Organized by borough, this guide helps photographers of any skill level or interest capture the best shots in the Big Apple, from the Brooklyn Bridge to the Statue of Liberty, and all points in between.
This inspiring and informative guide will show you 100 of the best places to photograph in New York City and the best way to capture these unique and iconic settings for your scrapbook or Web page. The guide covers all of the Big Apple—from Lower Manhattan to the Bronx to Staten Island to special events and suggested tours. There are also tips on purchasing a digital camera that suits your needs, rules for good composition, how to avoid clichéd shots, postshot exposure adjustments, and how to keep track of what you shoot. With the help of this guide you’ll be able to capture your time in New York City in truly memorable fashion. 96 full-color photographsBook Description
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Ever since owning his first camera, a Kodak Pocket Instamatic 110, Steven Howell has been an avid photographer. He has covered Montreal arts and entertainment for the Plattsburgh Press-Republican since 1995 and for the Montreal Gazette from 2003 to 2007 and is the author of Explorer's Guide Montreal and Quebec City: A Great Destination, Great Escapes: Long Island, The Photographer's Guide to New York City and The Photographer's Guide to Boston. He divides his time between Plattsburgh, NY, and Montreal, Canada.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Superb - essential guide for anyone planning to visit New York
I managed to get this book immediately before reaching New York in early May 2010. I read and browsed most of it straight off and then referred back to it once we got to NYC. Now I'm home in Australia it's sitting beside my bed as I type this review in post travel recovery. I am already thinking of our next visit to NYC and this one was supposed to our last all time one!
Why? well the book does exactly what it says it will do, it inspires, informs and frankly delights.
At 96 pages it seems slim against the recent competitor from Wiley but its just the right size if you want to pack it and take it with you in your camera bag. I didn't, I noted down the brief details I needed for a days sight seeing etc in NYC and my wife and I set out with only a subway map and our cameras. In fact I think you only need this book as a guide to New York and can abandon most if not all the other guides although I think DKs New York Top 10 is perhaps the best companion since it has good walking tour suggestions that compliment the Photographers Guide if you find yourself stuck for ideas - not something really possible if you trust Steven Howells' excellent suggestions and then allow your photographers eye to draw you along.
Pros:
Beautifully illustrated and printed, very clear overview maps.
Excellent photographs, and none taken from a vantage point you can not reach yourself. Good as they are, the photographs do not make you feel you can not achieve something similar. Many of my photographs look as good as Stevens, if not better in some cases! Yours will too!
5 Pages about technique but indications in individual entries where a particular lens might be especially useful e.g. wide angle, or telephoto zoom lens or the setting on a Digicam.
91 individual location entries with background detail including architecture as well as indications when is the best time to photograph or where the sun and light will be to do so. Further suggestions in these entries for other things in the area if covering a specific building rather than an area or set of buildings e.g. 37. New York Public Library, indicates you can also shoot the Chrysler and Empire State building from the rear and in which direction they are. Entries also indicate if you can photograph inside and/or permits needed (e.g. to use their work commercially).
Directions: Subway directions are provided, which we found accurate and very useful - hence a quick note can be made and only a free or in fact an old large subway map was all you needed. (Left more hands free for shopping bags!) Curiously we found a large map that you can quickly pull out of the slip pocket in my light weight field bag more useful than the Subway App on my wife's iPhone which we never used!
