Review: You've got to be taking good mental pictures before you take good photos with your camera
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 10, 2012
Paul Bowman's book is definitely going to help you take better photos... with digital SLR cameras now widely used, his book gives you the framework of what settings work with a particular setting/scenary. The book covers a huge list of scenarios such as photographing sunsets, mountains, trees, lakes, beaches, waterfalls - but my favorite section of the book was people portraits. Yes, I love photographing people (over landscape or food photography) because most audiences are interested in human emotions.Beyond the technical settings most likely to give successful images, it's Paul's suggestions on what works in terms of setup, styling and artistic direction. Because of the example pictures in the book, you feel inspired for new ideas... great job.Lastly, I liked Paul's tenet of "you've got to be taking good mental pictures before you take good photos with your camera"... so true, and a great piece of advice right at the outset of the book.