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Digital Landscape Photography: In the Footsteps of Ansel Adams and the Masters

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Michael Frye has provided serious photographers with a concise well illustrated explanation of the techniques he, and others, have developed to move their digital images at least a bit closer to the superb work of Ansel Adams. But it, of course, takes much more than the mastery of Light-room and Photo-shop to make a great photograph. The writer does not in any way ignore that aspect and encourages reader's to develop their aesthetic skills while practicing the more mechanical until this latter side becomes virtually automatic. Only then, he correctly points out, can you really be free to successfully focus on the more important and fulfilling search for your own style.

The book is an easy read and the illustrations, of mainly the author's work, are excellent examples of the techniques and aesthetic goals he encourages readers to strive for. His explanation of the Zone system was suprisingly brief and I at first thought that he had over simplified what I had always, in my film days, found a relatively complex system. But on reflection I realized that he had in fact managed to make it clearer and simpler, at least to me, than it had ever been before.

If you are serious about improving your photography this book is certainly not a bad place to start.

I have a lot of photography books and this is certainly one of the better ones, with lots of practical advice on landscape composition and camera setting to achieve desired effects. The photos in the book are amazing.

This book is a great addition to my library. Well written complete with inspiring images...one that appeals to me so much that I have read 3 times now and hunger to read again.

Very informative book. Shows how the masters film techniques relate to the digital age. Well written, reasonable price, fast delivery. Great reading for anyone interested in landscape photography.

Wow. Graet book. I have not enjoyed a book like ths in a long time. I am a great Ansel Adams fan and to have a book that upgrade this to digial is as good as it gets. I am now rereading this book for at lease the third time. Very well liistrated.