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01/19/2012 06:34:10 AM · #1 |
I'm looking for a composition/ideas/tricks for digital photography book
for intermediate - advanced level photographers
any tips?
Thanks for your help! |
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01/19/2012 07:25:26 AM · #2 |
| MIchael Freeman's Photographer's Eye and Photographer's Mind might be worth a look. I think all of his books are done well, do a good job of verbalizing abstract ideas. |
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01/19/2012 08:12:33 AM · #3 |
I found the Photographer's Eye really good. It took several renews at the local library to finish it but not quite, so I just got the whole series from Amazon (Eye, Mind and Vision).
A tempting option is probably DuChemin as well, he has 4 very well rated books dealing with creativity (just look up on amazon).
Mind that none of the above is about postprocessing and you'll probably find very little in terms of camera tecniques and tricks.
DuChemin has a book on meaningful post processing with lightroom, and that's the only including software tecniques, but not quite tips&tricks.
If I were you, I would have a browse though a few in some bookshop to make sure you actually like content and style before buying
If you have any favourite theme, photographer or style, getting or borrowing a few coffee table books and trying to analyze what you feel about your favourite images (why I like it, was it the composition, the light, the subject.. How would I use that in my images) can be very useful and also help you decide what you wish to work on right now, perhaps witht he help of a specific book. |
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01/19/2012 09:49:57 AM · #4 |
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01/19/2012 10:26:51 AM · #5 |
Light Science and Magic
Within the Frame |
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01/19/2012 10:37:20 AM · #6 |
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01/19/2012 10:45:53 AM · #7 |
Deleted my post.
Message edited by author 2012-01-19 10:46:16. |
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01/19/2012 05:12:40 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by robs:
Light Science and Magic
Within the Frame |
Love your avatar :)
Light Science and Magic is a great book, but perhaps the scope is a bit too focussed for what the OP was looking for. |
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01/19/2012 05:14:19 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by caba:
Check out this Thread |
www.dpchallenge.com/forum.php?action=read&FORUM_THREAD_ID=1123228
(typo in the url) |
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01/19/2012 05:18:40 PM · #10 |
| Raid your closest municipal library, it'll have books on photography and especially some aimed at beginners. Frankly, I found the Magic Lantern guide for my camera to be one of the better ways to learn it. But honestly, just getting out there and shooting and making mistakes is what it all comes down to, so may as well just do it that way. |
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01/19/2012 10:25:53 PM · #11 |
| I've also really enjoyed Robert Adams' books, and On Photography by Sontag is great too, but these are much much more about the idea behind photography, the thought behind the practice than any technicals. I have but have yet to read Camera Lucida as well, which is in a similar vein. These books delve more into the philosophy of photography, which I very much enjoy. The Freeman books have technique as well as modes of thinking, because they deal with "look at this example, see what is done here? Why this works?" |
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01/20/2012 12:17:58 AM · #12 |
Originally posted by mcaldo:
Originally posted by robs:
Light Science and Magic
Within the Frame |
Love your avatar :)
Light Science and Magic is a great book, but perhaps the scope is a bit too focussed for what the OP was looking for. |
Hey - My avatar reads fine to me :-)
Yeah fair point on LS&M, I have been on a lighting tangent for a while now. It is a great book to learn lighting but it's pretty dry. David's books have been more mind expanding and non technical which I also like. |
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