Recommended Reading – New Ebooks by Joseph Rossbach, Ian Plant, and Guy Tal

Good news for landscape photographers everywhere! Joseph Rossbach and Ian Plant have released great new ebooks in their ongoing series of instructional books on landscape photography. Guy Tal has joined in the fun with his first ebook, which I hope will be the start of a series from him!

Joseph Rossbach's “10 Tips for Amazing Autumn Images” is an 88-page downloadable PDF beautifully illustrated by Joe's own photos. This book is a terrific resource on the many aspects of autumn photography, released just in time for the fall foliage season in the northern hemisphere. Offering information and tips on concepts, techniques, gear, and post-processing, as well as links to other valuable resources, this is another must-have for landscape photographers – especially at the $9.95 Joe is asking for it.
(Disclosure: I received a free copy of this ebook from Joe, but that has no bearing on my recommendation for it – had I not gotten the free copy, I would have purchased one for myself anyway.)

Ian Plant's “Five Landscape Challenges” takes a different approach from most landscape photography books. Rather than broadly covering all aspects of the topic, Ian focuses on five specific types of landscape scenes and the challenges provided by each. He compares it to a recipe book, and it is that, but the lessons will be useful in many other situations as well. This, the first book in a series, covers Slot Canyons, Spring Waterfalls, Sand Dunes, Woodland Flowers, and Geothermal Wonders. At only $5, that's $1 per lesson – you can't afford not to have this one! 66 pages, downloadable PDF, and beautifully illustrated with Ian's photos.

Guy Tal's “Creative Landscape Photography” was originally designed as a companion workbook for his workshop of the same name, but it works very well as a standalone instructional book, too. It covers the same wide range of topics as Guy's workshop, from theory to visualization to capture to post-processing to presentation, and includes practical exercises for the reader. Lavishly illustrated with Guy's photos, it is an 86-page downloadable PDF, and only $9.95.

If you enjoy landscape photography, and especially if you are a landscape photographer yourself, you really should snap up all three books at these incredibly low prices. Highly recommended, one and all!

Joseph Rossbach: “10 Tips for Amazing Autumn Images”

Ian Plant: “Five Landscape Challenges”

Guy Tal: “Creative Landscape Photography”

(These are not affiliate links; I have no financial relationship with any of these books or authors – I’m just an enthusiastic fan of these artists and their work!)

If you have or buy any of these ebooks, please feel free to post your comments on them below!

Hold the presses! Just as I was getting ready to post this, I learned that Joseph Rossbach and Ian Plant are collaborating on their next ebook, “Five Landscape Challenges 2”! Coming soon, so we have that to look forward to!

– Jack