The Passionate Photographer: Ten Steps Toward Becoming Great (Voices That Matter) - Softcover

Steve Simon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0321719891 ISBN 13: 9780321719898

Publisher: New Riders Pub, 2011

Synopsis

If you've got a love and passion for photography, a feel for your camera gear and settings, yet your images still fall short--The Passionate Photographer will help you close that disappointing and frustrating gap between the images you thought you took and the images you actually got.

This book will encourage you to determine what you want to say with your photography, then translate those thoughts and feelings into strong images. It is both a source of inspiration and a practical guide, as photographer Steve Simon distills 30 years of photographic obsession into the ten crucial steps every photographer needs to become great at their passion.  

Simon's practical tips and advice are immediately actionable-- designed to accelerate your progress toward becoming the photographer you know you can be. Core concepts and suggestions include:  

• The power of working on personal projects to fuel your passion and vision

• Shooting a large and targeted volume of work, which leads to a technical competence that lets your creativity soar

• Learning to focus your concentration as you shoot, and move outside your comfort zone, past your fears toward the next great image

• Strategies for approaching strangers to create successful portraits

• How to edit your own work and seek second opinions to identify strengths and weaknesses, offering opportunities for growth and improvement with a goal of sharing your work with the world. 

• The critical need to follow, see and capture the light around you

Along the way, Simon offers inspiration with "Lessons Learned" culled from his own extensive experience and archive of photojournalism and personal projects as well as images and stories from acclaimed photographers.

If you're ready to be inspired and challenge yourself to take your photography to the next level, The Passionate Photographer provides ideas and creative solutions to transform that passion into images that convey your unique personal vision.

About this title

About the Author

Steve Simon has been passionate about documenting the beauty and drama of the human condition his entire photographic life. The author of four critically acclaimed photography books with pieces in major museum collections around the world, his work has been featured three times at the Visa Pour L'Image Photojournalism Festival in Perpignan, France and at solo shows in New York, Buenos Aires, Toronto and Montreal. He has been honored by the Art Director's Club of New York, the National Press Photographers Association, an Alfred Eisenstaedt Magazine Award Nomination and chosen Canadian Newspaper Photographer of The Year. He loves to lead workshops with passionate photographers everywhere and is on the faculties of ICP and SVA in New York City, where he lives.

Edition details

• Publisher: New Riders Pub
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0321719891
• ISBN 13: 9780321719898
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 253