How to Photograph Cars

by James Mann and James Mann

In How to Photograph Cars award winning car photographer James Mann teaches the skills and techniques needed to shoot outstanding car photographs. Whether it's on the road or in the studio for... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0760312435
• ISBN13: 9780760312438
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Motorbooks International
• Length: 143 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.7" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

Great book with a lot to share

If you're new to photographing cars or even if you are a little experienced this book has a lot of information to help you create a better picture. It reminds you about the smaller details that will aid your picture-taking (i.e. shoot a sedans with windows up/coupes with windows down) The book includes a lot of pictures to back up the examples to go along with the text - good and bad results of the pretty much same picture. It was very helpful in my opinion and gave me a lot of new ideas. I would recommend it.

Everything you need to know

Well thought out, excellent chapters, actual picture by picture explanations of techniques. Definitely worth the money.

A nice coverage of the subject.

This is a nice coverage of the subject. I am a novice at photography and will be using a digital SLR camera. In my particular case I could have used more information on camera settings and lense selection, but the author probably assumes a bit more knowledge than I have.

"What to think", rather than "how to think"

This is a very interesting and comprehensive guide for the car photographer. Mann writes about many aspects of car photography, and explains how to use common techniques in action and still photography. This very concrete paperback is more of a step-by-step guide rather than an abstract aesthetic book. By that, I mean that the book explains tested and trailed techniques rather than encouraging to think creatively. Mann's pictures are gorgeous and very inspiring. I was very unsure whether to rate this book 4 or 5 stars. I have read more impressive photographic books, but not on cars. I believe that is about as good as it gets within that narrow topic.

Car Photography Seminar!

This is a great book. I've always been interested in cars, and for a while I earned a living writing about cars for a magazine. My shots were OK but not as good as they should have been. How I wish I could have read this book back then! James Mann's book gives you information on equipment, basic techniques, tips on preparing the car (detail first, and be sure to remove all stickers!), advanced techniques (check out the cover photo ... want to know how to do that?), motorsports events, groups, people, studio techniques and finally tips on doing a magazine feature. Every person who is involved in a job which even remotely involves photographing cars (Media people, Advertising, Marketing, etc.) should read this book!