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Using his own photographs to illustrate the text, Charlie Waite explains the basis of his success as a landscape photographer. From the choice of camera and lens to the subtleties of lighting and composition, from manipulating the image to extracting the essential elements of a scene, he brings his years of practical experience to bear on the subject. The book contains many practical tips for the budding landscape photographer, but technical mastery is only one part of the story. The author aims, above all, to instill in readers his own love of landscape, and to encourage them to respond to, and capture, the world around them. Charlie Waite's prize-winning books include Landscape in Britain, Landscape in France, and Landscape in Italy.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Superb. Inspirational., April 14 2002

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Marius S. (San Jose, CA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Making of Landscape Photographs The (Paperback)

Charlie Waite is my favorite landscape photographer. Galen Rowell, John Shaw, and Art Wolfe to name a few usually does little to nothing for me. But when I look at Charlie Waite, I'm spellbound. I picked this book up again recently and again it is sooo inspirational. Excellent. I like the tone Charlie Waite writes in as well.

The book consists of 150 color photographs, all of which are 6x6 pictures (Hasselblad). Most pictures have not been cropped, so if you have strong distaste against the square format you're going to miss out ;) This is by no means a medium format photography book, though. Other than the fact that the pictures are taken with a medium format camera, everything in this book is about the picture itself.

The contents are:
- Introduction: A Frame of Mind
- The Arrangement of Parts
- Simplicity
- Right Time, Right Place
- Lenses
- Movement and Exposure
- Manipulating the Image
- The Play of Light
- Colour in its Place
- Sky and the Landscape
- Water and the Landscape
- Buildings and the Landscape
- The Big View
- The Intimacies of the Landscape
- The Final Shape

The format of the book is one picture per page, some text about the picture and composition and a "Points to Watch" box. There is also a box for each picture giving the technical data, but don't let that fool you into thinking that this is a technical book. It's a book that shows pictures and what the photographer thinks about each one. It's not a book that will take you step-by-step through anything.

Charlie Waite is based in UK, so most of the photographs are from Europe.

Also see my review of Charlie Waite's "Seeing Landscapes" which is not too different from this book, but different enough to be worth having too.

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4.0 out of 5 stars One of the better landscape photography books, Jun 13 2004

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Richard Drdul (Vancouver, BC) - See all my reviews
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Although much of the content in this book can be found in many other books on landscape photography, this book is better than most other such books. The images are very good, the writing is to the point, and the format and organization of the book make it easy to read and find information. It's worth a look.

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5.0 out of 5 stars this is Landscape photography at its best, Aug 26 2002

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Noel Greene "Noel Greene" (Europe) - See all my reviews
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This is a great great photography book. No matter how many times you read it you will keep learning from this great photographer.
The pictures are superb and the explanations are well written and easily understood. Another feature of the book is its honesty. When the author feels that the picture could be improved he tells you so. This is a rarity in these types of books. I have recently purchased Charlie Waites book Seeing Creatively which is also superb. I just cannot get enough of his books and I wish the older Books were available for purchase, but alas they seem hard to get hold of.

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5.0 out of 5 stars This is the one I keep coming back to
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