Picture Perfect Practice en amazon.com por 0,01 € (versión Kindle)

**vitovitez** · 11/07/12, 22:29:38

Acabo de comprar el libro Picture Perfect Practice en Amazon.com por 0,01 € (versión Kindle). Tiene que ser un error, porque el libro acaba de salir (febrero 2012). Por si le interesa a alguien, pego el link.
Amazon.com: Picture Perfect Practice: A Self-Training Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Taking World-Class Photographs (Voices That Matter) eBook: Roberto Valenzuela: Kindle Store
El libro va sobre técnicas de fotografía (pero más orientado a temas como composición, equilibrio,...).
Un saludo.

**MIARMA** · 11/07/12, 22:33:08

Ya no está.

**vitovitez** · 11/07/12, 22:35:56

Acabo de comprobar y en www.amazon.com está a 0,01$ y en www.amazon.es a 0,01 €
Picture Perfect Practice: A Self-Training Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Taking World-Class Photographs (Voices That Matter) eBook: Roberto Valenzuela: Amazon.es: tienda Kindle

Pego pequeña review de un lector de Amazon:

"This book is different. It approaches photography from the artistic side, not the technical side. You occasionally hear comments like "shooting with a small aperture" or "with an off-camera flash", but this is about as technical as it gets. Valenzuela does not discuss camera menus, gear choice, or lighting ratios. If you don't know what these terms mean, you'll need to look elsewhere (these are important things to know, no doubt). That being said, there are literally hundreds of information sources (many of them free) where you get that sort of technical information.

Valenzuela's book rather approaches the topics from a creative/artistic point of view: it teaches you how to recognize geometry in the scenes you are shooting; how to reduce the background clutter by finding "simple" structures that are effective compositional elements; why a picture needs "balance" and how you can use elements you find in the scene to achieve balance; which expressions and messages you send by taking silhouettes; which emotions do you evoke by which method of posing; how do you effectively pose a subject; etc. The book addresses the "why", as in "what's the message you are providing with this method?"; "why would you want to choose this approach?", at least as much as the "how".

And this book does that in an ingenious way: very short chapters, dedicated to one simple concept (shadow, silhoettes, balance, geometry, etc.). You can read each chapter in 5-15 minutes. The
chapters are illustrated by pictures that are both excellent, and "approachable". Meaning: while many of the pictures are by all means fantastic, they are not so out-of-this-world artistically mind blowing that you look at them and feel "never in a million years will I be capable of producing something like that". In other words, the author (who is perfectly capable of producing
out-of-this-world artistically mind blowing images) choose illustrations for his book that get his points across, and keep you motivated. His purpose is not to prove what a brilliant photographer he is (for that, have a look at the portfolio on his website, you'll be amazed!).

The short chapters always end with an exercise. These exercises obviously are meant to practice what was being discussed in the chapter. But at the same time, the exercises are real. "Take a camera and shoot 5 pictures of squares you find in the room you are currently in". They are of the type that makes you want to do them right away, because you know you can do this, and because you realize that it teaches you something (e.g. recognizing the geometry in a scene).

This book is refreshingly different. I am currently on my third read of the book (got it as a gift 2 weeks ago). First time I read it cover to cover, without stopping for the exercises (which I highly recommend, by the way). For the second read I re-visited some key chapters that I noticed towards the end that I had not completely understood. And now I am slowly making my way through each chapter, actually doing the exercises.

The "Picture Perfect" book would also make an excellent program for any camera club looking to develop an instructional schedule. Highly recommend!"

**MIARMA** · 11/07/12, 22:38:19

Yo lo intento y no me deja. No me sale el libro y si sale es sin precio.

**vitovitez** · 11/07/12, 22:44:35

Pues no entiendo por qué no te sale. Prueba si no a buscar Picture Perfect Practice (en www.amazon.es o en www.amazon.com). En www.amazon.co.uk no sale con precio porque no está permitida su venta fuera de UK.

**MIARMA** · 11/07/12, 22:49:22

Resuelto, muchas gracias, uno que con la edad se vuelve un poquito (mucho) carajote.

**vitovitez** · 11/07/12, 23:14:18

De nada. La verdad es que el libro está muy bien para los aficionados a la fotografía. Hay muchos libros que hablan de la apertura, de la focal, del flash con sincronizacion rápida, de la hiperfocal, etc... Pero este libro habla de cómo componer una foto.

**bizen99** · 11/07/12, 23:33:46

Muchas gracias, ya lo he comprado

**Epico** · 12/07/12, 15:27:37

La verdad es que está muy bien... y más por ese precio

Gracias por el aviso!

**pau.estalella** · 17/07/12, 16:46:16

Comprado! Y por un solo centimillo. Habrá que estar al quite de ofertas como esta. La verdad es que estoy aprendiendo mucho con el libro, leyendo los ejemplos y haciendo los ejercicios que propone. Gracias por el aviso!

Saludos!