Photography book recommendations

[DizzyV6P]

Blue Lantern books on the D60 also helps. If you don't want to read, there are dvd's on the D60 out as well.

 

[Pooh_Girl]

The one I recommend HIGHLY (other than Bryan Peterson's which are both great) is The Moment It Clicks. It doesn't deal so much with the technical side of photography, but more of the mindset. It helps give you ideas of how to get the photos and make them interesting.

 

[crazydadguy]

What are some recommendations for the more technical aspect of photography? We have two or three so far for the more aesthetic side, any good books for the dark side of photography?

 

[Pooh_Girl]

What are some recommendations for the more technical aspect of photography? We have two or three so far for the more aesthetic side, any good books for the dark side of photography?

Actually, I found Bryan Peterson's books to be pretty technical. He talks about aperture settings, shutter speeds, depth of field, and how it all ties together. And what's great is he gives examples of what happens when you change one factor, like the exposure, and that way you can actually SEE what they do.

 

[Gdad]

Just wanted to tell everyone about a great program called Books for Soldiers that I got to participate with through a drive at my office. Their goal is to facilitate providing soldiers on overseas assignment with 'care packages' of the little things we take for granted- such as books, movies, personal items, etc. and fill a USPS Flat Rate Box ($11 shipped anywhere regardless of weight) I sat down with my daughters today and explained the program and we came up with all kinds if items they thought the soldiers could use- they each filled up a box (after a trip to Wal-Mart with Dad!) They also put in some of their small toys which the program says soldiers like to give away to local children where they are serving.

Regardless of political views I think most folks agree the soldiers serving in harms way could use a little love from home. It is certainly a worthy cause and a small effort on our part can brighten someones day over there.

HERE is a link to the Books for Soldiers website.

 

[Gdad]

HERE is a list of items they suggest for the care packages- it gives you an idea of what kind of little things they need.

 

[orchjoe]

I sat down with my daughters today and explained the program and we came up with all kinds if items they thought the soldiers could use- they each filled up a box (after a trip to Wal-Mart with Dad!) They also put in some of their small toys which the program says soldiers like to give away to local children where they are serving.
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Outstanding! It's the little things like these that make a deployment go that much better. It's also great that your teaching your daughters valuable lessons.

 

[mouselovenfamily]

Great link! I'll pass it around to friends in my area to get some boxes out! $11.00 is a great shipping deal! Thanks for the idea!

 

[boBQuincy]

I am always looking for books that might help my photography. Not the "exposure" type since I believe I am pretty good at the technical stuff and can usually get the exposure I want, but more of the composition and lighting intricacies. So, I want to take my photography to the next level, and along comes a book titled "Take Your Photography to the Next Level". That's hard to resist!

The book is published by RockyNook Press and includes a foreword by Michael Reichmann (of Luminous Landscape), both pluses to me. The book does not so much give pointers of what to do but is more written to get us thinking about what we are doing and why, and how that thought process might lead to a really good photograph.

Some of the ideas include "Light areas are much more important tan dark areas..."; "Diagonal lines generally look better than horizontal lines..."; and "Long soft shadows are generally better than short, sharp, deep ones...". Again, not "do this" but more like "think about this when you are composing a photograph".

I like this book, along with some others from RockyNook, like Alain Briot's book on landscape photography. If you are beyond primers on exposure take a look at these, you might like them too.

 

[Groucho]

Sounds interesting. I've been doing a little bit of reading lately too. I recently got a copy of "The Honeywell Pentax Book" (6th edition, 1973) for my birthday - it's by Herb Keppler, who I think is pretty well-known in the photography circles, and from what I've read so far, is very good. Certainly the reviews are terrific and most of the content in it can apply to any camera. It is funny to read about the advantages of the screw-mount over the bayonet mount that some other companies were using; of course, Pentax switched to a bayonet mount a couple years later. It's a relatively small old book but actually has a lot of pages, just on thin paper. It's a few hundred pages.

I also was at Borders a few days ago and happened to see one called "The New Manual of Photography" in the bargain pile for $5, it looked to have some decent stuff on composition and lighting and so on, so I grabbed that. It rang up at $4, even better. So far it's pretty good. Written in 2003, it mentions digital but mostly talks about film, which is fine since I'm not concerned about the tech side of things. I did notice later that the vast majority of pics in it were taken on Pentaxes.

My other fairly-recent photo book addition is one from 1874 or so. It's called Shepp's Photographs of the World, and is photos of landmarks around the world. The age of the book and the photographs intrigued me (and I always like travel shots, too.) I did find out later that you can download the book for free but it's not quite the same as having the actual real book in front of you.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

I just got one for my birthday also. It's another in the series by Bryan Peterson, but more along the lines of what you're looking for, called Learning to See Creatively: Design, Color & Composition in Photography.

http://www.amazon.com/Learning-See-...=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223433399&sr=1-4

I haven't read the whole book yet but I like it so far, it's pleasant and fairly easy to read.

 

[InsertWittyNameHere]

I just picked up "Photography for the joy of it" by Freeman Patterson. The title sounds interesting so I figured I'd give it a chance

 

[Groucho]

While we're talking about reading material, I also just recently bought a couple back issues of Tales From the Laughing Place magazine. Pretty pricey but quite high-quality, written by Disney park fans for Disney park fans. There's some really nice photography in there (and nice shots from the Disney archives), you can see a good number of them on their web site. There's some interesting shots that I haven't seen done here yet, for example. I may have to dig deep and buy a subscription...

I also got "The Art of Disneyland" as another birthday present, very nice! I love the concept art.

 

[MarkBarbieri]

I've been reading The Photographer's Eye: Composition and Design for Better Digital Photos. It's pretty good, but not incredible. It's the best composition book I've found so far.

 

[InsertWittyNameHere]

I've been reading The Photographer's Eye: Composition and Design for Better Digital Photos. It's pretty good, but not incredible. It's the best composition book I've found so far.

I've got that one on my books to read list. I've been wanting to get something regarding composition.

 

[cinderellamom123]

Curious about the quality, size etc. Can you add your own pictures into the book?

Last trip I got the photopass and then did a Kodak Gallery book. It came out nice. I just don't want an exact duplicate book that looks like our trip two years ago.

Any info would be great.
Thanks

 

[Pugrpooh]

I haven't bought a Disney book, but a friend of mine did after their trip in April. I've done a couple of photobooks from Snapfish, but after seeing hers, I think I'll get my best Disney photos from all our trips and put them in a Disney book. It turned out really nice with the Disney background paper and all. I didn't do it before because it was more expensive than Snapfish, but after seeing hers, I think it might be worth it.

Hope this helps!

 

[Tink127]

I have bought the photobook the last two trips that I have made to the world. They are beautiful and a good quality. I like that I can use all the Disney Professional Photos, Photopass and my own photos. It is well worth the money.

 

[Mckymousefn]

You can use your own photo's as well as the photopass photo's... all in one book? I didn't know that. I know you can't put your own pictures on the cd, but i was not sure about the books. Thanks for the info.

 

[abbingtonmatt]

I bought my Story Book from shutterfly.com
http://photography0.weebly.com/shutterflycom.html