Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs by Ansel Adams
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Book Reviews of Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs
Book Review: Black & White from the pro
Summary: 4 Stars
It is always great to have the chance to glimpse the work process of the masters in photography. This book provides enough information for anyone wanting to better their work in black & white and to learn from the best.Book Review: Beautyful and interesting book
Summary: 4 Stars
Nice to be able to go back to basics in these times of megapixels and gigabytes.Book Review: Not for digital.
Summary: 3 Stars
I thought this book would be great, and I saw that it had rave reviews so I got it. I must say I was fairly disappointed. It's not the book's fault, so it almost seems unfair to give it a low rating. But such is life.
The major problem is that the book describes a process which is film-based rather than digital. Now I knew that going in, but I also figured that digital photography is very analogous to film-based photography, so there was still a lot I could learn. I was wrong. Adams spends a great deal of time discussing the camera he used (almost always large format), the lenses, the filters, the type of film, and the chemicals used in development. Almost all of this is entirely meaningless in a world of 35mm digital cameras. Only the filters have ANY relevance, and even that is extremely limited in a world of post-processing. So all of "the making" included in this book was entirely useless for me, and probably for most of you.
Still, there was value in his discussion of the situation leading up to the photography. Ironically, there was probably more of this than there should have been for a "making of" book! But thank goodness, because it was the only part of the book that was even meaningful to me. And it was not really enough. I struggled to finish the book in the hope that it would prove worthwhile, but I am not convinced that it did. I would not recommend this book.
On the other hand, if you are doing film photography, it may be exactly what you were looking for.