Read This if You Want to Take Great Photographs of Places: (Beginners Guide, Landscape photography, Street photography)

From the author of the bestselling Read This If You Want To Take Great Photographs series, this jargon-free introduction covers all aspects of photographing places, including landscapes, cityscapes, architecture, and interiors. Whatever your camera, whatever your interest, whatever your level, this indispensible guide gives you all the essential techniques and demystifies the work of acclaimed photographers. Packed with practical tips and iconic images, this accessible book will arm you with the know-how you need to take meaningful pictures of the places that matter to you most. Featuring 50 master photographers, including Alec Soth, Martin Parr, Robert Adams, Todd Hido, Rut Blees Luxemburg, Julius Shulman, Rinko Kawauchi, Thomas Ruff, Tim Hetherington, and Joel Sternfeld. An essential guide for emerging artists learning how to take pictures of places. From the author of the bestselling Read This If You Want To Take Great Photographs series, this jargonfree introduction covers all aspects of photographing places, including landscapes, cityscapes, architecture, and interiors. Whatever your camera, interest, or skill level, this indispensable photography guide gives you all the essential techniques and demystifies the work of acclaimed photographers. Packed with practical tips and iconic images, this accessible book will teach everything you need to take meaningful pictures of the places that matter to you most. Split into five sections, the book covers composition, exposure, light, manipulation and location. Featuring the work of iconic Alec Soth, Ansel Adams, Martin Parr, Robert Adams, Todd Hido, Rut Blees Luxemburg, Julius Shulman, Rinko Kawauchi, Thomas Ruff, Tim Hetherington, Joel Sternfeld, Kyler Zeleny, Julius Shulman, Bert Danckaert, Mitch Epstein, Mitch Dobrowner, Massimo Vitali, Joel Meyerowitz, Stephen Tourlentes, Lee Friedlander, Yoshinori Mizutani, John Hilliard, Simon Norfolk, Charles March, Floto + Warner, Olaf Otto Becker, John Gossage, Kikuji Kawanda, Richard Misrach, Harry Cory Wright, Philippe Chancel, Harry Gruyaert, Brassa, Richard Mosse, Dodo Jin Ming, Tina Hillier, Jorma Puranen, William Henry Jackson, Matt Siber, Mike Slack, Reiner Riedler, John Davies, Fay Godwin, Dilon Marsh, Steffi Klenz, Kathy Ryan, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joan Fontcuberta, Ying Ang, and Charles Duke. Read This if You Want to Take Great Photographs of Places is part of the internationallybestselling 'Read This' series, which has sold over halfamillion books worldwide and has been translated into over 20 languages. More titles in the 'Read This' Read This if You Want to Take Great Photographs by Henry Carroll (9781780673356) Read This if You Want to Take Great Photographs of People by Henry Carroll (9781780676241) Use This if You Want to Take Great A Photo Journal by Henry Carroll (9781780678887) Read This if You Want to Be Great at Drawing by Selwyn Leamy (9781786270542) Read This if You Want to Be a Great Writer by Ross Raisin (9781786271976) Read This if You Want to Be Instagram Famous edited by Henry Carroll (9781780679679) Where are you? -- Composition. Find the lines ; The frame ; Frame-within-a-frame ; Shooting at 45 degrees ; Horizon lines ; Elevated point of view ; Street level ; Distance from subject ; Wide-angle lenses ; Telephoto lenses -- Technical tangents: Format ; Aspect ratio -- Exposure. Slow shutter speed ; Blur and abstraction ; Fast shutter speed ; Deep depth of field ; Shallow depth of field ; Overexposing ; Underexposing -- Technical tangents: Shutter speed and movement ; Guide to movement ; Aperture and depth of field ; ISO -- Light. The golden hour ; Soft light/flat light ; Hard light/clarity ; Low sun ; Twilight ; Ambient light ; Night shots -- Technical tangents: Controlling colour ; Shooting RAW ; Essential filters -- Manipulation. Colour ; Black and white ; Artificial lighting ; Using props ; Cultural reference ; People and place ; Digital manipulation -- Technical tangents: Retouching ; Essential functions in Lightroom -- Location. Sublime places ; Contrived places ; Iconic places ; Industrial places ; Pastoral places ; Reclaimed places ; Non-places ; Everyday places ; Comparable places ; Political places ; Imaginary places ; Personal places ; Your places -- Technical tangents: Legal matters --Troubleshooting PHOTOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT & TECHNIQUES. From the author of the best-selling Read This If You Want To Take Great Photographs series, this jargon-free introduction covers all aspects of photographing places, including landscapes, cityscapes, architecture and interiors. Whatever your camera, whatever your interest, whatever your level, this indispensable guide gives you all the essential techniques and demystifies the work of acclaimed photographers. Packed with practical tips and iconic images, this accessible book will arm you with the know-how you need to take meaningful pictures of the places that matter to you most. Featuring 50 master photographers, including Alec Soth, Martin Parr, Robert Adams, Todd Hido, Rut Blees Luxemburg, Julius Shulman, Rinko Kawauchi, Thomas Ruff, Tim Hetherington and Joel Sternfeld. "This jargon-free introduction covers all aspects of photographing places, including landscapes, cityscapes, architecture and interiors. Whatever your camera, whatever your interest, whatever your level, this indispensable guide gives you all the essential techniques and demystifies the work of acclaimed photographers. Packed with practical tips and iconic images, this accessible book will arm you with the know-how you need to take meaningful pictures of the places that matter to you most."--Back cover