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This art book shows contemporary and cutting-edge work as well as historical. It deals with real-life issues of taking pictures and making prints in the practical way working photographers do. Using strong contemporary portfolio photographs, profiles of top photographers with a look at career matters, it includes practical strategies for taking and printing photographs, and a seamless mix of color, black-and-white, and digital technologies. For photographers and photojournalists.
Customer Reviews:
Could have been better.......2007-09-25
I thought that this book would be in better condition. A lot of the pages were bent and wrinkled and the back cover had a sticker the was ripped off. Overall quality - POOR! The book was packaged nicely and shipped fast.
Gorgeous.......2005-12-10
I enrolled in a photo one course, having always enjoyed the art form. Not only was this book immensely helpful throughout the course, but I refused to return it at the end of the semester. It doubles as a superb textbook and a lovely coffee table look through. I find myself flipping through it just for entertainment and also to find solutions to camera or developing problems I might be having. I also agree that the only negative aspect of this text is the fact that it doesn't come in hard back. The paper back version becomes awkward, it's best if you read it whilst your sitting up or at a desk. If you're one for pleasure reading in bed, like myself, this book might prove to be a challenge. Other than it's awkward dimensions in paper back, this is a must-have-book for those vaguely interested in the hobby all the way to those who are professional photographers. Hooray for well written books and well constructed page layouts with tremendous photos around every turn!!
Photogrephy: Revised Edition.......2005-10-25
This book by Horenstein and Hart was bought as an introduction to photography. Before I bought it, I looked at numerous other books on photography, but none of them seemed to tell me a lot more than what I already knew. In addition they did not inspire me. I only tell this because my opinion is that this book is what I searched for. It is well written and gives a decent treatment of the different topics. The illustrations are clear, and there are several photos showing the concepts involved, the photos being so good that they also show more subtle effects. And then there are works by various professional photographers all along. These are not just dumped there, but actually fit the topic being treated. The chapter on digital photography is perhaps a little short. However, I would rather by an additional in-depth book on digital photography anyway. This book gives the basis knowledge on how photography evolved and on different techniques. I only wished it had been available in hardback, because the relatively large format makes it somewhat unhandy in paperback.
Great Textbook for Beginner and Professional Photographers.......2005-06-27
I've been a photo student for nearly two years and this is the textbook I started with. I didn't realize at first how amazing and inspiring it was until I couldn't find it. Horenstein's book is organized and it is easy to read. It covers a great deal and has wonderful images as examples. I enrolled in a photojournalism class last semester and had to purchase Photography (8th ed) by Barbara London & John Upton. I was very dissatisfied with the textbook when remembering how great Horenstein's is. I urge every hopeful photographer to make an investment in this book.
A word from the authors about the revised edition.......2004-02-07
The second edition of PHOTOGRAPHY isn't a token revision. It's a major update of a book that we had already designed to bring basic photographic instruction into the modern era without leaving the fundamentals behind. It is, unlike most of its competition, a book you can grow with as your photographic skills improve.
PHOTOGRAPHY is really a cross between a how-to book and a coffee-table book. That's one reason it costs more than a regular photo handbook: In addition to hundreds of technical illustrations there are dozens of beautifully reproduced, full-page photographs by some of the leading photographers of our time. You'll find photographs by Annie Leibovitz, Joel Meyerowitz, Sebastiao Salgado, Mary Ellen Mark, Joyce Tenneson, James Nachtwey, David LaChapelle, Matthew Rolston, Mark Seliger, and many others representing every kind of photographic discipline you can imagine. These images, which have been substantially updated in this revision, are interspersed throughout the text. PHOTOGRAPHY also features a series of individual profiles of well-known working photographers, heavily illustrated with examples of their work, and a compact, illustrated history of photography by New York Times critic Vicki Goldberg.
Why the emphasis on big, high-quality pictures? Because PHOTOGRAPHY is meant to inspire as it teaches.
