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  1. 07-14-2004 08:25 PM #1
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    what's a good photography book?

    can anyone suggest a good photography book for a beginning photographer that doesn't know anything?
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    John Hedgecoe's New Book of Photography

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    John Hedgecoe's New Manual of Photography
    A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down. - Robert Benchley
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  4. 07-14-2004 09:59 PM #3
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    I 2nd that.
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  5. 07-14-2004 11:15 PM #4
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    I highly recommend "Photography" by Barbara London & John Upton. This book is in its 7th edition and is widely used in photography classrooms and is a required course book for students.

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  6. 07-15-2004 09:28 AM #5
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    You could also consider these two books by Bryan F. Paterson:

    1. Learning to See Creatively: Design, Color & Composition in Photography
    2. Understanding Exposure: How to Shoot Great Photographs
    S Jobs : 21 Ways

    I'm not responsible for my photographs. Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience. It's drowning yourself, dissolving yourself, and then sniff, sniff, sniff – being sensitive to coincidence. You can't go looking for it; you can't want it, or you won't get it. First you must lose your self. Then it happens. -Henri Cartier-Bresson
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  7. 07-15-2004 03:10 PM #6
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    I have 3 Henry Horenstein books that I highly recommend:

    Black And White Photography
    Beyond Basic Photography
    Color Photography

    These books could be the textbooks for the Photog 101, Photog 102, and Color Photog classes I took in college. Horenstein probably explains it better than my teachers did.
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  8. 07-17-2004 02:29 PM #7
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    digital

    Do either of these books cover digital photography? If not can anyone recommend a good book for new digital users?
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  9. 07-17-2004 02:30 PM #8
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    digital

    Do either of these books cover digital photography? If not can anyone recommend a good book for new digital users?
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    Yup. John puts out a new book about every two years to cover the new things.
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    Dummies Guids are fantastic books.

    I recently got a decent book for £2 or about cause i bought it in america, its very good.

    But yeah, dummies guids are very good.
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    Re: digital

    Quote Originally Posted by garry
    Do either of these books cover digital photography? If not can anyone recommend a good book for new digital users?
    The one slowboat recommended does.I have that one and I like it very much.
    Now I have beyond basic photography from Horenstein coming too, but it hasnt arrived yet
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