I love reading pictures books and blogs, and I determined that there are positive authors I go back to again and again. This post is a -element collection about some of my favorite photography authors and the books all aspiring photographs need to read: first, authors who push you past with bigger ideas approximately images, composition, and artwork, and 2nd, on authors who give an explanation for the info and technical aspects of photography.
Michael Freeman
Michael Freeman is an wonderful photographer and trainer. He has notion so hard and so deeply approximately photography, that his insights constantly challenge me in the approaches that I consider and method pictures.
The first e-book of his that I owned become The Photographer's Eye: Field Guide (the critical guide for travelling with your digital SLR digital camera). It is tiny, compact, and bursting will beneficial pointers and advice. There are lots of practical considerations about cameras and journey, however the maximum treasured sections for me had been the closing three: Appreciating Light, Subjects, and Themes. What caught my interest while first analyzing turned into how interrelated these 3 classes had been however how useful it turned into to recall each one at a time.
Only later did I realize that this ebook became a much smaller model of his masterpiece, The Photographer's Eye: Composition and Design for Better Digital Photographs. This e-book has been currently updated with a 'graphic manual' model this past 12 months.
What I admire in particular approximately Freeman's work is the quantity of clarification and analysis that move into his recognize of images and composition. He can destroy down and interpret a photo in methods that allow every person to recognize what he is seeing and what makes that photograph effective. He continually demanding situations me to push myself in addition and to be extra planned and thoughtful in my photography and composition. I suppose he has training for photographers of all levels and mainly for those who may need a brand new push or inspiration of their work.
Freeman Patterson
I found out about the work of Freeman Patterson through a reflection on him by David DuChemin on his web site,davidduchemin.com. (I highly recommend subscribing to his blog posts as well.Craft & Vision has an ever-expanding line of photography books, eBooks, and magazines, some of which are available to download for free.)
Patterson's book, Photography and the Art of Seeing, was the text chosen for our first ever Photography Book Club, hosted jointly through this blog and on the web site 365Project.org. For the month of August 2013 a group of about thirty photographers spent the month working through four week-long challenges, based on the readings, photographs, and exercises found in this book.
Photography and the Art of Seeing focuses on the importance of observation, imagination, and expression in photography. Patterson integrates activities and advice into the different sections, to encourage you to go out and apply the ideas in the book directly to your own photography. He also ends each section with a selection of photographs to demonstrate how he puts his own ideas into practice. Those of us who participated in the Book Club all felt that this was a book that could stretch any photographer and inspired us to see and try new things in our photography. A great book if you are looking to be inspired to see in a new way.
You can read more about the Photography Book Club here:
- Introduction to the August Photography Book Club
- August Photography Book Club: week 1
- Reflections on Week 1
- August Photography Book Club: week 2
- August Photography Book Club: week 3
- August Photography Book Club: week 4
What about you? Do you have a favorite photography author or book? Feel free to share in the comments below.
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