--HENRY HORENSTEIN AND RUSSELL HART
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One of the most popular and useful instruction manuals of its kindwhich has set the standard for nearly thirty yearsis now completely revised and updated, encompassing the latest photographic techniques, materials, and processes. Black and White Photography has sold more than 500,000 copies in its first two editions. The second edition (1982), currently in its twenty-fourth printing, still enjoys net sales of 25,000 to 30,000 copies a year. A popular, hands-on size, Black and White Photography is a bargain photographic how-to book. Past and present users of Horensteins books include the Parsons School of Design, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and MIT, in addition to continuing education classes and photography buffs who have discovered them through favorable word of mouth.
Customer Reviews:
A very good book!.......2007-09-30
its an amazing book! especially for beginners. I am a photography student and this is our text book. If you want to start learning manual black n white camera then this is the book you want in your bookshelf. It teaches basics of photography including step by step film processing and developing. If you are a photographer or interested in learning manual black n white photography, this is the book you should definitely buy
OK introduction.......2007-06-29
Covers the basics of camera, negative and print for the absolute beginner with no technical inclinations. If you are an analytical personality with a little technical education, you will miss the math. I want the equation for depth of field! I want the grain size in mm! But that's just me ;)
Excellent resource.......2007-03-08
A Basic Manual, 3rd Edit Revised is an excellent resource for the new (film) photographer. I'd also argue its not a half-bad general resource for the more experienced photographer. I used his previous version in an introductory course in black and white photography that I taught for a number of years. Of late I have been using Mastering Black and White Photography by Bernhard Suess but will now switch back to this text. Student response to both texts has been overwhelmingly positive however I feel Horenstein's writing style is easier for them to follow. The sequence, illustrations and figures of the Horenstein book seem both logical as well as well done. Particularly useful are the illustrations of common negative faults, something I had missed after moving to the Suess text. Highly recommended but please note that this is a book heavily weighted to using film cameras as well as processes and procedures in the darkroom. There are other works more suited for digital photography and for those who are looking for a reference on the "art" of photography.
Photography.......2007-02-20
The chapters are long and the book itself has a dry language but it is very information in what a person needs to know about photography. The frist few chapters deal with the mechanics of using a camera which is very helpful for a person who is an ameuter in photography. If one is really adament about learning the insides and outs about photography, then this book is helpful.
Great book for learning the basics........2007-01-03
This was a great book. I was taking a BW darkroom class and this was the required text. Good choice by the instructor. Also a good book to help digital only folks understand some of the settings and functions of thier cameras.
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- Beautiful Scenery - Lovely City - Good Book to Have
- I wouldn't live here, but this visit is worth it!
- City of Angels
- Eye Of The Beholder
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Above Los Angeles, Revised Edition
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Wonderful aerial photographs, historical and present day of Los Angeles.
Customer Reviews:
Beautiful Scenery - Lovely City - Good Book to Have.......2006-08-26
This book is a must have for all those who love L.A. natural and urban landscapes, but can't be there all the time to enjoy that. As the city has gigantic proportions, of course that not everything can be covered in the book, but at least what I consider to be the most attractive spots in the area is there. The paper is high-quality and the photographs are crystal-clear and well produced. Worth the money.
I wouldn't live here, but this visit is worth it!.......2006-07-06
'Above Los Angeles', another in Robert Cameron's birds eye views of major cities is, to me, surprisingly superior to his similar volume on his hometown of San Francisco. Since I much prefer SF to LA, I expected LA to be far less photogenic, but it comes of rather well overall. This may be due to the fact that so many of the LA landscapes familiar to us from TV mentions, but unseen for most of us, leaves us facinated to finally see, for example, Venice Beach close-up or the Hollywood Bowl, or Century City.
