By question a few weeks ago about the relationships among sensor size, focal length, and depth of field provoked some useful discussion and a passing comment from Mark C. referring to John Shaw’s books. I went and pulled a couple of my Shaw books from the shelf. I noticed another oldie-but-goodie from the early ‘90s, The Art of Photographing Nature by Martha Hill with Art Wolfe (1993). I have now finished rereading that one. The book is a conversation of sorts, with Wolfe presenting two or three images and doing a compare/contrast of the images as affected by camera settings, film used, etc. Then Hill provides a commentary on the images based on her experience as a nature magazine photo editor. Good information, well presented. If you haven’t seen this, or haven’t seen it recently, you might want to look for it.
I do have two more recent books by Wolfe on order: The Art of the Photograph: Essential Habits for Stronger Compositions; and The New Art of Photographing Nature: An Updated Guide to Composing Stunning Images of Animals, Nature, and Landscapes. I suspect the latter is a fairly straight edit/update of the Wolfe/Hill book from 1993. I also suspect that it will lose a great deal without the dialogue between Wolfe and Hill. Stay tuned, I’ll let you know. But meanwhile, if you come across the original, pull it out and settle in for a couple evenings of reflective study. stan -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
