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Title: John Shaw's Landscape Photography by John Shaw ISBN: 081743710X Publisher: Amphoto Pub. Date: April, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.77
Rating: 3
Summary: For beginners, but then ...
Comment: The book reasonably covers most of the ground relevant to landscape photography, is acceptably written, well presented and nicely illustrated. On the other hand, Mr. Shaw spends pages for introductions that could be condensed in paragraphs, which can make the book more readable to some, or get on your nerves while you wait him to get down to what you bought the book for, i.e. the relevant techniques stripped down and discussed clearly and thoroughly. And when he finally seems to get there, more often than not he just skims the surface, this time in a few paragraphs where you would expect to see pages. So the book offers lots of words for little substance, it is often shallow and incomplete even for a basic-level text (e.g. fancy discussing exposure of high-contrast scenes on slide film without a single word about bracketing?), could be better structured, more to-the-point and systematic for a manual, and it certainly adds nothing new.
Plenty of nice pictures, yes, some great; that is, if you like Fuji Velvia's garish colours, which plague the book. You can pick some ideas from them, but in this kind of book you judge pictures for their illustrative value rather than their beauty: what you want to see is different alternatives compared for each technical issue discussed, which is often limited or lacking in the book, and be given full technical details of each shot, whereas here you are left even without the exposure settings.
All the same, useful book if you do not know about basic exposure, what hyperfocal focusing is, what a polarizing filter does, when to use a tripod, the basic characteristics of various focal lengths, the basic effects of different lighting, basic composition, basic ..., etc. But then what you need is a general photography handbook, such as Michael Langford's, which through a both more thorough and concise coverage of these and other topics is more likely to improve your technique overall, including for landscape photography. If you are beyond that level, do save your money and look somewhere else.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great for learning
Comment: 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
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent text
Comment: 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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Title: John Shaw's Nature Photography Field Guide by John Shaw ISBN: 0817440593 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns Pub. Date: 31 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: John Shaw's Closeups in Nature by John Shaw ISBN: 0817440526 Publisher: Amphoto Pub. Date: October, 1987 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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Title: John Shaw's Focus on Nature by John Shaw ISBN: 0817440569 Publisher: Amphoto Pub. Date: December, 1991 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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Title: Understanding Exposure by Bryan Peterson ISBN: 0817437126 Publisher: Amphoto Pub. Date: November, 1990 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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Title: The Complete Guide to Night and Low-Light Photography by Lee Frost ISBN: 0817450416 Publisher: Amphoto Pub. Date: 15 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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