Exploring Shade Pictures is an attractively packaged e-book by a extremely-credentialed writer stuffed with voluminous information about the historical past, concept, processes, and utility of photography usually and colour images in particular. Now in its fifth version, a dialogue of digital images has been added to in depth coverage of extra conventional film and wet darkroom strategies and practices. Such an effort is a large enterprise in each scope and elegance, and the results are a bit of a mixed bag.
To begin with, the guide feels ponderous. It's a textbook after all, and not surprisingly the presentation tends to be considerably educational and dry. Sub-topics (of which there are an amazing quantity) typically seem dropped in a bit arbitrarily though it is evident that considerable effort was made to group them logically. To suit the sheer quantity of material into roughly 340 pages (together with about 250 photos), the type measurement of the text may be very small--effective for some, difficult for others.
Updating "editions" of a e-book is a daunting task. For subsequent editions to genuinely feel fresh requires an amazing effort, both in adding new materials and re-enhancing outdated for to make all the fabric seem as though it's addressed from the timeframe of the new publication. This edition could have been polished a bit better. Unfortunately there are also some minor technical errors; whether these are simply a matter of enhancing is difficult to say, however it does not take many miscues to boost questions about accuracy in different areas.
There is a substantial amount of helpful data on shade images from each conceivable angle in this book. Take into account it a middle of the road reference for the serious picture maker. Someone simply starting out may be better served by a few shorter volumes concentrating on narrower ranges of matters discussed in greater depth and detail.
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