienced photographer...
This book covers everything from urban landscapes to stunning countryside imagery. There are many pictures all of which are of excellent quality and they compliment the lessons offered in the book perfectly. The captions even tell you a little bit about where the images were taken and why. The text is easy to follow and broken up into easy to use sections and the chapters are also the right length for either reading them as individual sections or doing the whole lot together. Throughout the ...
If you’re a fan of Ansel Adams and want to recreate work like his, then this book will point you in the right direction. The book is bursting with advice and tips and it shows you how to apply Adams’ zone technique to modern day, digital work. With a variety of sections covering light, movement, composition, colour, mood plus much, much more, the book shows you how a little old-fashioned thinking can be successfully applied and used to create stunning imagery today. The advice is easy to...
If you've already got a few years of landscape photography under your belt but want to learn a few more advance tips and techniques then take a look at this book. The first section is all about preparation before the book moves on to covering the actual shooting process and post production that's involved in a landscape shoot. The book's easy to work through with inspirational landscape images breaking up the tip-filled text. The book will give you information on things you may not have th...
'Advanced Digital Landscape Photography' offers detailed information about equipment and techniques, creating your own vision, locations and lighting and post-processing. Heilman gives you his opinion of what camera is best suited to what you're trying to achieve, this book is seemingly best for those who know more about, or who are interested in, the technicalities involved in photography and who want to know more details about the camera's functions and what you can get from them. The lang...
'The Landscape Photography Workshop' has content faithful to its title. Ross Hoddinott and Mark Bauer seperate their information into chapters such as Equpiment, creative assignments and printing. They include example pictures and equipment pictures that are spoken about in detail. The content is relatively understandable but I would suggest that those familiar with the basics and maybe more voluntary knowledge of photography, should buy this book. Obviously to those also who are paticularly int...
With the focus on landscape photography, Heilman talks in detail about practical techniques and gives you hints and tips. If landscape photography appeals to you or you want to further your knowledge in this paticular topic, then this book seems to be the ideal thing. This book would be fitting for both an ameteur of basic photography understanding, or someone with further knowledge, as it uses a number of techinical terms and offers you ideas towards what equipment you should be using, with dia...
Land Matters – Landscape Photography, Culture and Identity is the latest book form Liz Wells. It is quite an academic text, but is still a rewarding read. It looks at issues raised from landscape photography over time. It also takes iconic landscape images, and analyses them. Every image is taken for a reason, and this book looks in to the cultural and social world that we live in to determine just why these photos were taken. The book explains how the landscape images that we take are i...
If this book was sat on a shelf in a book shop it'd be its bright cover and spine that would catch your eye. Once the book's in your hands, you'll be even more impressed when you open the cover to find that it's actually a sort of storage unit for four smaller books, each of which focus on one season, that will easily fit in your bag and are easy to hold. Each of the smaller books cover techniques that are specific to the season it's talking about, mentioning equipment you need and shooting advi...













