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ISBN : 0715331493
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Guy Edwardes is one of the UK's leading nature and landscape photographers. His work has been published widely at home and abroad, with clients that include Outdoor Photography, Practical Photography, Digital Camera, Country Walking, The Telegraph Magazine, Reader's Digest and more. He markets stock photography internationally through a number fo picture agencies, as well as running his own library of over 100,000 images. He is the author of D&C's 100 Ways to Take Better Landscape Photographs.
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- Paperback: 144 pages
- Publisher: David & Charles (September 11, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0715331493
- ISBN-13: 978-0715331491
- Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.5 x 0.6 inches
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The well-known wildlife photographers have for some reason avoided publishing how-to books in the digital age. I continue to find inspiration from 90s books by Joe MacDonald, John Shaw, and Larry West, but those books tended to focus about 25% of their content on film choice (now obsolete), and digital has changed most other aspects of wildlife photography as well. So, those books all still have value, but an update was desperately needed.
Given this, I bought Edwardes' book mostly out of desperation. I found its structure of "100 tips" annoying in a short-attention span kind of way even as I read it in the store, but I noted that between the lines he offered some useful tips here and there. After having had it a year and used it as reference occasionally, I can now report it does offer some useful advice and tips, but they are few and far between. The structure of this book is illogical to the point of irritation - his "tips" blatantly contradict one another, with no explanation given for why we should overlook that. In essence, to gain value from this book, I am forced to completely ignore its intended structure and simply read it for the tidbits it contains in between them. This is made all the more challenging by the fact that these observations are randomly scattered across the 100 tips. Example: In one tip he mentions casually that he was trying to photograph a diving sea bird, and the sequence he shows was the only successful one out of several hundred he shot. That sort of deeper observation is very useful to the digital photographer wondering how the pros are accomplishing these feats (and wondering if they themselves are crazy or simply grossly incompetent!), but this book makes it almost impossible to find and profit from such advice. Truly annoying.
This is a very well written and illustrated book on nature photography that has lots of good tips and no fluff which is rare with photo books. Most of the information is generic in that it applies equally well to both film and digital cameras and to any type of camera system. The author only has experience with Canon equipment so there is no so much a bias as a lack of information on excellent options afforded by Nikon that are relevant to nature and wildlife photography and not available from Canon.
The photos were taken in Europe and Scandinavia both in the wild and at animal compounds with captured animals. Personally I believe it is wrong to photograph captive animals unless it is for a ID guide book or as part of scientific research of some sort. The author is completely candid about those photos taken of captive animals but to me wildlife photography should have photographs of wild animals in the wild.
Guy Edwardes provides a lot of practical information that will make it easy for even a complete novice to quickly get better pictures through simple techniques. Although they are simple to do they are seldom if ever mentioned in photo technique books. Some are obvious to people who have been taking photographs for many years but some are not and for those just starting with photography the information provided will save many hours of fruitless effort.
One glaring shortcoming that I would hope might be corrected in a future edition is the omission of any serious discussion of the use of flash in both nature and wildlife photography. The new iTTL and eTTL flash systems from Nikon and Canon respectively make it easy to improve results from photographing nature as the work of George Lepp and especially Frans Lanting beautifully illustrate.
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