Derrel
Mr. Rain Cloud
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Touching of soufiej's comment above: "To be most efficient at learning you must first build the foundation for learning. Building a foundation for any structure means you first must have a plan to follow and you must begin with the most basic issues of squaring your foundation. You must have an idea of what you are building and just how to best go about layering one level after another. So you must have an overview and a plan."
This is one of the reasons I repeatedly refer people to the many John Hedgecoe photography book--because they show photography broken down into component parts, in logical groupings, with information that shows the student what the field is made up of. The old idea is often reduced to the saying, "You don't know what it is that you don't know." His Complete Photography Course for example, is a good foundation for somebody wanting to understand how photography "works". Camera, lens, lighting, focusing, composing. How to seek out types of lighting. How to make photos better. Where to stand, where to point the camera, how close to be, when to use a wide-angle lens, when to use a telephoto lens, how to soften light for portraits,how light changes over the course of a day, how to bounce a flash, how to make a close-up or macro shot, all of that stuff and much more, broken down into small lessons, with around 1,000 illustrations, drawings, charts, and sample photos.
Books that contain a structure and a thousand illustrations and 350-400 pages offer tremendous learning potential, and they SHOW the structured, interrelated nature to the reader; the book becomes a guide, a reference, a teacher in itself, in a way that videos and on-line courses do differently. The Hedgecoe books show the overview, the plan, the structure of the learning process.
This is one of the reasons I repeatedly refer people to the many John Hedgecoe photography book--because they show photography broken down into component parts, in logical groupings, with information that shows the student what the field is made up of. The old idea is often reduced to the saying, "You don't know what it is that you don't know." His Complete Photography Course for example, is a good foundation for somebody wanting to understand how photography "works". Camera, lens, lighting, focusing, composing. How to seek out types of lighting. How to make photos better. Where to stand, where to point the camera, how close to be, when to use a wide-angle lens, when to use a telephoto lens, how to soften light for portraits,how light changes over the course of a day, how to bounce a flash, how to make a close-up or macro shot, all of that stuff and much more, broken down into small lessons, with around 1,000 illustrations, drawings, charts, and sample photos.
Books that contain a structure and a thousand illustrations and 350-400 pages offer tremendous learning potential, and they SHOW the structured, interrelated nature to the reader; the book becomes a guide, a reference, a teacher in itself, in a way that videos and on-line courses do differently. The Hedgecoe books show the overview, the plan, the structure of the learning process.