Category Archive for 'Book review'

A Comprehensive Guide to Digital Landscape Photography

A friend gave me this book and I was immediately captivated!  Although I have not been too active in landscape photography, I must confess it was more for lack of knowledge than opportunity, so I was intrigued by the subject as well as to see how the subject was presented.  I have referred to it [...]

Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0

I use this “Teach Yourself Visually” book all the time.  I have taken one or two short courses on Elements and have learned a few things, but without this book I would not be able to do more than the usual basic adjustments!  Sometimes, with a good photograph, that is all the knowledge that is [...]

Photography and the Art of Seeing

This is a very readable book, one which has a special place on my photograph bookshelf and one which I pick up and re-read from time to time.  I find it inspires me to try doing  things differently and, in any case, it is a good one to delve into.  A very “readable” presentation.
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The Digital Photography Book

I like this book!  I saw it in the bookshop and could not resist having it, mostly for its way of presenting each photographic subject or technique in an easily understandable way.  I consult this book frequently.
Scott Kelby, author of The Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers and other titles, as well as being editor-in-chief [...]

Dreamscapes

I attended the seminar given by Andre Gallant last year where he presented his Dreamscapes and demonstrated the principles behind them.  And I was most impressed by the results he showed on the large screen.  So it was with much anticipation that I began to read his book “Dreamscapes” and, believe me, I was not [...]