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BRIEF ABOUT AUTHOR :
My life’s work is to help photographers to achieve their full potential in photography.
I call myself a photographer, writer, sharer, and broadcaster. I call myself a 'sharer' because I don't care too much for the terms 'teacher' or 'educator': what I like is to share my knowledge and experience of photography - of which I have much, across a good swathe of photographic activity. I love to share and I do that as much as I can through my writing, workshops and by offering online courses and one-on-one mentoring. Write to me at info@tomang.com for more information.
I've had 30 books published on photography and video (33 if you count the new e-books). The popular 'Digital Photographer's Handbook' has been translated into about 20 language and is now in its 5th edition. My "Digital Photography Masterclass" has proven popular with readers and reviewers: it won the Library Journal's 'Best How-to Book of 2008 and was chosen by Shutterbug as its 'Créme de la Créme' of Top Digital Imaging Books of 2008. We've just revised, up-dated and improved it. The 'Digital Photography step by step', is our best how-to book, packing an enormous of information into accessible form.
The latest book, 'Photography - the definitive visual history' is a wonderfully rich book, with over a thousand illustrations, uniquely it gives proper place to the photographic technology that has enabled photography to advance. It's a bargain at current prices - even without the discounts!
I won the 1988 Thomas Cook award for Best Illustrated Travel Book for my coverage of the Marco Polo Expedition. Goodness knows how; there were very strong contenders that year. I presented two ground-breaking six-part series 'A Digital Picture of Britain' and 'Britain in Pictures' for BBC. And an eight-part series for Channel News Asia Singapore was broadcast in August/September 2009 and was distributed on DVD.
I've worked as magazine editor, picture editor and was senior lecturer in photographic practice at the University of Westminster for 12 years. I led a Know How Fund project that reformed the journalism curriculum for a university in Kyrgyzstan, as well as photographing extensively in Central Asia. I was chair of the Arts Council England organization for Chinese Arts in Britain and am a founding member of the World Photography Academy, where I helped initiate and led the Student Focus program for its first two years.
My current interests include fine-art photography, writing fiction and poetry. I was born in Singapore and now live in New Zealand.
Visit website at www.tomang.com, to order eBooks (one is free) and other products. Also to learn about my online courses and one-on-one mentoring.
SOME OF THE SAMPLE CUSTOMER REVIEW FROM AMAZON :
1) Lots of workable tips and tricks for novice photographers - Tom Ang's credentials as a photography instructor is unquestionable. In this book, he managed the tricky balance between appeasing the novices and keeping the veterans interested. His goal is simple but ambitious: he wanted to make a book full of tips to at least get the newbies started in as many photographic settings as possible.
This book is full of examples of how to take interesting and good photos in all sorts of situations, well-illustrated and narrated to give a decent sense of why and how. It is also full of useful little tricks that are wonderful to learn, that one usually has to luckily discover oneself, or hear from a more experienced photographers.
The unfortunate thing about this book is that it does not cover enough technical details. In many cases I wish that Ang had said more than just "high ISO, wide-open aperture." I realize that numbers are just numbers, but some instructions leave me wondering what range of numbers he is talking about.
There are plenty of things to benefit the novice and intermediate photographers alike, although the value diminishes with the reader's expertise, as expected. For the newbies, this book is especially appealing because Ang took most of the photos with a simple digital point and shoot, again highlighting that it's the technique and art that matter most, not the gear.
By Julius Kusuma on August 13, 2007
2) Excellent if you know the basics - While it is not absolutely necessary, I'd still recommend you (1) learn how to operate your camera beyond its automatic settings and (2) learn basic photography before you buy this book.
I've seen the hardcover edition of this book locally but read here in Amazon that it would be available in paperback so I opted to wait. When I revisited Amazon this month, I saw that the paperback is out and when we went to the bookstore, I was suprised to find it. I didn't hesitate to buy it because of the positive reviews here. I'm glad I did.
Do not expect the book to teach you the details of "how to photograph absolutely everything". If it did, then the book would probably be 10x heavier (it's heavy enough as it is). What is there is worth every penny. I've been a serious hobbyist* for less than a year but learned fast so some of the contents of the book aren't new but it still offered plenty of ideas that I'd like to explore further either by learning from online tutorials or by buying specific books, e.g., if you're interested in portraits, then get a good portrait photography book.
Warning: This isn't a book for advanced hobbyists (2+ years experience) and certainly not for professionals.
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Get the paperback book. It's relatively lighter (but not light) than the hardcover.
By Carlo R. Montoya on February 23, 2009
