Digital photography has become a revolution. The possibility of recording an image inside a memory device, instead of using film, makes the whole process more straightforward and accessible to amateur and casual photographers. This concept facilitates the management and edition of images in personal computers. Otherwise difficult tasks such as color correction, photo retouching, cropping, printintg or sharing your images are now achieved with incredible ease. As digital cameras are becoming more popular than film cameras a lot of information is becomes available on the web. In this section you will find a large amount of digital photography resources such as tutorials, books and software to help you develop your skills as a photographer.
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Rick Sammon's Complete Guide to Digital Photography 2.0: Taking, Making, Editing, Storing, Printing, and Sharing Better Digital Images Featuring Adobe Photoshop Elements"Clear, concise, lively, well-organized and opinionated."—Popular Photography and ImagingIn this thorough revision of his best-selling guide, Rick Sammon covers all the steps in the digital photographic process. The book teaches basic technical picture taking and the art of photography, plus introductory and advanced digital techniques.Orchestrating over 1,000 images into easy-to-read lessons, Sammon uses an approach of "learning to see and seeing to learn" with pairs of images, software sc... |
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Jazz Age Beauties: The Lost Collection of Ziegfeld Photographer Alfred Cheney JohnstonDespite Prohibition, the '20s was the decade of jazz, flappers and hip flasks. While some took their vote and joined the Woman's Christian Temperance Movement, others, well, took liberties. Compiled here for the first time are more than 200 publicity stills and photos of some of America's first "It" girls—the silent film-era starlets who paved the way for the cacophony of Monroes and Madonnas to follow. Accompanying these iconic images are the stories behind them, including accounts from s... |
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The Seductive Shoe: Four Centuries of Fashion FootwearWe have been intrigued by the form and function of our footwear for centuries, and for many women shoes are the ultimate objects of desire. In The Seductive Shoe fashion historian Jonathan Walford takes a peek into the shoe closets of the world over the last 400 years, revealing the styles and fashions that have fueled that obsession. Organized chronologically and covering all the significant developments in shoe design, this ravishing book explores how major historical events, social change, an... |
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Food PlayIn 1996 Joost Elffers and Saxton Freymann introduced Play With Your Food, a groundbreaking collection of photographs featuring playfully carved fruits and vegetables. With more than a million copies sold and an award-winning series under their belts, the pair have proven the old adage wrong you really should play with your food. Now, for the first time, Food Play compiles more than 300 of the very best images from a decade of astonishingly imaginative publishing. This compact collection will sur... |
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Stephen Johnson on Digital Photography"We are in the Stone Age of digital photography. We've figured out how to make some tools, but it is just now beginning to dawn on us what we might do with them. I've often been frustrated at the concentration on the technical aspect of digital photography with so little discussion of the aesthetics and heart behind the image making. This book is essentially a distillation of what I've been teaching over the last 25 years." Master photographer Stephen Johnson has been taking beautiful l... |
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Shakespeare Alive!From Joseph Papp, American's foremost theater producer, and writer Elizabeth Kirkland: a captivating tour through the world of William Shakespeare. Discover the London of Shakespeare's time, a fascinating place to be--full of mayhem and magic, exploration and exploitation, courtiers and foreigners. Stroll through narrow, winding streets crowded with merchants and minstrels, hoist a pint in a rowdy alehouse, and hurry across the river to the open-air Globe Theater to se... |
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Master Guide for Underwater Digital PhotographyFrom camera selection to enhanced exposure, everything necessary to capture underwater digital images is available in this handy reference. Photographers will learn how to select, test, and use digital cameras for technically perfect images, adapt traditional photo techniques to underwater conditions, confidently shoot and light underwater images for great exposure, and remedy common problems that plague underwater photographers. Helpful hints on maintaining, cleaning, transporting, and insuring... |
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Hedi Slimane: Rock DiaryThis beautifully designed three volume boxed set presents new photographic work by Hedi Slimane, the iconic fashion designer who, during tenures at Yves Saint Laurent and Christian Dior, has infused men's fashion with an androgynous, rock n' roll swerve. The first volume is an album of Slimane's photographs of the Lollapalooza-esque three-day Festival Internacional de Benicassim on the East coast of Spain, the second is devoted to images of the new British and American rock scenes and the third ... |
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Art Models 2: Life Nude Photos for the Visual Arts (Book & CD-ROM)Artists looking to supplement a live model class or hone their skills from the comfort of home are provided with a solid pictorial guide to the human form in this detailed reference. Nearly 200 crisp photographs portray a diverse group of male and female models from a variety of angles in 52 classically inspired poses. Precise lighting reveals otherwise hidden areas of the models and illustrates rich shadowing and tone, while an anatomical study, inspired by da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man, prese... |
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