Top 10 Best "Peterson" Books

For serious amateur photographers who already shoot perfectly focused, accurately exposed images but want to be more creative with a camera, here's the book to consult. More than seventy techniques, both popular and less-familiar approaches, are covered in detail, including advanced exposure, bounced flash and candlelight, infrared, multiple images, soft-focus effects, unusual vantage points, zooming, and other carefully chosen ways to enhance photographs. The A-Z format make sit easy for readers to find a specific technique, and each one is explained in jargon-free language. Top Tips for each technique help readers achieve superb results, even on the first attempt.

In Understanding Close-up Photography Bryan Peterson turns his attention toa topic that is an ongoing favoritewith photographers. But where most macro photography books focus on capuring subjects in nature, Peterson promises to go beyond, teaching you to photograph a range of subjects from animals andplantsfromthe garden, beach, or mountains to objects found in the kitchen,supermarket, even thejunkyard. In addition to information on equipment, exposure, light, and composition, his book will feature elements of technique that go beyond the norm, teaching you to shoot not just what is generally considered close-up, but to go even closer to the point of abstraction. He will also show you how to produce the intimacy of a close-up within a larger shot--how to capture the look in your subject's eyes without compromising the clarity of the surrounding scene. And as always, Peterson offers his signature touch with hispersonal terminology: in what he likes to call "Pop Junk" he shows how combining creativitywith the right digital technology can turn close-up photos of the most ordinary objects into surprising pieces of art.

This historical novel takes you into the lives of everyday Christians, Moslems, Jews and Secret Jews of ancient Spain and what they had to endure during that horrific time in history.

The details of the epic voyage were researched meticulously using Columbus' personal journal. Othniel Seiden takes you on the voyage itself, beyond the discoveries through the fears, victories and superstitions of the adventurers of that era into the humanity of all souls encountered on the journey.

excerpt from The Cartographer, 1492
by Othniel J. Seiden
published by BooksToBelieveIn.com