Photography Books and Portfolios

We have teamed up with some of the leading and most professional sources on the internet, to bring you the most popular brands and styles of products in their class. By buying online, you save £'s or $'s every time, so if you regularly buy reference books, albums or magazines, you could save a tidy sum over time.

The following photography books and portfolios are all e-books which are downloadable upon purchase. I have read a few of these in my time and have always found one or two absolute nuggets of information that have helped enormously with my techniques and progression.

Even as a working professional, I never feel like, or tell anyone that I know everything there is to know.

The only way to push forward with your photography is to read and practice. Since I was 13 I have read and digested a lot of information and still do and still occasionally find some excellent technique that moves my photography on just that bit more.

If any of the following books help in any way, they are worth their weight in gold. The more knowledge you accumulate and the more you become inspired, the better you will do!

Digital Photography Success - How to improve your digital photos from average to professional standard even if you've never used a digital camera before.

Profitable Photography by Roy Barker - How to easily start up and market a profitable photography business.

Make Money with your Digital Camera - Sell Photos, Images, Screensavers and more ways to profit.

Digital Photography Secrets - Learn amazing photo secrets that the gurus won't tell you!

Powerful Landscape Photography - An eBook that helps you understand how to take beautiful landscape photography.

Portrait Photography for Money and Respect - Certified Professional Portrait Photographer tells you what you really need to know!

School of Photography - Tutor assisted online certificate courses in photography.

As I said before, to get just a few bits of exciting and valuable information from each book, coupled with the motivation and drive to progress and succeed will move you forward so much quicker.

Getting Married?

If you are getting married or know someone who is, one of the most difficult things to do is choose the right photographer and the right wedding album to suit the day or theme. As a professional photographer, I usually let the couple decide on the album, or at least give me a detailed description of what they want. It is such a personal and final choice that it has to be right first time, much like the wedding photography.

The wedding photo albums can come in such a variety of shapes and sizes;

• Plain, embossed or detailed cover
• Personalised
• Hand-made, linen or leather wedding photo albums
• Plain or silver leafed
• Large or Small
• Normal, bound, tied or locked pages

At Jenni Bick Bookbinding, there is a huge choice of wedding photo albums, along with wedding journals, wedding guestbooks, wedding keepsake boxes, wedding scrapbooks and brag books. All are incredibly well hand-made and can be personalised or embossed with your own wording (if you wish), and come at a very reasonable price.

Amateur or Professional Photographer?

Whichever type of photographer you are, you may at some point be asked to photograph a wedding or some other special occassion. Special occassions mean photographs, and photographs from special occassions need decent albums.

I was asked (and paid) last Christmas, to photograph a large family reunion in Spain. The family also asked me to put the best of the photographs in a decent keepsake album, so it is always good to have a good supplier of quality albums at hand for those occasions.

It is also good to have a stock of albums already to show prospective clients or even to showcase your work. Wedding couples in particular, would like to see your most recent work portrayed in fine style as to inspire confidence in you!

You probably already have your favourite photography magazines, but we have sourced some for you anyway. Also, read, read and then read some more. No matter what you already know, you can always benefit from photography books. Bambi Cantrell in particular, is a stunning wedding photographer and her book on wedding photography is a must read.

• Leather Wedding Photo Albums • Contemporary Wedding Photo Albums • Professional Wedding Photo Albums • Wedding Photography Books • Digital Photography Books • Back Issue Photography Magazines • Picture Frames and Digital Photo Printing • Beginning 35mm Photography • Photography Magazines and Subscriptions •

Journals and Portfolios

Side-stepping the photography side for a moment, for a professional look for whatever you do, these journals and portfolios are designed to last, and impress.

If you are looking to book a wedding, a portrait sitting or just about anything where you are face-to-face with your client or in a business environment, a smart, professional appearance is very important.

So if you look smart, why turn up with an old notebook and biro? These portfolios and journals really do look the part and are bound (excuse the pun) to impress!

• Embossed Journal Leather • D-Ring Leather Portfolio • Renaissance Leather Journal • Fine Leather Zipper Portfolios • Personalized Leather Business Portfolios • Fine Italian Leather Portfolios • Leather Underarm Portfolios • Leather Travel Portfolio