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Professional Interior Photography (Professional Photography)
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Product Description
This highly visual, full colour text is a must have purchase for all student and professional interior photographers, from residential to industrial. Michael Harris provides a complete guide through the vast choice of equipment and materials available, sharing his professional knowledge to help you improve your images. New coverage of digital photography is included in this third edition helping you decide on film versus digital for your capture medium. The pros and cons of both are evaluated through a close look at the practice of Ashley Morrison, an interior photographer working digitally. The theory of lighting and composition is combined with practical tips and suggestions for overcoming day-to-day problems, and advice is given on how best to present and store images so you can concentrate on taking the images. If you are just beginning a career in interior photography this book offers a good, comprehensive resource for ideas and techniques whilst encouraging individual interpretation. Illustrated with stunning colour pictures throughout, the text is written in an easy digestible style, making theory clear and simple to understand. The interviews with the masters of interior photography have been expanded and updated to include their views on digital, and now include senior English Heritage photographer Derek Kendall alongside Brian Harrison, Andreas von Einsiedel and Peter Aprahamian.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1004277 in Books
- Published on: 2002-12-16
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 188 pages
Editorial Reviews
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Reviews of previous editions: "An ideal briefing document...if you are just getting started - this book is a must." Focus magazine "Michael Harris does a great job on this book. In this book he recommends the view camera (instead of the typical 35mm). This book isn't really going to teach all aspects of how to use this camera or the equipment. However, there is pretty good coverage concerning lights and how to correct color with filters. He also gives a really good run down on what equipment to buy, composition, and different types of film. If you want to learn a lot about architectural photography and its equipment, this is a really good book. If you want lots of specifics on view cameras, you'll need a different book." Reviewer from Amazon.com 5 star review
About the Author
By Michael Harris
Customer Reviews
Technically detailed, practical, useful, encouraging.
This book filled in a number of gaps in my knowledge, as a tyro interiors photographer. Unlike many photography books, even those aimed supposedly at professionals, there is not a surfeit of redundant basic information. I like the solid technical grounding, the useful overview of techniques and approaches, and the vignettes of working photographers - who were not, I believe, treated in a sycophantic way... This book encouraged me in my specialism, and I refer to it regularly. Recommended.
THIS IS A MUST GET BOOK
This book is for photographers at every stage of their learning the craft of Interior Photography. I found it very clearly written, with good illustrations explaining techniques every step of the way. I continue to use this as a basic reference work on a daily basis.
If you are interested in Interior Photography, this is definitely the book to buy.
Poorly written but with occasional nuggets of good info
It's evident from this book that Michael Harris is a better photographer than he is a writer. The text frequently rambles and digresses and contains far too much that is general and basic, rather than giving any insights into the special problems of interiors photography and how to overcome them. A more anecdotal approach, with 'how-to' explanations, would have been more useful - something the book starts to tackle in the photo captions, though not nearly in enough depth.
The highlight of the book is the final section with profiles of three photographers. Once you get past the sycophancy of Harris' introduction, these profiles actually contain some fascinating details about the photographers' working methods. A whole book of such interviews, with details of specific assignments, would have been great. As it is, I'm not sure this book is worth the cover price.
