Camera Craft: Landscapes [Paperback]

William Cheung (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 28, 2002 | Series: Camera Craft

From a close up of a flower that captures its rich color and delicate petals to a wide shot of a foggy mountain lake (complete with reflections in the water), good landscape photography demands planning, vision, and technical skill. With excellent images, accompanied by detailed and fascinating commentary, you can learn to take beautiful photographs of nature, too. Several top photographers reveal their artistic secrets, explaining what they saw, how they visualized the picture, and how they dealt with technical aspects like exposure, filters, and composition to get the best possible results. Make the most of color by recognizing harmonious hues and choosing for strong shades that provide interesting contrast. Deal with tricky lighting and bad weather. Select the right film stock for seizing the moment. You might be surprised to discover that even the simplest act--like taking a few steps to the side--can turn a good shot into a great one.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: AVA Publishing (October 28, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 2884790063
• ISBN-13: 978-2884790062
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.8 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,206,235 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 stars If you are looking for a book providing a general coverage of landscape photography this is not it, October 16, 2010

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Yoda (Hadera, Israel) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Camera Craft: Landscapes (Paperback)

This book suffers from a number of flaws. One, albeit minor, is that it is dated in that it was published in 2002. Hence there is no coverage whatsoever regarding digital photography. Much of what it discusses in terms of film photography does not directly apply to digital although there are ways to replicate the effects he discusses in Photoshop (assuming that one has advanced enough skills). For example, he discusses infrared and B&W films and various filters and their uses in landscape photography but digital cameras are unable to capture such shots although these effects can be replicated in Photoshop.

The much more serious problem with the book is its methodology. Under each chapter (i.e., composition, time of day, weather conditions, etc.), instead of providing general advice, the author provides between one to three photographs and provides the details of how he shot them (i.e., camera, film type, lens, aperture, etc.). Many of these shots are quite impressive but the problem is that they are very specific to the conditions surrounding the actual photographs per se. General advice regarding photography under these topics does not go beyond the information given regarding the specific photographs. Hence the reader gains little information on applying time of day or weather conditions to landscape photography.