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Take a tour of the burgeoning world of plastic cameras and low-tech
photography in this fun and funky guide to creating the most
artistic pictures of your life! Whether you're an experienced
enthusiast or toy camera neophyte, you'll find this guide full of
tantalizing tips, fun facts, and absolutely striking photographs
taken with the lowest tech tools around. You'll learn how to prep
your plastic camera, their advantages and quirks, and what film to
feed it. You'll also explore what makes a good subject, vignetting,
multiple exposures, panoramas, close-ups, night photography, color,
flash, problems and solutions, and so much more. Michelle Bates
also takes you from a negative to either prints or pixels so that
you can show off your photos and jump on the toy-camera revolution!
Contributors include: Michael Ackerman, Thomas Michael Alleman,
Erin Antognoli, Jonathan Bailey , James Balog, Michelle Bates, Phil
Bebbington, Gyorgy Beck, Susan Bowen, Laura Corley Burlton, David
Burnett, Susan Burnstine, Nancy Burson, Perry Dilbeck, Jill
Enfield, fotovitamina, Annette Elizabeth Fournet, Brigitte Grignet,
Eric Havelock-Bailie, Christopher James, Michael Kenna, Wesley
Kennedy, Teru Kuwayama, Louviere and Vanessa, Mary Ann Lynch, Anne
Arden McDonald, Ted Orland, Sylvia Plachy, Dan Price, Becky
Ramotowski, Nancy Rexroth, Francisco Mata Rosas, Richard Ross,
Franco Salmoiraghi, Rosanna Salonia, Jennifer Shaw, Nancy Siesel,
Mark Sink, Kurt Smith, Sandy Sorlien, Pauline St. Denis, Harvey
Stein, Gordon Stettinius, Ryan Synovec, Rebecca Tolk, Marydorsey
Wanless, Shannon Welles, Matthew Yates, Dan Zamudio.
Susan Sontag's 1997 text, On Photography, brought photographic
theory into the university classroom with its staunch defence of
the medium as art and inspired a new wave of Marxist Criticism in
the field. Sontag explains the way in which we are addicted to
images and depend on them for knowledge of our surroundings and the
problems and challenges this causes. Already an established
academic figure, Sontag brought Walter Benjamin's theories in into
the academic mainstream. The book retains its relevance in the
everyday world because of the applicability of its ideas to the
world of digital photography.
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"The first time I saw Sharmila practicing yoga, I was amazed. Her
ability to control her body with awe-inspiring precision was
mysterious. Her quiet and powerful concentration makes her slowly
evolving, rock solid shapes appear like sculpture. By uniting the
rich heritage of dance, martial arts and yoga in an unforeseen way,
Sharmila is guiding performance into new territory."--Karole
Armitage.
Hershberger is the winner of a 2015 Insight Award from the Society
for Photographic Education for his work on this book and for his
overall contributions to the field! Photographic Theory: An
Historical Anthology presents a compendium of readings spanning
ancient times to the digital age that are related to the history,
nature, and current status of debates in photographic theory. *
Offers an authoritative and academically up-to-date compendium of
the history of photographic theory * Represents the only collection
to include ancient, Renaissance, and 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-century
writings related to the subject * Stresses the drama of historical
and contemporary debates within theoretical circles * Features
comprehensive coverage of recent trends in digital photography *
Fills a much-needed gap in the existing literature
This book delivers an in-depth analysis of Hercule Florence, who is
virtually unknown despite being among the world's photographic
pioneers. Based on the texts of various manuscripts, letters,
diaries, notes, and advertisements, this book answers numerous
questions surrounding Florence's work, including the materials,
methods, and techniques he employed and why it took more than a
century for his discovery to come to light. Kossoy's groundbreaking
research establishes Florence's use of "photographie" to describe
the product of his experiments, half a decade before Sir John
Herschel recommended "photography" to Henry Fox Talbot. This book
aims to change the fact that despite its cultural and historical
importance, Florence's photographic breakthrough remains largely
unknown in the English-speaking world.
There is renewed interest among art photographers in a number of
historic printing techniques because of the remarkable effects they
produce. The reader will discover how to create beautifully tinted
mono- and polychromatic gum and oil images using the author's
version of this 19th century technique. Step-by-step illustrated
instructions with directions for further experimentation provide a
perfect source for learning this new, yet old, printing
technique.Gumoil printing involves contact-printing a positive
transparency onto gum-coated paper. Oil paint is then applied and
rubbed into nongummed areas of the print. With bleach etching,
mono- and polychromatic variations are possible. A chapter on
digital printing combines the new and the historic, making this
technique even more accessible for the art photographer.
