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The Life and Mind of DamnBlackHeart
This is to help me stay actively writing. So expect to see rants, tips on writing, thoughts on subjects, me complaining of boredom, reviews, anime, movies, video games, conventions, tv shows and whatever life throws at me.
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Book Review: John Shaw’s Guide to Digital Nature Photography |
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Photography legend John Shaw returns with his much-anticipated guide to digital nature photography, complete with more than 250 extraordinarily beautiful photographs.
For over four decades, John Shaw’s authentic voice and trusted advice has helped photographers achieve impressive shots in the great outdoors. In his first-ever book on digital photography, Shaw provides in-depth advice on everything from equipment and lenses to thorough coverage of digital topics including how to use the histogram. In addition, he offers inspirational and frank insight that goes far beyond the nuts and bolts of photography, explaining that successful photos come from having a vision, practicing, and then acquiring the equipment needed to accomplish the intention. Easily digestible and useful for every type of photographer, and complete with more than 250 jaw-dropping images, John Shaw’s Guide to Digital Nature Photography is the one book you’ll need to beautifully capture the world around you.
As it says in the book it’s “not in any way intended as a final word on how to take pictures. Rather, its is a summation of his [John Shaws] thoughts about camera equipment and a description of some of the methods he currently use”. The book is divided into six chapters: Gear, Getting Started, Lenses, Composition, Close-ups and The Photographer at Work. The information within is very informative and helpful. It’s definitely something that beginners in photography can check out. I don’t consider myself a beginner, but I’m have plenty of experience in capturing some great photographs. So it’s no surprise that I wanted to see what this book contained. I’m always eager to expanse my knowledge and possibly learn some new things.
You don’t need to use a DSLR digital camera to achieve professional photographs. I just use a regular digital camera and I’m still able to take take some pretty amazing photographs. John Shaw favors Nikon and refers to it throughout the book, but he also recommends other products and equipment in case you want to know what’s good too. However, he makes it clear that “quality nature photos can be taken with any currently produced photographic system.” Basically, any decent camera can work as long as you take the time to understand it and the many function on it – like aperture, shutter speed, depth of field, ISO, color spaces, and so on. And if you practice, especially some of the things that John Shaw wrote about, you’ll be a step closer to achieving those professional-looking photographs.
In the end I like this book, and I recommend it. Though I wish the font size for the text was bigger. It was quite annoying for my eyes after I’ve read the book for a while. Also, I would have loved to see more before and after photograph examples of techniques and comparisons. I find that they would help make a clearer point in what works and what doesn’t and when it would be a good use for them.
[Note: I received this book from Blogging for Books in exchange for an honest review.]
 DamnBlackHeart · Tue Apr 21, 2015 @ 09:22pm · 0 Comments |
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