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Summary: Some great ideas - but....
Review: This book has some wonderful ideas. However, it is pricey for the amount of information you receive. More detail would have been very useful. I bought 2 of his books - families and babies. One would have done.
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Summary: fantastic book!
Review: This book is an easy, entertaining read which offers a lot of no-nonsense, and very helpful tips for taking photographs. There are also lots of beautiful and very inspirational photos in the book. I would highly recommend it!
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Summary: eureka
Review: this book is the best photo book I've read yet because the author explains it in simple and easy terms that anybody can understand. I appreciate how Mr. Kelsh tells you what NOT to do. I wish I had seen this book at the beginning of my photo journey, I would have saved tons of time and money. My hat goes off to Nick Kelsh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Jim Dopkus
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Summary: Equipment is not so important....recognizing the moment is.
Review: This is the second Nick Kelsh book I have read -- the first being: "How to Photograph your Life" which I also gave a 5 star rating.
This book is bound in the same fun spiral bound hardcover.
Nick Kelsh devotes only a page to technique in order to achieve beautiful pictures. I suggests 3 basic rules:
1. get in close to your subject
2. shoot lots of frames
3. turn off the flash
His example photos are stunning. And to be honest in order to achieve similar results simply following the 3 basic rules is clearly not enough. Knowledge in choosing the appropriate film type and lens as well as carefully setting the suitable aperature is a clearly an important part in making his many of his pictures so breathtaking. Nick Kelsh does not cover the specific nitty gritty of technique since it is well documented in numerous photography books so readily available.
He instead focuses on training yourself to recognize photographic moments when with friends and families that are often overlooked by the amateur or layperson photographer
There is absolutely NO discussions about equipment -- so for all you hardwaare junkies your outta luck here. Instead he approaches the teaching of photography through inspiration, sentimentality, nostalgia and story telling.
There are some overlaps in material between his other book (How to photograph your Life).
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