A note from the author, Richard Zakia P. H. Emerson reminds us that
Every artist is at first an amateur. One of the great American
photographers of the 20th Century, Edward Weston, as a young
photographer, only got honourable mention in a photographic contest
sponsored by an amateur camera magazine. Ansel Adams, Paul Strand
and others also began as amateurs. Wynn Bullock began his
outstanding photographic career later in life when he was in his
40s Today, in our digital age, everyone is a photographer.
Recognizing this and the fact that there are some basic proven
guidelines for creating winning photographs, we put together this
highly visual book especially for beginning photographers who want
to improve their photography. In doing so we discovered that some
professional photographers also found it helpful. One can think of
our book as a visual grammar that will help you better compose what
you desire to express and to do so with clarity. However amazing
the subject or technically excellent the photography, the single
biggest factor in deciding whether a photograph is good or bad is
how well it is composed. Photographic Composition Visualized offers
a unique take on this fundamental issue by offering instruction in
a visual format - the book is laid out in a unique spread format of
a beautiful image on one page, with an in-depth break down of why
the rule of composition works in the image, but also how a
photographer can apply it to their own photography. Inspirational,
instructive, and, most importantly, visually stunning and
beautiful, photography master Richard Zakia teaches the lessons he
has learned from over 40 years as a photographer. This is the book
every photographer needs to own in order to create the outstanding
images they always wanted to - but didn't know how.
Want to offer your clients more to chose from? Here's how: award
winning photographer, Christopher Grey, has developed techniques to
enhance portrait photography, using the creative applications
available in Photoshop. Photoshop Effects for Portrait
Photographers contains detailed explanations of how to replicate
many darkroom techniques with Photoshop (Dodging, Burning,
Vignettes, etc.) as well as camera and earlier technology
techniques (Short Focus, High Speed Film Grain, Hand Coloring,
etc.). Grey has also developed almost two dozen ways to replicate
traditional painterly and illustrative techniques such as Rough
Charcoal Sketch, Wet Watercolor, Silkscreen, and Oil Chalk. Images
available for downloading at
http://www.ChristopherGrey.com/booksamples.
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While studying the theory and contemporary impact of 'embodied'
viewing, this book celebrates the emergence and development of
Visual Studies as a major subject of research and teaching in the
field of Hispanic Studies within the UK over the last thirty years.
By exploring current routes of investigation, as well as analysing
future pathways for study in the field, seven highly distinguished
Spanish and Latin American scholars examine their own entry into
Visual Studies, and discuss the major trends and changes which
occurred in the field as matters of the visual gradually became
embedded in higher-education curricula and research trajectories.
Each scholar also lays out a current research project, or interest,
concerning Spain or Latin America within the visual field. The
projects variously explore different media - including film,
sculpture, photography, dance, and performance art - spread across
a wide array of geographical locales, including Mexico, Cuba,
mainland Spain, and the Canary Islands. Offering a map of current
and future research in the field, this book provides the first
history of visual studies within UK Hispanism. It will be of
lasting value to a wide range of scholars and advanced students of
Spanish and Latin American cultural, visual, and film studies. This
book was originally published as a special issue of the Bulletin of
Spanish Studies.
Professional commercial photographer and digital imager Jeff Schewe
(based in Chicago, USA) has teamed up with best-selling Photoshop
author Martin Evening to create this goldmine of information for
advanced Photoshop users.Building on Martin Evening's successful
Adobe Photoshop for Photographers series of titles, this new guide
takes the same winning approach and applies it to a professional
Photoshop workflow. Highly visual, with clear, step-by-step
tutorials, this advanced guide will really appeal to those who want
to see how the experts approach Photoshop, producing consistent
top-quality results on time and to budget.The authors describe in
detail how to carry out some of their favorite Photoshop image
editing and retouching techniques using examples taken from
real-life professional shoots. The techniques described here don't
just show you clever things you can do in Photoshop, they show how
you can use Photoshop in a professional context, meeting the
demands of art directors and fulfilling tricky briefs.Highly
practical, unique and inspiring, this is essential reading for all
professional and aspiring professional photographers, and anyone
else looking for high-quality results using Photoshop.
This book explores how popular photography influenced the
representation of travel in Britain in the period from the
Kodak-led emergence of compact cameras in 1888, to 1939. The book
examines the implications of people's increasing familiarity with
the language and possibilities of photography on the representation
of travel as educational concerns gave way to commercial
imperatives. Sara Dominici takes as a touchstone the first fifty
years of activity of the Polytechnic Touring Association (PTA), a
London-based philanthropic-turned-commercial travel firm. As the
book reveals, the relationship between popular photography and
travel marketing was shaped by the different desires and
expectations that consumers and institutions bestowed on
photography: this was the struggle for the interpretation of the
travel image.
