Photography Books

lr1811

Would love to hear your top choices for "must have" books on photography...

gluwater

Dgrin Book Reviews

Personally I think two must have books are "The DAM Book" by Peter Krogh and "Photoshop Masking & Compositing" by Katrine Eismann . Both are for Post processing files and storage of files rather than actually taking a photograph but they are very useful.

NHBubba

John Shaw's Nature Photography Field Guide is covered in a Dgrin book review. I have it and can recommend it as well. I also have John Shaw's Lanscape Photography book and think highly of it too.

SCS_Photo

You mean instructional books or collections?

I have bought two photo books - collections of a single photographer. One was Angel's World by Angelo Rizzuito (Edited by Michael Lesy of Wisconsin Death Trip Fame). Highly reccommended. The other is a recent release, large format. Looking East, portraits of asia. Recommended by Michael Johnson on his blog. There are some amazing portraits, though I would have liked a bit more variety on perspective and composition.

ian408

For Nature and Action shots, the National Geographic have a series of
books that are good hints for their various subjects.

ginger_55

I shoot birds, well, I go out to shoot birds, that is my intention, so I went to the library, got every book they had on nature photography, had them gather some more from other libraries. Then over time, I bought used on Amazon my favorites.

My favorite at the time, and I would still recommend it, is Moose Peterson's Guide to Wildlife Photography.

Another one that I use more than others is The Art Of Photographing Nature by Martha Hill, photographs by Art Wolfe. I don't know that I have seen that one mentioned anywhere. Maybe, maybe not. But it has useful practical information on many things that have to do with design and shooting. But also, it has a thing, with photos, called "Framing-Cropping" subtitle is "where to put the subject". I get the book out sometimes when I want to crop a photo in post and feel stuck as to where exactly to do it.

That book is really great from the perspective of design. Lots of the info comes from the author's experiences as an editor. Cool book.

For Post Processing, I have photoshop CS2, so I have many books related to CS2 (In fact, I may never upgrade, the books can be as much as the upgrade, smile). The basic best book for any photoshop you may have is anything related to your particular program by Scott Kelby. He starts you out just fine and is my "first look" for a problem.

Then I have many others, including a couple by LAB guru Dan Marguilis.

OK, going to work up a photo, then go back to bed!

Oh, and if you wanted to buy me a post Christmas present, that new book by Annie Liebowitz is one I am salivating over. That is a Coffee Table type book that weighs so much it does not qualify for free shipping anywhere. I love her work, and that book is my favorite that she has put out. (Or, if you like that kind of stuff, you could buy it for yourself. $45.00 at Amazon, plus shipping. I took it out of the library after asking them to buy it. Aren't libraries grand!!)

ginger