The Quintessence of Photography
Nasrul Eam’s The Quintessence of Photography: Understanding Composition is a precisely written reference book for anyone who is longing to step into the latitude of the true aesthetic world of photography.
The Art of Photography
Photography as an art is an expression of humanity, an effort to make a better world, which creates beauty out of life, in another form. From Leonardo Da Vinci to Pablo Picasso, from Vincent Van Gogh to Ansel Adams, all created their art in unique ways but all did it with proper knowledge of the science of light.
The Quintessence of Photography: Understanding Composition takes you around this panoramic world of photography and its art, from core science to beautiful aesthetic world, from classical notion to cutting edge technology and so much more.
The Complete Guide to Understanding Composition
This well-organized book contains everything you would want to know about composition. It provides compositional building blocks to develop one’s artistic vision.
It is so precisely written that no matter how much you think you know about photography, you will learn new insights in this book. It is a complete guide to understanding composition.
Browse Through The Pages
Nasrul Eam is a photographer and writer of the digital age. He was an award – winning web designer and worked as an art director for many years, then left to pursue a career as a photographer, photography writer, and instructor. He has a unique eye for observing nature and the lifestyle of people. Eam’s passion for photography, designing, writing, and art is remarkably absorbing and illuminating. Besides The Quintessence of Photography: Understanding Composition, Nasrul wrote books like The Essence of Close-up Photography, for developing basic photography vocabulary, while teaching one to do close-up photography artistically, Illuminating Nature: Moments in Reflection with more vivid examples for nature & wildlife photography, and The Happy Children of the Third World, for touching the meaning of life to its core.
Nasrul founded Light and Composition Magazine, from the travel – dream destination of Maenam, on the island of Koh Samui, Thailand, in the beginning of 2010, during his South East Asia tour. Then on June 12, 2010, the magazine first saw the light of this world. Nasrul spends most of his time studying, travelling, photographing, and doing research. Travelling through different cultures took Nasrul closer to people, life and nature. He learnt different languages to understand people. Besides this, he studies the scriptures of different religions in their original language, and researches these with today’s established science, in order to understand the meaning of life. His research on science and religion helped him accept Islam.
Almost two years have passed since I introduced one of our most important books in the field of photography: The Quintessence of Photography: Understanding Composition. I have presented it in seminars, workshops, field trips, and photo walks. It traveled with me as my close companion, from the mountain village of Manang to the overcrowded streets of Jakarta. Pioneers and amateurs of photography alike consumed and loved, appreciated the amount of work, experiences, and explanations I have put in this book.
Using this book to help teach young photographers in the university always gives me new ideas on how to improve it. Yes, I have just revised the book for the Second Revised Edition – March, 2011. Now I believe this is one of the most valuable books for those who love to step into the true world of photography.
Yes, I believe you should have this book too. You have read our magazine, and also gone through some of our most famous online articles like “Enigma of Capturing Light” and “Tales Beyond the Frame”. However, reading this book will open a new window, a window of visual rhythm and harmonies, taking you closer to different culture, making you understand the standard of photography, thus letting you analyze the art and fundamental rules with style that a photographer must have. As you read further, you will gain insight into how to produce the effects you want.
Revising a book like this, which covers vast amounts of material and rebranding is not easy. It needed a huge amount of time and work by many people. We have completely redesigned the website for the book, and opened a new online store both for magazines and books. I believe this will certainly change the promise we have made to take you towards the true essence of photography.
Nasrul Eam
Editor-in-Chief & CEO
Light & Composition
Pages: 125 pages
Language: English
Edition: Second Revised Edition (March 11, 2011)
IOCTN (ISBN): 141-1-91821-125113
First Publish Date: February 4, 2009
Author: Nasrul Eam
Size: 20.1 MB
Price: $ 19.99
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Over the years I have purchased many photography books from Kelby , Freeman, Tom, David but Quintessence of Photography by Nasrul is my favorite. This book is a perfect blend of simplicity and has information of almost everything. The difference between those books and this is the author cuts through the clutter and goes right to the subject with clarity. Every Page is nicely illustrated with nice photo example. This is an excellent book for anyone interested in photography. I highly recommend this book!
A professional photographer recommended me this book. It is really good. It takes you through the basics to very advance, and very well presented with lots of examples. Writing is very clear with complete narrative. I recommend “The Quintessence of Photography” to All.
I purchased this book for my son this summer to go along with his new camera. He loves this book. I think he has improved a lot after reading this book. I read two chapter of it and it’s an excellent book on composition….I’ve been shooting for a decades…and found it very helpful too. It is creative book, one of the best books we have!
This is a very good book on composition. Things I read keep telling me inside my mind and I find often I am using these techniques for doing any composition, more and more every day. It does improve skill of photographers. It opened my mind seeing the world with an artistic eye, allowing me do better composition, I feel that because the author’s great writing style.
I wanted to learn composition, and found this book extremely helpful. It did help me open my eyes when looking through the frame. I highly recommend it to anyone who is looking for a photography book to learn. In fact if you don’t read this book you will be missing out on some very good insight!
This book goes well beyond the basics of photography, and express one’s impression through the photographic medium. The book is very inspiring, very thought provoking. If you enjoy thinking about photography and thinking about the creative process behind doing it well then Quintessence of Photography is a pleasure to read, and re-read. The images are gorgeous for the creative journey of photography.
Quintessence of Photography is a quality book, plus the author tries to help you take the next step. As a mid-level photographer, I know how to take a photo technically good but always wondering what to photograph and why, this is the book that clears. I have photography books including Joe McNally’s and Scott Kelby’s, but I still found much to learn from Quintessence of Photography. I highly recommend this book.
I don’t really review products but this book was great. In fact this is one of the most inspiring photography books I have ever read. Nasrul’s narrative is easy to read and inspire. Highly recommended!