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From landscape photography to pictures of the family or your home place, learn new ways to show Time in your photographs. Do not  just stop it, or always let it flow, for a new path open in your photography. This eBook is the key for a jumpstart.

Take your time to read through the 64 pages of Photographing the 4th dimension, Time, a compendium of slow shutter and video techniques for high impact photography, and you'll start to change your shutter speed more often. And returning to the same places to repeat images, to show, some other ways, the passage of time.

This eBook is a source of inspiration to try new things. We're all somehow tired of the thousands of sunsets and coastlines with the sea looking like soft silk, and need something else to do with our long exposures. Well, Jim Goldstein has some tricks to show, stuff you might have seen other places but never under the same book cover, in a clear written text - lots of text, in fact - that explains the different options a photographer has when he/she starts to play with time.

Jim Goldstein is a full-time professional photographer, based out of San Francisco, California. He specializes in outdoor and nature photography and because his work is the result of his passion about nature and the environment,  he infuses elements of the natural world into his fine art, commercial and editorial work. Ever inspired by the beauty of the natural world, Jim enjoys educating and inspiring others through his writing and photo workshops.

This eBook, which is part of the Inspired Exposure series aimed at helping you find creative inspiration and improve your photography, is a visible proof of the way Jim Goldstein  sees the world and shares his experience with others. With him as a guide the reader goes from the usual long time exposures on the coastline or the night traffic lights that we all do one moment or another, to some areas we tend to forget and where the exploration of the 4th dimension is also not just a possibility but an exciting experience. Shooting the face of a baby or a moment of playing with a dog are also moments when time plays, remembering us that photography at this level is not just for those landscapes photographers with tripod and their radio or IR remote shutter releases, but for all of us, rediscovering the joy of photographing the most common familiar moments in a new way: taking time to get time in our pictures. Not just time stopped still but flowing within the frame.

It's really a eye-opening eBook, a window into other possibilities of the medium. There's nothing absolutely new here but the way its presented, explained and also the fact that all the different techniques are within a 64 page afternoon reading helps you the define a frame of work and start to change a few things in your photography. And along with the texts you'll find the photographs and practical tips from the author, showing he is not just a "teller" but a "doer".  And that makes you confident that under his guidance you'll get to the point when Time has no secrets for you and your photography. Some pictures in the eBook are not from Jim Goldstein, as he mentions, but most of the examples are his.

But beware, this is a dangerous route, that will make you want to go out more and more, or, even indoors, photograph more and more. Suddenly you discover there's a lot of things that you can take Time photographing. A flower growing in a vase, the dials in a clock, the changing view from your front window as the seasons come and go...

To achieve that capacity to see Time, you need to be hyper-observational of the things around you. Jim Goldstein says that "observation leads to inspiration, which in turn is the spark that sets creative thought into motion." And to achieve that you need to think differently.  Jim believes that " the well of our individual creativity is enigmatic. It may seem that creativity springs from nowhere, but in fact it emerges from our individual experiences and observations. Mapping our observations to our experiences to produce something new helps to construct our individual 'creative lens'. We each have the potential to be creative, and we all have the potential to employ our very own creative lens."

So, this is what this eBook is all about.  Photography is often thought of in terms of fractions of seconds, but it is a great creative tool to visualize the 4th dimension – time. Perhaps you’ve never thought of it this way, but photography is a two-dimensional (2D) interpretation of our three-dimensional (3D) visual world that holds a four-dimensional (4D) application. Viewing photographs on a flat surface such as photo paper or on a traditional monitor constitutes the 2D presentation of the medium. Our stereoscopic visual system allows us to see an added dimension of depth, the third dimension, in our day-to-day experiences and as all photographers know it takes a good deal of effort to convey our 3D world in a 2D medium. Interestingly enough, photography offers us a unique storytelling experience that allows us to visually illustrate time, the 4th dimension. By applying creative techniques to still images time comes into clear focus.

This eBook helps you to explore several techniques that will allow you to photograph the 4th dimension and create engaging high-impact imagery. And believe me, after reading it your vision of the world will be quite different from the time you started reading through the 64 pages. Time, again...

If by now I've convinced you, go and buy the eBook. That will challenge Jim Goldstein to write some more, what is somehow the initial idea with this series InspiredExposure. You can buy the eBook Photographing the 4th dimension, Time, a compendium of slow shutter and video techniques for high impact photography for $20.