Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9107 in Books
• Published on: 2007-11-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Synopsis
The authors are among Britain's best known and most respected landscape photographers; all three also write about their work in books and magazines and regularly lead the popular workshops organised by their company, Light & Land, in Britain and abroad. In this book, they have combined forces to share their wide-ranging experience and expertise with those who aspire, as they do, to create images that reflect their own visions of a chosen landscape and which have a distinctive personal style. Alongside a portfolio of their latest work, each of the three authors writes about the genre for which they are so well-known: how they came to it, what inspires them, how each developed his own particular style. The book also features photographs submitted in response to an invitation to participants in Light & Land workshops and readers of "Outdoor Photography" magazine accompanied by comments, critiques and advice from the three authors who suggest ways in which these contributors might further develop and refine their work.

The combination of stunning imagery with inspirational and insightful three-to-one advice makes "Light & Land" a truly unique experience, which no landscape enthusiast will want to do without. This is the second book in the "Light & Land" series which was launched in 2006 with "Working the Light".

Customer Reviews

Very Disappointed indeed
When i purchased this book i expected it to at least show you some tips on how to produce a landscape image, and what filters to use for example.

This book to me is a book just to show off a variation of photographer's work, and not a masterclass, and i have in fact returned it. Malc Richings

thought provoking
Amazing to see negative comments. Maybe im more interested in what makes a picture work on an emotional level and really appreciate the views and feelings of the photographer in there capturing of the image.

The pictures are amazing, perhaps a criticism is that some of the photographers who are asked to explain their views on photography are not so good and putting their views into text! But then you see the work of consistently stunning photographers and often their views and ability to express what they wanted to achieve in their pictures is much more solid than some of the lesser able photographers.

Most photo books are about technique and equipment. I've read half a dozen and there all much of a muchness. I'm so glad this book inst one of them.

This book has made me think about my pictures and stop thinking of them as snaps and shots, but photographs instead. If your going to buy this book blind, you have to be ready for it not being what you expected! But if the pictures don't inspire you then nothing will.

Not up to the usual standard
The idea behind the book is good and some of the photographs are excellent. So why only one star? Unfortunately, in common with many other books on this subject, most of the images are grossly over-saturated. The result is that much colour detail is lost and the images lack subtlety. This is apparent even on the cover shot in which the Cuillin Mountains look good enough to eat; the Cuillins are made of granite - not chocolate. This is very frustrating as many of the images are top quality, notably Cornish's Cir Mhor shot and Gallagher's monochromes.
I would have awarded two stars but for the awful arty claptrap that passes for text. This is not a Masterclass.