David Busch's Portrait/Candid/Street Photography Compact Field Guide (David Busch's Digital Photography Guides)
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David Busch's Portrait/Candid/Street Photography Compact Field Guide (David Busch's Digital Photography Guides) Details
About the Author With more than a 1.5 million books in print, David D. Busch is the world's #1 selling digital camera guide author, and the originator of popular series like David Busch's Pro Secrets, David Busch's Compact Field Guides, and David Busch's Quick Snap Guides. He has written dozens of hugely successful guidebooks for digital camera models, including the all-time #1 best-sellers for many Nikon models, additional user guides for other camera models, as well as many popular books devoted to digital cameras, including Mastering Digital SLR Photography, Third Edition and Digital SLR Pro Secrets.As a roving photojournalist for more than 20 years, he illustrated his books, magazine articles, and newspaper reports with award-winning images. He's operated his own commercial studio, suffocated in formal dress while shooting weddings-for-hire, and shot sports for a daily newspaper and upstate New York college. His articles and photographs have appeared in Popular Photography & Imaging, The Rangefinder, The Professional Photographer, and hundreds of other publications. He's also reviewed dozens of digital cameras for CNet and Computer Shopper, and his advice has been featured on NPR's All Tech Considered. Read more
Reviews
This book is an obligatory "must have" for anyone serious about photographing people. Mr Busch provides suggestions, ideas and photographic examples as well as recommending that the reader Google the names of other greats such as Margaret Bourke-White, Gordon Parks and Henri Cartier Bresson for further reference. What I most enjoyed about the book besides the aforementioned is that Mr Busch does not burden the reader with a plethora of often times confusing photographic terminology. He touches on each topic (such as depth of field and aperture) but is more concerned, as was the great Lisette Model, that one has to familiarize him/herself with his/her camera and practice, practice, practice. I do not think that this book should be just for newbies but also for anyone who is serious about taking good photographs of people. I have read countless books on this topic but feel that only Mr Busch and his associate Rob Sheppard have successfully addressed the issues of taking GOOD photographs of people whether one chooses to shoot them in formal, informal or candid settings. One cannot ask for more than what these authours have to offer us in a concise 134 pages. Thank you, Mr Busch and Mr Sheppard!
