any one have any book recomendations?

[jinxykitty]

i have been searching around looking for any good books on photography
there are so many and the last one i bought was too over simplified, i am looking for ones that are more in depth. any one have any that they recomend , general or topic specific? thanks

[Algernonep]

Originally Posted by jinxykitty

i have been searching around looking for any good books on photography
there are so many and the last one i bought was too over simplified, i am looking for ones that are more in depth. any one have any that they recomend , general or topic specific? thanks

I highly recommend Brian Peterson's Understanding Exposure! It's a great book and it helped me out tremeduosly! Also his Beyond Portraiture is a good book...

[jinxykitty]

Originally Posted by Algernonep

I highly recommend Brian Peterson's Understanding Exposure! It's a great book and it helped me out tremeduosly! Also his Beyond Portraiture is a good book...

thanks i will check them out

[BobC]

I have just started "On-Camera Flash" by Neil van Niekerk. I think its going to be good

[douglas]

Originally Posted by Algernonep

I highly recommend Brian Peterson's Understanding Exposure! It's a great book and it helped me out tremeduosly! Also his Beyond Portraiture is a good book...

I agree a very good book,and will help you to use manual settings

[inkista]

Bryan Peterson's Learning to See Creatively is a good solid text that runs you through the basics of composition. A more advanced book on composition (but slightly more biased towards the author's tastes) is Michael Freeman's The Photographer's Eye.

With composition, style is always a matter of taste, and like "learning how to write" books, the taste of the author can sometimes make a judgement call when she thinks she's being impartial. What's "better" composition is often in the eye of the beholder. With compositional things, such as centered vs. rule-of-thirds, don't take a simple "worse/better" away from it, but try to think in more qualitative descriptions like "static/dynamic". That way, you can use a compositional technique to achieve a specific effect you have in mind, rather than go with what you've been told is "better" on autopilot.

[jinxykitty]

Originally Posted by inkista

Bryan Peterson's Learning to See Creatively is a good solid text that runs you through the basics of composition. A more advanced book on composition (but slightly more biased towards the author's tastes) is Michael Freeman's The Photographer's Eye.

With composition, style is always a matter of taste, and like "learning how to write" books, the taste of the author can sometimes make a judgement call when she thinks she's being impartial. What's "better" composition is often in the eye of the beholder. With compositional things, such as centered vs. rule-of-thirds, don't take a simple "worse/better" away from it, but try to think in more qualitative descriptions like "static/dynamic". That way, you can use a compositional technique to achieve a specific effect you have in mind, rather than go with what you've been told is "better" on autopilot.

thanks i will look into to that one also, i saw it at the book store i but i didnt give it a second thought , oops! i passed up a good one

[tybo78]

Yes. Understanding Exposure was a good one. Mr. Green Jeans! Ha! You'll get it if you read the book.