Product Description
Advanced Photography is a practical book for students and serious enthusiasts who wish to achieve more professional looking results. From choosing lenses and camera equipment, to film types and technical data, lighting and tone control, processing management and colour printing; the book offers technical solutions and practical advice on all aspects of professional photography. The book has now been fully revised, to include not just the latest camera equipment and … More >>
Advanced Photography, Sixth Edition
Tags: Advanced, advanced photography, camera equipment, Edition, enthusiasts, film types, LIGHTING, Photography, professional photography, Sixth, technical solutions, tone control
#1 by Anonymous on March 24, 2010 - 12:20 am
This book (5th edition) provided a few good, new tips and explainations, but my overall impression is one of incredibly technical detail on the practical aspects of equipment and processes. I feel like it’s important enough to have a general understanding of “how things work” to stick with this book, but it does not give much advice on how to think about or approach photography. My eyes often glaze as they pass over how to read manufacturers’ charts and graphs, how calculate focal length and color balance, etc., but if you’re into that kind of information, you might be interested.
Rating: 2 / 5
#2 by Anonymous on March 24, 2010 - 12:29 am
It is a great book to further understand photographic concepts from a scientific point of view. If anyone wants to master his photo skills this is the book.
Rating: 5 / 5
#3 by to_tal@hotmail.com on March 24, 2010 - 1:04 am
Hi there, Well, I’m photographer. In 1982 I got that book and learnt photography by it. My first steps as a photographer… Today I have MA degree in photography and arts but still hapy to recommend this book.
Rating: 4 / 5
#4 by Brent Townshend on March 24, 2010 - 2:19 am
Although this book is not for everyone, I found it to be the best explanation and reference for many aspects of photography. Unlike other books, this goes into depth to explain the technology well. It is the kind of book that explains Density vs. Exposure curves, color balance and white point temperature (even mireds), lens, cameras, studio lights, etc, etc. It doesn’t go into great depth of how to actually compose and capture a great picture, but it does go a long way to explaining how the tools work at a level that engineers or technology-savy people will appreciate.
Rating: 5 / 5
#5 by Ivaylo Iordanov on March 24, 2010 - 5:15 am
The late Michael Langford was one of the most prominent and acomplished authors of photography essays. His works are unrivaled in their analitical depth, focus on the fundamental principals and mechanisms in photography, but also in their serious academic approach on the subject.
Advanced Photography together with its companion volume Basic Photography are in my opinion truly invaluable source of well written, instructive information, covering nearly every aspect of the photographic process.
In this day and age where there is stifling overabundance of shallow, uninspiring and downright useless “textbooks”, which are unable to teach you anything, Advanced Photography and Basic Photography stand as standard setting, one of a kind tutorials. Very highly recomended.
Rating: 5 / 5