This practical guide from photography expert, Tom Ang, will help you achieve the best shot possible in every scenario - from creating a silhouette to impromptu still lifes.

In our online world, taking a good photograph has become an essential life skill.

Full of essential advice, hints, and tips, How to Photograph Absolutely Everything gives you straightforward step-by-step guidance on what equipment you will need, the best approach for each subject, how to think about composition and find the right light, and how to frame each shot effectively. Checklists allow you to focus on what is important, while tricks of the trade show you how to turn a good picture into an amazing one.

From cityscapes to landscapes, and tackling children's parties to capturing the magic of seasonal celebrations, How to Photograph Absolutely Everything is the essential guide to improving your digital photography skills and getting the most out of your digital camera (or smartphone).

This lavish coffee-table book traces the history of photography from the first black and white images to celebrated examples of 21st-century digital photography.

Photography celebrates the most iconic photographs of the past 200 years and includes more than 50 biographies of the most famous photographers, explaining how they pushed the bounds of the medium.It also showcases examples of the extraordinary cameras that photographers experimented with, from the daguerreotype to the latest camera phones!

Charting the influence of social and cultural change, as well as the impact of science and technology, this beautiful book follows the history of photographs from the first grainy attempts at portrait and landscape photography to gritty photojournalism, street photography, and digital photography, with special features delving into the stories behind photographic images that changed how people saw the world.

This fantastic photography book promises:

- A selection of the most important lost cultural artifacts from ancient times to the present day
- Features images of the artworks where available, or specially commissioned illustrations of them based on written accounts
- Includes details of the ongoing debate about whether looted art should be returned to its country of origin

Packed with information and full of inspiration, Photography is the perfect reference for budding photographers, seasoned professionals, and anyone with an interest in the subject. Whether you're looking for a riveting reference book to display on your coffee table or gift to a friend, or you're a life-longer learner with a thirst for knowledge - Photography is sure to delight!

Discover how to get the very best from your photography with clear step-by-step guidance from expert photographer, Tom Ang.

In this fully comprehensive photography companion, renowned photographer and teacher Tom Ang teaches you how to capture, enhance, and transform your photographs.

The first half of the book explains all of the essential techniques that every photographer needs to learn - from how to handle your camera correctly and understand its features, to composing a successful shot.

The second half develops your understanding of photography, guiding you through a range of projects that focus on different photographic genres and subjects, including landscapes, cityscapes, and live events. It explains how to digitally enhance your images, not only to improve the original shot, but also to apply creative techniques that will take your image to a new level. This section also gives advice on the best way to share your work, to choosing the most suitable equipment, and should you wish, how to develop a career in photography.

Learn how to take photos like the greats! Transform an interest in photography into an exciting hobby or possible professional endeavor with this fantastic photography book

The pages of this photography guide book take you on a journey through the development of photography. Explore its history, how it became an art form and how to apply its techniques to your own photos to create stunning photographic works!

Photography: History. Art. Technique. is the perfect photographic coffee table book for budding photographers who are fascinated by the history of photography and want to learn how to improve their skills. You'll discover:

- All the basics of photography and tips for using a smartphone to create stunning photos.
- An in-depth introduction to the history of photography.
- A new, larger format that makes the content clearer and more accessible.

The development of photography is possibly one of the most extraordinary feats of modern technology. Photography: History. Art. Technique. captures the most awe-inspiring photos and people that have pushed the boundaries of this medium, and the genres they've experimented with like landscapes, portraits, wildlife and art photography.

The second half of this photography book delves into using the technical aspects of your camera like aperture, contrast, light, accessories and digital editing. Author Tom Ang further includes masterclasses that cover the key features of each photographic style, the photographers that influence them and how to apply these techniques in your own photography!

From the award-winning photographer--a comprehensive, accessible, and detailed guide for every photographer: whether beginner or advanced, using a digital camera or film.

Award-winning photographer Tom Ang provides a thorough, explicitly detailed bottom-to-top understanding of modern photography, explaining all the techniques that will help anyone who uses a camera--in a professional capacity or as a snapshot shooter--improve the quality of his or her photographs.

Here is everything you need to know: from the most practical advice (the fundamental facts about light sources) to the most sophisticated nuances (how light is measured through photometry), from the basics of the camera (which button controls which function) to the finer points of framing with an LCD viewfinder, featuring a selection of Ang's most inspiring images. For users of film cameras, Ang explains the differences between types of film and details the various methods of processing and darkroom techniques.

Ang delves into the development and transformation of photography by digital techniques. For the digital-camera contingent, there's a specificity of previously unavailable information about the cameras and about processing, digitizing, and outputting the images. Ang also discusses subjects usually ignored in manuals but of interest to all photographers, including critical theory, the presentation of images, the function of the human eye in the perception of images, and ethical and copyright issues.

Fundamentals of Photography is an essential book for every photographer.

A meditation 49 poems long on life that combines creative flights within a haiku-like discipline.

Every poem comprises just 49 syllables, with seven syllables on each of seven lines. This formal rigour provides a skeleton on which a filigree of feelings, thoughts and discursive world-play are wrapped. The collection uses many unusual rhetorical devices in order to accommodate the formal strictures that makes it a challenging read.

