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The Art of Photography: An Approach to Personal Expression
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The images are beautiful. The text is almost useless. Biased towards b&w film photographers, much of the advice is pedantic and too artsy, even for sophisticated digital users. I mean, really. Who uses the Zone System anymore? There is some reference to histograms and other digital tools but the book remains primarily a reference tool for the darkroom artist.
I'm giving it three stars only because film photographers will find this a must have and like I said, the images are beautiful The rest of us will find something more relevant to modern photography.
I'm giving it three stars only because film photographers will find this a must have and like I said, the images are beautiful The rest of us will find something more relevant to modern photography.
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February 11, 2011
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Sep 10, 2012 05:23PM
First comes the darkroom, complete with black and white and the zone system...happens in any good college...this is where photographic art began...and it is an essential to learning digital. This book is more for the artist, which is far different from what most people do with camera phones or point and shoots...probably not a good book for 'film' folk.
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