Achieving Your Potential As A Photographer: A Creative Companion and Workbook, by Harold Davis
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Coming from the perspective that true inspiration and great image making are at the core of any high-level photographic endeavour, Achieving Your Potential as a Digital Photographer presents an organized and cohesive plan for kickstarting creativity, and then taking the resulting work into the real world. The ideas presented have been formulated by Harold Davis over many years working as a creative artist and award-wining photographer, and in the celebrated workshops he has developed and led all around the world. These concepts are presented with accompanying exercises so that readers can put them into everyday practice as well as workbook pages bound into the book for note taking and journaling. This book will enrich your photographic practice whether the goal is simply to enrich your photography or to make money from your work.
Achieving Your Potential As A Photographer: A Creative Companion and Workbook, by Harold Davis- Amazon Sales Rank: #306089 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-09-18
- Released on: 2015-09-18
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review Achieving Your Potential As a Photographer is "vintage Harold Davis: graphically lively, amply thought out, and informed by Davis's unique sense of organization and creative vision. It is well worth checking this title out" when it becomes available.---Rangefinder Magazine, May 2015 (pre-publication review)Achieving Your Potential As a Photographer looks great. What an accomplishment! I salute you. You're gonna help a lot of people with this one.---Steven Pressfield, author of "The War of Art"
"[This book] incorporates Davis’ signature beautiful imagery and graphic vitality to help every photographer find his or her personal goals. The book is vintage Harold Davis: graphically lively, amply though out and informed by Davis’ unique sense of organization and creative vision. It’s well worth checking this title out" – Rangefinder Magazine
About the Author
Harold Davis is an internationally-known digital artist and award-winning professional photographer. He is the author of many photography books. In addition to his activity as a bestselling book author, Harold Davis is a Moab Master printmaker and a Zeiss Lens Ambassador.
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful. Achieving Your Potential As A Photographer - is within your reach! By Gail If you want a quick read that will magically make you a better or great photographer, then this isn’t the book for you. But if you have a desire to be the best photographer that you can be AND the wherewithal to work through the exercises in the included workbook, then this is the book for you.Harold Davis obviously put his heart and soul into producing a “road map” that can provides you with the tools and techniques, which will help you to be the best photographer you can be. Mr. Davis starts by helping you evaluating your own images – not an easy thing to do. He encourages you to “unleash” your imagination. He will show you how to tell a story with your photographs and lead you through important techniques. You will discover how to listen to your inner voice; set goals for yourself, and what it means to draw a line in the sand.At the end of the book is a 46-lesson/exercise plan. It may take you a several sessions to read the book. Doing the exercises will take much longer. I suggest reading the book through, then going back and rereading each section and completing the appropriate exercises. This WILL take you a long time.I have read the book and completed the first twelve exercises. I suspect it will take another six months (or more) to complete all the exercises. I know unequivocally I will be a better and more creative photographer for having put the time and effort into reading the book and working through the exercises.Again, if you want a quick fix, skip this book; if you truly want to reach your potential as photographer and be the best you can be, run, don’t walk, to your computer and order Achieving Your Potential As A Photographer. You will not regret it.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful. Work on your Creativity By Conrad J. Obregon I review a lot of photography instruction manuals and many of them promise to make the reader a more creative photographer. Most end up explaining some principles of photography (I don't want to consider whether photography has rules; if so, they are easily broken!) and indicating one can be more creative by applying these rules. Harold Davis is one of the few authors I've encountered who aims at changing the photographer rather than just improving technique.Davis uses ideas that have been generated and proven by modern management and psychology teaching. The book is a two-parter; part one is a discussion of the steps that a photographer can take to increase his or her creativity, and part two is a workbook, with exercises that provide practical work applying what was learned in part one.Unfortunately making the program work requires a lot of effort on the part of the reader-photographer. For example, the author tells you to form specific goals for improvement of your photography, based on a self-evaluation of where you are now. But the author can't specify the goals for the particular photographer. That has to come from within the individual photographer, and it can be an arduous task, but the payoff will be high.Since this isn't a simple process, like learning how depth of field works (which the author does mention) I would expect that the reader may read the book in a couple of sittings, but will have to work at the exercises for a long time, and probably over and over. Most of the work will have to come from the reader.The book is profusely illustrated with the author's excellent photographs. I did wonder if the fact that so many of them involved composites or refined techniques might lead readers to believe that such techniques were essential to developing creativity. Yet I felt certain that Davis would agree that an individual could become more creative within an established genre.My only objection to the book is that the author often referred to the concept of "Resistance", an idea presented by Stephen Pressfield in "The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles". I found that book, emphasizing how the artist is continually at war with him or herself to create art, to be a far cry from the author's positive message that we can improve our creativity by approaching it in a reasonable and logical manner, with enough effort. On the other hand, I enjoyed the author's incorporation of the ideas of Joseph Campbell, particularly since Davis is the guide on our journey.I suspect not everyone will get a bump in creativity from reading this book. But the benefits to be gained, especially if one is willing to work on one's creativity, certainly merit giving the Davis approach a shot.