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This first title in a new photography series presents a comprehensive guide to taking fantastic landscape photographs using the digital SLR. It provides subject-specific advice and photography tips from five leading professional landscape photographers. With practical demonstrations, step-by-step examples and invaluable secrets from leading professionals shows you how to make the most of your SLR.
It contains breathtaking professional photography from Darwin Wiggett, David Noton, William Neill, Tom Mackie and Tony Worobiec. They tackle subjects key to taking great landscape images: controlling exposure; understanding light; composing shots; choosing the perfect location and working in black and white. The Digital SLR Expert: Landscapes highlights the versatility and full potential of digital photography.
Extracts and tips from the book... The key to all successful monochrome images lies in the tone. Once you have converted the image from colour to black and white, it should be possible to apply numerous small changes using image-editing software to create a dramatic yet moody seascape.
Its true that new sights can be inspirational and renew your enthusiasm for picture-taking but, where photography is concerned, familiarity should not breed contempt. There really is no need to travel to far-flung places searching out much-photographed subjects only to return empty-handed because it rained for the entire trip. Infact, nothing beats local knowledge. If you are guilty of taking your own surroundings for granted, its time to look again with fresh eyes.
Composition in landscape photography is about making choices. What aspects of the scene are you to include in the rectangle of your viewfinder and how might they best be arranged within the frame? This chapter aims to help you make those decision by looking at the relationship between foreground and background, texture and patter, lines, form and colour that occur in nature.
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My only gripe - and it's a fairly inconsequential one, directed at the editorial department as opposed to the authors, is that there are still a few rather pointless pages on the digital vs. film debate. Anyone not convinced by 2009 is not likely to buy this book - for the next edition, fill that space with some more shots!
I should say that the book is directed, as the cover implies, at the intermediate to expert photographer: I'd be very surprised though, if anyone who picked it up, did not get some valuable advice or inspiration. I am pleased that I bought it!
(As a complete aside, my seven-year-old flicked through the book and noticed that a lovely image of David Noton's is taken from the same cave location of one of the dramatic opening scenes of Narnia - Prince Caspian (page 46). Apparently Mr Noton is now the coolest 'tog ever.......)
Just bare in mind these guys are good, in part, because they have the time to sit and wait for the right conditions and light, if necessary for days at a time. We mere mortals are unlikely to have the time or the commitment to do that.
Beautiful pictures throughout with helpful insight into recreating the same effects. There are really useful 'handy tips' throughout it and it will definitely inspire you to go out and do loads of shooting.
Well worth the money - a lovely purchase for yourself or as a gift :)
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