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Photography is now more popular than ever thanks to the rapid development of digital cameras. Read This If You Want to Take Great Photographs is for this new wave of DSLR dabblers and users of compact system, and bridge cameras. It contains no graphs, no techie diagrams and no camera club jargon. Instead, it inspires readers through iconic images and playful copy packed with hands-on tips.

Split into five sections, the book covers composition, exposure, light, lenses, and seeing. Images taken by master photographers – including Henri Cartier- Bresson, Sebastião Salgado, Fay Godwin, and Martin Parr – serve to illustrate points and encourage readers to try out new ideas.

Today's aspiring photographers want immediacy and see photography as an affordable way of expressing themselves quickly and creatively. This book answers that need, teaching readers how to take photographs using professional techniques.

Ebook Read This If You Want to Take Great Photographs Henry Carroll 8601404213243 Books

"Im just getting started in photography, but right now its just a hobby, nothing too serious but I still love taking pictures. What I really like about this book is that it teaches you how to take certain types of pictures while showing you exactly what those words mean. I started reading today, Im not halfway done but I've already learned some cool stuff, plus the example pictures are really beautiful. For beginners like me this book is as good as it gets in my opinion. Its really simple and easy to understand."

Product details Paperback 128 pages Publisher Laurence King Publishing (March 25, 2014) Language English ISBN-10 1780673353

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Read This If You Want to Take Great Photographs Henry Carroll 8601404213243 Books Reviews

• If you're going to get into photography this book isn't bad for a beginning. I was disappointed though that with all the great photographic examples that none of the photographs had any information on how they where shot, what shutter speed, aperture etc. I think that information would have elevated this book to something that the next level photographers would have been able to get something out of it too. I would highly recommend that if you're going to purchase this book then also purchase Understanding Exposure by Bryan Peters, these two together will definitely light a fire for the photography bug in you.
• Im just getting started in photography, but right now its just a hobby, nothing too serious but I still love taking pictures. What I really like about this book is that it teaches you how to take certain types of pictures while showing you exactly what those words mean. I started reading today, Im not halfway done but I've already learned some cool stuff, plus the example pictures are really beautiful. For beginners like me this book is as good as it gets in my opinion. Its really simple and easy to understand.
• The back cover of this book has the following description
  “No scary graphs. No techie diagrams. No camera-club jargon. Read this if you want to take great photographs walks you through the fundamentals of composition, exposure, light, lenses and the all-important art of seeing without drowning you in technobabble”.
  Does the book fulfill this description? The answer is yes. There is a brief description of the main (and basic) elements of photography such as aperture, shutter speed and ISO along with many photographs that illustrate these concepts well. However, in this reviewer’s opinion, many of the photographs could have been more explicit in that there could have been photographs showing the impact of incremental changes in these on the photograph. For example, a series of photographs of moving objects that show how high shutter speed freezes action and how, as shutter speed is slowed, it is blurred. The same applies for aperture (on depth of field impacts) as well as the impact of higher ISO speeds (on noise). Nevertheless the book does illustrate these concepts fairly well with the included photographs. It’s just that subtleness is lost by looking only at extremes and not incremental minor changes.
  
  The book also discusses well some of the major factors behind composition such as framing (i.e., rule of thirds), symmetry and flow of lines and curves across pictures. However, due to the books very short length, these discussions are very short (2 pages each if the accompanying photograph is included). Again, however, the basics are brought across. The last part of the book focuses on “seeing” as an art. The coverage in this area, as the rest in the book, is again quite short. The basics are brought across again, in a clear and concise manner.
  
  For anyone with an intermediary or advanced knowledge of photography, everything in this book has probably been seen a million times before. Hence for that audience this book would be of very little value. That audience, though, would probably still appreciate many of the photographs in the book. But it should be stressed that this is not the intended audience for the book.
  
  In short, this book is a very good short, concise introduction to photography for the beginner. In about an hour or so of reading that audience can learn more than any other book (this reviewer has seen) for that same time frame. However, to learn more they would have to read other material. For example, on the art of seeing this reviewer would recommend also reading Bryan Peterson’s “Learning to See Creatively Design, Color and Composition in Photography”. Many of Peterson’s other books would also be of interest (i.e., “Understanding Shutter Speed”).
• While there is nothing new in this book that you cannot find with a basic internet search, the author does provide an easy to understand, no non-sense and clear walk through the basics of photography. The book is rich with example pictures from renowned photographers (such as Ansel Adams...) and the author uses these examples to help understand the technical side of the camera.
  
  No book is going to make you a professional photographer, but if you want the basics to give yourself a running head start, this book is it. The best advise the author gives is to PRACTICE!!!!
• This book is a pretty good read, the author simply explains some of the techniques used in photography today with examples of photographs. Theres no complicated language or technobabble. Just plain and simple this is what you should look for, this is how to make your photos look more impactful, and this is what you should do to get the image to tell the story you want.
  
  I would recommend this book to beginners. Anyone with loads of experience shooting photos may already know most or all of the content found in this book. Other than that, there are some great pictures.
• This book explains the basics of taking photographs, how the camera and photographer become a team to make a photograph that people will actually want to see. The author begins by explaining how the camera and lens work and them he discusses what the role of the photographer is to make the photo. All this is done in lay terms without long technical dissertations. This is a very good book for beginning photographers who want to move beyond taking snapshots. It is a very short book and I would have preferred a more detailed discussion and more examples to study, but overall I think the author nailed it.
• This book is a solid refresher on the basic concepts of art and design and how it applies to photography. It's not a technical book on how to take photos. It doesn't matter what you're shooting with, this book gives you the basic concepts to create better photos.
• Solid advice. It won't teach you everything you need to know about photography but all the points are good. The principles are stated but not elaborated on a lot. It has pictures from well known (in the field) photographers as examples, so you can start to see why a photo is considered "good" beyond being just pretty or eye catching and maybe get introduced to work that you want to know more about. A fun and easy book to look at and read while commuting, and not too big to carry around.