Product Description

Best-selling author Lee Frost presents a comprehensive, practical guide to taking great panoramic images, illustrated throughout with his own beautiful photographs. Lee Frost's "Panoramic Photography" covers all aspects of creating successful panoramic images: choosing equipment, using filters and accessories, composition, metering and exposure, troubleshooting and printing, displaying and selling the final pictures. Opens up the creative possibilities of panoramic photography; it's not just for landscapes and architecture, but also action shots, documentary shots and many other types of subject. With an inspirational collection of images and thorough practical advice, Lee Frost's "Panoramic Photography" allows photographers to discover a whole new way of thinking and seeing.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #103219 in Books
• Published on: 2007-08-31
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 144 pages

About the Author
Lee Frost is an acclaimed landscape photographer and one of the world's best-known photography writers. He has written many best-selling books including The A - Z of Creative Photography, Photos That Sell and The Photographer's Guide to Filters. He is a regular contributor to the photography press and lives in Lesbury, Northumberland.

Customer Reviews

The must have book on panoramics
This is a 5 star book because it succeeds in explaining how panoramic photography differs from any other photography. If you have ever moved between say square and standard formats you will know the sensation of suddenly being in a totally different realm. This feeling is far stronger when moving into panoramics: you have to rethink metering, the impact of colours, DOF, and general composition. This is why the book is written the way it is. Lee Frost is arguably one of the best panoramic photographers around and a skilled communicator. In this book he focuses on conveying the great joy of shooting panoramic as well as the basic needs to succeed. He could have spent many pages on software and digicams that would be obsolete when you read this - fortunately he did not (relevant links are supplied). I think the previous reviewer failed to understand that every picture in the book is an important example of how to compose in panoramic format. Being on my second Xpan and shooting panoramics digitally as well I most strongly disagree with the notion that an hour spent on the web will provide you with more knowledge than reading this book. On the contrary everybody can learn from this and at the same time be blown away with the wonderful photos.

Bit of a disappointment
The images in this book are excellent.
However the book is based on Lee's experience of using three models of film camera, making it limited in scope for anyone approaching the subject for the first time. The amount of space dedicated to composition is limited and could have been expanded by removing the sections on exposure, depth of field and reducing the amount of on filters, which again concentrate on the three cameras he uses. This is hardly a book that will attract someone just staring in photography and I would imagine that most readers already know how aperture affects depth of field!

The subject of using digital cameras occupies only a small part of the book and makes no mention of how the camera should be set up around the nodal point of the lens!

In all a disappointment. The images cannot be faulted but anyone wanting to produce panoramas from a standard film or digital camera would be better looking elsewhere, an hour on the internet will prove more rewarding.

Very good for film panoramas
I thoroughly enjoyed this book just for the photos. However, there is also plenty of information on all types of panoramic film cameras. The digital section is a little light I feel but what is there is useful. Most of all, it has inspired me to go out and try some panoramic photography for myself and that's always the sign of a good photography book!