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Summary: An excellent introduction to nature photography
Review: This book provides a clear step-by-step plan for getting started in nature photography. It discusses what equipment to buy, the importance of using a tripod (with images that prove the point to those who may be skeptical), film to use, viewing and storing slides and other topics such as how to film various subjects in the natural world. This book and Galen Rowell's Mountain Light are IMHO two phenomenal books to read if you have an interest in photographing nature.
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Summary: Excellent text
Review: THis book takes the mystery out of landscape photography. The techinal aspects are simply explained and illustrated in many cases which allows the artist at it were in you to be released. Very thoughtful and insightful a must for anyone interested in landscape and even travel photography.
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Summary: Great resource for nature photographer
Review: This is an excellant work of John Shaw. I have bought 2 of his other books Closeup in Nature and field techniques. All these books are very well written. This specific book covers almost every aspects of nature photography including various lenses(zoom, tilting etc..) as well as discussion on various films. I will recommend this book as second volume to Profesional Field Techniques. Although this book does not contain the exposure information for each slide, the accompanying text provides solid information about how the exposure was made. This book is real good reference for anyone and everyone.
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Summary: Useful information, beautiful photographs
Review: This is one of the best books on landscape photography techniques. An excellent combination of practical technical information and inspirational creative ideas. The technical information is oriented towards 35 mm SLR's, so those with point-and-shoot cameras will find some of the content irrelevant, but the remainder of the book is so good that it's still well worth the price.
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Summary: Great for learning
Review: This John Shaw book is one of the must haves for people starting landscape photography, Shaw uses down to earth language to explain the basics of landscape photography. Reading this book makes you wanna go out and take lots of pictures.
Also highly recommended; John Hedgecoe's Landscape photography
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Summary: Excellent for the beginner
Review: This was an excellent book for me as I needed to get a better foundation in the fundamentals. For an experienced photo buff I think this book would be too basic.For me, though, I needed to get a better background in understanding things like exposure and exposure control issues, depth of field, hyperfocal distance, filters, lighting issues, and so on. Also the many tips and tricks Shaw discusses throughout the book are good. My one strength is I know how to compose a good photo. I just needed to learn more about good camera technique to enhance my photos and this book was useful to bootstrap me to the next level. The book has lots of nice photos. They're all shot with Fuji Velvia so the colors are extra saturated. I don't mind this but I suppose people develop a taste for these things. My one quip is that Shaw doesn't mention exposure settings in the captions for the photos. All in all a good book for a beginner to get a leg up on some of the technical issues and improve his skills and photographic technique.
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Summary: Invaluable and friendly
Review: Ususlly I have difficulties with teach-books, as they make me sleep. This one keeps me awake reading until late night. Invaluable advice and encouragement for self-confidence are given in a friendly, down-to-earth way, with humor and style. Excellent.
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Summary: Fairly detailed
Review: Very inspirational book, not really helpful if you are dipping into landscape for the first time, instead it pulls you in once you get some idea of landscape photography. Beautiful photos, certain amount of technical and yet great as a coffee table book. IMHO less diverse than John's other book; Professional Field Techniques (PFT) but I prefer it this way. In fact this was the single book that drawn 2 of my friends into serious photography just by browsing..... Much of the techniques are duplicated in the PFT book (I have yet to see the latest edition though) but based on the older one I would say to give this PFT book a miss, the printing is not as glossy (I'm one of those who prefer photography book in gloss) and not much more info is actually conveyed. Of course if you want to collect a few books only, skip Landscape and get PFT instead.
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