For a fiver, it is hard to think of a better bargain in the world of photographic books.
First off, the images are first class. Some foolish reviewers have claimed that there are plenty of dull snaps in the book. These people presumably want that conventional Wow Factor, great big red skies, majestic mountains, etcetera. Images that make you take notice... but for little more than ten seconds. This book has 50 images by famous photographers. Some of them are too avant garde for most amateurs. Harry Gruyaert, Massimo Vitali, Rut Blees Luxembourg, and Todd Hido spring to mind as greats that are probably just under the radar of most amateur photographers. But most of the others are well out of the list of usual suspects. I have seen no more than a quarter of these images before and I have over 100 books on photography!!!
The "technical tangent" pages are aimed at beginners who are no longer beginners. Large apertures for shallow depth of field and such like. If you are a complete beginner, the information is probably too terse to be useful. If you already know about such stuff, you won't need to be reminded. I reckon the publishers insisted on it to make the book look more useful.
The text beside each image, on the other hand, offers exciting ideas. Instead of dull technical "beginner" stuff like be careful not to let the blacks "block up" because you lose details or don't overexpose because "burnt-out areas lose all their information", this book embraces artistic extremes. Underexposed, blocked-up blacks are acceptable, creating a sense of unease, operating as a metaphor for uncertainty. How about shooting at twilight, not because that is the pretty light, but for an ominous sensation?
The book is useless if you operate strictly on the Wow level. For that there are dozens upon dozens of other books.
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