Digital Photography Tips and Techniques
I am an intermediate level photographer who wants
to learn how to shoot landscape in a way that is innovative and
interesting, so the title caught my attention.
Digital Photography Tips and Techniques
In the first page I discovered this was not a
technical book, and not even a "how to" book. It is more of an overview
of the authors thoughts on life and how photos should convey your sense
of the world.
Digital Photography Tips and Techniques
. The entire first section of the book is devoted
to explaining how photos should reflect "Tao", which is the "mystical
sense of being in-synch with nature...
Digital Photography Tips and Techniques
" and "Wabi-sabi", which is another mystical
version of life. He also quotes a lot of poets. Actually, he never does
explain how to capture Tao or Wabi-sabi. He just shares his thoughts on
those concepts. You have to figure out how to capture them.
Digital Photography Tips and Techniques
It turns out that the "Tips and Techniques"
subtitle for the book does not mean "Technical" Tips and Techniques. If
you want to explore thoughts on Tao and Wabi-sabi, this book will feed
your need. If you want technical info, this book will disappoint you.
Digital Photography Tips and Techniques
I feel all information is valuable, and the last
section of the book showed some cool techniques to combine images to
make really nice landscape photos, and for that I feel it is worth
buying...just don't expect to get technical tips on how to make a
creative landscape photo. However, if your funds are limited, and you
want to learn "how to shoot creative photos", not just landscapes, spend
your money on one of Tony Sweet's books (any one...they are all very
good at conveying technical how-to's in a non-technical way).
Digital Photography Tips and Techniques
One example of the nature of this book: There is a chapter called "Seascapes". I live five miles from the ocean and would like to capture some creative shots of waves crashing against the rocks. The chapter is 5 paragraphs long
Digital Photography Tips and Techniques
