The best photography books you should be reading
Whether you’re an experienced professional photographer or a beginner, photography books will help you improve your skills. Here’s our round up of 10 Photography Books to inspire your photography, and improve your photographic techniques.
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Tony Northrup’s Dslr Book: How to Create Stunning Digital Photography
How to Create Stunning Digital Photography Book is a practical, hands-on course self-paced photography class, and includes over three hours of online training videos.
Understanding Exposure by Bryan Peterson
Bryan Peterson emphasis is on finding the right exposure even in tricky situations. The book explains the fundamentals of light, aperture, and shutter speed and how they interact with and influence one another.
The Beginner’s Photography Guide
This guide is easy to follow. The step-by-step layout makes is great for beginner’s, as it takes you through every technique you need to create stunning images, from exposure to flash to image enhancement.
David Busch’s Mastering Digital SLR Photography
This fully-illustrated, full-color guide also covers the basics, including file formats, resolution, aperture/priority exposure, and much more. It will also help you expand your knowledge of more advanced creative photography concepts.
The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic CC Book – Scott Kelby
This is the world’s #1 top-selling Lightroom Book. Scott shares his own personal settings, his time-tested techniques, and his proven step-by-step method of learning Lightroom, so you can begin using it like a pro from the start.
The Adobe Photoshop CC Book – Andrew Faulkner &Conrad Chavez
This is the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Photoshop. If you’ve struggled trying to learn Photoshop, this is the book for you. It includes 15 project-based lessons showing key step-by-step techniques for working in Photoshop. You’ll learn how to correct, enhance, and distort digital images, create image composites, prepare images for print and the web.
The Photographer’s Eye Remastered 10th Anniversary: Composition and Design for Better Digital Photographs by Michael Freeman
This Book explains the principles of good composition. It will help you develop your composition skills and take better photographs. It explores traditional approaches to composition and design.
Mastering Portrait Photography
Learn the essential techniques to improve your portrait photography skills, with one of the best guide books out there. You’ll also find advice on equipment, exposure, aperture, metering, shutter speed, depth of field, white balance settings, and more.
Light Science & Magic: An Introduction to Photographic Lighting
Lighting is a key skill that has the power to dramatically and quickly improve photographs. This book will help you to become a master of lighting. You’ll learn a comprehensive theory of the nature and principles of light, with examples and instructions for practical application. It features photographs, diagrams, and step-by-step instructions, and will appeal this to photographers of all levels.
Master Lighting Guide for Portrait Photographers by Christopher Grey
Learn everything you need to know to control light effectively. Christopher Grey walks you through studio portrait lighting from start to finish, giving you the skills to create portraits that are more flattering, more marketable, and more creative.