This is an instructional book on photographic seein more
This is an instructional book on photographic seeing rather than a how to book on making pretty pictures. If you are looking for a cookbook on how to take vacation snaps, pass this one by.
This is a book to assist you in seeing photographically. Its exercises help you see the extraordinary in everyday items. Often a great photograph is great not due to the subject matter, but the manner the photographer treats that subject matter. This book is designed to boost your sensitivity to the wonderful within the mundane which surrounds us.
Ironically, the book was written during the film era but it's a book meant for the digital age. Many of the exercises demand a lot of shooting - costly with film - no cost in digital. Also the feedback loop is instant with digital rather than hours, days or even weeks with film. Thus what you try to achieve is immediately available in digital which makes the lessons / exercises more effective today than when the book was written.
Probably not a first or second book to learn photography. This book assumes you know how to set your aperture and shutter as well as what ISO is. It probably should be in every serious photographer's library. less
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