Encyclopaedia of Practical Photography

by Michael Freeman

The Encyclopedia of Practical Photography [Hardcover] Freeman, Michael

Genres: Nonfiction, Photography

320 pages, Paperback

Published September 1, 1988

About the author

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Michael Freeman is a professional photographer and author. He wrote more than 100 book titles. He was born in England in 1945, took a Masters in geography at Brasenose College, Oxford University, and then worked in advertising in London for six years. He made the break from there in 1971 to travel up the Amazon with two secondhand cameras, and when Time-Life used many of the pictures extensively in the Amazon volume of their World's Wild Places series, including the cover, they encouraged him to begin a full-time photographic career.

Since then, working for editorial clients that include all the world's major magazines, and notably the Smithsonian Magazine (with which he has had a 30-year association, shooting more than 40 stories), Freeman's reputation has resulted in more than 100 books published. Of these, he is author as well as photographer, and they include more than 40 books on the practice of photography - for this photographic educational work he was awarded the Prix Louis Philippe Clerc by the French Ministry of Culture. He is also responsible for the distance-learning courses on photography at the UK's Open College of the Arts.

Reviews

[Brendan Ingram · Rating 4 out of 5]

As of the date of my review (2016) I think this book may be a bit irrelevant in some areas, but certainly not in others (composition, shutter speed, aperture etc). Regardless, anyone who hopes to succeed as a digital photographer should really understand the fundamentals of photography, and this book does just as good a job in 2016 as it did in the late 90's when I first read it.

[Iain Watson]

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