Photography Books

If you have ever wanted to capture professional quality landscape photos with a cutting-edge digital camera or with a traditional film camera, and you just don’t know how, then pick up Tim Fitzharris’s National Audubon Society Guide to Landscape Photography. The author reveals his techniques from years of experience to make landscape photography as inspiring as the ever changing landscape.

When it comes to photography, it all comes down to light. Light is what gives you your picture. But certain scenes need special light, and that’s when you have to use flash photography. Now you can go in-depth with internationally acclaimed photographer, Joe McNally in his book, The Hot Shoe Diaries: Big Light from Small Flashes. With his 30 years of experience, the author certainly knows how to talk about light.

Would you spend $100 for a photography book? You surely will with Barbara London’s, Jim Stone’s, and John Upton’s Photography 9th Edition. This book emphasizes on two important things in photography: technique and visual awareness. You will learn how to control the photographic process through excellent instructional illustrations and examples, both in black and white and color photography.

A magical resource on photographic lighting, Steven Biver’s, Paul Fuqua’s, and Fil Hunter’s Light: Science and Magic: An Introduction to Photographic Lighting will enlighten you on the nature and the different theories of lighting. As a photographer, you must learn how to use light and take control of the moment, including how to predict the size of light, the type of reflection, and how to work with angles when you capture a scene.

This is not another photography book, but The Photographer’s Eye: Composition and Design for Better Digital Photos by Michael Freeman is a great reference for photographers who already know the basics of digital photography and want to explore more on the conventional methods in composition and design. It digs deeper into aspects of digital design and composition that are often missed out as the author articulates his artistic thoughts in concrete and analytical ways with his world-class images.

George Barr’s Take Your Photography to the Next Level: From Inspiration to Image is a perfect fit for those who are looking for a book that focuses on the visual presentation of a photo more than the equipment used in capturing it.

The Betterphoto Guide to Digital Photography by Jim Miotke lets you take full control of your digital camera. This hands-on, lesson-based workbook gives you a step-by-step tutorial and makes technical elements like exposure, light, white balance, composition, file formats and quality settings, among others easy to work with, as these are clearly explained in an easy to understand, down-to-earth manner.

Bryan Peterson’s Learning to See Creatively: Design, Color & Composition in Photography will teach you the principles behind design, color and composition. Prepare to deconstruct your creativity as this book uses inventive photographs from the author’s own portfolio to teach you that minor changes can have profound, but subtle effects on the success of your photograph. You will learn to look at the world differently through your viewfinder.

Make photography more fun by just using basic principles and you can achieve high-quality photographs like a pro. This is what Scott Kelby’s The Digital Photography Book is all about. It has none of those highly technical jargons used in photography, making this book very practical and useful. You will learn and understand that what you really need is a clear bottom line on how to approach the subject you want to capture.

Be inspired. Be challenged. Be informed. The Moment It Clicks: Photography secrets form one of the world’s top shooters – Joe McNally shares his sheer talent as he takes you to see and to understand how a pro would have taken a specific photograph. This book will teach you "how to have a single photo tell a real story" with emotion and from different perspectives, as the author also shares anecdotes behind his sample photos.