What Photography Book Are You Currently Reading?

Lagnagoushee

I'm currently reading "Lighting for Portraiture" by Walter Nurnberg. This 1969 edition may be old but it still packs a lot of useful info and photos/illustrations about how light falls on the human form.
What photography books/articles/blogs have captured your imagination lately?


Lighting For Portraiture By Walter Nurnberg

CabanSail

Not read it yet, but have bought a copy of Mastering Exposure for my wife. She is just starting to learn about photography. Saw a copy at a friends place and it looks at least equal, and maybe better, to Understanding Exposure.

CabanSail

Myself I have been going through "Portraits from an Uninhabited Land" by Nicholas Adler.



It's absolutely superb work and one of my favourite books. Gorgeous monochrome portraits taken in the Kimberly Region of Western Australia of various indigenous people. There is a copy in the library of Dublin Camera Club.

M.J.M.C

Portrait Photography: From Snapshots to Great Shots

Not all that great if I'm being honest.

almorris

Great thread.

Jose Villa's Fine Art Wedding Photography

EyeBlinks

The Three I'm dipping in and out of at the moment :

1979 - Maziar Moradi


Here Far Away. Pentti Sammallahti

https://vimeo.com/49311437

and Drum - Krass Clement

https://vimeo.com/56906928

ScumLord

I've only ever really read two books.

Digital photography master class
I'd gotten other beginners books and always got to the end of the book, thinking there's surely something missing here, I don't feel any wiser about taking photos. Most beginners books just focus on how the camera works, they don't go into how to take photos. This book goes into all those details, how to use the camera is just a few pages at the front, the rest is pretty much all about composition. It's a great beginners book.

Adobe Photoshop CS5 for Photographers Another very detailed book which is specific to using photoshop for photos, it was very good as it doesn't just teach you how to edit photos but can change how you take photos because it will influence how you take photos.

flyingsnail

gregory heisler 50 portraits

Admittedly I have read this book before and I absolutely love it, it is not a very technical book but i really shines in showing his creative process and the storys behind creating some of the photographs.

mc_grens

Scott Kelby's Lightroom 5 book for Digital Phoyographers.

Just in time for Lightroom 6.

Silva360

I'm re-reading Galen Rowell's 'Mountain Light'. If you're interested in landscape photography it's a worthwhile read. A bit dated but the principles remain.

Studio120

I don't particularly like reading photography books, looking at the images though, now that I do like :-)

manna452121

In the middle of this http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/understanding-exposure-3rd-edition-bryan-peterson/1101870300?ean=9780817439392 at the moment,some useful tips.

EyeBlinks

Interesting that people appear to read more Technical/Guide type of books.

I tend to learn way more from books by photographers. i.e. Photobooks.

ScumLord

EyeBlinks wrote: »

Interesting that people appear to read more Technical/Guide type of books.

I tend to learn way more from books by photographers. i.e. Photobooks.

For me I guess the reason is that I'm still very much learning and don't have much confidence in my abilities. For someone who's past that stage books by photographers make much more sense.

DaireQuinlan

Last one I read was Koudelka's Chaos. And then I went a bit crazy for the B&W panoramas for a while :-D

https://www.flickr.com/photos/dairequinlan/sets/72157651462416029/

magicbastarder

how were they taken? panoramic camera, stitched, or single frames letterboxed?

DaireQuinlan

magicbastarder wrote: »

how were they taken? panoramic camera, stitched, or single frames letterboxed?

Third one. Little 35mm compact, which has a switch which flips down two baffles over the film gate.

Silva360

EyeBlinks wrote: »

Interesting that people appear to read more Technical/Guide type of books.

I tend to learn way more from books by photographers. i.e. Photobooks.

I do far more of the latter, but I personally think it's important to keep dipping into technical/methodology/observational type books; 'Mountain light', 'Perception and Imaging', 'the photographer's eye', 'light, science, and magic' are a few that spring to mind....

gloobag

Road to Seeing by Dan Winters

More of an auto biography than anything else, but there's plenty to be learned from it. It's about 700 pages, but a lot of that is taken up by images. Pricey enough in hardback, but well worth it in my opinion.