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Whether you're wielding a phone or a full-size DSLR, Lonely Planet's Best Ever Photography Tips will sharpen your skills and your pictures. Award-winning photographer Richard I'Anson has travelled the world for 30 years and founded Lonely Planet's image library. Follow his 55 essential steps to creating brilliant photographs worth sharing.
- How to shoot wildlife, nightlife, people, cities, landscapes and lunch
- How to compose, control and critique your photographs
- Plus Richard I'Anson's 10 Golden Rules of travel photography
Author: Richard I'Anson
About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, as well as an award-winning website, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet's mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world and to truly get to the heart of the places where they travel.
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SOME OF THE SAMPLE CUSTOMER REVIEW FROM AMAZON :
1) Overview of the most important photo tips that will help you instantly improve your photographic skills - "Lonely Planet's Best Ever Photography Tips" by Richard l'Anson is well done book full of photography tips that can help you becoming a better photographer instead of buying a new camera.
The long-known fact is that you can learn to photograph and impress your audience even if you have equipment that is almost worthless, while on the other hand the most advanced equipment in the hands of someone who doesn't know won't make great pictures, but the picture will be even worse than if you took them with a pocket camera.
It's often amazing how the simplest advices that can be learned about lighting, object positioning, backlight, time of day in which the photographs are looking best, aperture and some other, the vast majority of people don't know, although it would take them about ten minutes to learn them - as result their photos would be improved, literally immediately.
In this sense publication of this nicely designed, informative and handy booklet that can be read once and then always carry with you to be reminded is great.
The author on one place gathered the most important information that will help you making better photographs and learn to make better use of equipment that is at your disposal.
He will advise you about choosing correct equipment and adequate accessories such as lens and tripods, introduce to the terms of exposure, ISO and depth of field, teach you how to avoid blur and choose right file format for you, how to position your objects following the rule of thirds.
What I especially liked about this book was author's emphasis that good photographers are becoming good due to constant practice.
And for all these reasons, especially if you don't already have one of similar books, "Lonely Planet's Best Ever Photography Tips" can be fully recommended - at one place, on its just over 150 pages it provides an overview of the most important photo tips that will help you instantly improve your photographic skills.
Of course, don't expect to immediately become a pro, but for that you don't need great equipment, but lots and lots of practice.
By Helpful Advice TOP 500 REVIEWER on December 23, 2013
2) So useful - This is an extremely hands-on little book that I am so glad I got. Here is why, in no particular order:
- Small format makes taking it along on a trip quite easy.
- The design is adorable - this might be minor to many but I love the retro look. Kudos to the book designer - great work.
- The tips are ideal for people who do not want to take a photography class or read lengthy books. The author gives real-world, scene-specific advice, right down to recommendations for shutter speed and aperture settings to successfully photograph tricky scenes such as waterfalls, reflections and sunsets, just to name a few. Other photography books just give the vague advice to overexpose or underexpose, use a wide aperture or a fast speed. I'Anson gives actual numbers. This is very useful for both beginners and intermediate photographers as it takes much of the guesswork out of photographing. I have been taking pictures for decades but up to this point good shots were often accidental because I was never quite sure about, let's say, which exposure times or shutter speeds to set for specific motives.
- In addition, I'Anson gives tips on equipment, which lenses are best used for which occasion, when to shoot what (For example: Shoot waterfalls on overcast days to avoid too much reflection from wet rocks), etc. Lastly, he also offers advice on backup solutions and even includes a tip or two for using cell phone cameras.
In short, this is one of the most useful photography books I have ever seen. Sure, it's not rocket science, and at some point we could all figure these tips out for ourselves. That is: After much trial and error, and reading, and frustration. I doubt that short of a professional photographer many people would immediately know what to do in all of these situations without first re-familiarizing themselves with the basics. I'Anson does a great job writing in easy-to-understand language and he is to the point. What more could one possibly want. For me, this book is worth every penny of its more than moderate price.
My advice: Get it.
By YesandNo TOP 500 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on April 2, 2014
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