Photographing Minerals, Fossils, And Lapidary Materials Download Free (EPUB, PDF)
Book by Scovil, Jeffrey A.
Hardcover: 224 pages
Publisher: Distributed by Mountain Press Pub. Co (May 1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0945005210
ISBN-13: 978-0945005216
Product Dimensions: 0.8 x 7.5 x 10.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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This book, by a photographer of minerals very well known to readers of periodicals such as the Mineralogical Record, is a useful introduction to the subject. If you do not have a full set of back issues of the Min. Rec., this will tell you how to get high quality examples of the rather stylized genre of mineral photography. However, there really is not all that much useful information in the book which is unavailable to those dedicated folks who have complete sets of that journal, which has published guides to photography on a couple of occasions.The color photos in the book are excellent, the B&W ones just OK, and the text ... it is in a rather odd font with very "thin" lines.
This book was written a little while in advance of the age of digital cameras and Photoshop. So certain parts of it are looking quite dated at this point. On the other hand, other sections are as fresh today as the day the book was first published... and figure to be very useful.
A useful book for a beginner.mineral photographer.
This book has continued to be a valuable and informative part of my mineral photographyThe auther did an excellent job.
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