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Top 10 Photography Books of 2012
Submitted by KerryG on October 2, 2012 – 11:06 pmOne Comment
Photography education should always be an on-going thing and there are some excellent books available to help you learn more about photography technique as well as post processing. I have compiled a list of my top ten books for this year so far so get your reading on and learn something new, fun, and exciting!
- The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 Book for Digital Photographers (Scott Kelby)
- Understanding Exposure, 3rd Edition: How to Shoot Great Photographs with Any Camera (Bryan Peterson)
- Welcome to Oz 2.0: A Cinematic Approach to Digital Still Photography with Photoshop (2nd Edition) (Vincent Versace)
- Speedliter’s Handbook: Learning to Craft Light with Canon Speedlites (Syl Arena)
- Lighting for Digital Photography: From Snapshots to Great Shots (Using Flash and Natural Light for Portrait, Still Life, Action, and Product Photography) (Syl Arena)
- So You Want To Be A Rockstar Photographer: Exploding The Myth And Real World Guidance (Gary Fong)
- Magnum Contact Sheets (Kristen Lubben)
- Captured by the Light: The Essential Guide to Creating Extraordinary Wedding Photography (David Ziser)
- On-Camera Flash Techniques for Digital Wedding and Portrait Photography (Neil van Niekerk)
- Picture Perfect Practice: A Self-Training Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Taking World-Class Photographs (Roberto Valenzuela)
Available for Kindle are also my two books Beginner’s Guide to Exposure, and All About Light. If you have a favorite book, be sure and let us know about it in the comments.
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A couple of months ago I purchased and really enjoyed Miss Aniela's "Creative Portrait Photography." It's not as much a "how to" book as it is just her talking about her inspirations and her thought process from getting the final image from her shoots, but it's a very interesting read with a lot of nice examples of her style process. http://www.amazon.com/Creative-Portrait-Photograp…