This is still not quite as good as the similar volume for Chicago ore even less good than the volume on London, or even as good as a competitor's work on Boston, but it is good, nonetheless, if only because it confirms my notion that LA is a sprawl with no center. The 'downtown' pic looks like a non-descript snap of outer Queens and not similar to Manhatten's financial district or midtown, to which it is comparable in function. Even the shorelines look more interesting than the similar scenes from the SF book.
An excellent souvenoir!
City of Angels.......2005-05-18
I just love these books by Cameron, he is just the most amazing talent. This book really captures L.A. and this is a city that begs to be photographed from the air because of all the wonderful buildings hidden behind huge fences and lush landscape. This is without question one of his best books, it really is a joy to look through. I have the older edition, but have seen the newer book and it only adds a few new pictures of buildings built since the book was first published in the early 90's; such as the Getty. I was expecting more new pictures, since the publisher makes big deal about it being revised, I even thought I might buy it if it was that different, but there are like five new pictures out of about 160 original and like I said before they where not even taken by Cameron. These pictures are well done, but are not by Cameron himself, he is alas over 90 and retired. Either printing is a five star book I assure you. I highly recommend all of his books they are all wonderful in their own way, but this truly is one of his best works.
Eye Of The Beholder.......2003-04-16
Robert Cameron presents a place and its' character in this "above" book (as well as in the other ones). Some people fly over the Los Angeles area, gagging and shaking their heads. Mammoth highways, concrete, smog, track housing, and monster burbs. These qualities do exist. But Cameron's photos also allow you to see the different personalities and idiosyncrasies of the many communities that make up what we call Los Angeles, from the Southbay beaches to the hills. (Where LA begins and ends we're not always sure). The area of Los Angeles (like other places) is different from other major metropolitan American areas for a variety of reasons. For one, most of the topography is flat, and it's a coastal desert paved with transplants with ambition and liking for the sun. These pictures allow the City of Angels to be more intriguing and have more of its' personality exude itself, as the reader gets a closer look at it through these pictures.
Mental pictures.
Yes, there are those who state Los Angeles County is an area with few landmarks. First you've got have a good disposition to this place, and second you've got to get close. Cameron's shots provide plenty of pockets of beauty and character, and plenty of quintessential "LA" landmarks. One must close enough to observe and experience them. "Above Los Angeles" lets us. Photos that highlight the interesting and beautiful icons of this city's architecture and natural character.
Another book for LA-philes and those interested in its' history and growth is: "LA Lost & Found: An Architectural History of Los Angeles (California Architecture and Architects, No 21)." by Sam Hall Kaplan, and Julius Shulman (Photographer).
5 stars........what else would you expect?.......2002-02-06
Los Angeles is a wonderful city so full of interesting things. This book has it all. All the areas are greatly photographed and look clear. LA's smog problem seems to be subsiding as the photos show clear days (most of them) and LA is only getting better. Every part of the city is showned. If you like photos from the air, you'll like this book. Also, the Library tower is shown (this is the first building to get blown up in the movie "Independence Day") in several photos. The older printings of this book didn't have them in it. I highly recommend this book.
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Learning from Las Vegas created a healthy controversy on its appearance in 1972, calling for architects to be more receptive to the tastes and values of "common" people and less immodest in their erections of "heroic," self-aggrandizing monuments.
This revision includes the full texts of Part I of the original, on the Las Vegas strip, and Part II, "Ugly and Ordinary Architecture, or the Decorated Shed," a generalization from the findings of the first part on symbolism in architecture and the iconography of urban sprawl. (The final part of the first edition, on the architectural work of the firm Venturi and Rauch, is not included in the revision.) The new paperback edition has a smaller format, fewer pictures, and a considerably lower price than the original. There are an added preface by Scott Brown and a bibliography of writings by the members of Venturi and Rauch and about the firm's work.
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as an argument of theory..........2007-03-03
this book is extremely condensed into a multitude of thumbnails or panoramas and text that never fails to reiterate its point. i mean, these two architects really understand the idea of symbols, suggestions, and sheds but after a dozen pages on one idea, you already get the point.
the images are really helpful in exemplifying the amount of criticism for or against the city ("idea") of las vegas.
