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Best books and courses to learn photography?

Anonymous Mon 01 Oct 2018 10:26:09 No.3367557 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>3367580 >>3367620 >>3367811 >>3367865

I want to get into filmmaking, but first I need a solid intro into photography. Practice aside, what are the best books and courses to learn the technical aspects of a camera? I want a complete understanding of the science behind photography.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Oct 2018 11:47:50 No.3367580 Report

Quoted By: >>3367700

>>3367557
>The Manual of Photography, Tenth Edition
There you go, and don't come back until you've memorised all.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Oct 2018 11:50:22 No.3367585 Report

Quoted By: >>3367598

YouTube.com

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Oct 2018 12:10:39 No.3367598 Report

Quoted By: >>3367687 >>3370812

>>3367585

Be more specific

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 01 Oct 2018 12:13:50 No.3367601 Report

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heh

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Oct 2018 12:49:16 No.3367620 Report

Quoted By: >>3367624

>>3367557
buy and try

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Oct 2018 12:50:20 No.3367621 Report

Quoted By: >>3367624

BEE yourself lil nigga

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Oct 2018 12:51:53 No.3367624 Report

Quoted By: >>3367696

>>3367621
>>3367620

serious replies only pls

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Oct 2018 14:56:26 No.3367687 Report

Quoted By: >>3367688 >>3367696

>>3367598
You click the search bar and type in what you don't know or want to know more about. After that relevant videos will be offered to you in a handy list. You simply click one of those and watch at your leisure with the built in video player.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Oct 2018 15:00:12 No.3367688 Report

Quoted By: >>3367692 >>3370812

>>3367687

More specific pls

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Oct 2018 15:03:49 No.3367692 Report

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>>3367688
That's the magic of it grandpa, we don't know what you don't know... but you do! And anything you search will be sure to bring up results and tutorial videos. Hell, these helpful folks at YouTube will even suggest to you top photography books to buy in a handy top 10 list! It's quite eye opening.

Give it a try, it's sort of like requesting books at the library but a lot faster.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Oct 2018 15:13:23 No.3367696 Report

Quoted By: >>3367698 >>3367700

>>3367687
shut the fuck up boomer
you "GoOglE iT" faggots should be banned

>>3367624
read sticky, scroll down there're a lot of tips for newfags and tons n tons of other material. sticky kinda dated but thats the one you need rn.
also see the photographers section for inspo in sticky and if you need further elaboration on photographers' works check our the art of photography's(youtube channel) photographers playlist

http://pseudosticky.wikia.com/wiki/Pseudo_sticky

>I want to get into filmmaking
this is home general for filmmaking and video related stuff >>3365049
also i would give you a suggestions that stick to /vid/ general for filmmaking and ask these question to them, vid bros are really cool some of fags are actually in filmmaking industry and answers your questions

you need no courses internet in your school and teacher
the only thing you need is practice a lot of practice and knowledge about your craft

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The Lord Mon 01 Oct 2018 15:16:47 No.3367697 Report

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Anonymous Mon 01 Oct 2018 15:17:29 No.3367698 Report

Quoted By: >>3367701 >>3367704

>>3367696
>largest repository of collected human knowledge in all of history
>there's no answer you can't find in written or video form from countless helpful channels and websites
>some helpless anon STILL wants information spoonfed to him like a massive baby

he really should have just Googled it instead of waiting around for anons to fill up the choo-choo train for him

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Anonymous Mon 01 Oct 2018 15:27:24 No.3367700 Report

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>>3367696
>>3367580

Thank you very much

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Oct 2018 15:31:42 No.3367701 Report

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>>3367698
>he really should have just Googled it instead of waiting around for anons to fill up the choo-choo train for him
there's no point in posting on these boards if all the question/arguments will be answered in "google it" manner
idc, its a creative board i will spoon feed fags
these threads are much better than /g/earfaggotry

we all know that there is google but its so full of shit that its hard to reach to something good with google, at least i didn't

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Oct 2018 15:39:06 No.3367704 Report

Quoted By: >>3367711

>>3367698
It's not about finding information
it's about finding out which source is most trusted and well-established

also
>"somebody asks something that I find easy to answer I WON'T STAND FOR THIS!"

Fuck off

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Oct 2018 15:55:17 No.3367711 Report

Quoted By: >>3367761

>>3367704
It's not like /p/ has some arcane or heavily verified sources sorted by their usefulness. Most people here recommend the same channels or websites in the top five list when you search anything on YouTube/Google.

You're lazy and want people to spoonfeed you, it happens on every board. It's just more frustrating on /p/ because you'd have learned more by going out and actually taking some photos instead of waiting at your computer for replies.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Oct 2018 17:37:49 No.3367761 Report

Quoted By: >>3367762

>>3367711
>You're lazy and want people to spoonfeed you
goit the wrong person, mate. I'm just here to tell you to fuck off.
People are absolutely within their right to verify whether those "top 5 lists" you talk about are correct or to be trusted.

