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John Shaw's Nature Photography Field Guide

John Shaw

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Total reviews: 80 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

John Shaw Nature Photography review 4 out of 5 stars.
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I considered this an excellent book. It was written a few years back and had it's major emphasis on film photography. However, virtually all of the material is applicable for todays state of the art digital photography.

Editorial Review:

An updated bestseller, this book of extraordinarily beautiful photographs of nature contains state-of-the-art instruction on how any photographer can aim for equally impressive results every time a camera is focused on the great outdoors. Even highly skilled photographers are often baffled by the problems facing them when they work outdoors. But with this exceptional field guide in hand, every photographer-beginner, serious amateur, semi-pro, and pro-can conquer the problems encountered in the field. Using his own exceptional work as examples, the author discusses each type of nature subject and how to approach photographing it. Specific advice and information cover selection of equipment and lenses; how to compose a shot; how to get close ups; and other tips covering a range of techniques to enrich various types of nature photographs.

The Print (Ansel Adams Photography, Book 3)

Ansel Adams

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Total reviews: 10 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

content excellent, one little remark for the publisher. 5 out of 5 stars.
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The book is excellent. Although these techniques are not widely applied today, with appropriate experience and thinking this knowledge can be applied and transferred to modern software like Adobe Photoshop. It can help relate modern and classic photography printing processes (traditional vs computerized).

One little remark would be for the publisher. The paper the book is printed is gloss with quite a high reflectance index. This results in making reading the book at certain angles quite impossible for your eyes.

Editorial Review:

The Print is the third and final book in The Ansel Adams Photography Series--the seminal guides fully revised by Ansel Adams shortly before his death in 1984. The Print, now available in paperback like the other volumes in the series, belongs on every photographer's shelf. It covers the entire printmaking process, from designing and furnishing a darkroom and experimenting with your first print, to mastering advanced techniques such as developer modifications, toning, and bleaching, and burning and dodging. This thorough guide is filled with indispensable darkroom techniques and tips, and amply illustrated with photographs and technical drawings. It is an indispensable tool for mastering the complex art of photographic printmaking.

Creative Nature and Outdoor Photography

Brenda Tharp

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Total reviews: 38 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Nature Photography Tips 5 out of 5 stars.
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The best, quick study, complete book on taking pictures in the outdoors, that I have seen to date.

This is the most AMAZING book! 5 out of 5 stars.
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This is the most AMAZING book you can ever get about photography.

After I started reading this book, my mind changed about photography.

I can surely say that this is the best book I have read about photography.

You NEED this book if you are really into photography.

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Creative Nature and Outdoor Photography 5 out of 5 stars.
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Packed full of easy-to-understand, useful information. Certainly a help to anyone in taking better pictures. Bonus - the excellent pictures make it a great coffee-table book.

Great read 5 out of 5 stars.
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Wonderful pics and descriptive text make this a great reminder of why we all wanted to do this in the first place and how to achieve the results we all aspire to.

exceptional book 5 out of 5 stars.
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I have read many books on this subject and this is one of the very best. It is extremely well written and digs deep into the psyche of the art and technique of fine photography. Take this to the desert island.

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True Vision: Authentic Art Journaling

L.K. Ludwig

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Editorial Review:

Featuring the artwork of over 25 leading artists with name recognition

As art journaling grows in popularity (even attracting a new breed of scrapbookers who call themselves "life artists"), there is a movement afoot toward creating more authentic, personal, what some people call "raw" journals. These journals are filled with not just attractive, well-composed pages, but pages that are filled with personal, meaningful content.

True Visions is focused on ways to bring authenticity and meaning into one's art journaling. The book will examine themes and topics common to all while offering activities and exercises to create rich meaningful content. Each chapter will highlight familiar subject areas such as life events, spirituality, childhood, and even an artist's favorite writings. Within each topic, readers are given guided activities and exercises for developing content, provided one or two artistic techniques, and are shown inspiring examples of work by a variety of talented art journal artists.