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Helps Photographers Move from Capturing Images to Making Personal Works of Art By CJ Glynn "Achieving Your Potential As a Photographer: A Photographer’s Creative Companion and Workbook" by Harold Davis is not your typical photography “how to” book. Rather than stressing technique and delineating specific recipes to make great images, Davis teaches readers to look inside themselves to identify and overcome “resistances” that keep them from achieving their potential as a photographer. In this book, Davis helps readers move from just capturing images to making personal works of art.Davis writes in a somewhat breezy fashion, as if he’s having a conversation with, rather than lecturing, the reader. To keep the contents light, there are personal asides and attempts at humor throughout. The less formal approach will work well for most readers, but others may be put off by the more causal style.The book takes the reader on a journey. Not a physical journey from point A to point B, but rather a mental journey to explore who you are, what you want to be as a photographer and how to get there — wherever “there” is for you. The book asks the reader for self-reflection, and if the reader does indeed do so, he will emerge better off for it.Davis starts out with what he calls “A Roadmap to Success.” He encourages readers to “Establish a baseline,” “Go for it,” “Improve,“ and “Do it again.” This, of course, is a simplification of “Plan, Do, Study, Act” that was introduced by Walter Shewhart of Bell Laboratories and made famous by Dr. W. Edwards Deming, the quality control guru who inspired the rise of Japanese industry after World War II and guided the resurgence of American automobile manufacturing in the late 1980s. This is a tried and true method for improvement of almost any process, and as Davis advocates, it should work for advancing your photographic skills as well.The book is divided into five main sections, “In The Beginning,” “Unleash Your Imagination,” “Becoming a More Creative Photographer,” “Technique Matters,” and “From Photo to World” with short chapters in each section. In general, the chapters are concise — from two to ten pages — allowing readers to consume them in smaller time chunks, rather than requiring an investment of an hour or more at a time to move through the material.The text is supplemented by a myriad of Davis’ images, from his iconic high key flowers and Parisian cityscapes to natural scenes of Japan and abstract, impressionist creations. Davis’ own story accompanies many of the images, giving you valuable insight into the mind of a professional photographer, including what he was thinking and feeling when making the compositions. In these asides, it is almost as if the reader is sitting over coffee with Davis and discussing his work.The book covers a great deal of material, both about Davis’ approach to photography as well as Davis’ approach to life. He sometimes borders on giving Zen-master-like advice (“To create meaningful imagery, you have to know yourself.”), but almost always pulls back from the brink of crossing too far into the “airy-fairy.”Rather than be juxtaposed with the material they reference, the exercises are relegated to a workbook at the rear of the book. While this might be the form of the “Workshop in a Box” that Davis promises, some readers may find it distracting to be forced to page through the workbook section each time an exercise in mentioned in the text.While the skeumorphic design of the workbook and the invocation of “Harold sez (sic)” to introduce Davis’ quotes is too precious, the exercises will serve to expend readers’ minds, giving them inspiration, ideas, exercises, and challenges. Some exercises are expected (“Learn to pre-visualize by describing the image you want to make and listing the steps necessary to make it.”), while others really serve to stretch the reader’s photographic and creative abilities (“Find your personal passion by listing things you really care about and making them into an image.”)For many, the main take-aways from the book will be more personal than photographic:• How do you objectively rate yourself today? Be honest.• What’s stopping you from achieving your goals? Figure it out, write it down and make a plan to remove the “resistance.”• Don’t be afraid to be creative; don’t be afraid to make a mistake.• Listen to your inner voice by understanding what moves you and why you care about those things.• Work should be play; you can’t do great things when you’re not having a good time.Readers of this review will notice that the word “photography” is not mentioned once in the above bullets. “How do objectively rate yourself today?” could easily be transformed to “How do you objectively rate your photography today?” That, it seems, is the point of Davis’ vision: your life and your photography are inextricably intertwined; they cannot be separated. Good images are not possible without a well lived, deeply considered life.It is obvious that this work (“work” meaning both “this book” and “photography in general”) is highly personal to Davis. In Achieving Your Potential As a Photographer, he comes as close to baring his soul and sharing his innermost thoughts about photography this side of a therapist’s couch. Davis’ passion for photography comes through, as does his sincere desire to help readers “be the best photographer you can be.”Intermediate or professional photographers who have already mastered the technical side of their craft will further their knowledge of photography, and of themselves, by reading (and then re-reading) Achieving Your Potential As a Photographer by Harold Davis.
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