My book on mountain photography, Remote Exposure, just published!

Hi,

I am a climbing photographer and I have been working for the past year and a half on a book on mountain photography. Titled Remote Exposure, it covers both the technical and the creative sides of taking photographs while climbing and hiking.

Yesterday saw its official release and it is now available in bookstores as well as on Amazon (in the US, the UK and the rest of Europe will have to wait a little bit more).

You can see a fair bit of it on the Amazon preview, but here are some teaser images:











I'd be happy to answer any questions about it or its content, and would love to hear back from anybody here who actually acquired it.

This looks cool. Nice job. Alan-

Looks nice, well done!

Looks great! Congrats on the release

Congrats.. looks amazing! When and where is the book signing? :)

Cheers guys, thanks for the support!

@Daryl: there will be one in Copenhagen at the end of the month, but it's probably out of your way :) Otherwise, I'd be happy to do signing for people who cross my path - say in yosemite this fall.

How is this different from Micheal Clark's book: amazon.com/Digital-Masters-…

I have that one and it is very good and covers virtually everything around outdoor adventure photography. It appears your book is similar but just curious what you find are the differences.

@Andy: this is a fair question. I have only browsed through Michael Clark's book, so I might be mistaken, but my impressions was that both books had fairly different audiences in mind: his is very much for aspiring pros and covers a lot of technical ground on how best to get the photos that magazine editors and art buyers are looking for.

Mine is more oriented toward the serious amateur who is also a hiker or a climber and wants to improve the quality of his images without going all the way to a pro shoot.

If you are mostly looking for technical advice, then my book will likely not add much more to what Michael Clark's already has. If you are looking for advice (both technical and artistic) more applicable to "regular" outdoor people (i.e. not pro/aspiring pro photographers), then you might find Remote Exposure interesting.

But again, this is based on a very shallow look at Michael Clark's book a while ago, so I may be mistaken.

I took quick gander at the LookInside thingy on the Zon. Mind if I add one thing I would like to have seen? I think the photos are stunning and what I have read so far, makes me want to read more but I have one request. However I don't want to offend...

Of course, just shoot. I usually have a fairly thick skin anyway.

Okay, it's really nitpicky but I have several photography books and one thing I really like is when they publish the focal length, aperture, Ev, etc by the photos. Again, i know it's nitpicky but sometimes, i like to guess what the settings are, then check myself to see how close I got. Even better, is when they publish the lens used, etc.

Once again, great job on the book; you should be very proud! Btw, can you tell me the settings, lens & body you used on the wide b&w shot at the bottom of pg. 153? I'm going to guess (canon?) 10-22mm at [close to] 12mm (full frame). Lots of light there so i'll go with f22 and iso100.

@Daryl: I actually provided that information but the layout designer decided not to include it, perhaps for space reasons. I know it's a very polarizing thing, some people absolutely want it and others don't care in the least.

The particular shot you refer to is actually HDR, so the exif have unfortunately been stripped, but from memory, it was shot with a Tamron 11-18 at 11mm on a Nikon D50, ISO 200 and f/8, plus varying speed to get the various exposures. I almost never stop down below f/11 since diffraction takes more than the extra DoF you get, except in very rare cases.

That book looks beautiful! looks like a lot of valuable information for someone that wants to pursue action photography outdoors.

Looks interesting I will probably pick the book up shortly. I second the vote for the camera settings it is something that I always find interesting if not very helpful.

Well, to your editor.. my vote on the 2nd edition will be to include the metadata. Other than that, the book looks amazing, thanks for posting/sharing and thank you for the picture details.

Good luck with your signing and overall sales. I'll probably be responsible for one myself. ;) d

Thanks Daryl, I look forward to hearing what you think about the book!

Props on the hard work and good luck w/ the book.

"I have only browsed through Michael Clark's book"

So the book that is most directly related to yours (in a tiny niche), and you have only 'browsed' it? It seems strange that you wouldn't have studied it in great detail if you are so interested in the topic?

I also noticed these are your first and only mountain project posts?

inboulder wrote:I also noticed these are your first and only mountain project posts?

Back at ya'.

Pays to post...just bought your book on Amazon. Looks good.

Terry Parker wrote:Pays to post...just bought your book on Amazon. Looks good.

Same here.