May 232013
Photography
For introductory and advanced courses in Photography. This best-selling introductory photography text teaches students how to use the medium confidently and effectively by emphasizing both technique and visual awareness. Comprehensive in scope, this book-features superb instructional illustrations and examples in its clear presentation of both black and white and color photography. London offers extensive coverage of digital imaging and the latest technological developments, such as Web page de
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A rehashing of dated material equals a declining value in the digital world,
This book at one time was a must have resource, but more and more it is becoming “long in the tooth” in the digital world. Sure some material is still valid to both digital and film photography, but the books value as a resource does not live up to the lofty price tag for a new addition.
I had originally owned the 6th Edition as a course book. Recently a photography group in which I participate decided to do a focus discussion on the book. I purchased the 8th edition and found very minimal differences between the 8th and 6th. Save yourself money and don’t bother with the 9th and latest version as you can get bargains on older versions in which the major differences may be which photos are used as demonstrations of a point.
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|excellent intro to photography,
Back in the good old days of film photography, I used to constantly refered back this book for inspiration and guidance. This book contained many interesting and thought provoking examples of some of the masters at work and enabled readers to understand some basic “photographic rules” and how they should be applied. For example, on photographing people, the authors asked you that you should NOT ask them to “hold it” to avoid your subject looking “unnatural” by using a fast shutter speed such as 1/60 second or faster. The accompaning photography of a professional had his mother posing for him with very natural pose undoubtly used the described techniques. Anohter photo showing subjects looking away from the camera competely at ease and seeming never were aware bing filmed was used to illustrate to set the camera’s control before shooting. I have personally used this rule thousands of time to photography my son. Due to circumstace (ie the energenic nature and unpredictablity of his fast moving feet), good photos were almost always obtained when I was ready to shoot BEFORE my subject (one and half year old son) were least expected and ready. In addition, I have learned more about exposure, film speed, dark room work, film perservation, and many aspects of photography from this book. As a matter of fact, I learned traditional darkroom work (yes the kind you use chemicals and enlarger) using this book. I do believe that this is not a photograpy-for-dummpy sort of book but rather a serious attempt to introduce a reader to see the wide possiblities of photography and tons of examples and “whys” of a good photograph. Why did the photographer chose to include that background? Why the photograper chose to have the subject turn slightly to the left? Why was the subject seemed distorted and her arms seemed longer than her body? Why the skier was mostly covered by snow and you can hardly see his face? Why the photographer decided not to focus the subject perfectly? I think this is an inexpensive investment for your improvement to take better pictures and no doubt you will be richly rewarded just like me. Cheers and Happy shooting!
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|“Photography” It covers it all.,
This is the most extensive book I have seen on Photography; it covers ever aspect. If you’re serious about learning photography this is the book for you. At first I thought it was expensive, but it is well worth the money!
If you take the information in this book and put it into practice, you will have what it takes to be a good photographer; even developing an eye. Through the photographs used to illustrate the lesson, two things are accomplished; easier to understand the concepts and developing the eye to see the way the lens sees.
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