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gvknight ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 28 June 2006 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Posts: 601 |
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personally i've recently bought a tom ang book, primarily for specific techniques.
Eve Arnold in retrosect is an excellent read and has fantastic pictures. Anything from magnum gets my vote. plus i've picked up several old British Journal of Photography from the 60's with stuff by don mccullin and others. I also like manray and have several books with his work in. |
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Raimios ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 13 March 2007 Location: Finland Status: Offline Posts: 1266 |
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One very fine (funny and serious at same time) is Working Cats by Terry Deroy Gruber (B&W) ...get one if you find one (very rare indeed)
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Diddlbiker ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 09 January 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Posts: 326 |
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Since they haven't been listed yet, I really liked these two books by Bryan Peterson: (amazon links included)
Understanding Exposure Learning to see creatively BP is a commercial stock photographer, so he's focussing on pictures with high "Ken Rockwell" content, but that doesn't mean that you can't pick up a lot from these two books. He's also clueless about digital photography, so avoid his Understanding Digital Photography like the plague. And Gary Friedman, I know you're reading this: you really should consider "going mainstream" with your books. I can recommend any of his e-books, content and value-for-money wise! Regards, Bart |
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Turerkan ![]() Emeritus group ![]() Moderator emeritus Joined: 11 February 2006 Location: Turkey Status: Offline Posts: 6253 |
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Thanks Eddyizm for the link Merklinger's Photo Books with a set of very technical books open to download.
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Happy Hour ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 30 December 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Posts: 646 |
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I can't believe nobody has mentioned Understanding exposure by : Brian Peterson. This is a excellent book for beginners! It covers aperture,shutter speed,Iso, ect. On a simple basis with assignments to follow along with while reading it. Everybody I know who has read this book has improved there photography 100% he has 3 other books out also Understanding digital is not one to read because it is very outdated!
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brettania ![]() Admin Group ![]() Dyxum factotum Joined: 17 July 2005 Country: New Zealand Location: Auckland Status: Offline Posts: 20649 |
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and from two posts above
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Happy Hour ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 30 December 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Posts: 646 |
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richard42 ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 07 September 2006 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Posts: 190 |
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ok anybody recommend a book that i can follow at home that will help me improve my nature photography, one that doesn't cover all the old ground, i've had langdons basic photography, which was very good, bit too much about film and different types of cameras, but very helpful, now i need a book that goes a step further, not basic technical or history of photography but may be the art of photography. Any ideas?
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ferretracer ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 28 October 2006 Country: United States Location: United States Status: Offline Posts: 1467 |
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One that I liked that I read a couple years ago was Leonard Lee Rue's How I Photograph Wildlife and Nature. It was written many years ago, but I found it a very enjoyable read. It is linked to Amazon.
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DesinNZ ![]() Newbie ![]() Joined: 27 October 2007 Country: Australia Location: Melbourne Status: Offline Posts: 12 |
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G'Day
been reading thru this post. Two books I have, both very old and might be considered basic compared to the discussions about Klimpt and the painters.. but hey. The Kodak Workshop Series, The Art of Seeing and the other is called Designing a Photograph by Bill Smith, published by AMPHOTO in 1985 but I think the original book was first published in 1952.. Old but nothing has changed and each time I read them I 'see' a little better. |
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rovhazman ![]() Moderator Group ![]() Knowledge Base Coordinator Joined: 11 January 2008 Country: Israel Location: Be'er Ora Status: Offline Posts: 9085 |
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I was looking for something similar lately (a book to make my pictures better and not a book about basics of apertures, depths of field, shutter speeds and something like that).
I was thinking that no one can teach me (or anyone else) to be creative, because creativity is a natural gift. So I was looking for a book that shows good pictures and have a small story on the side to tell what exactly the photographer thought when he took the picture, and maybe some short comments about how to get it (in case that you need to be creative to get the pciture and solve the technical problems...). Unfortunately, I was aware of this thread when I was looking... I found The Moment It Clicks by Joe McNally to be something like I was looking for. Picture and a story about the things that led to the picture. I don't think it is a brilliant book, but it is quite nice. Although most of the pictures are just impossible for amateur like me, I still learned alot. However, I don't like that he is using an American slang, which makes it anooting for non-american guy like me. |
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LECHER ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 27 May 2008 Country: United States Location: Pittsburgh, PA Status: Offline Posts: 1592 |
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Shay, I might have a book you could borrow. REALLY Freekinn old B&W from 1974. "Art History of Photography" by Volker Kahmen.
Call me. Jack |
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DavidB ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 26 March 2007 Location: Canada Status: Offline Posts: 2469 |
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"Photography and the Art of Seeing" by Freeman Patterson is one of an excellent series of books by this Canadian author. Freeman tended to use a Minolta with just a couple of zooms and his books are very non-technical in nature. (Edit... Freeman is still very much alive, I'm just not sure what he's shooting with these days!)
The focus is generally on landscape and nature photography. As an artist, I really appreciated his visual thinking in his approach to photography. The books are simple to read with great shots and explanations of what makes them work. (Edit... as well as the two additional books noted by accady below, there's "Photograpy of Natural Things" by Freeman Patterson.) Edit: Freeman Patterson's website: http://www.freemanpatterson.com/index.htm Edited by DavidB - 31 January 2009 at 08:26 |
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accady ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 05 April 2007 Location: Canada Status: Offline Posts: 569 |
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Ditto. Two more titles from him, Photographing the world around you : a visual design workshop for film and digital photography (Freeman Patterson) Photography for the joy of it : an introductory workshop for film and digital photography (Freeman Patterson and André Gallant) |
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