The recommendation I am making to you today is pure inspiration, this is a book that shows us the work of the members of Portfolio Natural, a project in which they share their natural paradises, where each of its members has chosen an element of nature and reveals their way of seeing and understanding it; methodology and also offers practical advice on how to achieve this. It’s a book that won’t leave you indifferent.
Anyone who loves nature. For all those who are attracted by nature photography in all its forms. For those who hope to take it a step further when it comes to capturing a landscape, its essence. For those who are creatively empty or want to undertake a project. For those looking for inspiration or having a project. Good time delighting us with beautiful images full of beauty. For those who want to give a special gift to someone special.
- If you have just landed on the photograph and still do not control the basics of aperture.
- Shutter speed.
- ISO.
- Etc.
This isn’t for you, if you’re looking for a book to use in which it explains step by step how to take landscape photography, or if you’re not interested in landscape photography or nature.
As I had anticipated at the beginning, this is a project that brings together the work of the members of the collective, a different way of telling how landscape photography is taken, each author presents a natural element, how he works it, what his methodology is, his advice so that you can photograph it and, in my opinion, most importantly, what makes this project more special is to be told that part of the photograph that is not seen but that sits down. Each of the authors talks about his project, how he got there, why, how he sees or feels the natural element he is photographing.
In each author, we find a brief biography, a presentation of the project or topic, a section of “Questions to the author” and an annotated photograph.
To learn more about the content of this book, I’d better put the authors’ index and their projects in this publication.
Portfolio Natural is a project born from this group of renowned and prestigious nature photographers (which I have just listed for you) with the aim of offering you quality photographic work by selling original copies in numbered and limited series.
Many authors have many books and print publications, as well as giving workshops around the world.
The new candidates to be part of Natural Portfolio go through a rigorous selection process involving the vote of all members of the group.
I think it is a very personal book in which the authors open up and tell you their experiences, their concerns, their emotions . . . As you read it, you may feel like you’re chatting with a friend while having coffee about what you’re doing. what you’re most passionate about and what you have in common, nature photography.
The edition is very careful, with a harmonious and orderly design with a selection of photographs that makes you appreciate the book from start to finish.
Finally, the desire you feel when you go out to photograph. This book reminds you that beauty is everywhere, that you have to know how to look for it, because even in the bark of a tree you can find a magnificent photograph.
I have nothing bad to say about this book, if only by many of these authors my list of “Places to Visit Before You Die” has increased a lot. As well as the desire to embark on a project for which I do not have time (here is the emoticon of cold sweat and suffering). I don’t think any of this is bad, though, do I? Well, that’s nothing to object to.
It is a book to appreciate, learn, re-read, review and give away. A book to inspire you and reconcile you with nature photography, if you had left it impossible. A book that will help you take a new step, look. inside you and find out what your look is, because as one of the authors reminds us with this quote from Momee:
Photography should show how we see the world, not what it’s like. Eduardo Momee
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