Daily Archives: October 7, 2014

 

If everything goes according to plans, the eBook Store will be open for business next Tuesday, October 14th!  Anyone visiting the bookstore will be able, with a special code, to down load the book, 7 Steps!  It will allow you to get acquainted with my style of eBooks at no cost!!!!

 

7 Steps For Taking It To the Next Level!

 

This book is a 127 page plan to get through the biggest blocks to becoming a far better photographer.  Lots of illustrating images and the most important key point to help you accomplish your task.

 

The first nine books includes the Foundational Series of six books for beginners and intermediates.

 

The Foundational Series includes: Volume 1.  The Camera Controls (72 pages),  Volume 2. The Eye Seeks:  Brightness Sharpness & Warmth  (49 Pages),  Volume 3. Exposure Exposed (81 pages),  Volume 4. Light (116 pages), Volume 5. The Principles of Composition (125 pages), Volume 6. The Four Things You Need in a Great Image  (65 pages).

 

Three additional books are also in the store;  Building a System For Field Use, The FREE 7 Steps book, and Using Digital Technology to Have Fun (all about the fun things you can do with post processing filters and Monochrome conversions, sort of a idea book!)

 

So how do I need your help?  Let me start by sharing my philosophy of photography eBooks with  you.  I once heard a story about a long haul truck driver who was asked by a friend, “I just don’t see how you do it, driving all the way from New York to Los Angeles!!”  The truck driver answered, ” I don’t, I drive from New York to Pittsburgh, then from Pittsburgh to St. Louis, on to Oklahoma City, then to Albuquerque and then on into LA.”  What he was saying is he breaks the trip up into manageable parts!  I believe that we learn the same way.  The problem with many instructional photo books is that they try to take what someone has learned over 20 years and fit it into 200 pages!  To do that you have to go fast and complicate things.  I prefer to take one simple concept at a time and make sure the person, trying to learn, truly gets it!  I have Scott Kelby to thank for cementing this theory into my method of teaching.  He built a wildly successful business out of a simple concept, “Help them get it!”  If you do that, as they say in Field of Dreams, “Build it and they will come….”  Well he built it, and they surely keep coming!  It’s called value!  That’s why I’m part of KelbyOne! People want to learn, and if you make it easy to learn, you will develop a following.  I just want to help people learn the thing I understand best, photography!

 

 

 

 

The first six books are deceptively simple, very deceptively!  I really don’t care if anyone thinks they are a little “light weight”, as long as they walk away understanding things a lot better!  Future books will get more “involved”!  In photography 90% of what you really need to know is in the first six books, the remaining 10% will be spread over a bunch of books, and that is where you come in!

 

I need your suggestions!  After you read the first free book and any other book you buy and read, shoot me an email and give me your thoughts!  Here is what is coming next!

 

The Fuji X-System – A User’s Guide!   * not an every setting book, but how to use the system to make great images!

 

Designing a Photograph – Advanced Composition

 

 Americana Photography – The How To Guide

 

The Story Behind – Americas From 500 Feet I & II  (the best of both books!)

 

My Favorite Images – How They Were Shot

 

Existing Light Photography  –  Shooting in the Almost Dark!

 

So the next step is up to you, jump in and let me know what you think, and by-the-way the majority of my books are only $4.99.  How do you like them apples!

 

Blessings,

 

the pilgrim

 

Once again, how on earth do I think I know enough to write these books????!!!!  In the last 45 years I’ve taught side by side with, and studied under some of the greatest photographers of our age, and I learned things from every one of them:

 

John Shaw   –   Scott Kelby   –   Art Wolfe   –   Jack Graham   –   David & Mark Muench  

Jim Brandenburg   –   Jay Maisel   –   Joe McNally   –   Bill Pekala   –   The Late Galen Rowell

Bob Krist   –   Bryan Peterson   –   L.L. Rue   –   George Lepp   –   Fred Sisson   –  Mark Kettenhofen

R.C. Concepcion   –   Matt Kloskowski   –  Moose Peterson   –   Jim Begley   –   Vinny Colucci

Jim Haverstock   –   Tom Bol   –   and on and on, and on!