Best color photography books according to redditors
We found 9 Reddit comments discussing the best color photography books. We ranked the 7 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 9 Reddit comments discussing the best color photography books. We ranked the 7 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
A black and white print is rarely black and white when done by a skilled developer. Usually, prints are toned so the dark areas are different shades of brown or blue or... whatever works best. They can be split toned so they the shadows are a different color than mid and highs. Making a print in black and white is an art, especially when using chemicals. It is also a little bit cheating--put anything in a selenium bath and it will look fantastic.
If you really want to see some interesting examples, get this book: Photographer's toning guide
This other guy wrote a book on it, too: The Print
not necessarily a must see, but Color vision by Joe Marvullo is brilliant
http://www.amazon.com/Color-Vision-Joe-Marvullo/dp/0817436758
I like this one for a nice decorative book and conversation starter. It's an interesting book about a basic natural phenomenon that we generally take for granted :)
Since I'm from Germany, I've always heard that here the standard book for composition is
Harald Mante's The Photograph - Composition and Color Design
Books on composition. Start with this, move on to this and this, and when you feel you're ready for more advanced stuff get this.
The world is full of people who spend thousands of dollars and years of their lives taking technically perfect photos of their cat. Don't end up like them.
Marc Levoy, former Stanford professor, has his Photography class that he taught at Google available online.
For a list of the textbooks his course uses, scroll to the bottom of this page. And he's definitely right about the 10th edition of this book being better than subsequent editions.
I picked up this book for $10 at a used bookstore. An excellent collection of his photographs, with many that haven't been digitized.
In addition to the other recommendations for technical books, I'd suggest this one on the more artistic side.
Nothing new about this. There‘s a book about the secret life of trees & about the intelligence of plants
link to book