Currency; just published the book is as current as it can be, however until at least September this year (so the hoarding says) the Roosevelt Island Cable Car (Tramway) is out of service whilst they rebuild it - looked like it was well overdue. Whilst we were a little disappointed having walked a stretch further to reach it than originally planned, something else delights and as is always the case in New York - one thing leads to another. In our case the Tramway Plaza was being used for an open air press conference by Chuck Schumer, US Senator for NY and so I joined the press pack took a picture and we shook the Senators hand! New York is dynamic so expect the odd hoarding, when I visited in 2007 there were hoardings all over the place, most annoyingly one covering the Guggenheim exterior so if you are planning on something as a key point, it might be worthwhile to call ahead. Needless to say this book gives call and web addresses and indicative entry prices where applicable e.g. costs about....parking about.... (NY Botanical Gardens)
Safety; only mentioned for Chelsea in the evening, don't flaunt your gear! I thought of this walking Flat Iron to our Midtown Park Avenue South Hotel in a dark street at night, and fumbling to pack camera into the field bag, which is only just big enough for it and 2 lenses I managed to dislodge a jar of designer tea I'd just bought in the Tea Room in the Flat Iron building. It fell to the ground and smashed and attracted more attention than I thought I needed. Needless to say New York is so safe I needn't have bothered but I would take Stevens advice for a less Midtown kind of area, i.e. where given - usually I like an offsider with me and my wife is usually the reluctant lens holder when I change lenses though I have learnt to fumble this when necessary usually successfully - thankfully it was $13 of tea and not the expensive wide angle lens that took a tumble!
We shoot DSLR (me) and latest Digicam (wife). We both found this book very useful and my wife was particularly inspired by the Supreme Court entry.
Cons
I can't find one really; here are a few more pointers:
It is not inclusive but you don't need that - it delivers a superb mix of suggestions, photographs and information that will more than suffice for visitors or residents to help them further explore the opportunities that frankly abound for seeing New York whether you have a camera, camera phone or just want to see it in a more targeted way.
It excludes the "6th Borough", you should visit Paulus Hook (Colgate) by NY-Waterway Ferry or PATH to Exchange Place and add your own take on an afternoon view of Manhattan from the Jersey City- Hoboken shoreline.
Frankly it joins my library of best books ever and will also take a trip this week to the Photo Club for a show and tell! At Amazons prices its a steal and even at suggested retail of $14.95 still a real bargain and since it really is the only guide book you'll need for NYC even more so.
Full 5 stars - the Guide to Boston will no doubt be my next one!
I managed to get this book immediately before reaching New York in early May 2010. I read and browsed most of it straight off and then referred back to it once we got to NYC. Now I'm home in Australia it's sitting beside my bed as I type this review in post travel recovery. I am already thinking of our next visit to NYC and this one was supposed to our last all time one!
Why? well the book does exactly what it says it will do, it inspires, informs and frankly delights.
At 96 pages it seems slim against the recent competitor from Wiley but its just the right size if you want to pack it and take it with you in your camera bag. I didn't, I noted down the brief details I needed for a days sight seeing etc in NYC and my wife and I set out with only a subway map and our cameras. In fact I think you only need this book as a guide to New York and can abandon most if not all the other guides although I think DKs New York Top 10 is perhaps the best companion since it has good walking tour suggestions that compliment the Photographers Guide if you find yourself stuck for ideas - not something really possible if you trust Steven Howells' excellent suggestions and then allow your photographers eye to draw you along.
Pros:
Beautifully illustrated and printed, very clear overview maps.
Excellent photographs, and none taken from a vantage point you can not reach yourself. Good as they are, the photographs do not make you feel you can not achieve something similar. Many of my photographs look as good as Stevens, if not better in some cases! Yours will too!
5 Pages about technique but indications in individual entries where a particular lens might be especially useful e.g. wide angle, or telephoto zoom lens or the setting on a Digicam.
91 individual location entries with background detail including architecture as well as indications when is the best time to photograph or where the sun and light will be to do so. Further suggestions in these entries for other things in the area if covering a specific building rather than an area or set of buildings e.g. 37. New York Public Library, indicates you can also shoot the Chrysler and Empire State building from the rear and in which direction they are. Entries also indicate if you can photograph inside and/or permits needed (e.g. to use their work commercially).
