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Read This if You Want to Take Great Photographs of Places by [Henry Carroll]

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From the author of the bestselling Read This If You Want To Take Great Photographs series, this jargon-free introduction covers all aspects of photographing places, including landscapes, cityscapes, architecture, and interiors.

Whatever your camera, whatever your interest, whatever your level, this indispensible guide gives you all the essential techniques and demystifies the work of acclaimed photographers. Packed with practical tips and iconic images, this accessible book will arm you with the know-how you need to take meaningful pictures of the places that matter to you most.

Featuring 50 master photographers, including Alec Soth, Martin Parr, Robert Adams, Todd Hido, Rut Blees Luxemburg, Julius Shulman, Rinko Kawauchi, Thomas Ruff, Tim Hetherington, and Joel Sternfeld.

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Laurence King Publishing
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February 20, 2017
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6648 KB
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About the Author

Henry Carroll studied photography at the Royal College of Art and his work has been exhibited worldwide. Building on his experience teaching aspiring photographers of all ages, Henry founded frui.co.uk, one of the UK's leading providers of photography holidays and courses. Henry's clear, jargonfree style of teaching has demystified digital photography and inspired thousands to get creative with their cameras.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07HQJFCL7
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Laurence King Publishing; 1st edition (February 20, 2017)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 20, 2017
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 6648 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 128 pages
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Comfortshopper

Quick, good read for anyone looking to improve.

Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2018

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Teaches you how to use your "eyes" more when looking for great photo ops. This book does touch up on a little bit of the tech stuff like iOS and aperture and whatnot but it focuses a lot more on how to build good composition in your photos and is a good read for anyone who loves to travel a lot and see things. Its built on the idea tha a good photographer can be anybody with a good eye rather than one with a good camera. This book will each you how to take better pictures with any camera.

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Nikko Azan

Two Stars

Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2018

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Look elsewhere if you know anything about photography already.

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Great book

Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2019

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Great book if you’re getting into photography. I learned a lot from the book and really helped me. Learn the basics.

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Gregory M. Darnall

A very basic intro to photography

Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2020

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A very basic intro to photography. Some of the images in this book which the author loves are total crap in my opinion.

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cbelt

It's book its here

Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2019

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It here

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All Sorts of Cool Stuff

Great for teaching beginners, and refreshing more experienced photographers.

Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2020

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These books are great for a beginner to learn, as well as for a seasoned photographer to get reminders.

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Mark E Doyle

Well done

Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2020

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This book was very informative. Doesn't get too carried away with explanations so when you are taking photos you can keep in mind simple tips to enhance your photography skills. Very helpful book. Great purchase, highly recommend

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zach

Four Stars

Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2017

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a good add to the photography book collection

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Ross Samson

Outstanding bargain when bought second hand

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 6, 2021

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For a fiver, it is hard to think of a better bargain in the world of photographic books.
First off, the images are first class. Some foolish reviewers have claimed that there are plenty of dull snaps in the book. These people presumably want that conventional Wow Factor, great big red skies, majestic mountains, etcetera. Images that make you take notice... but for little more than ten seconds. This book has 50 images by famous photographers. Some of them are too avant garde for most amateurs. Harry Gruyaert, Massimo Vitali, Rut Blees Luxembourg, and Todd Hido spring to mind as greats that are probably just under the radar of most amateur photographers. But most of the others are well out of the list of usual suspects. I have seen no more than a quarter of these images before and I have over 100 books on photography!!!
The "technical tangent" pages are aimed at beginners who are no longer beginners. Large apertures for shallow depth of field and such like. If you are a complete beginner, the information is probably too terse to be useful. If you already know about such stuff, you won't need to be reminded. I reckon the publishers insisted on it to make the book look more useful.
The text beside each image, on the other hand, offers exciting ideas. Instead of dull technical "beginner" stuff like be careful not to let the blacks "block up" because you lose details or don't overexpose because "burnt-out areas lose all their information", this book embraces artistic extremes. Underexposed, blocked-up blacks are acceptable, creating a sense of unease, operating as a metaphor for uncertainty. How about shooting at twilight, not because that is the pretty light, but for an ominous sensation?
The book is useless if you operate strictly on the Wow level. For that there are dozens upon dozens of other books.

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Amin

A little disappointed, but there are some great photos in here

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 28, 2020

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What constitutes a "great" photo is subjective, of course, but I only find some of the photos in here to be "great". At least by that I mean they make me stop and look at them.

Quite a few images seem to have no particular focus, or merit and here's the problem. The text accompanying those photos uses fancy phrases and purple prose to try to make them into something they are not.

If an image stops me in its tracks, I don't need words to tell me I like it. If the image has to have words for anyone to "understand" why it's worth including, sorry but I'm not convinced.

It does seem to me that the writing is aiming for erudition that simply isn't necessary. Quite honestly, some of it comes across as pompous. I'll keep this because I do like some of the images - shame it's not the best print quality I've ever seen and even more of a shame that the images are pretty small. It would have been nice to have them bigger.

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Shane White

good for beginners and intermediates

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 24, 2020

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A good little book that covers the basics of photographing places such as cities, landscapes.

The author includes lots of useful explanations of technical terms such as aperture, RAW, aspect ratio etc. etc. and the photographs he uses as examples are always excellent.

The one thing that lets this book down are the occasional unnecessary negative comments, such as on page 17 where the author tells us that the United States is the world’s second-largest polluter and that the oil refinery in the photo “stands proud, unashamed of its environmental impact” and page 25: “The subject’s smallness… becomes a potent metaphor for a political system that prefers to ostracise citizens rather than rehabilitate them”.

Other than these minor quibbles, the book is very good.

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Riff

Amazing value

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 31, 2020

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A small format book with interesting photos and text. Mostly about composition and ideas with bit of technical stuff thrown in. Can’t believe the price for such a lovely little book.

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sragedesign@aol.com

Highly recommended

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 16, 2020

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Great book, open any page and you'll either learn something new or remember something you'd forgotten.

2 people found this helpful