Hello folks.
I’ve got about 1/3 through my DK ‘digital photography complete course’ (£12.99 on Amazon).
i am looking for something to inspire greater creativity.
something in the vein of Cartier-Bresson, but not specifically street photography.
thanks in advance👍
I bought this and went on holiday for a week to Paris..
It's got chapters on how to to the different techniques, assignments to try and then examples of how pro photographers met the same assignment.
The book+ the assignments+ the time to take photos+ Paris to take photos of taught me the basics.
It's £3. Not a major investment if it doesn't work for you 😃📸📸
Any one of Don McCullins books.
Any one of Don McCullins books
This.
Try this...
Mentioned by that bloke, who goes on about websites to cure boredom etc.
Any one of Don McCullins books.
That'll be good preparation if the OP plans to drop into a war zone. Maybe more relevant to the real world is Joel Meyerowitz. He has quite a good course on the Masters of Photography platform, BTW. And 2 good street photography books are "Think like a street photographer" by Matt Stuart, and "The street photographers manual" by David Gibson.
Thank you.
it’s not so much about the instructional aspect.
so, I’ll check out the Saul leiter book, and see if the amazon algorithm churns out some more.
Ansel Adams is possibly the greatest landscape photographer of all time. He used Polaroid 10x8 negative film, the original image has no grain, and depth of field is from just in front of the camera to the far horizon.
I used to collect official calendars every year, they’re beautiful things, and I saw his originals at an exhibition years ago, his photography is hugely inspiring.
There are plenty of books of his art available.
Maybe a thing to watch rather than a book (although there are books as well). 'Finding Vivian Maier' is an excellent documentary about a woman's lifetime of photographic work that didn't come to light until after she died.
Somehow for someone who's work was completely unknown - many of her photos had never been developed never mind exhibited or published - every picture seems so iconic you feel sure its famous.
Ming Thein’s website is a treasure trove of all things photography. The gear stuff is now well out of date, but the photographs and philosophy are timeless.
Ansel Adams is possibly the greatest landscape photographer of all time. He used Polaroid 10x8 negative film, the original image has no grain, and depth of field is from just in front of the camera to the far horizon.
I used to collect official calendars every year, they’re beautiful things, and I saw his originals at an exhibition years ago, his photography is hugely inspiring.
There are plenty of books of his art available.
Neither Moonrise nor Clearing Winter Storm were shot on polaroid.
Infact its a bit of a stretch to single out polaroid as his preferred media. Medium format, 4x5 and 8x10 black and white koda film and even glass plates in his early work. With Polaroid coming alot later.
Rather than Ansel specifically reading about the f64 group is interesting. That gets you Weston and Cunningham etc aswell.
OP i think you might be Glasgow based?
Have you been to stills in Edinburgh.
Take the trip and browse their books. Their courses are great aswell.
OP i think you might be Glasgow based?
Have you been to stills in Edinburgh.
Take the trip and browse their books. Their courses are great aswell.
Or Streetlevel Photography Gallery in Glasgow of course
OP i think you might be Glasgow based?
Have you been to stills in Edinburgh.
Take the trip and browse their books. Their courses are great aswell.
Or Streetlevel Photography Gallery in Glasgow of course
Good point. No experience of streetlevel but I assume its similarly good.
The Wildlife Photographer of the Year books are excellent. Nice that they are still keeping the faith with natural looking images vs the stuff you see on insta / camera club competions
https://www.nhmshop.co.uk/wildlife-photographer-of-the-year-portfolio-35.html
OP i think you might be Glasgow based?
Have you been to stills in Edinburgh.
Take the trip and browse their books. Their courses are great aswell.
Or Streetlevel Photography Gallery in Glasgow of course
https://www.glasgowgalleryofphotography.com/
Always good exhibitions and books here too.
Thank you.
great recommendations.
ansel Adam’s seems like the anton corbijn of landscapes.
ill pay a visit to the Glasgow gallery of photography as well as streetlevel, and stills in Edinburgh.
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Might not be what you are looking for - but if you need guidance on where, as well as how to get great landscape pics in Scotland you could do worse than:
Thank you.
great recommendations.
ansel Adam’s seems like the anton corbijn of landscapes.
ill pay a visit to the Glasgow gallery of photography as well as streetlevel, and stills in Edinburgh.
👍
Not sure if it was clear but there were two points to my post about still (but valid for the other ones).
A. Yes definitely go and see. Some of of the shows are intersting, some of them are inspiring some of them are "you call this art? My 5 year old could do this" bit they also have reference libraries and the shops have photo books so peruse and see what books jump out at you.
I personally don't really get on with books on photography or art o flick through once and then i'm not interested.
In terms of blogs i quite like 35mmc because its varied community blog rather than one person some of its drivel and some of its pretentious twaddle but some of it is inspiring without being unreachable.
For example https://www.35mmc.com/14/12/2025/shadows-on-piste-my-best-photo-of-2025/
I’m a bit biased (as she was a close family friend) but Fay Godwin is in my opinion one of the best landscape photographers of her generation, and definitely in this country. Her photo of Meall Mor in Glencoe is singularly one of my favourite photos full stop.
I joined our local county library service for this purpose - searched for anything "Photography" using their online reservation service and have been been booking them out in small batches. No idea what I will get each book (I don't look them up first) but that also exposes me to stuff I might not go for normally. There has been the occasional raised eyebrow from the librarian when I pick up the rare nude photography content book 🙂
raised eyebrow from the librarian when I pick up the rare nude photography content book
They're just wondering whether you'll recognise them with their clothes on