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Paperback Spirit of Place: The Art of the Traveling Photographer Book

ISBN: 0817458948

ISBN13: 9780817458942

Spirit of Place: The Art of the Traveling Photographer

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Book Overview

Photographer Bob Krist explores and celebrates the natural synergy between travel and photography. He takes readers on a worldwide tour, revealing the secrets of conveying the spirit, or true essence, of place in photographs by working with natural light, various lenses and composing shots. This description may be from another edition of this product.

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Rated 5 stars
Very Well Done Travel Photography Guide

Spirit of Place provides an excellent overview of travel photography. It is well organized, written clearly and concisely, and is filled with beautiful photos to help illustrate the points made in the text. The author discusses techniques to help you deal with various difficulties from how to find the best vantage point when shooting tall buildings to dealing with people that you may want to photograph. One thing that I really...

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Truly captures what it means to be a travel photographer

I love travel and I love cameras. Unfortunately, as many of us often discover, my photos don't always capture the essence of my travel experience. I know I've been frustrated many times that some quixotic quality of my travels is missing from my photo album.Bob Krist's book has helped me to see that what I am missing is the spirit of place, which of course is different for every location and every traveler. While the book...

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Rated 5 stars
One of the best books on travel photography

If you want to learn how to capture meaningful images when you travel, this is the book to read. The book explains in clear simple language how to go about making great travel pictures. The process involves a lot more than the technical details. You must be at the right place at the right time to make a great picture. This book will help you undertand how to that and help with the technical part as well. The photographs...

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Excellent resource and tool for travel photographers

Spirit of Place, The Art of the Traveling Photographer, is outstanding, full of superb photos accompanied by captions that not only say where the image was taken but also include pertinent details regarding the moment and/or circumstances involved. The text is clear and easily understood, with lots of tips, plus glimpses into Krist's personal philosophy on photography. Travelers, writers, and novice-to-experienced photographers...

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The Ultimate Travel Photography Book

As one who has written numerous Book Reviews for photo magazines, I have read all the books on travel photography. This one stands head-and-shoulders above the others.It is the definitive work on this topic by a top pro who makes travel images that are intimate, sensitive to the culture, informed and well-executed: capturing the spirit of the location instead of replicating the postcard views.Highly recommended for photographers...

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