An Architectural Nightmare.......2004-01-18
This is a quite unusual and offbeat treatise on architectural theory, as applied to the world's greatest architectural monstrosity - Las Vegas. This analysis from the early 1970s is obviously outdated because Las Vegas hadn't yet become the monument to megalomania and excess that it is today, but it was already well on its way. The authors analyze Vegas' unique usages of space, lighting, placement, transportation, and building design for the purposes of communication and promotion. Strange chapter titles give a clue to the left-field analysis in store, and the authors have a clear sense of irony, underhandedly implying that Vegas presents the worst in architecture while they appear to be praising its uniqueness. Unfortunately the narrative gets bogged down in dense professor-speak terminology like "Brazilianoid" and "neo-Constructivist megastructures," along with a general overload of obtuse theory. Add to that the poor-quality and under-elaborated illustrations and you have a book that sacrifices insight and readability in favor of pedantic attempts to impress the authors' colleagues. [~doomsdayer520~]
Read this book to learn what you shouldn't do as an architec.......2001-07-10
Read this book to learn what you shouldn't do as an architect!
This book follows Venturi's "Complexity and Contradiction", where you can learn how cynically to use casement windows in housing for the elderly where the elderly will happily put their plastic flowers in the windows, but *you* secretly know these are not really hormal casement windows, since they are out of scale (like fascist architecture's lack of scale?).
This book will tell you about ducks and decorated sheds, but it will tell you nothing about building spaces which nourish creative human community. Try Louis Kahn (e.g., John Lobell's lovely little book "Between Silence and Light"). My postmodernist teachers at Harvard said Kahn's writings were incomprehensible, which says more about them than about him.
Read Lobell's book and learn why, e.g., a city might deserve to exist. Remember: Only *you* can get beyond postmodernism!
Brilliant study of signage and architecture.......1999-09-10
Robert Venturi's study of the Las Vegas signage phenomena and it's impact on "architecture" is brilliant in it's scope. While written almost twenty five years ago, this book gains more and more pertinence as we as a society progress further into a "reality" of symbols, reproductions and representations. These words and thoughts are basically essential to the understanding of any city anymore, not just Las Vegas. Where this book misses the mark though is in the execution, as shown in Venturi's work, of these ideas. The projects put forth seem to pale in comparison to the implications the text actually has. These notions of architecture are by far some of the most relevant and important in modern theory today, it is unfortunate that their full potential could not be realized in these projects.... but maybe that is for you and I to do.
A classic in architecture theory.......1999-06-29
The title "father of Post Modernism" has been appropriately assigned to Robert Venturi....and it began with this book: Learning from Las Vegas. Written at a time when minimalism in art, and "form follows function" in architecture were the dominant ideas, Venturi et al threw down the gauntlet in challenging the practicing and accademic establishment with such sacriligious slogans as "Less is a bore" (challenging the modernist notion "Less is more")
Venturi should open the eyes of readers who self rightiously condemn today's highway commercial architecture and signage. Venturi challenges us to look at this urbanscape with fresh eyes...to see and understand the order (both functional and visual) in what we have been conditioned to condemn.
The book is well illustrated and gives examples of "the duck" and the "decorated shed" as metaphorical strategies to attract attention to highway commericial buildings.Anyone interested in architecture history and contemporary planning issues should read this book. It may piss you off, but it might also open your eyes to new ways of seeing.
In 1999 it would be interesting to compare Las Vegas to Pleasantville...and to learn in the process about change and the American culture that seems to embrace an ever changing urban landscape. Just as in the mythical Pleasantville in the movie of same name, Venturi upsets the status quo and gets us to see the colors (though sometimes messy and glaring) of the REAL city.