In Fundamentals of Forensic Photography, Keith Mancini and John
Sidoriak offer practical techniques for common situations
encountered in forensic documentation. Topics include equipment
selection, lighting techniques, crime scene and evidence
documentation, macro and micro photography as well as aerial, high
speed and computational photography. Techniques for photographic
documentation in both the laboratory and the field are discussed.
What is photography? Is it a source of knowledge or an art? Many
have said the former because it records the world automatically,
others the latter because it expresses human subjectivity. Can
photography be both or must we choose? In On Photography: A
Philosophical Inquiry, Diarmuid Costello examines these fascinating
questions and more, drawing on images by Alfred Stieglitz, Berenice
Abbott, Paul Strand, Lee Friedlander, James Welling, and Wolfgang
Tillmans, among others, and the writings of Elizabeth Eastlake,
Peter Henry Emerson, Edward Weston, Siegfried Kracauer, Andre
Bazin, and Stanley Cavell. This sets the scene for the contemporary
stand-off between "sceptical" and "non-sceptical" Orthodoxy in the
work of Roger Scruton and Kendall Walton, and a New Theory of
Photography taking its cue from Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and Patrick
Maynard. Written in a clear and engaging style, On Photography is
essential reading for anyone interested in the philosophy of
photography, aesthetics, art, and visual studies.
Successful travel photographers have to wear more hats than perhaps
any other photographic genre. In a single travel photo essay they
are at times architectural photographers, food photographers, music
photographers, car photographers - the list encompassing every
possible type of photography. The Travel Photo Essay teaches the
reader the necessary techniques to create cohesive professional
travel stories, using images that go far beyond "I was here"
photographs. From the establishing shots to the equipment list,
this book discusses the techniques and concepts necessary to create
professional looking images in various genres, including portrait
photography, landscape photography, wildlife photography, food
photography, documentary photography, sports photography and more.
Covering issues such as lighting, writing, workflow and the travel
photography market, award-winning photographer and writer Mark
Edward Harris explains how to marry photos with words, telling a
cohesive story through a series of photographs.
Successful travel photographers have to wear more hats than perhaps
any other photographic genre. In a single travel photo essay they
are at times architectural photographers, food photographers, music
photographers, car photographers - the list encompassing every
possible type of photography. The Travel Photo Essay teaches the
reader the necessary techniques to create cohesive professional
travel stories, using images that go far beyond "I was here"
photographs. From the establishing shots to the equipment list,
this book discusses the techniques and concepts necessary to create
professional looking images in various genres, including portrait
photography, landscape photography, wildlife photography, food
photography, documentary photography, sports photography and more.
Covering issues such as lighting, writing, workflow and the travel
photography market, award-winning photographer and writer Mark
Edward Harris explains how to marry photos with words, telling a
cohesive story through a series of photographs.
Love is less confined than ever, as is our desire to capture it.
Engagement photography has become an essential and valuable
component of wedding photography for both your clients and your
photography business. Successfully booking romantic portrait
sessions and providing your couples with creative, playful, and
beautiful images can mean a lastingand lucrative- relationship.
Award winning photographer Stephanie Williams shares her approach
to engagement photography, including her thoughts on the psychology
of shooting and directing couples, current industry trends, and the
use of blogs and social media. Discover photography tips on
romantic styling, workflow, and branding that will help get your
engagement sessions recognized by prospective clients and industry
publications. Whether you are an aspiring photographer or
established professional, this book is sure to inform and inspire
your next photo shoot. Read tips and testimonials from prominent
wedding professionals, bloggers, editors and stylists, as well as
Stephanie's actual clients. Learn how to build your brand and get
your work published. Improve or refresh your technical skill
through practical lighting, equipment, and technique guidance.
Diversify the way you interact with clients and style your shoots.
Be inspired through gorgeous photographs.
Photographing landscape with a film camera is different than with a
digital camera. There are several books on the market that cover
landscape photography but few of them are specifically for the
digital photographer. This book is what you are looking for!
Digital Landscape Photography covers: equipment such as accessories
and lenses exposure from shutter speed and other common mistakes
shooting light and its importance composing your perfect photo
printing and a special section on specific subjects such as
waterfalls and sunrises Digital Landscape Photography, written by
experts that have been shooting outdoors for decades, is a fresh
look at current ways to shoot landscapes by making the most of
digital format.
