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Foto taget av: Colin Dennis Garratt

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Verk av Colin Garratt

Steam Trains of the World (1600) 29 exemplar
100 Years of Classic Steam (1997) 26 exemplar
Steam (2006) 26 exemplar
Steam Trains: A World Portrait (1989) 23 exemplar
Steam Trains (1750) 22 exemplar
Legends of Steam (1998) 21 exemplar
Veterans in Steam (1979) 20 exemplar
Hamlyn History of Trains (1998) 15 exemplar
Scarecrows (1995) 13 exemplar
Trams of Southern Britain (1997) 11 exemplar
Twilight of Steam (1972) 9 exemplar
Symphony in Steam (Colour) (1970) 9 exemplar
British Steam Nostalgia (1987) 8 exemplar
World of Steam Railways (1994) 8 exemplar
Last of Steam (1976) 7 exemplar
Trams of Northern Britain (1995) 6 exemplar
World of Steam (1988) 5 exemplar
British Steam Lives (1984) 4 exemplar
Classic British Steam Trains (2006) 3 exemplar
Railway Photographer (1982) 3 exemplar
Real Steel 1 exemplar
Steam Trains 1 exemplar

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Superb collection of very evocative photographs showing townscapes and street life from the 1930s to 1950s. And trams.
 
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martin1400 | 1 annan recension | Jun 14, 2019 |
A fine anthology of steam engine history. Stunning photography.
 
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jakadk | Jan 31, 2017 |
Another sumptuous book of photographs from Colin Garratt, showing the end of steam around the world. Photographs date from the late 1960s to the first decade of the 21st century, and none of the engines illustrated were in museums or on heritage lines at the time they were photographed; rather, they were doing the jobs for which they were designed and built, sometimes as far back as the 1870s. Garratt also succeeds like few other railway photographers in capturing the scenes, atmosphere, people and surroundings of the steam engine and the steam railway. Many should take a lesson from him.

But... but... but... once again, here is a book which i was happy to acquire at a reduced price, but which if I'd paid full price for I would be writing a very stiff note to the publishers about. And as, in this case, the book is published by Garratt's own agency, Milepost 92-and-a-half, that note would be very pointed indeed. Because the reproduction of the pictures is truly appalling. Many pictures have been subjected to High Dynamic Range (HDR) processing, boosting the contrast between light and dark tones to almost polychromatic levels. Colours are often garish and harsh, and look unrealistic. And given that many of these pictures were taken on slide film rather than via digital image capture, this can only be part of the production process. A number of photographs show sharpening artefacts which points to incompetent Photoshop work, and which would not, again, have been there on the original slide. Moreover, many of the pictures are unacceptably low-resolution. Some of these pictures have appeared before, and I have been able to make direct comparisons; and the reproduction in the 1960s and 1970s was far more naturalistic.

The printer, or the packaging house, or a designer somewhere has made this book into a travesty of Colin Garratt's ability, and if I were the publisher, I would be demanding that these books should be pulped and redone.The reproduction is truly that bad.

The keen photographer will be able to learn lessons from this book; how to photograph trains and how not to allow your work to be violated for the sake of getting into print.
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RobertDay | Mar 10, 2014 |
Fotograferen is eenvoudig en gemakkelijk. Iedereen kan tegenwoordig wel een foto maken. Toch vind je bij het bekijken van foto's niet zo vaak eentje waarop je trots bent. Op zo'n moment denk je dan; "Hoe krijg ik het voor elkaar, dat elke foto een goede wordt?"

Colin Garrat is fotograaf met een internationale reputatie. Hij heeft dit boekje geschreven om je te helpen trots te kunnen zijn op elke foto die je maakt, met wat voor camera dan ook.

Ben je ook geïnteresseerd in de manier waarop een camera werkt, dan kun je de antwoorden op jouw vragen vinden in het boekje "De camera" uit deze reeks. Globe reeks (30)

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Besselina | Jun 19, 2011 |

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Verk
72
Medlemmar
1,127
Popularitet
#22,790
Betyg
½ 3.6
Recensioner
10
ISBN
121
Språk
3

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