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Few aspects of The New York Times's coverage of September 11 and of all that has followed have attracted as much comment as 'Portraits of Grief.' The series profiled the lives lost in the attacks on the World Trade Center and was a story in itself, becoming required reading for many the world over. Beginning on September 14, 2001, a half-dozen Times reporters began working from a stack of one hundred missing persons fliers collected from points around the World Trade Center. They wrote profiles containing short but signature details of the lives they strove to present. These portraits transcend race, class, age, and gender while capturing the poignancy of the victims' similarities: life cut short in an American tragedy. This new edition includes the complete 'Portraits of Grief' series with approximately four hundred additional portraits published since February 3, 2002. The profiles have become a source of connection and consolation, a focus for the sorrow of readers both reeling from disbelief and searching for support.
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Single, most influential book about people's lives I've read.......2007-01-16
Portraits 9/11/01 (2nd edition) provides a glimpse of one or two facets of the lives of those who were cruelly snuffed out before their time in a civilized and developed world. I can say it's been the single most influential book about people's lives I have ever read (of course, I have an emotional connection with 9/11 that probably makes for my strong opinion about the book). The vignettes demonstrated the extraordinary impact that so many ordinary people had on the lives of their loved ones, their families, friends, and even coworkers. The book was truly democratic and blind to the usual forms of discrimination. As a nation, we quickly recovered. The process of healing for the families of those that were affected will take much longer. Their lives will never be the same again.
Kudos to the entire team of reporters and staff for their effective research and writing.
My review of a book that I will always keep and forever treasure.......2006-11-13
I am still going through the book. It's a beautiful book and has brief biographies about each victim of 911. By victims I mean the people who died that day. I had hoped one day someone would take the time to do something like this. To me it's a tribute to all of those people who thought they were getting up that morning to just another day. I wanted something to honor the firemen as well as the police and all of the people who reported to their jobs that morning. It's a big book but it has to be...so many were involved in the making of it. This book won't sadden me as much as it will help me remember all of those people whose lives ended way, way too soon. My most heartfelt thank you to all involved in the creating of this book.
Glad to see a touching tribute..........2006-09-10
I am looking forward to reading this book. I, too, lost a friend on 9/11. Oh, and to the "reader" below who wrote about his or her paranoia ... we obviously do have free speech in this country. You were allowed to post your opinion here just as everyone else did, weren't you? My friend, who was a flight attendant on the airliner that slammed into the tower, no longer has free speech. Her throat was slashed by one of those barbarians. Her right to free speech was savagely stolen from her by a dirty terrorist, and her life was cut short at age 29.
It's nice to see a book that touches the human spirit for a change. Please don't violate the memories those thousands of American men, women and children who died so innocently by blending their senseless deaths with political rhetoric and garbage.
Oh - and one more thing. If you don't like America or Americans, you are also free to leave.
NY Times - a "right wing " newspaper?!.......2006-08-17
I have not read this book, although I would like to - I lost a friend on 9/11, and like so many others, the event devastated me. I just wanted to reply to "a reader" who posted on 7/7/04 - is your head buried so far underground that you declare the NY Times to be a right-wing newspaper, an instrument of the Bush administration? It is one of the most liberal "established" papers around - are you a native English speaker?? Perhaps you should spend some more time educating yourself AND appreciate a tribute to the thousands of innocents who died and spend less time in your delusional state.
Good luck.
Pure love.......2005-10-27
In the days following Spetmeber 11, I was strongly drawn to the Portraits of Grief featured in the New York Times. As I sat there stunned over the tragedy, I felt so very connected to it by being able to share even a small portion of the lives of the people who perished that day. I felt honored and humbled and felt such love for individuals and families I had never met.
I bought this book to put away for my young son. It is vitally important to me as a proud American, as a mother, and as a citizen of the world, that my son truly understands the enormity of Septermber 11 and how the world is forever changed as a result of that day.
I could buy him some history books or analyses of how the events of that day unfolded but I believe this book will touch him in ways that no other books could.
Please, please consider doing the same for our future generations.