This is the first of three volumes, with another completed. The other title is a meditation on love: 49 Syllables on Love.

The texts are accompanied by Tom Ang's beautiful, melancholic still-lifes that reflect the co-creativity of chaos in the photographic process.

Discover your best images, improve your photography with this photographer's essential. If you make images and need to select your best shots, this is the best guide to make sure you always hit your target.-'How do you pick the best photograph?'-'How to pick the most emotionally true shot?'-'What's the best way to select images?' -'What's the best workflow?Every photographer needs this book. If you make two dozen images or twenty thousand, this essential guide will give you essential skills to help you find the best shot with confidence and efficiency. The contents are comprehensive: from an outline of The Problems to the Practical set up, Workflow that works for you and discussions on Speed and accuracy. Then follow Selection strategies and the central part of the book: Pathways to the best shot with unique visual exercise. Then come coverage of key Ethical and moral issues ending with practical Checklists and Further reading.Based on Tom Ang's unique 'Picture Editing' written 25 years ago - a stand-out standard text for journalism students - it is now fully revised and updated with new material and illustrations. The book is also deeply informed by Tom Ang's 40+ years of experience as magazine editor, mentor, university lecturer, workshop leader, international photo judge and author/photographer of over 40 photography books.

Photo Insights is an unique collection of inspiring words on photography, art and creativity from a celebrated teacher with a world-wide reputation.

A master of the art has packed numerous memorable, wise, insightful and educational observations on photography into this book.

Tom Ang has worked at the top of his field - as author, photographer, educator, editor - for over 40 years.

His vast experience and knowledge of photography are here condensed into pithy aphorisms, precious insights and inspirational ideas.

Collected and published together for the first time, there are over 200 pithy observations and inspiring comments on photography for you to enjoy.

Photography Judging is an essential guide for all photographers who judge photography.

It offers essential reading and reference material for those who wish to enter their images to photography competitions, awards, or salons.

Photography Judging is a handbook for those who carry any responsibility for judging photographic entries for awards or prizes

at any level.

If you are, or have been invited to be a photography judge this book gives you all the information you need to perform your duties with skill, flair, and fairness. With the thousands of competitions, awards, salons worldwide, there is a pressing need for a clear, authoritative manual to guide photojudges.

This book is that manual.

Certain questions about judging photography recur. On every continent, in every country, every photography judge will be asked variants of these queries.

-'How do you judge a photograph?'

-'How can you spot the one great photograph among thousands of others?'

-'Surely photography is totally subjective?'

-'What's the difference between a good photograph and a bad one?'

This book is essentially a long answer to those questions. In doing so, I hope to help you become a skillful, subtle, prudent judge of photographs; and, by the end, that you'll appreciate there's much less subjectivity and more objectivity than you might have first thought.

Discover your best images, improve your photography with this essential book. If you make images and need to select your best shots, this is the best guide to make sure you always hit the target.


• 'How do you pick the best photograph?'

• 'How to pick the most emotionally true shot?'

• 'What's the best way to select images?'
• 'What's the best workflow?

Every photographer needs this book. If you make two images or two thousand, this essential guide will help you find the best shot with confidence and efficiency. The contents are amazingly comprehensive:

From an outline of The Problems to the Practical set up, Workflow that works for you and discussions on Speed and accuracy. Then follow Selection strategies and the central part of the book: Pathways to the best shot with unique visual exercise. Then come coverage of key Ethical and moral issues ending with practical Checklists and Further reading.

Based on Tom Ang's unique 'Picture Editing' written over 25 years ago - a stand-out standard text for journalism students - it is here now fully revised and updated with new material and illustrations. The book is also hugely informed by 40 years of experience as a tutor, mentor, lecturer, broadcaster, photo judge and author of over 30 photography books.

This is a practical manual for judging photography in any context. From international competitions, awards and concours to personal projects and educational institutions, it is a unique source.

This book can inform and help anyone who judges, evaluates, selects or uses photographs.

Covering everything from the technical set-ups through aesthetic and ethical considerations to scoring methods and competition management.

This book is a long answer to these questions.

- 'How do you judge a photograph?'

- 'What makes a photograph good or bad?'

- 'How can you spot one great photograph from thousands of others?'

- 'Surely judging photography is totally subjective?'

- 'What's the difference between a good photograph and a bad one?'

- 'How do you know what is a good photo?'


This book is designed to be an essential guide for photographers of all grades ... and even if they need only to judge their own work. It offers essential reading and reference material for those who wish to enter their images to photography competitions, concours, or salons.

Above all, it is designed to be a comprehensive handbook for those who carry any responsibility for judging photographic entries for awards or prizes at any level.

A meditation forty-nine poems long on love that combines creative flights within the confines of a haiku-like discipline. Every poem comprises just 49 syllables, with seven syllables on each of seven lines. This formal rigour provides a skeleton on which a filigree of feelings, thoughts and discursive world-play can be wrapped. The collection uses many unusual rhetorical devices in order to accommodate the formal strictures.

This is the second of three volumes, with one other completed. The other title is a meditation on life: 49 Syllables on Life.

The texts are accompanied by Tom Ang's atmospheric high-key images in which light itself is the subject.