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# Creative Nature & Outdoor Photography, Revised Edition

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Review: Should be on every photographer's bookshelf - This is a superb book on creative photography along with an introduction to digital techniques. The book covers a wealth of topics on photographic vision that are accompanied with magnificent photographs illustrating each topic. Thus, the reader's understanding of light, color, composition, and many other topics is enhanced by both clearly written text as well as the accompanying images. This is not meant to be a book focused on digital photography techniques (for that purpose I recommend Digital Landscape Photography by John and Barbara Gerlach), but it does include an introductory discussion of topics such as histograms, HDR photography, and some uses of Photoshop at appropriate points. This book is a joy to read and should be on every photographer's bookshelf.
Review: Refresher - This is a well produced book that would do any library proud. However, my brand new book stuck in several places near the spine & though the pages did come apart without tearing, there is an unsightly grey fuzz running vertically down several pages near the spine. But that has nothing to do with Ms. Tharpe. Picked it up on Ken Rockwell's suggestion & am glad I did. Concepts are clearly explained & the accompanying photographs are very appropriate & helpful. The questions she suggests a photographer ask of himself & composition is very helpful, coming back to photography after a long hiatus. The style of writing is interesting & not at all pedantic, though there is a lot of information in these 10 chapters. The chapter on Light is comprehensive as it not only talks about its colour, direction & how the camera sees it with very helpful boxes like: How to read a historgram?; HDR, and White Balance. All chapters have this great mix of general comprehensive presentation along with tips. Chapter 8, Artistic Interpretations have different Techniques & there is a small segment on Lensbabies. I would have loved to have read this when I was sixteen & starting out learining the craft. But better late than never. All in all, an excellent & beautiful book that I would reccomend & readily gift to friends & family interested in the Art.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #1,667,050 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #751 in Plant & Animal Photography #754 in Photography Reference (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars (146) |
| Dimensions  | 8.5 x 0.4 x 11 inches |
| Edition  | Revised ed. |
| ISBN-10  | 0817439617 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0817439613 |
| Item Weight  | 1.48 pounds |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 160 pages |
| Publication date  | February 23, 2010 |
| Publisher  | Amphoto Books |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Should be on every photographer's bookshelf
*by J***N on March 14, 2010*

This is a superb book on creative photography along with an introduction to digital techniques. The book covers a wealth of topics on photographic vision that are accompanied with magnificent photographs illustrating each topic. Thus, the reader's understanding of light, color, composition, and many other topics is enhanced by both clearly written text as well as the accompanying images. This is not meant to be a book focused on digital photography techniques (for that purpose I recommend Digital Landscape Photography by John and Barbara Gerlach), but it does include an introductory discussion of topics such as histograms, HDR photography, and some uses of Photoshop at appropriate points. This book is a joy to read and should be on every photographer's bookshelf.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Refresher
*by S***L on June 10, 2010*

This is a well produced book that would do any library proud. However, my brand new book stuck in several places near the spine & though the pages did come apart without tearing, there is an unsightly grey fuzz running vertically down several pages near the spine. But that has nothing to do with Ms. Tharpe. Picked it up on Ken Rockwell's suggestion & am glad I did. Concepts are clearly explained & the accompanying photographs are very appropriate & helpful. The questions she suggests a photographer ask of himself & composition is very helpful, coming back to photography after a long hiatus. The style of writing is interesting & not at all pedantic, though there is a lot of information in these 10 chapters. The chapter on Light is comprehensive as it not only talks about its colour, direction & how the camera sees it with very helpful boxes like: How to read a historgram?; HDR, and White Balance. All chapters have this great mix of general comprehensive presentation along with tips. Chapter 8, Artistic Interpretations have different Techniques & there is a small segment on Lensbabies. I would have loved to have read this when I was sixteen & starting out learining the craft. But better late than never. All in all, an excellent & beautiful book that I would reccomend & readily gift to friends & family interested in the Art.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Solid introductory book on composition
*by A***I on November 28, 2011*

The original edition of "Creative Nature & Outdoor Photography" is a great guide for beginners to learn to take better photographs. Despite its age, much of the content is still relevant to today's photographers. The updated edition of this book contains fresh images, and new material specifically about digital photography. While the selection of images and core of the text both continue to be very enjoyable, the new technical information presented is underwhelming and relatively poorly described. I think this book would have been a lot stronger if it maintained its focus on compositional/creative topics rather than occasionally diverge into technical subjects. Those looking for technical information would be better advised to look elsewhere. In terms of creative instruction, this book is similar to Peterson's "Learning to See Creatively". These two books do overlap, although in many ways, they are complementary. Tharp covers 'core' topics like lighting, design elements, and composition quite well (and this is what made the book so successful in the first edition). If you've never been exposed to these ideas, this book is a great introduction. The material is engaging and easy-to-read, and does not feel like a textbook (which many books on composition tend to feel like). However, if you are already familiar with these topics, the presentation may feel a bit shallow. On a few occasions, a topic will be described and stop just short of giving really practical advice or examples on how it might be used. It was disappointing to sometimes read a fairly vague passage and then have it qualified with something generic like "just keep trying and you'll get it" (sic). Nevertheless, this is still among one of the better introductory instructional books on composition. Of the few sidebars (or otherwise minor sections) on technical topics, none were covered very well. Tharp discusses the histogram, and 'exposing to the right', as well as topics like HDR and some post-processing ideas, all of which had fairly weak coverage. The weakest topic by far was on depth of field, where the book tries to describe hyperfocal focusing, and basically butchers the topic. The text describes the DoF master application, but not the excellent website, where all of this is explained wonderfully. Despite it's flaws, the real 'meat' of this book continues to be relatively good. This book is best for beginning photographers. If you more advanced, and are looking for some deeper discussion of 'vision' and expression through photography (something that Tharp hints at in a few places), then I'd highly recommend you take a look at David duChemin's excellent books instead.

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