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- A good guide for those first starting....
- excellent resource
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- FIVE STARS, excellent, excellent, excellent.
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Writing, Directing, and Producing Documentary Films and Videos, Revised Edition
Alan Rosenthal
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In this revised edition of a universally acclaimed guide, Rosenthal’s intellectual impetus remains the same: "For me, working in documentary implies a commitment that one wants to change the world for the better. That says it all."
Even before important revisions, Donald E. Staples, University of North Texas, said of Rosenthal’s work: "This book should be called the ‘Documentary Filmmaker’s Guide to the Galaxy.’ The moral, ethical, aesthetic, and communicative problems of documentary filmmaking are explored through knowledge and experience in the field, studio, editing room, theater, and television. Every new or established documentary filmmaker should read it."
And Henry Breitrose, writing in International Documentary, stated: "The concentration on technique as an end in itself has resulted in altogether too many exquisitely wrought empty vessels. Alan Rosenthal’s new book comes as a corrective. . . . The book is a major contribution to the literature of film teaching and will be immensely useful as a textbook and as a humane, intelligent, and thoughtful refresher course for documentary makers."
An internationally renowned documentary filmmaker with more than sixty films to his credit, including the Peabody Award-winning Out of the Ashes, Rosenthal has written the first book to address the realities involved in the making of a documentary. Rather than dealing with theory or hardware, Rosenthal tackles the day-to-day problems from initial concept through distribution. Simply and clearly, Rosenthal explains how to write, direct, and produce the new documentary, whether film or video. He emphasizes the research and writing of the documentary, from approach and structure through interviewing, narration writing, and the complexities of editing. This emphasis makes his book unique.
The organization of the book follows the process of making a documentary. Part 1 discusses ideas, research, and script structure; parts 2 and 3 go over preproduction and production; part 4 explores editing and narration writing; and part 5 discusses distinctive forms of documentary, including cinema verite and documentary drama. The concluding chapter offers a perspective on the entire process involved in the making of a documentary.
Customer Reviews:
A good guide for those first starting...........2007-04-05
In starting something new, the potential making missteps that can derail the whole process is always present. This book helps you avoid those and has advice on how you can develop a quality product that people will want to see. Very worthwhile.
excellent resource.......2002-04-27
Even while reading this book I was able to pitch an idea for an event and documentary project, my first, and gain acceptance for the project. The concepts are helpful as well as practical.
I read a lot of books once I am interested in a subject and I would place this one at the top for documentaries.
Sell your kids to buy this book.......2001-09-27
There is little in written text that summarise the worth of this book. I was so moved by its detailed and incisive content and direction that I sold my kids to afford the time and space, the peace required to absorb the rivetting content.
As I sat at my video production terminal I realised that the nirvana of books on docudrama had been produced. This is the sort of book that makes you go and get the authors name tattooed on your butt.
Buy , buy , buy ..
FIVE STARS, excellent, excellent, excellent........2001-06-25
This book is a masterful resource for any filmmaker regardless of their expertise.
No one has come close in their summation of the documentary process. It is 2001, the book was released in 1996, it is timeless. The best book on the market, a better book could only be devised by the author.
Four years of preperation in one book. Every student, professional filmmaker, enthusiast should have it. I have even allowed persons/subjects whom I was documenting to read this book. It made the process that much easier. They were extremely thankful. PURCHASE THE BOOK.
Great source of info..........2001-03-21
I find myself opening this book up over and over again . I have learned alot from the writer of this book . I would tell anyone who is going to make a documentary , they should have this book on there desk.
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Digital photography has come of age. Not only have sales of digital cameras overtaken film cameras, but now even amateur photographers can capture images that, five years ago, were difficult for the pros. And new computers--even bottom-of-the-line cheapies--can handle huge image files. Advanced Digital Photography, Revised Edition, shows how these sweeping changes in technology can help take photographers way beyond the basics--if they learn how to harness the technological power at their fingertips. Respected and best-selling photography book author Tom Ang explains the capture of photographs, processing of data, printing, and much more, complete with full-color illustrations. Detailed step-by-step instructions let photographers at every level obtain professional results, without special equipment.
