Product Description

What's out there for you to capture in pictures? Perhaps a beautiful pink rose butterfly, lush waterfall, tiny tree frog, or flowering barrel cactus. If you have a passion for nature and photography, get ready to take it to another level. Breathtaking, colorful images reveal must what's possible when you're shooting the wild world--and all the instructional basics will help you create fabulous picutures of your own. Designed especially for the amateur, this is one guide that doesn't require elaborate lenses or exotic safaris. It tells you how to photograph for pleasure and profit; master scale, exposure, meter and flash; choose film and camera supports; and move in close. Insects, arachnids, reptiles and amphibians, birds and mammals, plants and funghi, or a landscape; each one receives full and wonderfully illustrated attention!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2461828 in Books
• Published on: 2002-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 160 pages

Customer Reviews

Don't expect to learn very much...
While Lucock's beautifully illustrated book clearly marks him as a good naturalist and an excellent photographer the book falls far short of offering any real instruction (save flash photography) on the matter of nature photography technique. The book reads more as Lucock's personal log on trips to Turkey, Grand Canyon, etc. The book serves more as a cursory study on the natural history of his subjects rather than as a serious photographic instructional book. Too bad because his photos are spectacular and if only he had shared his "thinking" behind the shots the book would have been much more enjoyable.

Lucock clearly is a master at close up photogaphy, making the photos themselves, worthy of buying the book. Do not expect to learn a lot though.