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Close To Home
Finding Great Photographs in Your Own Backyard
Close To Home, Finding Great Photographs in Your Own Backyard, an inspiring ebook by Stuart Sipahigil, is about finding the extraordinary in what we’ve come to see as mundane.This ebook provides photographers of all levels with the tools and encouragement you need to get you out of the ruts into which we we all fall. Learn more.
Taking great photographs does not require traveling to an exotic place. By digging a little deeper and seeing things around you more clearly you can reinvigorate your photography and find new images in familiar territory. Through practical insights and creative exercises you’ll discover that the grass is not always greener on the other side. Your city, your neighborhood, and even your backyard are all full of opportunities for great photographs.
The goal of this ebook is to help you see those opportunities and the photographs that lie within them. Close to Home is 37 spreads of photographs, insights, and exercises that will inspire as you develop your own craft.
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nice blog ,this blog explains how we can create back ground for our photos,how i will make our photographs.thanks for sharing this information with us.
“Close to Home” is a well written inspirational book that all photographers can benefit from reading. I’ve always believed that great photo ops are all around you, if you take to time to explore them. Thanks Craft & Vision for another great release!
Great stuff! My contempt of the familiar remains, but I am inspired to meet the challenge head-on!
When I go on my own photographic adventures, often to far off lands, I print out some of the creative ideas addressing both vision and technique and I read them before I go off to shoot each day. I use the Safari ebook ,the one on Iceland and the inspired eye and drawing the eye and more. They often address just what I have been wrestling with and mulling over and encourage me in finding my own authentic voice. I also admire your incredibly effective use of time and how much you accomplish and with a light touch and good humor too.Your blog or your voice is one of the best dialogs that accompanies me through my creative life. I will have to travel with you one day soon on a workshop. All good wishes Terri
Written like a conversation with a friend Stuart hits a thought close to my heart. Close to Home is a well thought out guide to making the photographs that make a difference and all without a trip to the airport. Excellent advice on seeing the world around us in a different way and how to turn that seeing into the kinds of images that mean something. Highly recommended and on my must read list.
I am privileged to live in an area surrounded by wild places to shoot literally out my back door. But lately I have become ‘bored’ with what I see every day. I just haven’t been “seeing” anything. I have now read “Close To Home” twice in the last 24 hours and it has truly rekindled my love for my local environment. It’s an excellent book. Thanks.
Marshall
Excellent, Helpful, and will make my home town better!
(well my thoughts about it anyway)
I love how it’s a little bit of philosophy, little bit of technique and little bit of instruction. All in just the right amounts to be suggestive, but not prescriptive. Great stuff Stuart!
Congratulations Stu! A well-written work of art. I cannot wait to get out into my own backyard and find the joy behind the lens that I used to experience. Thank you for giving me the creative motivation to get out there and “see” once again!
“Close to Home” hit the sweet spot for me. I don’t travel far from home, so I need a swift kick in the creative gene every now and then just to get me working at creating instead of “snapping”.
Hard work, being creative, but thanks to this book, I have new worlds to conquer (well, photograph, anyway!).
Recommended.
Once again a thought provoking ebook from Craft & Vision. Each and every ebook has challenged me as a photographer (and some as a person). This one has made me take a fresh look at the area I walk through every day. Well done to all involved.
I’ve always loved the concept of finding the extraordinary in ordinary things, so when this eBook was released and I saw what the topic was, I was excited. Ordered it immediately and read it right away…making me late to work.
It was an excellent read, filled with beautiful images, and contains some very helpful and motivating Exercises.
As fun as it is to travel to new places, I am personally more interested in the depth that comes from knowing places/people/etc well, and what we can reveal in our photography.
Also, photography is what I do for fun. I work in a different field, so my photography happens, by default, close to home. Stuart’s eBook is immensely helpful for anyone who wants to explore close to home, or who maybe finds themselves frustrated with being “limited” geographically.
I highly recommend this eBook.
Be afraid, Air Lines…be VERY AFRAID!
Stuart does a great job of showing us how to approach taking photo’s in your own backyard. Great stuff.
“Close to home – Finding Great Photographs in Your Own Backyard” is a $5 e-book which will help you to take your photography to another level- without spending money on gear or travel to gorgeous places. Just by looking around, and starting to see. This e-book is filled with pages of advice on how to get into the right state of mind to start being creative in an environment which you probably just find ordinary. Close to home, you can take time to develop all the photographic ideas, of which the e-book is full. It is also accompanied by 37 beautiful photographs, taken, of all places, in small midwestern town.
(This is just a fragment of the review I wrote on my blog. You can read it here: http://tinyurl.com/close-to-home-ebook)
Beautiful!