2 New Books

I just bought 2 Chinese books today from kinokuniya, one of my favorite book store in Malaysia after attending Microsoft TECH-ED SEA 2008. I spent about 1 hours plus in the book shop and finally I desided to buy 2 books.

Book's cover

Susan's photo

(from http://www.susansontag.com/SusanSontag/index.shtml)

The first book was “On Photography” written by Susan Sontag, one of the famous authors in the American. This book was translated in Chinese with title “论摄影”. I spent some times to read part of her written. Her messages really impress me. She spent a lot of page to discuss about the art of photography and the relation between photo and the real world. This book never teaches readers how to capture a good photo or how to use your camera. (note: if you plan to find this kind of book, please don’t by this book) I spent some time surfing in the internet finding further detail of this book. There are a lot of information about this book, one of the link was 苏珊·桑塔格论摄影.

The second book “数码摄影构图”was written by a Korean 郑承益 and translate to Chinese. I had spent a lot of time to search a book explaining how to frame your picture. I had seen a lot of book teaching user how to get a good picture by changing aperture, shutter speed and so on. However in term of frame the picture, there are no much of material in the market. I haven’t start to read this book. Hopefully I can start to read this book as soon as possible. If you wish know about this book, kindly leave a message to me.
Well, this year I bought a lot of new book and I haven’t started to read it. Anyway I wish I can finish part of it within these year.