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Everyone to some degree is a photographer in this day and age. Just look at all those Instagram pics people can take with their smartphones. So whether you use photography for your blog, make photography your livelihood, or enjoy dabbling with the odd photograph here and there, we can all appreciate a properly composed photograph.
Former attorney, Sarah Wilkerson, CEO of Clickin Moms, has teamed with Random House to bring about Capture the Moment, a lovely hardback book that can double as instructional and coffee table material. It’s tag line reads “the modern photographer’s guide to finding beauty in everyday and family life” and would appear to live up to its promise. Over two hundred pages are chalk full of instruction and photographic examples on topics ranging from natural light to fine art to low light. The photographs come from an impressively wide directory of contributors (all women) and include specifics of how each photograph was captured including ISO, the MM of the lens and aperture.
The instructions are all well illustrated (1 photo per tip) and neither too long-winded nor too brief. There are also a few suggested “creativity exercises” for each chapter that anyone can test out.
So, while this book is obviously intended as a guide for the modern photographer, I would again attest to the fact that like previously reviewed book Nourish, this would make an excellent coffee table book. Everyone can gain something from the book and the photos chosen by Ms. Wilkerson are quite lovely in their own right.
Joy Michelle, I am so glad to hear that you enjoyed the book, and thank you for the lovely review!!
This photography book uses images to illustrate the tips and skills shared. All of the images used are from members of Clickin Moms, which is a social network of female photographers. That being said I didn’t think all of the photographs used were the best example of the tip being given. While many of the photos were beautiful and illustrated the point some didn’t seem like they were best used to describe what was going on. I don’t think that’s a good feature in a photography book, especially if you are a beginner. I did like many of the tips and felt like it could be a helpful reference book for a beginner photographer. However, I didn’t feel like this book was anything spectacular and many of the tips and examples of photography can be found online without having to purchase the book.