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Title: Close-up Photography ISBN: 0-240-80380-9 Publisher: Focal Press Pub. Date: January, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $41.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Thin book but much ideas
Comment: I photograph almost 45 years and now is photography as my job and I am as a member of The Royal Photographic Society in England. I had bought the photographic books as new one and in the secondhand bookstore. I have at this time maybe 2 meters long a queue of these photographic books in english, german and czech language. I know, what is important information for photographer and what is the value the information in the proper time. Okey. The book "Close-up Photography" has two parts: 1) Technical and 2) Making the Technical Practical. In total has 18 chapters. Every chapter open very interesting view at the various problem of this branch of photography. I can list e.g. chapter 3: Focusing Screens, Focusing Rail and Cable Release. Very important but very ignored theme in other books. Very interesting paragraph in this famous book is theme Lens Faults, Diffraction and Lens Flare. You can read in chapter 6 (Exposure) which is exposure compensation when you snap on film area a Dandelion Yellow or Cedark bark. The paragraph "Exposure Correction for Extension" very precisely explains exposure correction with mathematical formula. An instruction how use the second lens with special adapter for macro-photo explains the chapter 8 too. The paragraph "Exposure with Flash" in chapter 10 explains two flashes with different GN by using in shorter distance. You can see more different setups for photographing coins, plastic models of airplanes, what prepare for polarized light photography (chapter 14). Very nice chapter is chapter 18 "Nature Subjects" with 26 unique photographs. I summarize the impression from this book: I can very hard recommend this book not only for beginner but so for advanced photographer with very strong interest ybout close-up photography.
Rating: 5
Summary: Close-Up Photography by Alan R. Constant
Comment: Close-Up Photography by Alan R.Constant
Every few years, someone authors a work involving the photography of (mostly) small things: insects, wristwatch gears, flower pistols and stamens, etc.
In 1999, Mr. Alan R. Constant took his turn at bat with the above titled effort. And a good turn it was, resulting in what can only be described as a home run for the lovers of macro-photography.
In any such subject, it is necessary, indeed mandatory, to delve just a little bit into the geometry of optics, such that various points may be understood as to just WHY something must be done in certain ways so as to result in a useable photograph. Mr. Constant accomplishes this both adroitly and painlessly.
The occasional formula is laid out at the appropriate time and place, and with the naturalness of a skilled photographic professional. The art of explaining without glazing the readers eyes, or occasioning a mathphobic reaction, is just one of the many virtues of the relaxed and homey style of Mr. Constant.
Beyond that, the text progresses in a smooth and natural rhythm from subject to subject, each layer building upon the previous examples and explanations. And indeed, one of the major strengths of this work, is that NOTHING is left to the reader's guesswork or imagination. Whenever a point is made or a procedure explained, Mr. Constant always goes on to show exactly WHY such-and-such is necessary, or why compensating approaches often result in what is desired, simply because a direct approach would fail and why so.
Finally, this book pretty much travels the entire gamut of macro-photography, from just getting a pretty flower to remain looking pretty when on film, to more esoteric (but always common sense) items such as his "Bug Box". All in all, the book is worth more than just the purchase price. It is a good piece of work, well done, and far more enlightening than many of the preceding volumes over the last several decades.
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Title: The Complete Guide to Close Up & Macro Photography by Paul Harcourt Davies ISBN: 0715312766 Publisher: David & Charles Publishers Pub. Date: 01 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: John Shaw's Closeups in Nature by John Shaw ISBN: 0817440526 Publisher: Amphoto Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1987 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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Title: Macrophotography: Learning from a Master by Ronan Loaec ISBN: 0810991179 Publisher: Harry N Abrams Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: John Shaw's Nature Photography Field Guide by John Shaw, John . Nature Photographer's Complete Guide to Professional Fie Shaw ISBN: 0817440593 Publisher: Amphoto Books Pub. Date: 31 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Complete Guide to Night and Low-Light Photography by Lee Frost ISBN: 0817450416 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications Pub. Date: 15 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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