Rating  - Really, I would give it 4 1/2, but no option for that...
This is such a FUN book! While it is not specifically geared to the scrapbooker (more to designers), I still found it highly inspirational. I have been scrapping for about five years now with my main subject having always been my daughter. While there is absolutely nothing wrong with that (she will always be my 'main' focus, I'm sure), I have found myself wanting to scrap more of the 'everyday' as a way to record our lives for future generations to (hoepfully) enjoy. With that comes photographing our environment and the items/objects within it. This book offers some great ideas and inspiration and I LOVE the fact that the author is careful to include that most of the pictures in the book can be (and were) taken with a non-SLR camera...this is important to me because I don't have one and probably won't be able to afford one anytime soon. It's nice to see examples of great pictures taken by a point-and-shoot.
Rating  - Get Your Creative Juices Flowing!
New to digital photography? Returning to photography after a long hiatus? This book offers both tips and wonderful ideas for taking pictures and improving your skills. Digital cameras offer the opportunity for the photographer to experiment without having to get prints/slides developed. Because of this, you have to learn that you are allowed to take hundreds of shots just to play and experiment.
Mr. Krause's book shows you simple ways to find subjects that you never knew existed. Since buying his book, less that 2 months ago, I have used it to take over 2,000 photos. I now understand some things about shots that can only be learned by doing and Mr. Krause really encourages you to do!
Rating - Great What If book!!
I've only given this book 4 stars because I haven't yet finished it (got it in the mail yesterday, already half way trough) so I'll leave room for a final star.
I can't stress enough the fact that this book is fuel for creativity on almost any level. I've been a photographer for quite a long time now and while most things said in the book are things you can pick up after a while, the way ideas are presented is very inspiring.
Gorgeous edition, I have Idea Index and this edition is better by far (early editions to crack cus they were glued). Plastic cover with a window to interior pictures.
A must have!
Rating - Inspiring
There's a quote on the back cover that states that this book "is intended to super-charge creative passion..." and it totally lives up to that goal. Though not presented in a workbook format, this full-color book can be used as such because it is constantly encouraging the reader to "experiment with this" and "try this but vary the amount of that" and "consider doing this while incorporating that" and "be on the lookout for this because of how it affects that."
This book is not a text that dives ten feet deep into any one particular subject. Rather, it calls on you to get off the couch and experiment with your camera (digital or film, SLR or non-SLR...any camera will do). It makes suggestions that will inspire you to investigate the ideas on your own and learn through your own experience. It provides intelligent suggestions for setting up a scene and gets you thinking about and experimenting with backgrounds, lighting, close-ups, reflections, shadows, props, empty space, cropping and many other elements. It also introduces a few ideas that none of my other photography books even begin to address, such as visual hierarchy, involving the viewer, photographing words and keeping an eye out for bad tangents (which I'd never even HEARD of before but am certainly glad I know now).
The author obviously believes in learning through hands-on exploration and he provides the reader with hundreds of ideas and suggested starting points for their own photographic experiments. If you are like me and are trying to obtain a better understanding of all the elements that go into a photograph but are not quite inventive enough to come up with your own starting points, this book will be a fantastic companion for you. All that is required of you is a willingness to commit to experimenting. Can't think of anything to photograph? Can't think of new ways to photograph something? You will never have a shortage of ideas with this book around.
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