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Summary: Unique B & W wedding photography
Review: After reading his book, and, I myself, doing both traditional and photojournalistic weddings, cannot in my heart-n-soul recommend this book as a learning tool for newcomers to the photojournalistic style of weddings. Although his images are quite beautiful, anyone that shoots 15-20 rolls of film should be able to come up with a 120 page book to show for it. He covered lighting, film, lense size, and appeture, but he missed on one important part, which is shutter speed. But I got it from the library, so what do I care.
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Summary: An excellent book full of examples and ideas
Review: Andy Marcus' book has many wonderful examples of pictures that tell the story with the story of the wedding day. His style of writing is easy to understand, and his basic techniques are explained. The strength of this book is that Andy trains the reader look for the shots that sell and give a unique 'insider' perspective to wedding photojournalism.I think Andy could help his readers further if he explained his choice of films, the advantages and disadvantages to each. He uses primarily TMax with some TriX and 400CN film. Why and under what circumstances does he switch. It would have been helpful to have a little coaching from a great pro like Andy on flash photography. He doesn't use flash in any of his pictures. Unfortunately, many photographers don't get the chance to use the lighting of Videograghers like Andy gets to in his upscale weddings. Still this is a wonderful book on the subject of wedding jounalism and will be a great benefit to every wedding photographer! Lots of great examples and ideas!
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Summary: An excellent book full of examples and ideas
Review: Andy Marcus' book has many wonderful examples of pictures that tell the story with the story of the wedding day. His style of writing is easy to understand, and his basic techniques are explained. The strength of this book is that Andy trains the reader look for the shots that sell and give a unique 'insider' perspective to wedding photojournalism. I think Andy could help his readers further if he explained his choice of films, the advantages and disadvantages to each. He uses primarily TMax with some TriX and 400CN film. Why and under what circumstances does he switch. It would have been helpful to have a little coaching from a great pro like Andy on flash photography. He doesn't use flash in any of his pictures. Unfortunately, many photographers don't get the chance to use the lighting of Videograghers like Andy gets to in his upscale weddings. Still this is a wonderful book on the subject of wedding jounalism and will be a great benefit to every wedding photographer! Lots of great examples and ideas!
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Summary: A complete guide to improve your b&w photography
Review: Coming from one of the most respected wedding photographers in the country. Andy Marcus teaches us techniques that can only come from a master. The book clearly depicts all aspects of the art. Anything thing you need to know about lighting,posing,lenses, equipment, performance, presentation, strategy, printing.... Marcus provides it all.. A definite guide for any aspiring photographer.
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Summary: Shameful
Review: I find it funny that a studio who has shot nothing but fixed, set up portraits for years has the nerve to write a book on "photojournalism". Marcus studio does a fine job with traditional wedding photography, they should not however even discuss photojournalism. I don't recommend this book.
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Summary: Shameful
Review: I was impressed with the photos, but it was never explained how Mr. Marcus can shoot both a traditional and photojournalistic wedding with two camera systems at the same time. There was one brief mention that he saw a candid moment happening over there, switched from a Hasselblad to the Canon, quickly got his B&W decisive moment without a hitch, then goes back to shooting traditional color wedding photography. Absolutely amazing! As an experienced wedding photographer, I would like to know how this works...all day. If he can hedge between the two styles and pull it off, how can the reader do the same, or even want to do the same?
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Summary: Great Promotional Book
Review: I was impressed with the photos, but it was never explained how Mr. Marcus can shoot both a traditional and photojournalistic wedding with two camera systems at the same time. There was one brief mention that he saw a candid moment happening over there, switched from a Hasselblad to the Canon, quickly got his B&W decisive moment without a hitch, then goes back to shooting traditional color wedding photography. Absolutely amazing! As an experienced wedding photographer, I would like to know how this works...all day. If he can hedge between the two styles and pull it off, how can the reader do the same, or even want to do the same?
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: My girlfriend and I were looking for examples of candid, story-telling, photojournalistic style photos for our wedding. However, this book was a total waste of money. The photos are poorly done and fail to inspire any interest in the events they capture. Needless to say, this book gave us great ideas for the type of photos we DON'T want. I don't know what alternative book to recommend, but if you do, please let me know :)
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Summary: Nice to look at. Not a how-to book.
Review: Overall, I liked the book by Andy Marcus. Every wedding photojournalist can benefit by seeing more and more different shots--just to stay 'fresh'. It was also interesting reading how Andy got each shot, etc. But that's about it. It doesn't give you pointers on how to shoot photojournalistic weddings and it certainly doesn't go into how to approach the entire day from a photojournalistic viewpoint. This book would be better titled 'Unique Wedding Images in Black and White'. If you're looking for a how-to book on photojournalistic wedding photography, you'll need to look elsewhere. On the other hand, if you'd like to see a nice collection of unique images, you'll be happy.
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Summary: Nice to look at. Not a how-to book.
Review: Overall, I liked the book by Andy Marcus. Every wedding photojournalist can benefit by seeing more and more different shots--just to stay 'fresh'. It was also interesting reading how Andy got each shot, etc. But that's about it. It doesn't give you pointers on how to shoot photojournalistic weddings and it certainly doesn't go into how to approach the entire day from a photojournalistic viewpoint. This book would be better titled 'Unique Wedding Images in Black and White'. If you're looking for a how-to book on photojournalistic wedding photography, you'll need to look elsewhere. On the other hand, if you'd like to see a nice collection of unique images, you'll be happy.
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