Richard Avedon: Portraits of Power

Renata Adler, Frank Goodyear

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Richard Avedon, America's preeminent portraitist and fashion photographer, photographed the many faces of politics throughout his career. Portraits of Power brings together Avedon's political portraits for the first time. Juxtaposing images of elite government, media and labor officials with counter-cultural activists, writers and artists, as well as ordinary citizens caught up in national debates, it offers a five-decade taxonomy of politics and power by one of America's best-known artists. The book features several of Avedon's extended projects addressing these themes, including coverage of the civil rights debate in the early 1960s (published in 1964 in Nothing Personal); the American anti-war movement and the war in Vietnam from 1969-1971; portraits of the American power elite in 1976, produced for his groundbreaking Rolling Stone portfolio "The Family;" "Exiles: The Kennedy Court at the End of the American Century," a retrospective homage to the Camelot generation published in the New Yorker in 1993; and his final photo-essay, "Democracy," surveying the national mood during the politically fractious period prior to the 2004 presidential elections (published posthumously in the New Yorker in 2004).
Richard Avedon (1923-2004) was the most successful fashion photographer and portraitist in America throughout a six-decade career. Serving in the Merchant Marines during World War II, Avedon was assigned to the photography unit and learned his trade making identification portraits. After the war, he found work as a photographer for Harper's Bazaar and Theater Arts and began a fruitful apprenticeship with legendary editor, designer and artist Alexey Brodovitch. Avedon invigorated the staid fashion photography of the time, staging fictional tableaux and developing an unprecedented theatrical style. Moving to Vogue in 1966 and the New Yorker in 1993, Avedon continued to innovate. Extraordinarily prolific throughout his career, he produced many books, among them Nothing Personal (1964), An Autobiography (1993) and The Sixties (1999).

Magic Lantern Guides: Nikon D300 (Magic Lantern Guides)

Simon Stafford

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Total reviews: 9 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Excellent reference for the non-beginning photographer 5 out of 5 stars.
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This book contrasts with the D300 Digital Field Guide. The Field Guide is full of lessons about basic photography for the uninitiated (who probably should not have purchased a sophisticated camera like the D300 in the first place). But for everyone else this book is full of details that cover basic operation and then go beyond to in depth explanation of features and functions. The book assumes that you know the basics of photography and then shows you how to make the best use of your marvelously versatile D300. It even explains the "zen" of the Nikon Creative Lighting System by which Nikon has otherwise managed to confuse many a photographer! No it isn't written like story book or a travelogue. It is a no-nonsense, easilly understood operating guide that covers all the bases and more. Buy it!

Editorial Review:

Simon Stafford, the Technical Editor to the Nikon Owners' Club International's Nikon Owner magazine, tells all about the company's new semi-pro camera, the D300. He explains how to make the most of the model's up-to-the-minute attributes, including the 12.3 effective megapixel Nikon DX-format CMOS image sensor with integrated A/D converter and the increased bit precision of selectable 14-bit NEF (RAW) output.

Jock Sturges: Life Time

Jock Sturges

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My hope is that my work is in some way counter-pinup. A pinup asks you to suspend interest in who the person is and occupy yourself entirely with looking at the body, fantasizing about what you could do with that body, completely ignoring how the person might feel about it. People who make pinup photographs don't care who the woman is, what tragedies or triumphs that person's life might encompass. My work hopefully works exactly counter to that. My ambition is that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is. --Jock Sturges, Boston Phoenix
Long known for his radiant black-and-white naturist portraiture, Jock Sturges has also been working quietly in color for more than two decades. Life Time presents a broad range of this color work for the first time and carries forward Sturges' extended portraits of families in Northern California counter-culture communities and on French naturist beaches. Working with the same models and their families in his long-term studies of growth, change and relationship, Sturges' large format images borrow significantly from classical periods in both photography and nineteenth and early twentieth century painting. The large color plates in Life Time represent almost perfect one-to-one translations of the original transparencies, and are rich with detail and physical and psychological nuance. Sturges describes his work as "identity driven" because his portraits represent collaborations that stretch over entire lifetimes. The confident ease with which all of his subjects present themselves to his camera evidences a rare level of trust and friendship.