Product Description

This unique book is packed with more than 200 magnificent photos, each expressing the photographer’s unique take on a scene or subject. With each image, the artist shares a description of the setting, what inspired the idea, and what the photo was intended to accomplish, along with the technical details — camera and lens used, shutter speed, aperture, and lighting. Stimulate your creativity with these breathtaking landscapes, incredible action shots, heartwarming portraits of people and pets, intriguing close-ups, and more.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #83798 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

Review
"It is most certainly a book about pictures and not a book simply to be read." (Business Network, August 2008)

"It is most certainly a book about pictures and not a book simply to be read." (Business Network, August 2008)

From the Back Cover
SEE YOUR WORLD FROM A NEW PERSPECTIVE

This is a different kind of book. Packed inside are more than 200 magnificent photos, each expressing the photographer's unique take on a scene or subject. With each image, the artist shares his or her own description of the setting, what inspired the idea, and what the photo was intended to accomplish, along with the technical details — camera and lens used, shutter speed, aperture, and lighting. Explore . . . experiment . . . enjoy.

• Let these striking images awaken you to new ways of seeing the world

• Explore breathtaking landscapes, incredible action shots, heartwarming portraits of people and pets, intriguing close-ups, and more

• Feast on the technical recipes used to create each photo

• Discover what the photographer was thinking

• Feel your own ideas emerge

About the Author
Lynne Eodice is the Managing Editor of Double Exposure, the online publication for Photoworkshop.com. She began her career writing and shooting pictures for weekly newspapers in southern California during the ‘90s, including The Walnut Independent, Pasadena Weekly, Sierra Madre News, and The Herald Tribune. For eight years she was Feature Editor for Petersen’s PHOTOgraphic, until the magazine’s demise in 2005. In addition to having articles and photos published in this magazine, her images have appeared in a popular instructional book called The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Photography, and she’s contributed stories to Rangefinder, California Tour & Travel, and Family Photo magazines, and www.takegreatpictures.com, a photo community Web site. She has marketed her stock photos through Index Stock Imagery in New York. Photos That Inspire is her very first book.

Customer Reviews

I'm Definitely Inspired
I loved the way this book was published. Photographers contributed their own work for the book and the author reviewed why they were effective photos. The quality of the pages, color and author's reviews are all excellent. I'm learning a lot about how to improve my photos. I highly recommend this book. It has something for every one. Buy it. You won't regret it. There are five other books in the Photo Workshop series.

Entertaining and full of 'secrets of the pros'
"Photos that Inspire" is the sixth and (for now) final book in the series, and the third that I've reviewed. Unlike the others I've read, this volume is more of a desert-after-the-meal book. Instead of being organized as a tutorial on one facet of photography, such as composition or exposure, that takes the reader from begging to end; this book provides a couple hundred examples of good photos in many different genres. Each entry is one page in length and includes a high resolution image taken by a different photographer; an entry by the author about what the photo has to teach the reader; a comment paragraph by the artist discussing the thought process when the image was made; and technical data such as ISO, film speed, aperture, etc.

"Photos that Inspire" is one part coffee-table book and one part how-to. The author, Lynne Eodice, is the online editor for Double Exposure, the web-based newsletter for Photo Workshop. Before the Wiley series was introduced, the only way to access these photo classes was to enroll in a membership with Photo Workshop.

This book will entertain, but more importantly, it gives you the 'secrets of the trade' from the perspective of hundreds of photographers. I loved it! It is not, however an indexed reference or a course unto itself. Rating five of five.

Great Idea but amateur photos
I really do love the idea and looked forward to receiving the book. Alas, the pictures are not really great. I mean, they are all solid photos, but on most photos I keep thinking things like "if only he had moved a little bit more to the right", believing that I could do it "better" (what ever that means).
Even worse: The description of how and why the picture was taken is very short and mostly not even about the photo but about background information (like this is my dog, i love him and have been running around with him all afternoon).
Sure the technical details (f/4 at 1/100) are there, but I can see those in any good photo community. I want to know where the lights were placed, problems he had, mishappenings, etc.

A much better book is "Perfect Exposure" from Zuckerman. Just take a look at the cover, I certainly do not believe that I can do better photos than those...