The Bottom Line
"Pet Photography 101" by Andrew Darlow is a great resource when you are stumped for ideas on how to photograph your pet. It is likely to be a bit simplistic for some photographers but overall it has a lot of good ideas fairly logically arranged.
Pros
- Lots of example images
- Tips arranged in topic groups
Cons
- Too much focus on the companion website
Description
- Published 2010 by Elsevier Inc.
- Heavy duty Paperback Binding, 190 Pages
- Broken into 9 Chapters (Tip Topic Groupings)
Guide Review - Review of the book "Pet Photography 101" by Andrew Darlow
"Pet Photography 101" by Andrew Darlow is a collection of 101 tips for taking better pet photographs. The 101 tips are broken down into 9 chapters of related tips. Starting with basics on camera selection and controls, the book quickly progresses to chapters of tips relating to composition, lighting, special events, funny photos, and digital processing. A full 3 chapters are related to different types of lighting and lighting encountered in different situations (such as outdoors, low-light, and windows).
There is a companion website to the book and references to that website are heavily sprinkled throughout the tips. While having additional information available is a good thing, I found the constant suggestions to visit the website very distracting and I felt that more details could have been included in the book rather than left on the website. Overall it left the book seeming a bit like an advertisement for the website.
There are plenty of example images in the book with is a must for a visual medium such as photography. Mr. Darlow has also included detailed information about each example photo and post editing which is a great resource itself for those who learn by example.
Overall, "Pet Photography 101" is a nice companion book for more technical step-by-step books you may own on photography.
There is a companion website to the book and references to that website are heavily sprinkled throughout the tips. While having additional information available is a good thing, I found the constant suggestions to visit the website very distracting and I felt that more details could have been included in the book rather than left on the website. Overall it left the book seeming a bit like an advertisement for the website.
There are plenty of example images in the book with is a must for a visual medium such as photography. Mr. Darlow has also included detailed information about each example photo and post editing which is a great resource itself for those who learn by example.
Overall, "Pet Photography 101" is a nice companion book for more technical step-by-step books you may own on photography.
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