Read This If You Want to Take Great Photographs

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Pub Date 25 Mar 2014 | Archive Date 30 Jul 2019
Laurence King Publishing Ltd | Laurence King Publishing

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Read This if You Want to Take Great Photographs is ideal for the new wave of snapshooters using DSLR, compact system and bridge cameras, looking for top photography tips.

• A bestselling photography book with over 300,000 copies sold!
• Learn top photography tips from 50 famous photographers
• A must–have guide for amateur photographers and professional photographers


Read This if You Want to Take Great Photographs contains no graphs, no techie diagrams and no camera–club jargon. Instead, it inspires readers through iconic images and playful copy, packed with hands–on tips.

Split into five sections, the book covers composition, exposure, light, lenses and the art of seeing. Masterpieces by acclaimed photographers – including Henri Cartier–Bresson, Sebastião Salgado, Fay Godwin, Nadav Kander, Daido Moriyama and Martin Parr – serve to illustrate points and encourage readers to try out new ideas.

Today's aspiring photographers want immediacy and see photography as an affordable way of expressing themselves quickly and creatively. This handbook meets their needs, teaching them how to take photographs using professional techniques.

Read This If You Want to Take Great Photographs is part of the internationally–bestselling 'Read This' series, which has sold over half–a–million books worldwide and has been translated into over 20 languages.

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Read This if You Want to Take Great Photographs is ideal for the new wave of snapshooters using DSLR, compact system and bridge cameras, looking for top photography tips.

• A bestselling...

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If one is looking to take his/her first steps into photography then Carroll's book is probably the best starting point; it gives the reader a quick grounding in the numerous aspects that truly make photography an art form..

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This book does literally what the titles say. There's nothing more or less to add really. If you love photography and don't like to read difficult lengthy books this book is definitely for you!

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This is a really good guide for people who are interested in taking better photographs but are not techies. Carroll uses clear language and lots of photographic examples to demonstrate how to use all the settings on your camera - - and that includes your phone camera. Well worth buying and reviewing periodically.

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