Get the Photos Others Can't: Get photos others can't

by Michael Freeman

Get photos others can't - learn to go beyond the boundaries as a field photographer.

Getting the shot is not a game of chance - there are proven methods and innovative approaches that the professional photographer uses to succeed. From Freeman's decades of reportage experience, he has developed proven methods for going beyond where tourists stop, and delivering the photographs that make the cover. Access All Areas uses five 'nodes' or guiding principles, in various combinations, to elucidate each particular method of access: right place, right time; hearts & minds; immersion; deep learning and left field.

The secrets shared in this book will let you find your own modus operandi for overcoming the obstacles between you and the shot, so you can bring home your own world-class images.

Genres: Photography, Reference

160 pages, Hardcover

Published July 7, 2020

About the author

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Michael Freeman is a professional photographer and author. He wrote more than 100 book titles. He was born in England in 1945, took a Masters in geography at Brasenose College, Oxford University, and then worked in advertising in London for six years. He made the break from there in 1971 to travel up the Amazon with two secondhand cameras, and when Time-Life used many of the pictures extensively in the Amazon volume of their World's Wild Places series, including the cover, they encouraged him to begin a full-time photographic career.

Since then, working for editorial clients that include all the world's major magazines, and notably the Smithsonian Magazine (with which he has had a 30-year association, shooting more than 40 stories), Freeman's reputation has resulted in more than 100 books published. Of these, he is author as well as photographer, and they include more than 40 books on the practice of photography - for this photographic educational work he was awarded the Prix Louis Philippe Clerc by the French Ministry of Culture. He is also responsible for the distance-learning courses on photography at the UK's Open College of the Arts.

Reviews

[Minor Gersalá · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is a compilation of experiences of a variety of photographers and their approach to different situations where they have been successful. It gives you an insight of how they have gotten access to make the photographies that have defined their careers. It is always interesting to know, from inside, how a photographer conceives a project and how they get the images that impact us. Not the best book. Very entertaining, though.

[Thomas Baloyi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Insightful