The Photographer's Eye Field Guide: The essential handbook for traveling with your digital SLR camera |  | Author: Michael Freeman
Publisher: Focal Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 67191
Media: Paperback
Pages: 192
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 6.1 x 4.6 x 0.6
ISBN: 0240812484
Dewey Decimal Number: 778.9991
EAN: 9780240812489
ASIN: 0240812484
Publication Date: August 26, 2009
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Product Description
Whether on a weekend city break or a month-long trekking vacation, this handy litle guide will be your indispensable companion. Taking photos that really capture the essence of your time away is a real skill, and swamped with a multitude of choices, it can be hard to organise your time and focus on the shots that really matter.
Written by Michael Freeman, one of the world's leading travel photographers, this portable mine of information takes a hands-on approach to travel photography, offering a comprehensive guide to planning and executing your trip. Advice covers everything and includes: choosing what to photograph and how to do it, coping with challenging lighting conditions, and negotiating customs and security issues.
The subjects section covers a diverse array of settings, including: safaris, deserts, diving, cycling, mountains and water. This ensures that, whatever situation you encounter, you have the information you need to take stunning shots right at your fingertips.
The themes section takes a more conceptual approach, and is packed with invaluable advice on situations you may encounter: shooting, for example, worship scenes, markets, landscapes and light. There is even a section on reworking cliches, so you can visit the much-photographed sites of the world and come away with something truly unique.
Packed with stunning shots, and rooted entirely in the photographers own experiences, this is a highly practical approach to a key area of photography, and an inspirational guide for photographers on the move everywhere.
* Indispensable pocket-sized guide to travelling with your digital SLR camera
* Packed with stunning images, illustrating how and what to photograph
* Written by Michael Freeman, one of the world's leading travel photographers
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| Customer Reviews:
 great little book to pack along with photo gear when traveling December 29, 2009
P. Shepard (ARKANSAS)
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
I'm not sure i realized i was getting a "field guide" when i ordered this item. I think i was mainly trying to get my total to just over $25 for free shipping. However, I am glad i got this book. it's small enough to fit in a jacket pocket or camera bag & provides a lot of useful info-- especially if you are traveling w/ your camera equipment. Just remember to read, peruse book first! before you go...
IT is well organized... especially like the coverage of the different types of lighting one might encounter... Of course, author has tremendous amount of photo travel experience & shares freely from this. There are many wonderful photos (from around the world) included to illustrate a lot of what he is presenting. On a practical note, the reference section about clearing customs, legal restrictions, (international) power/plug configurations -- with a table listing many, many countries...
suffice to say this little gem (about 200 pages) is not only inexpensive, well-built (don't think the pages will start falling out any time soon), and informative... it's got a friendly tone. kind of like a buddy sharing some insights. not bad at all! recommend highly.
The Photographer's Eye Field Guide February 8, 2010
Sacramento Book Review (Sacramento, CA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
If you are the type who packs a "photography" travel bag whenever you venture a mile or more away from home, there is one pocket-sized guidebook that you shouldn't be without--Michael Freeman's //The Photographer's Eye Field Guide: The Essential Handbook for Traveling with Your Digital SLR Camera//. Though small in size, this book is big one two things: All the essential information you need to know about doing photography wherever you may happen to find yourself in the world, and, helping you get inspired with a number of lush photographic ideas and examples.
The book is conveniently organized into six logical sections: Preparation, On the Road, Appreciating Light, Subjects, Themes, and Reference. These sections, written in a direct, easy-to-understand format, will help you prepare for the trip, provide invaluable practical advice for when you're traveling, and offer, through superb illustrative images by one of the world's most respected travel photographers, masterful guidance on how, what and when to photograph.
With //The Photographer's Eye Field Guide// by Freeman, the aim is for you to be armed with practical and applicable knowledge as well as a creative frame of mind when confronted with the striking beauty of the world that is all around us. When you want to shoot images of people on location or create scenic landscapes, //The Photographer's Eye Field Guide// is a useful, practical and inspiring pocketable reference.
Reviewed by Dominique James
good book to learn composition March 10, 2010
Bill Coleman
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
i have been in photography for years, but i still have a problem with composition, and getting it right, this book was very good at helping with that..
 Very, very Basic February 7, 2010
Daniel Uriol (Spain)
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
Since other books from Michael Freeman are amazing an full of tips, this particular mini-one is a basic-from-the-beginning guide to plan your trip and make all necessary arrangements. 80% of the tips are those that a normal traveller (cover your lents, bring an extra battery with you, beware of rain, a tripod may help you at night ...) is already doing and he didn't add anything new to my prior knowledge. The problem comes when I guess that almost 99% of the people will agree with me after reading this book.
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