If you're a regular reader no doubt you've already encountered my friend Gordon Lewis. Gordon and I were contributing editors of Darkroom Photography magazine at the same time in the '90s. He's a regular commenter around here, and a while back we did a print offer of one of his street pictures, called "Precipitation," which was later featured in George Barr's book Why Photographs Work. Gordon also had a weblog called "Shutterfinger" that was popular with TOP readers but unfortunately turned out to be short-lived.
Now Gordon's written a book about his photographic first love. Published by Rocky Nook, Street Photography is now available for pre-order and can be downloaded
I haven't delved into the e-book yet, I'm sorry to say—I'm kinda waiting for the printed book, so I can see it with fresh eyes—but I'm sure I'll have more to say once I've seen it.
Rico Pfirstinger's X-T1 book: Another Rocky Nook book I've been enjoying is Rico Pfirstinger's The Fujifilm X-T1: 111 X-Pert Tips to Get the Most Out of Your Camera
Still, I thought Rico's book about the X-T1 was excellent. It's more fun to read than the manual, and while I knew a lot of what he writes about already, I did learn a few new things about the camera from his book. Moreover, he avoids the most common failing of instructional books, which is that many of them are padded with copious amounts of generic photography basics. Of course he's not writing specifically for someone at my exact level, but at least the whole book is about the X-T1. It's the first instructional book I've read straight through in a good long time.
He also has several other Fuji-related titles, including one about the X-E2.
Mike
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Roberto: "'Precipitation' is the photo I regret most not to have purchased in a TOP sale. Suppose I'll go for the book."
Mike replies: It really is a lovely print. I still look at it quite often and still enjoy it a lot.
jean-louis salvignol: "Pre-ordered from Book Depository, 58 days to go...I just would add for Gordon that I miss Shutterfinger so much. C'est la vie."
Filippo M.: "as a new owner of the X-T1, I'm impressed as well but I'm still try to find the best way to get the most of the sensor's dynamic range. I'm exposing for the highlights because according to my first impressions and general consensus there's much more room in the shadows. But I'm still trying to figure out which DR mode to use and for this reason your piece of advice would be precious to me. Guessing you would avoid the DR400, do you find useful to use the DR200 or you simply stick to the DR100? Thanks in advance for your help.
Mike replies: That's Tip 51 in the book, which you can read online here. (Scroll up a bit at the link. The section is called "Extending the Dynamic Range.")
Nigel Voak: "It was a great shame that the Shutterfinger site did not work out. It was one of the few photo sites on the web that had was intelligently written and had something useful to communicate. I like his take on street photography with its exploration of colour and form as opposed to the usual poor photographs of poor people in monochrome that make up the mass of this genre. This is certainly a book that I will get."