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A top pick and 'must'.......2007-06-17
The revised edition of ADVANCED DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY: TECHNIQUES & TIPS FOR CREATING PROFESSIONAL QUALITY IMAGES provides plenty of easy tips to enable novices with the basics to move to the next level of photography technology management. Here are tips on correcting distortion, scanning techniques, dodging and other advanced photo manipulation techniques - all with plenty of color photo examples, all with boxed tips making for quick, at-a-glance instruction. A top pick and 'must' for any general interest or specialty library strong in digital photo guides.
Diane C. Donovan
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Great Primer!!.......2005-06-05
This is THE best beginner book on photography I've yet seen! Although written in the pre-digital era, the basics have not changed. Accompanied with full-color photos, George Schaub describes in clear and concise prose the basics regarding light & F-stops, aperture & shutter speed, exposure overides, bracketing, depth-of-field, flash photography etc.
HIGHLY recommended for the beginning film or digital photographer!
Good Beginnings!.......2005-05-04
This is a great book for basic explanations and techniques. It provides a concise, good working knowledge of camera functions, the basics of composition, exposure, low light exposures and flash photography. I have been around cameras and photography for over 35 years, so some of it was redundant to me, but if I were still a beginner, I would think this an excellent guide to start my learning. As someone else mentioned, each point has a photograph to illustrate it, to reinforce the learning. This book would be on my "highly recommended" list for all photography novices!
Excellent, concise, & visual beginners guide.......1999-10-14
I consider myself an advanced beginner, and own several books on photography. This, however, is the one I turn to time and again for explanations and techniques. It is concise but more than adequate for a good working knowledge of modern camera functions, composition, exposure, exposure compensation, etc. With help for special circumstances such as existing light, night exposures, pushing film, and flash photography, it is an excellent and beautifully visual guide to beginning photography. Each point has a photograph to illustrate it. Highly recommended. Hope he writes another for more experienced shooters!
The right beginning point.......1998-12-10
I would consider this book as right starting point for any beginner who wants to take good photographs. The focus of the book is on making the reader comfortable in the world of photography. Starting from meaning of many technical terms, this book goes into illustrating important techniques of taking good photographs. The hundred around example photographs (taken by George and his wife) in the book cover the different situations that a start-up photographer would face and look for some guidelines. I should congratulate the writer on not going into most difficult techniques of photography as the book is meant for beginners. One thing I expected from this book and did not get was a step-by-step guideline about how a beginner should try to expertise different skills the writer has illustrated.
Book Description
The classic, picture-perfect manual for taking great photos gets a freshening up, with a brand-new, special section devoted to digital. Written by the world’s bestselling author on photography, it’s an image-filled and practical guide for beginners eager to start shooting—but who feel put off by technical jargon and complicated techniques. And Hedgecoe focuses on the most commonly owned starter cameras, too, as well as offering an invaluable list of “Twenty Ways to Improve Your Photos” and 250 of his own inspiring pictures.
“Hedgecoe uses the most commonly owned beginners’ cameras...to demonstrate how the camera works in simple, nontechnical language.”—Photographic Trade News
“The lessons are easy, given the well-laid-out visual examples.”—Booklist
“One of the best introductory texts...my highest recommendation.”—Shutterbug
Customer Reviews:
Two words: stay away.......2007-07-30
John Hedgecoe is a veteran photographer with years of valuable experience, but he keeps publishing what I call "very pretty but very useless" photo books, and this is (yet another) one of them. The book is beautifully published (as are his even more lavish DK books), and very well written, but the information is often quite out of date (he teaches you how to load a roll of film; but the words PIXEL or MEGAPIXEL or CMOS do not even appear in the index; on the other hand, the term CLOUDS has 5 multi-page references - go figure).
