What are the most important/significant books on photography on your book shelves?
Mine:
Steve Simon's LF photography
Ctein
Anchell cookbooks plus The Variable Contrast Printing Manual
Adam's three vols
Post Exposure: Advanced Techniques for the Photographic Printer
Adams' three books.
The rest are just photo books -- seeing the photographs of others is one of the most powerfull how-to (or perhaps better called "why-to") resources to have.
Vaughn
Way Beyond Monochrome by Chris Woodhouse and Ralph Lambrecht.
The Photographer's Master Printing Course by Tim Rudman. (Tim also has great books on toning and Lith developement of papers.)
Creative Elements for Landscape photography by Eddie Ephraums.
Bruce Barnbaum has a great book.
The Model and The Command to Look by William Mortensen.
Looking at Photographs by John Szarkowski
Real World Photoshop CS2 by Blattner and Frazer
Adobe Photoshop Master Class by John Paul Caponigro (a little dated but still good)
Real World Camera Raw With Adobe Photoshop by Bruce Frazer
Photoshop for Photographers by Martin Evening
Brian Ellis
Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you do criticize them you'll be
a mile away and you'll have their shoes.
I second Bruce Barnbaum's book... The Art of Photography: An Approach to Personal Expression
Add Jim Stone's book... A User's Guide to The View Camera
And Jack Dykinga's book... Large Format Nature Photography
And the Kodak book... Large-Format Photography (Kodak Publication, No. O-18e.)
And, let's not forget Fred Picker's book... Zone VI Workshop
And, lastly, Ansel Adam's book... Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs
LOTS and LOTS of great books out there... too many to count!
Cheers
Life in the fast lane!
Ray, Applied Photographic Optics, Focal Press.
Hunter & Fuqua, Light Science and Magic, Focal Press.
Dykinga, Large Format Nature Photography, Amphoto.
Stroeble, View Camera Technique 7th ed., Focal Press.
Margulis, Photoshop LAB color, Peachpit Press.
Rodney, Color Management for Photographers, Focal Press.
Adam's trilogy; Adam's the Making of 40 Photographs; Barnbaum's The Art of Photography; Jack Dykinga's LF Nature Photography; Hunter and Fuqua's Light Science and Magic; Anchell and Troup's The Film Developing Cookbook; Haynes, Crumpler and Duggan's Photoshop Artistry
The Keepers of Light, William Crawford
Not a perfect book, but it changed my photography forever.
Tim Rudmans book on toning is excellent
The Practical Zone System. Chris Johnstone Focal Press
-Great starting point for me before reading Ansel
Basic Techniques of Photography. John P. Schaefer
Adam's trilogy
Adam's the Making of 40 Photographs
Using the View. Camera Steve Simmons
Edge of Darkness. Barry Thornton
Mountain Light. Galen Rowel
Way Beyond Monochrome. Lambrecht and Woodhouse
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