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Book recomendation: composition and landscapes
I am asking for a few recomendations on books that deal with composition and
lighting geared toward landscape and general outdoor photography with film. If you feel strongly about a tilte please let me know. Regards, Gary |
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Book recomendation: composition and landscapes
Paddleman wrote:
I am asking for a few recomendations on books that deal with composition and lighting geared toward landscape and general outdoor photography with film. If you feel strongly about a tilte please let me know. I doubt if anyone feels too strongly about any book... The basic issues of landscape/outdoor are pretty straightforward, and the more extreme things are not for everyone. Even the books of Hedgecoe cover the issues well enough. -- Lassi |
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Book recomendation: composition and landscapes
"Bill Hilton" wrote in message
... From: ospam (Paddleman) I am asking for a few recomendations on books that deal with composition and lighting geared toward landscape and general outdoor photography with film. If you feel strongly about a tilte please let me know. Art Wolfe "The Art of Photographing Nature" John Shaw ... pretty much anything by him, especially "John Shaw's Landscape Photography" Bill I'll second the Shaw recommendation. http://tinyurl.com/3dta7 -- Regards, Matt Clara www.mattclara.com |
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Book recomendation: composition and landscapes
"Paddleman" wrote in message
... I am asking for a few recomendations on books that deal with composition and lighting geared toward landscape and general outdoor photography with film. If you feel strongly about a tilte please let me know. Galen Rowell wrote several books that deal in a very intelligent fashion with issues around landscape photography, touching on composition and much else. "Mountain Light" is excellent, and "Galen Rowell's Inner Game of Outdoor Photography" - a collection of essays - is one of my top recommendations for a photography book for anyone once they have passed beyond simply understanding the basics. In a very different vein - and complementary to Rowell's approach - are two books by Charlie Waite: "Seeing Landscapes" and "The Making of Landscape Photographs". These are both example packed, not hard to read, and the images are inspiring. All taken on medium format. Bill Smith's "Designing a Photograph" isn't landscape specific, but is a good guide to compositional ideas. Almost anything by Freeman Patterson is worth a look. In particular a book I can't find just now but which is called something like "Photographing the patterns of Earth". Also look at books of pictures by 'the masters'. I personally find Elliot Porter particularly inspiring, and also enjoy Joe Cornish's work. The other great composition book is, of course, "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain". Do look at books aimed at painters as well as photographers for composition ideas - they are often better written for one thing! Also look at painting, both representational and abstract, at every opportunity. And next time you are in a book shop or library, have a look at a few books on flower arranging. The ideas of colour harmony, balance, proportion, contrast of mass and texture and so on are all reproduced on a miniature scale and in 'concentrated' form here. I have several such books because I like to arrange flowers for the house and because I photograph cut flowers as well as those growing - but subsequently it struck what a powerful miniature landscape a good flower arrangement is. Peter (typing in the middle of a hail storm, glad he isn't out with a camera right now...) |
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