It is worth noting that while the book claims to be for beginners,it illustrates all points by using National Geographic-caliber photos. No - even if you follow the advice, your photos will not look like that. Hedgecoe is an accomplished, very experienced photographer - there is no doubt about that, but the photos included here were shot using equipment that costs thousands ("teaching" you how to take pictures like that w/ a point-and-shoot is cruel and pointless), and even one brief look at many portraits suggests that elaborate flash setups or professional studio lighting was used - using this stuff to illustrate how to use a point-and-shoot is a joke, and will leave you frustrated and disappointed. Even worse (perhaps very tellingly) virtually none of dozens of beautiful photographs are accompanied by ANY shooting info. (type of camera, speed/aperture, lens, etc.). I'd venture a guess that not one of them was shot using anything like the basic PandS cameras shown in the intro. How are you supposed to learn if you can't even know this basic info about the photos used as "examples"? What a joke!
If you want a coffee-table book, there are better ones; if you want to learn how to take better photos, try something else (e.g., Peterson's Learning Exposure or any Lee Frost books).
Book Description
GREAT PICTURES IN A SNAP!
Are your snapshots never quite as good as you'd like them to be? Do you love taking pictures, but want to understand more about photography? Are your pictures always too light or too fuzzy? Then this book is for you! For more than seventy-five years, millions of picture-takers have trusted Kodak's How to Take Good Pictures to give them all the information they need to take great photos. And now it's been completely revised and updated with information on the very latest camera technology. No matter how much your camera does for you automatically, you still need to know the information in How to Take Good Pictures.
Inside, you'll find:
* The top ten techniques for better pictures
* What's wrong with this picture--and how to fix it next time
* The technicalities--from film speed to depth of field to lighting
* How to take great pictures of your kids
* The popular cameras--from simple cartridge loading to 35 mm point-and-shoot compacts to advanced single-lens-reflex models--and their basic operations
* Getting the most from your vacation, wedding, and family photographs
* Dealing with special situations like poor lighting and action shots
PLUS these new special features:
* How to use the newest electronic equipment
* More emphasis on fully automated cameras
* Information on new products like single-use cameras and the latest films.
CAPTURE THE MOMENT FOREVER
with
HOW TO TAKE GOOD PICTURES
Customer Reviews:
From an old-timer.......2007-06-17
This book will help anyone get their first good pictures with any technology, analog or digital. When I was twelve, I digested an early edition of this Kodak book and that put me on the road to a career as a technical writer at Kodak, where I eventually worked for one of the authors of that early edition: Tom Miller, Jr. Nearly every photographer mentioned in this edition was someone I worked with, personally. And I treasure being able to pass on anything I have learned from all of them every time I'm asked; this little book will continue to do it for me.
The title tells all.......2007-03-25
Do you know the difference between a photograph and a picture? This book will give you a good understanding of the basics of photography. It will introduce you to the rules (or Techniques) of photography that will make your pictures turn more into Photographs. Rule of thirds, selective focus, depth of field and how to make lighting work for you are just a few of the techniques that are available. Good book to get started, highly recommend.
I'm a beginner.......2006-10-18
There has been so many things I have been doing wrong and never knew why my pictures would turn out the way they did, this book explains everything that I need to know.
outdated.......2006-01-29
This book was written in 1982, updated in 1995. It has a whole section on cameras, which isn't useful since most of them are outdated. Doesn't even mention digital cameras. Since it specifically discusses the mechanics of cameras, I found this book to be disappointing.
This book is a VERY easy read!.......2005-05-30
I have a very old copy of this book...dated 1982...and it's been a super guide in helping me to understand photography. The examples and all the photos make it easy to follow and even though I am digital, I am able to incorporate the information.
I think this book is a wonderful resource for anyone who wants to learn and understand photography basics...from lighting...to composition...it explains it all.
I think it's a very good 'first' photography book.
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