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Summary: Biginner Photographer
Review: This book is excellent for the techniques and tips to better photographs. The Lighting/Exposure and Grain chapters are excellent. Reading is easy to undesrtand and photographs for illustrating the technique are very inspiring. I really recommend this book to those who are just begining to learn the art of photography.
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Summary: Excellent but a little bit outdated
Review: This is a very good book, provides very detailed instructions how to do some tricks. It has plenty of superb illustrations, so everything is great. There is just one but. A picture taking techniques part is still very valuable, but most of special effects and image manipulations now can be done much easier through digital processing. If you want to add grain to your picture it's so much easier just to scan it and use software then mess with reprints, special contrast materials and processing etc.
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Summary: Practical and Great Learning Tool
Review: Unlike most other techniques books, the techniques shown here are very practical and easily tried out, with the f-stops, FL and shutter on every photo (unlike many other books). Most of the techniques you will ever need are included, and more. Well served as a field guide too, it's fairly small to tuck into the camera bag.Excellent writeups and light-hearted reading, so good it's one of my most often read books. Not much of a coffee table since the images are fairly small. Another excellent book from Lee is Night and Low Light Photography, a seldom touched area of photography.
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Summary: What great ideas this book gave me!
Review: When I purchased this book I was looking for something to give me some ideas of what to photograph. What I got was ideas plus explanations on how to take the photo. This book covers almost every type of photographic technique used and explains in full the way you can take the photograph yourself. It give tips, explanations and How-to's in an easy, non-boring, format to the reader. The book explains everything from infrared to macro to grainy-artictic photography. I have, and would again, recommed this book to anyone who wants to get into photography and learn some of the many techniques invovled, and areas there are to explore in creating a photograph that is pleasing to you and your sense of photographic style.
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