Customer Reviews

First Light: A Landscape Photographer's Art

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Joe Cornish is a well-known landscape photographer, and here he presents a collection of stunning photographs, along with a brief writeup about how he created them. He also includes a similar photograph that he feels was a failure, and explains why to go along with each successful photograph. Most of these less than successful photographs are of the same subject as the main photograph on each 2-page spread.

All in all, the photography alone is worth the price, and reading the creator's thoughts about each image is educational for those who are interested in pursuing photography.

There are a small number of one or two page essays in this book and they are interesting and worthwhile. Most 2-page spreads in this book display a larger image that Joe Cornish is happy with as well as smaller one that he is less happy with. Joe discusses in good detail the background related to the larger image. He then also discusses (in less detail) the smaller image.

The quality of the imagery in this book is quite good and I would be very very proud if I was able to claim them as my own.

I gave this book only 4 stars because I think the book would have been better had Joe discussed in much more detail why he thought the smaller images didn't work as well as he would have liked. To a lessor extent I would have also liked more analysis of why in his opinion the larger images worked. I'm sure Joe knows this information given his experience and ability and reading his analysis of an image would be a much greater value-added than some of the other interesting but much less educational background information he discussed about each image.

Joe Cornish is a premier large format photographer. The images in this spectacular book are breath-taking and the locations are awe inspiring. I have a large collection of photo books, but this is a #1 Favorite. Highly recommend!