Wide-Angle Photography: Capturing Landscape, Portrait, Street, and Architectural Photographs with Wide-Angle Lenses (Including Tilt-Shift Lenses) Kindle Edition

This is an OK book about composition, especially composition with wide-angle lenses, but it’s more basic than I expected, and there’s a lot of repetition and “padding”. Most of the book discusses using 24mm lenses, but there isn’t much about using shorter lenses, which i think are more interesting and more challenging to use. Someone who’s attracted to a specialized topic like this book covers is likely to know most of what’s in the first three chapters. The fourth chapter, which gets into specific types of wide angle shots, is useful, but it doesn’t justify a whole book. There is a small amount of material on fisheye lenses but nothing about when using such lenses makes interesting images.The chapters on tilt-shift lenses are good and get beyond the basics. Those chapters are useful for photographers who have a tilt-shift (and I do). But they’re a special case of wide angle lens and their inclusion doesn’t make up for the thin content on more typical zoom and prime wide angle and super wide-angle lenses.

I have about a dozen Rockynook books on my shelf and have yet to encounter a bad one. This title continues that trend.As a reference, I did not need this book. I have forty years of photography under my belt, and have arrived at my way of working based on the thousands of slides from all over the world that I have shot. Spending that price per frame back in the film days made you study and learn to get the shot. I was so amazed at how many points that the author made matched my experience. I concur with so much of the instruction within the book that I often felt that I could have written a lot of it.The author disn't write a catalog book, you can't go to the 20mm chapter or the 16mm section. The information is general enough that it can be applied to the lens you are using. The concepts will let you get the most from your gear. I have always found deprivation exercises to be of value, and the author in his preface tells the tale of his time of only using a 24mm lens on an extended trip. His experience matches mine, where being forced to use one focal length makes you the master of it.The section on tilt shift lenses is well done, but maybe not something everyone would be interested in, given the very specific lens requirement. Also included, but again maybe not for everyone is how to "fake" wide angle images through digital stitching.Overall, this book and a simple 24mm lens will make you effective at wide angle photography.

I was expecting to get added insights into using wide angle lenses and tilt-shift lenses and some practical advice for using them in the field. The author is very much at the hobbyist level and so cannot impart truly useful information.For example he talks about the distortion of objects in a scene when using wide angle lenses but does not bother to illustrate the exact nature of the problem. All he had to do was take a picture of a person whose face was 5 feet from the camera with a 24mm lens and then show how having the feet or hands at 3 feet exaggerates their relative size and makes them appear much larger and freakish.If he had shown a picture taken with flowers or a bush in the foreground and a large mountain in the background with a 24mm and again with a 85mm or longer lens it would make it apparent to the reader that the wide angle lens distorts perspective and shrinks the mountains into mole hills in the scene.He makes no mention or shows how one can use this perspective provided by a wide angle lens can be used for "near and far" shots, often done with underwater photography as a way to deal with the lack of light and the limited distance at which one can illuminate a subject with flash. One can emphasize the foreground objects in the scene for effect and this is not even mentioned much less illustrated.With regard to tilt shift lenses his explanation as to how they work is feeble and does not even cover basic principles, much less the best procedure to use in a given situation out in the field. One can get far better and more useful information online and download PDFs.Another area where wide angle lenses are useful is with night sky photography and this is also given scant treatment and little useful information.An experienced photographer will find very little of value and it is even worse for the novice who thinks that they are getting good advice but are only getting a fraction of the picture. There are far better books regarding landscape and night sky photography available.With regard to people photography using a wide angle lens the author thinks that violating a person's personal space and making them uncomfortable is of no concern and the end result will be a stronger image. This shows a lack of maturity and empathy and skill as a photographer. How would he explain the great images taken over the years by Cartier-Bresson, Imogen Cunningham, David Seymour, Leonard Freed, Robert Capra, and many others that did not rely on such gimmickry?This is the worst aspect of this author's book. A novice photographer will rush to buy a wide angle or ultra wide angle lens and run around taking pictures that provide no insights and no sense of place and further add to the clutter on the Web.

The book covers the topic in less than technical terms. For many, this book will hit the spot. The book does deals with many practical elements of the domain. But, it does not provide an in-depth analysis or review of the various approaches a photographer can use with a wide angle lens. I enjoyed the book but I was hoping to flush out more depth so one can teach the topics to others. It did not achieve my goal from reading the book for me.

Don't waste your money on this book. Anyone who praises it is probably a complete beginner in photography.Do a quick flip on the book and you will agree with me that the photos are uninspiring. The author tried to cover some technical details like chromatic aberration and distortion in wide angle lenses but many details were too brief.If you want to write a good book in wide angle photography covering both the art and science of it, the book has too be much thicker. Many topics are "touch and go". I find the author not focused at all in his approach.Many unnecessary topics were also covered, such as pinhole camera! Haha....It just makes the whole book more irrelevant.(Changed the rating from 2 stars to 1 star after I finished writing this review. There are just too many flaws in the book.)

Enjoying this book, covers the subject well. Chris does a fantastic podcast as well :-)

There is nothing wrong with this product, it’s your shipping service that has been totally unacceptable, and is getting worst.

You won't find too many books out there dedicated to the subject of wide angle photography - believe me I've been looking for them for more than 40 years. While some books make passing mentions of the subject in a few pages or so, Chris Marquardt has done an in depth survey on the subject. He covers the application of wide angle image making in genres such as portrait and street, as well as the more traditional uses in landscape and architectural photography which is very refreshing.The book is written in an easy style which helps guide you through the intricacies of the topic and is accompanied by diagrams and plenty of beautiful images to help explain the subjects that he covers. The book also includes two whole chapters on the applications of specialised 'tilt-shift' lenses - a subject obviously close to Chris' heart. If you want to make the most of your wide angle lenses or are just curious and want to know more before you lash out and buy your first dedicated wide angle lens then I recommend this as a great starting point.

I am new to wide angle photography but have been taking pictures for years. This book felt like it was all over the place, with poor flow and lack of focus. A lot of content was more generic photography theory and less about wide angle lens photography. Some interesting content but overall one of the weaker photo books I have purchased.

Je n'ai pas aimé ce guide sur la photo grand angle. Il n'apporte rien de nouveau sur la question. Les photos ne sont pas bien choisies. Je regrette mon achat. Vous trouverez plus d'information sur la photo grand angle sur internet.