Time Lapse Photography, Long Exposure & Other Tricks of Time: From Snapshots to Great Shots

this book has clear to follow info, and was a big help when i was in Hawaii photographing the night sky. I have just loaned it to a friend, who has also said the book was very helpful.

From what I have read into the book so far it looks like it will help me achieve a much better understanding of long exposure digital photography. Excellent book so far.

Very useful book.

I read many photography books and hope to improve my skills. This book is comprehensive, but disappointing. I was surprised by the poor quality of the many images. Perhaps they illustrated the points, and technically OK, but none of them interested me. This did not give me confidence in the author. The book may be helpful to beginner photographers, but did not inspire me at all.

Many of the Snapshots to Great Shots books that I have read do a good job introducing the subjects they cover. This one is the exception. By the title the reader might think they will learn how to do time lapse and long exposure photography and maybe some other time tricks. Instead they will get a superficial, rambling discussion of disjointed topics.Carucci writes in a light, colloquial tone that seems flippant and results in somewhat odd statements that don’t tell the whole story. For example, under essential accessories he mentions polarizer and neutral density filters but goes on to say that if you forget either you can always count on postproduction in Photoshop. I don’t believe Photoshop easily replaces either of those filters. There are also editing problems such as Fig 3-14 which discusses zooming a telephoto lens during the exposure. The caption says that a 35-70mm lens is used but stated the exposure was begun at 35mm and then quickly pulled wider to create a motion effect.Many topics are touched on in the book including the subjects advertised in the title plus flash, night photography, high speed photography (by which he mean 1/500 sec to about 1/1000 sec rather that super high speed photography). Oddly, in the middle of the chapter on crisp high-speed photography there is a section titled handholding during a long exposure. There is even an appendix on enhancing your time images with Adobe Photoshop. There are many ways to accomplish the same thing in Photoshop but I would not do the things he describes the way he describes doing them.I rarely discuss the images used to illustrate photography books but I believe the ones chosen by this author are stuck on the snapshot end of the titles spectrum. I believe that is also where the reader would be left. The reader may decrypt that a lot of things can be done manipulating time in the camera but I don’t believe he/she will learn how to make great shots using these techniques from this book.

This book gives you the basic techniques how too capture images under difficult and special lighting conditions. You will learn special capture techniques to create special, creative and exiting images.It is mostly a book for a beginner but and advantage to have some very basic prior knowledge since the topics are rather specialized but the book has an intro chapter with basics like knowing your camera, lenses, filters gear.It includes topics like ;what gear to use with the different techniques described, time laps techniques both with DSLR and smartphones, time lapse in photoshop, images capturing during night, long exposure, long exposure during day, high speed photography, it does not only look at long exposure but also gives you how to use capturetime to stop/freeze motion, basic flash techniques, flash and ambient light, multiple flash exposure, understanding of artificial lighting.There is also a separate chapter on Compositional Aesthetics, so if you do not have prior knowledge to this you can get an introduction to it here.The book does not go very deep and comprehensive into each topic but gives a good overview, quick knowledge and an introduction to the different topics. There is a lot of information condensed into the book.You will also find an Appendix with basic post production work in photoshop, however it is clear that this is not a book on post production. The book contains a Index in the end.I think this is book fits best for a person already mastering the very basics techniques in photography (like e.g. What and how to control exposure, f-stops, whitebalance) but has limited knowledge and who wants to learn more specific how to use these special techniques and get to know the possibilities your camera has and have a lot of fun testing these techniques out yourself.Some of the topics are not explained in very heavy detail and that can at times make it a bit difficult to understand, unless you have some prior knowledge, at least the first time you read the book. You will gain a lot knowledge by reading the book twice or at least go back and read some chapters over again when you have come further in the book and gotten some knowledge into the different topics and that way you will see the techniques description with new eyes and get a better understanding and starting to see all the possibilities there are to be creative..The text gives you a nice starting point and the book also provides assignments after each chapter and with these self practicing exercises you will learn to master them. The assignments are good and to the point.There is a good balance of text and illustration images, and he includes capturing data on the images that helps you to understand how he did take them and it helps to support the text. However it could have been nice with some more portfolio type images for inspiration.The book touches on many different topics and will trigger your creativity by giving you some ideas that you can pursue on your own later. Ideas on for example light painting, capture star trails, using zoom techniques during shooting, images of the moon, people movement during long exposure, light trails etc. But to be successful you need to work the techniques by yourself, easily done by following the assignments in the book.The publisher provided me with a review copy of this book at no charge.

Great book for a long exposure photographer such as myself. Detailed photos with specific setting and basically a very helpful guide to this kind of photography.

Awesome book. Love this.