Studio photography is a common career path for aspiring
photographers and students but the professional and commercial
nature of the field makes it a challenging area to break into.
Whilst other introductory books on the subject are often bogged
down with too much technical detail or too many 'show-off' shots,
Studio Photography: Essential Skills offers a practical and
accessible guide to the fundamental techniques for successful
studio photography. Whether photographing a person or a product,
you need control over the light, mood and look to arrive at the
perfect result for a particular assignment. This book takes a
commercial and creative approach and considers the important
elements of lighting, exposure, capture, art direction and the
studio setting to ensure a successful shoot. With a clearly
structured learning approach and a wide variety of activities and
assignments to inspire and engage you, this is an informative,
stimulating guide to the basics. Broaden your skills and increase
your earning potential with Studio Photography: Essential Skills!
Wars of the Ring is a pictorial celebration of half a century of
unforgettable fights. It commemorates an array of legendary boxing
matches held between 1970 and 2020. From the heavyweight tussles of
Ali, Frazier and Foreman in the 1970s to the wars waged by Duran,
Hearns, Hagler and Leonard in the 80s, to the celebrated British
middleweights of the 90s and the rise of current stars Tyson Fury
and Anthony Joshua, Wars of the Ring takes us on a thrilling
journey through some of boxing's most exhilarating matches,
experienced through stunning and dramatic images. Each decade comes
with a written overview as key moments from the careers of your
favourite boxers come to life - in eye-catching colour and
atmospheric black and white. Relive the amazing feats of Muhammad
Ali, Joe Frazier, Floyd Mayweather Jr., Canelo Alvarez, Gennady
Golovkin, Joe Calzaghe, Carl Froch, Mike Tyson, Lennox Lewis, Nigel
Benn, Marvin Hagler, Sugar Ray Leonard, Naseem Hamed and many more.
Catherine McIntyre, like many fine artists, created traditional art
for decades before encountering the versatility of digital imaging
technology. Free of her Rotring pens and scalpel, she now uses
Photoshop to create her montages. Visual Alchemy explores
McIntyre's sources of inspiration as well as her methods, offering
an aesthetic guide to composition, color, texture and all of the
other means of communication that artists have at their disposal.
While these concepts and techniques make use of Photoshop, they
will apply to any digital imaging program and indeed to any medium,
whether traditional or digital. Featuring McIntyre's own art as
well as that of artists around the globe, Visual Alchemy is an
invitation to discover the artistic possibilities of picture making
through digital montage.
This groundbreaking survey of significant work and ideas focuses on
imagemakers who have pushed beyond the boundaries of photography as
a window on our material world. Through interviews with more than
40 key artists, this book explores a diverse group of curious
experimentalists who have propelled the medium's evolution by
visualizing their subject matter as it originates from their minds
eye. Many favor the historical techniques commonly known as
alternative photographic processes, but all these makers
demonstrate that the real alternative is found in their mental
approach and not in their use of physical methods. Within this
context, photographer and photography historian Robert Hirsch
outlines the varied approaches these artists have utilized to
question conventional photographic practices, to convey internal
realities, and to examine what constitutes photographic reality.
Hirsch explores the half-century evolution of these concepts and
methodologies and their popularity among contemporary imagemakers
who are merging digital and analog processes to express what was
thought to be photographically inexpressible. Read an interview
with the author at Photo.net:
http://photo.net/learn/photographer-interviews/robert-hirsch
Black and white photography has come a long way in the digital
world. This comprehensive reference will help you maximize your
workflow with coverage of all of the relevant new features of
Photoshop CS4 and Lightroom 2, including every stage of the black
and white process from capture to printing. Along the way, you'll
find in-depth explanations of key topics such as color management,
optimizing your workspace, softproofing and calibration (both
onscreen and for output), evaluating histograms, non-destructive
editing, and much more. New features in this edition
include:In-depth coverage of workflow using the Bridge and Adobe
Camera RAW components of CS4New recipes and tips for advanced black
and white conversion Coverage of Lightroom and Photoshop
integration featuresAn overview of scanners and scanning your black
and white filmAdvice on exposure essentials and how to apply the
Zone System to your digital shooting A brand new chapter on black
and white and creative image editing in LightroomBreathtaking color
and black and white photographs, including Leslie Alsheimer's image
which won the coveted Vincent Versace award at Photoshop World in
2008, will inspire you to expand your own creativity to limitless
possibilities. This is the essential resource for any photographer
shooting black and white in the digital age.
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