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Summary: Great !
Review: A Great book ! I'm travelling a lot. Always, I take my Leica M6 with me. I founded this book great ! Many different photographic areas are discussed (from landscapes to people, etc...) Full of very comprehensive pictures, it really shows you how to get, simply better pictures ! Lots of great examples showing how you can archive a lot more of your current work, just by simple things : kneeling down, "looking to the things just in a different way".... Superb and very useful !(PS : sorry, for my bad english, it's not my motherlanguage !)
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Summary: Another wise teacher!
Review: After thoroughly enjoyed all of Mr. John Shaw's books, I was very moved by Mr. Peterson's Learning to See Creatively. I did not expect to have another teacher who would be so thorough, open, and wise. Not only has Mr. Peterson guided me to his doorstep and invited me to see what he had seen, he also hintly pointed his fingers at things that I might to want to see and enjoy for myself. If Mr. Shaw was a teacher with a lecture-and-assignment style, Mr. Peterson would be a teacher who was more likely to stand beside his student and share a moment of learning together.
This is a book which has inspired me to learn more about line, shape, color, composition, light, etc. In other words, it has truely expanded my vision. And expanded vision helps not only in the pictures I am taking, but also my appreciation of things and people around me.
I highly recommend this book -- not as a definitive guide to seeing, but as a starting point for our own journey to seeing and understanding.
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Summary: The Best of Three Books on Composition in Photography
Review: As an intermediate amateur photographer, I compared this book with "Photographic Composition" by Tom Grill and Mark Scanlon, and "Photography and the Art of Seeing" by Freeman Patterson. I liked this book the best of the three. The biggest advantage over the other two books was Peterson's pairing of "bad" and "good" photos of the same subject. For example, just changing time of day (pp.130-137) can make a big difference in the quality of light in a photo. (I disagree with the November 12, 1999, review here; many shots were improved by methods other than "another lens." I also disagree with the November 23, 2000, review, in that Peterson tells you exactly what is wrong with the "bad" photos.) Although almost all the example photos are saturated and contrasty, a few have a limited "pastel" color palette (e.g., pp. 59 & 107) for those who prefer such a style. Hey, buy all three books at Amazon.com!
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Summary: The Best of Three Books on Composition in Photography
Review: As an intermediate amateur photographer, I compared this book with "Photographic Composition" by Tom Grill and Mark Scanlon, and "Photography and the Art of Seeing" by Freeman Patterson. I liked this book the best of the three. The biggest advantage over the other two books was Peterson's pairing of "bad" and "good" photos of the same subject. For example, just changing time of day (pp.130-137) can make a big difference in the quality of light in a photo. (I disagree with the November 12, 1999, review here; many shots were improved by methods other than "another lens." I also disagree with the November 23, 2000, review, in that Peterson tells you exactly what is wrong with the "bad" photos.) Although almost all the example photos are saturated and contrasty, a few have a limited "pastel" color palette (e.g., pp. 59 & 107) for those who prefer such a style. Hey, buy all three books at Amazon.com!
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Summary: This book is more about using extreme lenses.
Review: Bryan Peterson's book has many beautiful images with most showing before and after shots. The before shot is usually taken with one lens and the improved after shot is taken with another lens. Unfortunately, many of these after shots are taken with expensive extreme lens from ultra-wide angles (20 mm) to super telephotos (300 mm+), to macros and extension tubes. In other words, lenses I don't have and can't afford. There are better books out there that really do tell you how to see creatively, regardless of the equipment you have, that will be much more beneficial in improving your compositions and seeing differently. Some by Freeman Patterson come immediately to mind. Unless, of course, you do have the gear. If so, then go for it.
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Summary: I Saw Things That I've Never Seen Before!
Review: Excellent book and a must for any level photographer.
I especially love the "before and after" photos. Very inspiring. I can't wait to use my new 'eyes' through the lens to see the new world around me. Excellent!
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Summary: I could see improvements immediately
Review: Great book! It changed the way I look at the world. More and more of my shots are becoming real pictures instead of just snap-shots. Thank you Bryan!
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Summary: Learning to see creatively
Review: He is good! I read some many other photo books from bookstore, his book(s) is really something. Almost all of his photos are different from the other famous photographers. He has the photography vision and as matter of fact, I learnt a great deal from him. actually, I did buy three of his photo books. It is highly recommended to anyone who wanna learn photography and learn it well! Great jobs, bryan
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Summary: Chiken Soup for the Photographer's Soul !!
Review: I bought this book expecting to see rules of composition.Apart from one reference to the rule of thirds, I did not find anything. But I did find something else - "The art of looking at the picture through the viewfinder". As I had gotten into using more complex, advanced equipment, I had started looking at the picture instead of seeing. This book will make you think before you take your photographs. Most of the photographs in the book made me marvel at the guy's composition skills..even envy. But now when I take my pictures, some of the pictures from the book come to my mind, and I re-evaluate my composition. If this happens to you...youre well on your way to taking great pictures. The section on exposure is nice. The book is worth every cent you pay for it.
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Summary: A wonderful guide
Review: I got a lot out of this book. Some of the instructions may seem basic, such as changing your perspective or trying a different lens, but the photos really showed why something works better than something else. My goal as a photographer is to move from being an intermediate amateur to an advanced amateur. This book is helping me.
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