Movements book or tutorial recommendations

[Louis Pacilla]

I have found "Corrective Photography" printed by Deardorff & Sons (now long out of print) & written by Deardorff employee & friend Lewis L. Kellsey to be extremely helpful with wonderful illustrations/explanation of each movement and why/when to use each movement. When I was a LF pup this was very helpful. I believe this can be found somewhere on the internet.

[Heroique]

Everything I know about LF movements was seeded in the healthy soil of Ansel Adams' The Camera (specifically, Chapter 10: "View-Camera Adjustments"). Over time, I've complemented this resource with several of the good recommendations above.

However, the AA chapter is, I believe, the touchstone of excellent instructional writing about LF movements (often tinged with entertaining drama). Better, it illustrates real-life "problem" compositions w/ in-the-field, before-and-after-movement photos. Even better, drawn diagrams accompany and reinforce all the ideas and solutions with ease. It's one reason why AA is considered a supreme educator, not just a great photographer.

[Mike in NY]

Be sure to check out this good synopsis... reminiscent of some of the illustrations in Steve Simmons' invaluable book: http://www.toyoview.com/LargeFrmtTech/lgformat.html

[Ken Lee]

View camera movements are not only helpful to solve optical problems, they also provide creative options that are unavailable with ordinary cameras except during post-processing, if at all.

For example, this rendition of a Remington Portable typewriter would have never occurred to me using a regular camera. I guess someone could contrive it after the fact, but that would be a different process.

[nbagno]

Look for Photo Know-how by Carl Koch and Jost J. Marchesi. Very good tutorial.


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Thanks for the Photo know-how recommendation, exactly what I was looking for. I was able to find the complete set with all of the teaching aids included. Abe books is selling this set for over $400 Found a source on Amazon for the cost of a nice dinner



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[B.S.Kumar]

That is a great find!

Kumar

[jmontague]

Glad to hear. I found it very helpful and you certainly got a great deal!


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