Stop being a butthurt little bitch because someone told you to fuck off.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Oct 2018 17:48:08 No.3367762 Report

Quoted By: >>3367767

>>3367761
When an OP is so braindead and helpless that they completely ignore the sticky until someone links it to them and tells them to read it they're a lost cause anyway. No amount of spoonfeeding will help. Not even the high grade gourmet baby food carefully handpicked by a panel of spoonfeeding experts.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Oct 2018 17:55:38 No.3367767 Report

Quoted By: >>3367771

>>3367762
maybe he came from a normie site and don't know shit about image boards and sticky stuff
so what? its not the end of the world you fucking faggot

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Oct 2018 18:03:00 No.3367771 Report

Quoted By: >>3367779 >>3367803

>>3367767
You sound awfully upset and defensive for someone who isn't the OP. Try harder.

Look, I've been here for years and I've repeated the same advice to countless anons in threads like this. The cold hard truth is that to learn filmmaking or photography you need to go out and DO IT while making mistakes along the way. You then learn what went wrong and avoid it the next time. There's no magical book or YouTube video or website that will teach any of that in a comprehensive way. It's a long process of trial and error and years of making garbage before you start to git gud.

Therefore, OP's question is pointless and lazy. He wants people to spoonfeed him years of experience and knowledge because he has no work ethic to go out and learn himself. He doesn't have the willpower to make something shit and learn along the way because he's used to people holding his hand every step of the way. That way lies mediocrity and I'm tired of inadvertantly enabling lazy cunts to keep being lazy. This board has enough of it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Oct 2018 18:20:01 No.3367779 Report

Quoted By: >>3367782

>>3367771
>He wants people to spoonfeed him years of experience and knowledge because he has no work ethic to go out and learn himself
*ssssiiipppsss*
typical boomer attitude

there's nothing wrong with giving someone a starting push
also kys braindead bitter boomer

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Oct 2018 18:23:31 No.3367782 Report

Quoted By: >>3367791

>>3367779
>I've lost the argument so I'll just spam memes and insults hoping nobody notices
Typical. Come back when you have some work to critique. I'll help then.

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Anonymous Mon 01 Oct 2018 18:35:41 No.3367791 Report

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>>3367782
>boomer takes arguments seriously on Indian aryan nazi website

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Oct 2018 18:52:13 No.3367803 Report

Quoted By: >>3367814

>>3367771
>Look, I've been here for years and I've repeated the same advice to countless anons in threads like this.
Sounds like you have a significant learning disability.
People come here to ask, becasuse they don't trust the sources they can find by themselves.
There's nothing evil about it. It's just how many people see specific boards on 4chan, taken witha grain of salt.
Stop being asshurt over the fact someone else doesn't know as much as you

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Oct 2018 19:04:27 No.3367811 Report

Quoted By: >>3367874

>>3367557
Ansel Adams wrote three books that are still regarded as mandatory reading material for anyone serious about photography:
>The Camera
>The Negative
>The Print

They're all fairly short, but offer a boatload of good info. Also check out Kodak's Library of Creative Photography. It's an 18 volume set, but can help you get a good start on capturing anything you're interested in.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Oct 2018 19:05:55 No.3367814 Report

Quoted By: >>3367818

>>3367803
>people come here to ask, because they don't trust the sources they can find by themselves
Yet they trust the opinions of a Mongolian fingerpainting forum on whether what they just watched is good or bad. This is literally like people on /tv/ who post a film and ask "did I like it?". If you get some value out of a lesson in a video or blog why do you need additional validation on that?

And please, I don't care if it makes me a " boomer". I've legit been here years. If you want to insult me, attack my age or whatever. I have enough knowledge, I just share it to people who try and fail in /rpt/ instead of stillbirth threads like this by people who can't be bothered to learn by themselves.

Even if I dumped a list of my favourite books and every useful YouTube video I've ever seen in the past 10 it wouldn't make OP any better like going out and taking some photos will. That's a fact.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Oct 2018 19:13:58 No.3367818 Report

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>>3367814
10 years*

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Anonymous Mon 01 Oct 2018 20:28:08 No.3367865 Report

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>>3367557
Ok OP, since you posted a photo of Stanley Kubrick I'll bite.

Lenses, learn all you can about lenses. Especially for filmmaking. This is the fourth time trying to write the next sentence: The lens will determine the "look", lighting and the camera will just enhance that.

The link below is a very dry look at the lenses Kubrick used and owned. Most of them were still lenses adapted for movie cameras.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fb7Meqaz7Aw

Soundtrack and audio are also imperative (don't ask me, my brothers do that). Here's a video/track I found the other day. A remix from the "The Shining".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8pptpmkHXg

Anything else camera related just ask our Lord and Saturator: Ken Rockwell.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Oct 2018 20:49:41 No.3367874 Report

Quoted By: >>3370810

>>3367811
The Print is obsolete, the other two still extremely important.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Oct 2018 16:14:14 No.3370810 Report

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>>3367874
i disagree. you can learn a lot from darkroom printing still. if you take darkroom and lighting at the same time you'll probably start seeing and thinking about light differently.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Oct 2018 16:18:48 No.3370812 Report

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>Practice aside, what are the best books and courses to learn the technical aspects of a camera?
Your cameras manual

>I want a complete understanding of the science behind photography
Physics and mathematics 101

>>3367598
>Be more specific
>On my unmatchably generic and non specific question with no defining parameters whatsoever

>>3367688
>More specific pls
Oh, troll thread. 2/10 made me reply

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