Photography and the Art of Seeing: A Visual Perception Workshop for Film and Digital Photography

One of the best books I have ever read. You can get cheap second hand copies on Amazon. Why not try one?

I bought this as a Christmas gift. The photographs are gorgeous and there's lots of good photography ideas. As the title states; it's about learning to perceive the photos we might otherwise be missing. My husband loved it and I enjoyed it too.

This book is all it's written up to be. Paperback so any to take with you. Good clear text and some amazing photos. Service every good as well.

This is, as many others have commented, a good book. It does encourage you to look at things differently and to see your everyday surroundings in a different light. It also encourages you to think of why you’re photographing rather than just what you’re photographing. I’d definitely say it’s one of the better books on photography that I’ve read.

This is the "manual" the camera should have come with, it tells you HOW to see what you are photographing.

A great read and excellent condition for a used book

This is a difficult subject to approach, and on the whole I think it is a useful addition to a photographer's library. As can be expected on such a subjective field, there is little hard advice, the purpose is more to open the reader's mind rather than laying down guidelines.

Very good

très beau livre

I would thoroughly recommend this book. It is full of useful and unusual information and interesting photos. well worth while buying

For a passionate learner of photography nothing can be better than this book! A must must must buy for learner as well as advanced photographers.

I prefer this 4th edition over the 1st edition, which I bought some years ago, and which set me on a course not only of making pictures but also of enlarging my world and calming my soul. I know that attribution of so many lessons to one book is quite generous,yet it is a remarkable book. PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE ART OF SEEING remains, in my experience, the book most worthwhile for anyone who wants to appreciate the world and his or her place in it. It is a wonderful book about perception and creativity, cooperative study, and learning. It is effective because it is clear and its discussion is simple without being simplistic. It offers effectively organized activities to help improve various aspects of seeing, and incidentally, to help one understand the aesthetics of imagery, description, and photography. This edition really has been revised so that people who are picking up a DSLR, but have not used a film SLR, can benefit from it. Such was really not true of the first and second editions of the book, since Freeman Patterson photographed with film long before changing to digital. (I admit that I appreciated his books at first because of my heritage as a film photographer.) In revising PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE ART OF SEEING, Mr. Patterson has widely avoided discussion of technology. Rather, he has dealt with the philosophy, psychology, activity of creative image-making. As a result, one can use the book's exercises whether one works with digital or film media. As a bonus, one gets Mr. Patterson's genial prose and some of his wonderful photographs. He seems to be a kind artist, and that is a real compliment, I believe.

I received this book last week and I find it well written. I am a semi-professional photographer and I am always looking for materials that might assist me in my creative thinking. This book is exactly what I was looking for. There are some really great exercises that a photographer can do to "think outside the box". This is not a how-to book on photography and assumes you have mastered the technical aspects of aperture, shutter speed, ISO for exposure and for depth of field management, etc. However, the book provides insight as to how a "creative" photographer might think or approach a subject in unconventional ways. I would recommend this book to the serious amateur who is looking to elevate the quality of their creative photograph images!