Many photographers, when consulting references or articles on photography, develop the syndrome “I save it for when I play”, also known as “Let’s see if I wear one of these days” or “You give me more than I already…” .
The syndrome is basically that the reader gets to the top of theory, accumulating photographic concepts, techniques and tricks in the brain, but practically never manages to specify them in a photograph. I like to call it “the obsession with the medium.” Photographer’s Blog, as well as any other website or photography blog, are nothing more than means, placed at your disposal to achieve a goal, which is, supposedly, to achieve that “great photograph” you are looking for. You can enjoy the article more or less, but you really feel the passion when your fingers brush the camera body, you prepare yourself for a few seconds, and when you see the moment you shoot that photo. In photography, there is no pleasure that exceeds that moment.
The end of “I’ll save it for when I play”
As of today, that of accumulating information in case it arrives one day is over. The day is today 😉 I want you to stop waiting and get your camera today to practice. For this, I put at your disposal the new book of the Photographer’s Blog «100 Photography Exercises»a digital book conceived so that you take out the camera and use it in parallel throughout the entire reading of the book, from the first page.
With this, the blog’s library of books now has 5 titles. With the books published to date, we already covered specific topics such as portrait or landscape photography, from which many readers derived immense value seeing how their photographs have improved over time. «100 Photography Exercises» unifies all the photographic themes that we have covered to date in a book with a consumable format that encourages practice. In it we propose 100 different photographs that you should practice with your camera, exercises where we explain the material you need, the level of difficulty, the aspects to which you have to pay special attention in each photograph, guidelines to practice the exercise, and a photograph as inspiration.
If I had to give you only one photography tip, no more than one, I would say “practice”. Practice is the first rule to follow to improve as a photographer. Practice first, the rest comes later by itself as a consequence of the first. Practicing lets you figure out the rules of composition for yourself, practicing teaches you the best combination of manual settings for the particular shot you’re after, practicing shows you immediate results and allows you to weed out the tricks that work for you from the ones that don’t.
Remember that practice makes perfect. We all carry a little photographic master inside. «100 Photography Exercises» allows you to take yours out.
If you are a regular reader of the blog and you are passionate about photography, I would love for you to get a copy of the book. You have it available as a direct download, in PDF format to be able to read it on any computer, device or tablet that reads PDFs.
Trailer for «100 Photography Exercises»
Ah, I leave you with a short video in which I summarize the type of photographs that we will work on in the book. It occupies a minute and a bit, it is not very long. We’ve put some music on it. Check it out, enjoy it full screen if you can, and help me spread the word with a “I like it” from inside the video please 😉
Questions?
What format is the book in?
It is an electronic book that we distribute in PDF format, to be read on any computer, tablet, iPad, iPhone, Smartphone or e-book reader that supports PDF files.
How do I receive the book?
The book is delivered electronically by Email. Immediately after making the payment you will receive an email with a link to download your copy. You could start reading it and practicing its advice in the next 3 minutes. Literally.
Don’t you have it in paper format? why not?
We publish and distribute the book in PDF because this way:
- You can get it immediately. No waiting.
- We reach more people. Even if you live in Antarctica and there is no postal delivery service, it doesn’t matter, you get the book.
- It is easier to keep it, make backup copies for later reference, have them one on your computer, one on your tablet and another in your email at the same time.
- A book on paper is more likely to be broken, lost, etc.
- This way we cut down fewer trees.
I don’t have a PayPal account. Can I still get my copy?
Of course. Simply follow the purchase link, you will land on the PayPal payment page, where you will see the option to pay without an account. Simply fill in your details and your credit card details and that’s it. You do not need to previously create an account with PayPal.