Advanced Photography, Sixth Edition

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Summary: Excellent "advanced" photography
Review: Although this book is not for everyone, I found it to be the best explanation and reference for many aspects of photography. Unlike other books, this goes into depth to explain the technology well. It is the kind of book that explains Density vs. Exposure curves, color balance and white point temperature (even mireds), lens, cameras, studio lights, etc, etc. It doesn't go into great depth of how to actually compose and capture a great picture, but it does go a long way to explaining how the tools work at a level that engineers or technology-savy people will appreciate.

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Summary: Terrible, save your time and read something else
Review: Hi there, Well, I'm photographer. In 1982 I got that book and learnt photography by it. My first steps as a photographer... Today I have MA degree in photography and arts but still hapy to recommend this book.

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Summary: My first steps as a photographer...
Review: Hi there, Well, I'm photographer. In 1982 I got that book and learnt photography by it. My first steps as a photographer... Today I have MA degree in photography and arts but still hapy to recommend this book.

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Summary: Michael Langford is the best photo author I've read
Review: It is a great book to further understand photographic concepts from a scientific point of view. If anyone wants to master his photo skills this is the book.

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Summary: Technical details
Review: This book (5th edition) provided a few good, new tips and explainations, but my overall impression is one of incredibly technical detail on the practical aspects of equipment and processes. I feel like it's important enough to have a general understanding of "how things work" to stick with this book, but it does not give much advice on how to think about or approach photography. My eyes often glaze as they pass over how to read manufacturers' charts and graphs, how calculate focal length and color balance, etc., but if you're into that kind of information, you might be interested.

Rating:
Summary: Technical details
Review: This book (5th edition) provided a few good, new tips and explainations, but my overall impression is one of incredibly technical detail on the practical aspects of equipment and processes. I feel like it's important enough to have a general understanding of "how things work" to stick with this book, but it does not give much advice on how to think about or approach photography. My eyes often glaze as they pass over how to read manufacturers' charts and graphs, how calculate focal length and color balance, etc., but if you're into that kind of information, you might be interested.

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Summary: Terrible, save your time and read something else
Review: This title and the other by this author illustrate the worst possible scenario to teach photography at college level. Both books are complete yes and even updated (digital technology). I was a teaching assistant as an undergraduate and as a graduate student. I would never have used these books to teach anything about photography. The style and the type of writing is this: "This is what photography is, now go and find out there is it's true or not". It is old style (it is British title forget not). The correct way to teach photography is 1) slowly, 2) based on experiment (for the student to construct concepts by himself) and 3) total freedom. The contents are so ridiculous that the author even suggests a minimum kit for a 35mm, 6x6 cm, and a 4x5 camera! Really! Save your money and time. Stick to Henri Horenstein's titles ("Black and White Photography", " Beyond Basic Photography" and ""Color Photography") especially the last one ("Photography"), expensive, but worth it! ...