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Summary: a beautifully organized book
Review: A book for digital landscape photography inspiration!! The book is organized in a very simple straightforward manner. Each page-spread has a sumptious photograph, comments from the author, comments from the photographer and a bullet recipe/list on how the photograph was accomplished. A strong knowledge of Photoshop is needed to understand the "how-to-do list." However, regardless of your Photoshop background, this is a book on landscape photography that you will keep returning to for inspiration and ideas.
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Summary: Beautiful, but sloppy.
Review: A. The blow-by-blow accounts of the steps the photographers featured in this book use to create these stunning images are indeed comprehensive, and fascinating. There's stuff to be learned here, even for beginners, but almost all of the examples require access to some pretty serious cameras and computer hardware...the artists are regularly working with individual files of 50, 100, almost 200 mb in *.RAW format, and spending hours or days in Photoshop to achieve the effects illustrated.
B. For all its beautiful production values and technical sophistication, this thing was sloppily edited...words are missing, lead-on sentences go nowhere, and in at least one instance, "there" was unforgivably used when the author meant "their." If there's a second edition, let's hope some of the money gets thrown at a decent copyeditor.
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Summary: Beautiful, but sloppy.
Review: A. The blow-by-blow accounts of the steps the photographers featured in this book use to create these stunning images are indeed comprehensive, and fascinating. There's stuff to be learned here, even for beginners, but almost all of the examples require access to some pretty serious cameras and computer hardware...the artists are regularly working with individual files of 50, 100, almost 200 mb in *.RAW format, and spending hours or days in Photoshop to achieve the effects illustrated.
B. For all its beautiful production values and technical sophistication, this thing was sloppily edited...words are missing, lead-on sentences go nowhere, and in at least one instance, "there" was unforgivably used when the author meant "their." If there's a second edition, let's hope some of the money gets thrown at a decent copyeditor.
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Summary: A lightweight...
Review: After reading the review suggesting this book is a little too much and it involves throwing around large files etc, I thought that this would be a high end book and something I would be interested in. Well Im a bit sad to say its very light on material. If your a beginner you may get a kick out of it but anything more than that you will be very dissapointed in this title. Much better books out there.
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Summary: Not Quite Comprehensive
Review: This book provides a terrific overview of digital manipulations of landscape photos using Photoshop. For each of the sample photos in the book, the author provides a step by step guide from camera to final print.My major quibble is the actual format of the book. At 7.5 x 9 inches, the page size is much too small. The illustrations of the intermediate steps and some of the computer screenshots are too small to be effective. A larger format book would have been much better.
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Summary: Not Quite Comprehensive
Review: This book provides a terrific overview of digital manipulations of landscape photos using Photoshop. For each of the sample photos in the book, the author provides a step by step guide from camera to final print. My major quibble is the actual format of the book. At 7.5 x 9 inches, the page size is much too small. The illustrations of the intermediate steps and some of the computer screenshots are too small to be effective. A larger format book would have been much better.
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