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Author: John and Barbara Gerlach
ISBN : 0240810937
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Photographing landscape with a film camera is different than with a digital camera. There are several books on the market that cover landscape photography but few of them are specifically for the digital photographer. This book is what you are looking for!
Digital Landscape Photography covers:
* equipment such as accessories and lenses
* exposure from shutter speed and other common mistakes
* shooting
* light and its importance
* composing your perfect photo
* printing
* and a special section on specific subjects such as waterfalls and sunrises
Digital Landscape Photography, written by experts that have been shooting outdoors for decades, is a fresh look at current ways to shoot landscapes by making the most of digital format.
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- Paperback: 216 pages
- Publisher: Focal Press; 1 edition (August 31, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0240810937
- ISBN-13: 978-0240810935
- Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 0.5 x 11 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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For those who want to learn the basics of landscape photography, this is the perfect book.
The authors have not just assembled all the information necessary for a new digital photographer to produce good landscape photography. The authors present it clearly, simply and lucidly so the readers will have no difficulty understanding the lessons. Moreover, they have organized the information on each topic so that even if the reader has missed a point earlier in the book, he will be reminded again further on.
The ten chapters in the book cover necessary equipment, exposure, sharp focusing, the effect of light, and composition. There is a chapter on special subjects that covers techniques that range from photographing from a kayak to making images of fall foliage. There are even two chapters on the newest darlings of the landscape set, high dynamic range photography (HDR) and panoramas. The book is nicely illustrated with the authors' photographs.
The chapter on exposure is typical of the book. After explaining the factors of aperture, shutter speed and media sensitivity, the authors show how their interrelationship leads to a good exposure. The authors then show how to use the tools of the digital camera, like the histogram and the "blinkies" to get the exposure the photographer wants. Once having laid out these techniques, the Gerlachs reemphasize them throughout the book so that the new landscape photographer grasps the many factors that lead to a good photograph.
If I could give this book 3 1/2 stars, I probably would. This book is definitely better than your average photography book, but it falls short of being something that really stands out for me.
The title of this book suggests that the focus of this book is on landscape photography, but there are only a few sections really specific to shooting landscapes. Instead, this book contains a lot of pretty good information about digital photography in general, and is mostly suitable for the novice photographer.
First the highlights: there is a good breadth of coverage of technical information related to digital photography in this book. Few books I have read covered so many different topics. The writing is straight-forward and easy to understand, and there are some very nice images in this book. It's also nice to read a book that's fairly up-to-date with current technology, so the information feels very relevant to today's digital photographers. Some information (like how the histogram works, and why it's not entirely accurate) is presented quite well. I also did learn some interesting tips, like what "back button focusing" is (their own term, but a useful technique for a common problem).
On the other hand, the organization of this book could be better, and there are some real gaps in some of the explanations that can be very confusing for the beginner. The biggest of these problems (which happens over and over in this book), is that the authors frequently "forward reference" topics (e.g. use terminology that is not explained until later in the book, or sometimes not at all!). These topics would make perfect sense if you already knew what the authors were talking about, but they would be very puzzling otheriwse.
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