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<blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 398523" data-attributes="member: 9240"><p>No experience with the book at all, but what you're looking for is something that is as wide as it is deep, and if you're asking me (which you are, indirectly) I would say that it's the wrong way to approach learning photography because it puts an emphasis on a single type/style of photograph and then tells you how to set your camera to realize a single interpretation of that scene. I would posit that you should, instead, learn the fundamentals of your settings and focal lengths, and how each impacts the details of a photo, so that when you encounter a particular thing you want to shoot you now have the knowledge of what drives the particular look your going for. </p><p></p><p>For instance, when you're shooting landscapes there are almost as many ways to shoot them as there are actual landscapes. Do you want shallow depth of field to emphasize an aspect of it, or do you want to show everything in a grand vista? What is your light like, are you shooting into the light or is it behind you? Is light varied enough that a single exposure may not capture all available light information, so perhaps you want to shoot different exposures to combine in post? </p><p></p><p>Now I understand different people learn differently, and being tutored on the fundamentals of the "exposure triangle", how focal length effects the spacial relationships between objects in a photograph, aperture and depth of field, etc., outside of a practical situation may be more daunting for some and therefore far less applicable afterwards, but unless that stuff gets into your head then you're going to need to essentially relearn the basics for each and every type of photograph. With that said, I went looking for this book you mentioned just to see what I could see and couldn't even find it, and I'm pretty handy with a search engine, so that tells me it's not commonly used. What resources have you used and what, specifically, are you trying to "put together"?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BackdoorArts, post: 398523, member: 9240"] No experience with the book at all, but what you're looking for is something that is as wide as it is deep, and if you're asking me (which you are, indirectly) I would say that it's the wrong way to approach learning photography because it puts an emphasis on a single type/style of photograph and then tells you how to set your camera to realize a single interpretation of that scene. I would posit that you should, instead, learn the fundamentals of your settings and focal lengths, and how each impacts the details of a photo, so that when you encounter a particular thing you want to shoot you now have the knowledge of what drives the particular look your going for. For instance, when you're shooting landscapes there are almost as many ways to shoot them as there are actual landscapes. Do you want shallow depth of field to emphasize an aspect of it, or do you want to show everything in a grand vista? What is your light like, are you shooting into the light or is it behind you? Is light varied enough that a single exposure may not capture all available light information, so perhaps you want to shoot different exposures to combine in post? Now I understand different people learn differently, and being tutored on the fundamentals of the "exposure triangle", how focal length effects the spacial relationships between objects in a photograph, aperture and depth of field, etc., outside of a practical situation may be more daunting for some and therefore far less applicable afterwards, but unless that stuff gets into your head then you're going to need to essentially relearn the basics for each and every type of photograph. With that said, I went looking for this book you mentioned just to see what I could see and couldn't even find it, and I'm pretty handy with a search engine, so that tells me it's not commonly used. What resources have you used and what, specifically, are you trying to "put together"? [/QUOTE]
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