Brenda IS Scottish Loc: GOLDEN Colorado

I have selected the first book for the month of June. It is a Kindle book entitled 70 Photography Lessons the link is

http://www.amazon.com/70-Photography-Lessons-ebook/dp/B008OIWKSK/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1370002437&sr=1-1&keywords=70+Photography+Lessons

It has 70 lessons to improve your photography. My hope is that everyone will read the book and pick a few of the lessons to work on and post photo's of their chosen lesson. You can choose as many lessons as you wish to work on for the group. You are not "required' to do all of the Lessons to post, but pick one or two to work on and post.

AL-Digital Loc: Alabama

thanks xxMeanKittyxx

I just got a copy, I will pick a couple of lessons to work on and look forward to posting and discussing the results.

cogerox Loc: Northern Cal

Since I don't have a Kindle, will I be able to read this on my MacBook Pro?

Eveline

Can I read this on the Ipad? It doesn't say in the ad.

Brenda IS Scottish Loc: GOLDEN Colorado

just download the free Kindle app and you will be able to purchase the book from Amazon.

Bhead

I think this book club idea is great, but am confused on how it will work. Would you mind laying out some ground rules for us to understand and follow? Please....

Brenda IS Scottish Loc: GOLDEN Colorado

I honestly am completely new to book clubs, so I'm as green as you are. I know in a regular book club they pick a book, read it, and about once a month get together to discuss the book they read and what they thought about it. I'm hoping this will be in a similar format except that people can post their opinions at any time.

The first book has 70 tips to help photographers in their journey. For this month, I would figure everyone would pick 2 or 3 "hints" and add them into their photography workflow and share their experience with others. It is a light read and thought it might be a good starting point. Start reading the book, ask question of other group members if they use this technique, their thoughts on it etc if they got any benefit out of the book or if it was a waste of time.

I think if this group has enough participation we can do a lot of discovery about photography and get greater insight on how others manage their photography so we can all learn from each other and from the books we select.

Hope that helps clarify it a bit better. I cannot really state what the rhythm of the posts will be like, but hopefully a "system" will gradually work into itself.

BHC Loc: Strawberry Valley, JF, USA

There's an app for that!

BHC Loc: Strawberry Valley, JF, USA

There's an app for that!

Eveline

Got it thanks.

Eveline

OK - I managed to download the Kindle application and the book. Now I will start reading. Thanks to all.

Eveline

I downloaded the book and read it in one sitting. Don't waste your money. I did not learn anything new. There were very few creative suggestions. On top of that, the grammar and spelling were not great. Eric might be a great photographer (I don't know his work) but he is definitely not a good author.

However, having said that, he mentioned pattern as something to try. I am going to shoot pattern as it is a topic I sometimes forget about. I will post some pics towards the middle or end of June.

Bhead

Patterns are fun as are textures. A few years ago I completed a show call Texas Textures and am thinking of revisiting it, this time with digital rather than large format. Also, I think the book is a bit too entry level for folks that are spending their time reading about photography (non complex projects/instruction.) May I suggest a topic such as evaluating photographs (maybe with a specific focus such as digital, print, landscape, portrait, with zone system approaches, etc.) as those who take the time to read photographic books are not always looking for instruction but rather thoughts also about how others view, use and or interpret images. Just a thought for our next book.

Brenda IS Scottish Loc: GOLDEN Colorado

I really didn't know where to begin with a book for the club, so I started there...if you have any specific books in mind could you get the names to me?

Bhead

I am so glad you had this idea and followed up on it. There are soooo many great photo books out there. A good start may be a book called Criticizing Photographs (I believe it is by Garrett) or something like that. There are multiple revisions and one is an introduction to viewing images. I think it is a good read for all photographers. Its been many a year since I read it, but would gladly do so again. Other topic may be revolving around prominent photographers old and new - their works and how they accomplished them.

I hope you don't feel like I am a pain, I just love photo books of all types and have always found the ones revolving around theory to be much more interesting as there is only some much technical info one needs to make a good photo. But to view other images through well refined lenses opens a world to the soul of photography.