Directions: Subway directions are provided, which we found accurate and very useful - hence a quick note can be made and only a free or in fact an old large subway map was all you needed. (Left more hands free for shopping bags!) Curiously we found a large map that you can quickly pull out of the slip pocket in my light weight field bag more useful than the Subway App on my wife's iPhone which we never used!
Currency; just published the book is as current as it can be, however until at least September this year (so the hoarding says) the Roosevelt Island Cable Car (Tramway) is out of service whilst they rebuild it - looked like it was well overdue. Whilst we were a little disappointed having walked a stretch further to reach it than originally planned, something else delights and as is always the case in New York - one thing leads to another. In our case the Tramway Plaza was being used for an open air press conference by Chuck Schumer, US Senator for NY and so I joined the press pack took a picture and we shook the Senators hand! New York is dynamic so expect the odd hoarding, when I visited in 2007 there were hoardings all over the place, most annoyingly one covering the Guggenheim exterior so if you are planning on something as a key point, it might be worthwhile to call ahead. Needless to say this book gives call and web addresses and indicative entry prices where applicable e.g. costs about....parking about.... (NY Botanical Gardens)
Safety; only mentioned for Chelsea in the evening, don't flaunt your gear! I thought of this walking Flat Iron to our Midtown Park Avenue South Hotel in a dark street at night, and fumbling to pack camera into the field bag, which is only just big enough for it and 2 lenses I managed to dislodge a jar of designer tea I'd just bought in the Tea Room in the Flat Iron building. It fell to the ground and smashed and attracted more attention than I thought I needed. Needless to say New York is so safe I needn't have bothered but I would take Stevens advice for a less Midtown kind of area, i.e. where given - usually I like an offsider with me and my wife is usually the reluctant lens holder when I change lenses though I have learnt to fumble this when necessary usually successfully - thankfully it was $13 of tea and not the expensive wide angle lens that took a tumble!
We shoot DSLR (me) and latest Digicam (wife). We both found this book very useful and my wife was particularly inspired by the Supreme Court entry.
Cons
I can't find one really; here are a few more pointers:
It is not inclusive but you don't need that - it delivers a superb mix of suggestions, photographs and information that will more than suffice for visitors or residents to help them further explore the opportunities that frankly abound for seeing New York whether you have a camera, camera phone or just want to see it in a more targeted way.
It excludes the "6th Borough", you should visit Paulus Hook (Colgate) by NY-Waterway Ferry or PATH to Exchange Place and add your own take on an afternoon view of Manhattan from the Jersey City- Hoboken shoreline.
Frankly it joins my library of best books ever and will also take a trip this week to the Photo Club for a show and tell! At Amazons prices its a steal and even at suggested retail of $14.95 still a real bargain and since it really is the only guide book you'll need for NYC even more so.
Full 5 stars - the Guide to Boston will no doubt be my next one!
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Everyone visiting New York City knows about the photographic opportunities Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center, and the Statue of Liberty, but few know or think about the Woolworth Building, the digital clock, the New York County Courthouse, the IAC Building, or the Flatiron Building. This book lets you in on NYC gems little known to visitors which have great photographic opportunities and lets you know about some great locations to get some different vistas of the city than the norm as shot by tourists.
1 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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I just bought several versions of this type of book about photographing NYC. Two just arrived including this one. This one is very good and is quite helpful and provides detailed tips. I would have spoken well of it all by itself but the other book was far better with so much more information both logistically and photographically for a very similar price. Perhaps being just an hour away is making me more particular in my needs. I will definitey say that for the visitor from out of the area with a defined time frame this book is perfect to find and capture all the iconic images with plenty for the next visit.
Those of us living in the greater NY Metro area will exhaust this book quickly.
The other book will keep me busy doing daytrip visits for a long time to come. Nothing better than early Sunday morns in NYC for street shooting the Big Apple !
Those of us living in the greater NY Metro area will exhaust this book quickly.
The other book will keep me busy doing daytrip visits for a long time to come. Nothing better than early Sunday morns in NYC for street shooting the Big Apple !
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