Photography books
Summer photo reads
Some of these titles will fit in your camera bag… if not, they will certainly enhance a photography lover’s coffee table
Mastering Lighting & Flash Photography
£33/$35 www.ammonitepress.com
A s the author Richard Bradbury notes in his introduction, “It can take less than a thousandth of a second to fire a flash and capture a photograph, but it takes a lifetime to master the art of lighting.” Over 178 pages, Bradbury draws on his many years as a successful photographer to cover everything you could expect to know about the subject, whether you shoot still-life, portraits and many more genres, using natural or artificial light sources.There’s also a chapter devoted to creating lighting effects in software.
BEST FOR Anyone wishing they’d started learning about lighting sooner will find this in-depth guide indispensable.
52 Assignments: Nature
£15/$15 www.ammonitepress.com
T he latest in the series of camera bag-sizedtechnique guides turns its lens on the natural world. The format of the 52Assignments series is simple: a year’s worth of photo challenges are issued, and you use the hands-on advice offered in the book for completing them. Covering composition, lighting, fieldcraft and much more, authors Ross Hoddinott and Ben Hall will have you shooting more creative nature photography by the end of the first few challenges.