On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 07:19:01AM -0400, David J Brooks wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
> To learn lightroom, I picked up Scott Kelby's book
> > which has a lot to recommend it, but reading another book of him would
> > drive me insane.
> >
> . I'd much prefer the st
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
To learn lightroom, I picked up Scott Kelby's book
> which has a lot to recommend it, but reading another book of him would
> drive me insane.
>
. I'd much prefer the style of
> "Light, Science and Magic" where they explain the principles and ho
>
> So I went looking at Alibris, and they had some copies of the
> Jeffries
> book, and oh, maybe I'll see if they have Hurn's thing too,
> and there it
> was, and shit, I've always wanted a copy of The Americans and
> the next
> thing I know I'm down $70 and I really shouldn't be on the
>
>
> Speaking of books, which this group seems to do a lot, I recently
> picked up "Light, science and magic", which I'm really enjoying. Most
> of the books on lighting that I've read are pretty much cookbooks, but
> this one seems to do a much better job of explaining the principles.
>
> Also,
Bob W wrote:
I snapped up a couple of interesting photo books today.
How To Read A Photograph, by Ian Jeffries. Jeffries has a good track record
writing about photography and I have 2 or 3 of his other books, and have
even read them. This new one is an overview of the canon of photography,
with
Thanks, Bob. I'll definitely check these out. Cheers, Christine
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From: "Bob W"
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Subject: Two books
I snapped up a couple of interesting photo books t
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Bob W wrote:
> I snapped up a couple of interesting photo books today.
>
> How To Read A Photograph, by Ian Jeffries. Jeffries has a good track record
Thanks, I believe I gave it quick glance once, but I'm not sure; I'll
check it out when I have a chance.
On this t
Speaking of books, which this group seems to do a lot, I recently
picked up "Light, science and magic", which I'm really enjoying. Most
of the books on lighting that I've read are pretty much cookbooks, but
this one seems to do a much better job of explaining the principles.
Also, this weekend I'
[...]
>
> The Photograph: Composition and Colour Design, by Harald
> Mante.
[...]
>
In fact, it gets 2 out 2 5-star reviews on Amazon, from Michael Freeman and
from the chap who translated it into English:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Photograph-Composition-Color-Design/dp/1933952261
5 stars from
I snapped up a couple of interesting photo books today.
How To Read A Photograph, by Ian Jeffries. Jeffries has a good track record
writing about photography and I have 2 or 3 of his other books, and have
even read them. This new one is an overview of the canon of photography,
with several exampl
For people who like British landscape photography I'd like to
recommend the stunning "Journey Through The British Isles" by Harry
Cory Wright. His website is here: http://www.harrycorywright.com. It's
a large format book, beautifully printed, and is exactly what it says
on the cover. Classic work i
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