Discover your best images, improve your photography with this essential book. If you make images and need to select your best shots, this is the best guide to make sure you always hit the target.
- 'How do you pick the best photograph?'
- 'How to pick the most emotionally true shot?'
- 'What's the best way to select images?'
- 'What's the best workflow?
Every photographer needs this book. If you make two images or two thousand, this essential guide will help you find the best shot with confidence and efficiency. The contents are amazingly comprehensive:
From an outline of The Problems to the Practical set up, Workflow that works for you and discussions on Speed and accuracy. Then follow Selection strategies and the central part of the book: Pathways to the best shot with unique visual exercise. Then come coverage of key Ethical and moral issues ending with practical Checklists and Further reading.
Based on Tom Ang's unique 'Picture Editing' written over 25 years ago - a stand-out standard text for journalism students - it is here now fully revised and updated with new material and illustrations. The book is also hugely informed by 40 years of experience as a tutor, mentor, lecturer, broadcaster, photo judge and author of over 30 photography books.
Tom is a leading authority on digital photography, a photographer, author, educator, TV broadcaster, and traveller. He won the Thomas Cook award for Best Illustrated Travel Book for his photography of the Marco Polo Expedition which pioneered the modern Silk Road crossing from Europe to China. He has worked as a magazine editor, picture editor, technical journalist, has exhibited internationally and was a university senior lecturer and course leader in photography for over twelve years during which time he pioneered academic links in the former Soviet Central Asia. Amongst his 40+ books on photography is the award-winning Photography - the definitive visual history, his best-selling Digital Photographer's Handbook which has sold over 700,000 copies and translated into twenty languages and the award-winning Digital Photography Masterclass. The presenter for two ground-breaking 6-part BBC series on digital photography, he also presented and wrote an award-winning 8-part photography series for Channel News Asia, Singapore. He has led workshops internationally, including London, Cape Town, Salzburg, Budapest, Dubai, Manila, Singapore and Auckland. He is a founding member of Sony World Photography Award, has been jury member for Czech Press Photo, Wildlife Photographer of the Year and Hamdan International Photography Award. A Sony Digital Imaging Ambassador for New Zealand and GettyImages contributor, he lives and works in New Zealand.
