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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
A great book! All the other glowing reviews are justified. It really is a very good book, deceptive in its simplicity, in which one is given direction (and lots more) from a master-teacher who really wants the reader to learn and improve. Enough said - buy this book!
Learning to see This is an easy read and contains some practical advice, but it is not going to turn you into a Bailey or Lichfield overnight. I felt that what it did do well was to encourage you to play, snap away, and then select the best picture. With digital cameras that is an easy and inexpensive thing to do that. Film and printing no so much. My one irritation with the book was Peterson's suggestion that it is within everyone's grasp to get photographs into a stock agency and sold for $10,000 a time.
Just what I needed If the measure of a good book is compelling readability, then this book is a good book. Two sessions is all it took, although of course it does have pictures. And if the measure of a good photography book is inspiring you to go out and take pictures, then this is a good photography book. Even before finishing it I was trying out some of Peterson's tips. What I like so much about this book is that it has enough "technical" information to be really useful, but not so much as to make it dry. The... more info
A very good book to begin with Firstly this is not a book telling you how to take better photographs. That's the nuts and bolts you either are told by someone or, better still, learn by simply picking up a camera and playing. This book is about how to see the picture...and how to see the same picture from a different view. For instance I like to shoot flowers sometimes, close up, but following an idea in this book, instead of standing over, or by the flower, I lay down and shot upwards and forwards, (I also decided to have the sun... more info
