The New Art of Photographing Nature: An Updated Guide to Composing Stunning Images of Animals, Nature, and Landscapes
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The New Art of Photographing Nature: An Updated Guide to Composing Stunning Images of Animals, Nature, and Landscapes Details
Review An Amazon Best Book of the Year"Art Wolfe's photographs are magically composed and stunningly beautiful." - Edward O. Wilson Read more About the Author ART WOLFE's stunning images are recognized throughout the world for their mastery of color, composition, and perspective. Wolfe is a recipient of the Photographic Society of America's Progress Medal and the coveted Alfred Eisenstaedt Magazine Photography Award, as well as a Lifetime Achievement award by the North American Nature Photography Association. Wolfe's television series, Art Wolfe's Travels to the Edge, airs on PBS stations throughout the country. He is also a popular speaker for such companies as Microsoft, IBM, and Sheraton Hotels. He can be found at artwolfe.com as well as on Facebook and Twitter. MARTHA HILL is a freelance writer and the former photo editor of Audubon magazine. TIM GREY is regarded as one of the top educators in digital imaging, having written more than a dozen books and hundreds of articles. He can be found at timgrey.com. Read more
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This is an exceptional book that has exceptional photographs to illustrate the different concepts covered. Each pair or more of images of a subject includes commentary by both Art Wolfe and former art editor for a national magazine so you get different perspectives. Each image has the exposure information and focal length of the lens used and aperture and if film which type. This information is more educational than one might suppose as Art Wolfe has made interesting decisions that are either atypical or more extreme than most would make in the same situations.This book is also unusual in that it is relevant to digital camera users even though many images where made using 35mm film. For example there is an image that was made with a 70-200mm telephoto lens on a digital camera and then the multiple images made were digitally stitched together into a much wider picture that retains detail and perspective that would not have been possible by using a wider angle lens and taking a single shot.I bought this for my wife who is a novice photographer and she loves it. I have read it and gotten a lot from it even though I have practiced photography for 45 years from sheet film to digital cameras and done professional product photography and wedding photography. Now that I am doing nature, landscape, and wildlife photography, I am back into learning mode and this book has been an excellent aid in the process.
