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The Ansel Adams Guide : Basic Techniques of Photography - Book 2The continuation volume to the highly successful Basic Techniques of Photography: Book One, this profusely illustrated manual offers a contemporary guide to Ansel Adams' brilliant approach to creative photography. Expanding on the fundamental principles of photography presented in Book One, this volume enables the committed amateur or student photographer to advance to higher levels of creative expression. Book Two offers essential chapters on exposure and development, including what is perha... |
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Digital Travel Photography Digital Field GuideYour digital camera is the perfect travel companion. You don't need to pack extra film, worry about airport scanners, budget for processing costs, or wait until you get home to learn whether you got that once-in-a-lifetime shot. Tuck this book in beside your Frommer's(r) travel guide and you'll have everything you need for fantastic photos-how to watch for the right opportunity, compose the picture, work with lighting-even how to edit and upload from the road. * Learn what you must take along... |
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Doing Documentary Work (New York Public Library Lectures in Humanities)Sitting in his study, William Carlos Williams once revealed to Robert Coles what he considered to be his greatest problem in writing a documentary about his patients in New Jersey. "When I'm there, sitting with those folks, listening and talking," he said to Coles, "I'm part of that life, and I'm near it in my head, too.... Back here, sitting near this typewriter--its different. I'm a writer. I'm a doctor living in Rutherford who is describing 'a world elsewhere.'" Williams captured the great d... |
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Digital Photography Workshops: Nudes: Unique Course in a Book Taking You from Beginner to Expert• Big ideas? Little time? Take this photography course in a book! • Accessible, assignment-led approach to creating great nudes • Teaches digital basics and much more Practical assignments and a clear, step-by-step approach make Digital Photography Workshops: Nudes the essential course-between-covers for any photographer who has big dreams and little time to accomplish them. Nudes guides readers through all the stages of taking a great nude, from working with people, to setting up fla... |
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Beginner's Guide to Photographic Lighting: Techniques for Success in the Studio or on LocationTeaching beginner photographers how to create good, flattering light, this book discusses topics such as proper equipment, developing an eye for form, and positioning equipment to maximize the appeal of a subject. As studio photographers face a host of lighting challenges not often encountered outdoors-from lighting reflective objects to photographing food-this guide provides unexpected tips and surprising solutions for adding a jolt of creativity to images. Step-by-step guidance on using the or... |
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Mastering Flash Photography: A Course in Basic to Advanced Lighting TechniquesThis guide opens with in-camera flash basics, then moves to topics such as exposure flash readings, detachable units, flash guide numbers, bounce flash, and fill flash, then covers advanced methods for using off-camera flash, flash brackets, power packs, remote triggering, and other techniques.... |
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The SixtiesThe photographer Richard Avedon and the writer Doon Arbus began collaborating on this book thirty years ago. The photographs and interviews they did then remain faithful to what was, like the contents of a time capsule.Meeting somebody and balling them means something, but it doesn't mean near as much as it used to. --Janis Joplin, September 1969In a society where there is institutionalized oppression, the thing is to catch government and business in the grass--actually humping. --Florynce K... |
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Elegance: The Seeberger Brothers and the Birth of Fashion PhotographyModern fashion photography was born when three brothers, Parisian postcard photographers, shifted their lenses to the upper echelon of French society in the early twentieth century. As impromptu portraits of beautiful women in inimitable finery at racecourses, resorts, and caf s began to appear in magazines, courant designers such as Chanel, Herm s, and Madeleine Vionnet rushed to send their models to posh watering holes to be photographed with the beau monde. The first-ever showcase of 300 rich... |
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Instant Vegas Movie StudioCarefully detailed screenshots and step-by-step directions illustrate how to use Sony's new consumer-level video and audio editing applications, in a concise, time-efficient way. Readers learn the rudiments of navigating Vegas Movie Studio and the companion audio applications, Sound Forge Audio Studio and ACID Music Studio, to perform a complete range of tasks, from editing video and audio, to compositing and outputting their final project. This is the eighth book in the new VASST Instant Series... |
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