Busy
Its been a busy week in the world of the day job and that usually ends up with me not having anything constructive to say photographically. So my apologies. Maybe when I'm tired I should just post a few lines and a pretty pic, what do you think?
As an apology please except a small book review.
Erotique Digitale – Roderick Macdonald & Minnie Cook
This book is mainly split into 3 sections: Tools, Techniques and Showcase with the showcase taking up nearly 2/3 of the book. The tools section is a 12 page blast through choosing a camera image editing, printers and colour management and given that its so short it should be no surprise that its next to useless. I really cannot see why the author bothered with this, there is just no valuable content.
The techniques section has some interesting information but is still very short at 36 pages and while it starts well it falls into the trap of describing the whacky things you can do with photoshop curves etc and loses its impact. It would have been better if this section had been much larger with more details on creating the effects they show in the last section of the book, most of which are not created with the techniques they describe.
Showcase; here they have a showcase of 24 photographers work and a brief description of how they approached the images. Some are very good.
Overall this book is a bit of a let down. There are some clever images and they can offer inspiration to the reader but the meat and guts of how they achieved their effects are sadly missing from a book that describes itself as “a compendium of digital image-making techniques”. So its got some nice images but doesn't do what it says on the cover.
Here is a rather nice image of Claire Louisa from last year. Due to my day job I won't be shooting any new models until the first week of Feb, I'm looking forward to it.
As an apology please except a small book review.
Erotique Digitale – Roderick Macdonald & Minnie Cook
This book is mainly split into 3 sections: Tools, Techniques and Showcase with the showcase taking up nearly 2/3 of the book. The tools section is a 12 page blast through choosing a camera image editing, printers and colour management and given that its so short it should be no surprise that its next to useless. I really cannot see why the author bothered with this, there is just no valuable content.
The techniques section has some interesting information but is still very short at 36 pages and while it starts well it falls into the trap of describing the whacky things you can do with photoshop curves etc and loses its impact. It would have been better if this section had been much larger with more details on creating the effects they show in the last section of the book, most of which are not created with the techniques they describe.
Showcase; here they have a showcase of 24 photographers work and a brief description of how they approached the images. Some are very good.
Overall this book is a bit of a let down. There are some clever images and they can offer inspiration to the reader but the meat and guts of how they achieved their effects are sadly missing from a book that describes itself as “a compendium of digital image-making techniques”. So its got some nice images but doesn't do what it says on the cover.
Here is a rather nice image of Claire Louisa from last year. Due to my day job I won't be shooting any new models until the first week of Feb, I'm looking forward to it.
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