Reference book recommendations
Our local library is bringing the photography collection up-to-date, so there's an opportunity to build a nice collection of instructional works. It would be g reat if photographers would be willing to share recommendations about titles/aut hors that have proven valuable to you. General technique, darkroom formulas and practise, format-specific, lighting, digital, Photoshop, composition--any and a ll aspects of the craft are needed.
Reference book recommendations
Fred Picker: Zone VI Workshop
Reference book recommendations
Edward Weston: Daybooks I and II
Reference book recommendations
"Interviews with Master Photographers", Paddington Press "Darkroom", Lustrum Press "Contact Theory", Lustrum Press "Landscape Theory", Lustrum Press
Reference book recommendations
Of course, the Ansel Adams series
Reference book recommendations
Steve Anchell's cookbooks- Darkroom, and Film Developing. Ctein's Post Exposure, and The Ansel Adams Guides, Vol. 1 and 2, by John P. Schaeffer. I also like Jack Dykinga's new book- Large Format Nature Photography. These would be valuable additions to a photography section of any library.
Reference book recommendations
Gordan Hutchings "the book of pyro"
Reference book recommendations
Just to clarify a comment made above, "The Film Developing Cookbook", Anchell and Troop, Focal Press 1998. This is a must have, not for the discussion of formulas, but for the chapters on film and developer combinations.
Also recommended is "Examples, The Making of 40 Photographs" Ansel Adams, NYGS, 1983.
Reference book recommendations
In addition to the good suggestions above, check out the suggestions right on this site at: http://www.ai.sri.com/~luong/photography/lf/books/
Reference book recommendations
Also check the list on photo.net at: http://www.photo.net/books/