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Creative Composition: Digital Photography Tips & Techniques

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010 at 5:45 am  
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Sometimes you get the best results by breaking the rules, but first you have to know what the rules are! In this indispensable photography guide, renowned photographer Harold Davis first walks you through the recommended guidelines for composing great shots with your DSLR camera-and then shows you how to break free, build your own unique style, and compose beautiful images with confidence.

  • Provides practical composition basics as well as the artistic tips and tricks eagerly sought by digital SLR camera lovers, who are growing in number as DSLR camera sales continue to grow
  • Explores the fundamental rules of composition-then how to break those rules to take captivating and unique images
  • Informs and inspires you with the author’s own gorgeous examples of landscapes, portraits, close-ups, and other photos that illustrate his concepts
  • Helps you jump-start your creativity by showing you new ways to see

Go beyond the basics and create a photography style that’s all your own with this must-have guide.

Amazon Exclusive: Photography Tips and Techniques from Harold Davis


How to Use Shadows to Enhance Your Composition
How to Use LAB Color for Black and White Effects
Professional Photography Techniques from Harold Davis

Amazon Exclusive: Interview with Award-Winning Photographer Harold Davis

We hear you’ve written some new digital photography titles. What’s the story behind these books?
Wiley Publishing is releasing three new books of mine, Creative Close-Ups: Digital Photography Tips & Techniques , Creative Night: Digital Photography Tips & Techniques , and Creative Composition: Digital Photography Tips & Techniques . My idea with these books was to help people become better photographers by presenting the subject of digital photography in a different way.

What’s different about your approach?
They say that cameras don’t take photos, people do. It’s really true. Someone with a great eye can take masterful photos with an inexpensive camera. Therefore, it is important to know something about photo technique, but the really amazing thing is that we can conceptualize and come up with these bits and bytes that make up a photo—and they can be meaningful to people. I try to help people come up with images that are relevant and meaningful. Cameras and hardware are just tools.

What’s with all the photos in these books?
Well, everyone likes to look at striking images, so one thing my photos do in these books is get people’s attention. However, the photos play another role as well. Each photo in my book is accompanied by the story of how the photo was made and the technical data related to the photo. That way, if you’re not ready to dive into the text itself, you can learn a lot just by browsing the photos.

My feeling is that you truly do learn about photography by looking at photos. It’s much more important to look at images you admire and try and figure out why you like them than it is to read about photography. The photos in these books are baked into the DNA of the teaching strategy. By browsing through the pages, someone can learn a great deal and have an enjoyable visual experience at the same time.

What’s the most important thing that readers can get out of your new books?
I want to inspire readers to be the most creative and best photographers they can be. If you pick up one of my books, I hope you can make use of the technical content and see how the photos relate to some of your own work. The most important thing, however, is to take the ideas in the book, get out there, and do some really peddle-to-the-metal creative photography.

Creative Composition: Digital Photography Tips & Techniques

Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010 at 7:47 pm  
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This personal, wide-ranging, and contemplative volume–and the last book Barthes published–finds the author applying his influential perceptiveness and associative insight to the subject of photography. To this end, several black-and-white photos (by the likes of Avedon, Clifford, Hine, Mapplethorpe, Nadar, Van Der Zee, and so forth) are reprinted throughout the text.
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

Black and White Photography, Third Revised Edition

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010 at 3:37 am  
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This all-new edition of BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY has been totally redesigned and updated to encompass the latest photographic techniques, materials, and processes. It includes information on new and improved films and printing papers, automation, digital photography, and monochromatic and hand-colored images, as well as a portfolio section of images by notable contemporary photographers. Offering a uniquely clear, concise, thorough introduction to one of America’s most popular avocations, BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY has for nearly 30 years set the standard against which other photographic how-to manuals are measured. It will continue, in this new edition, to be a vital resource for beginning and experienced photographer alike.
Black and White Photography, Third Revised Edition

VisionMongers: Making a Life and a Living in Photography

Friday, January 22nd, 2010 at 9:39 am  
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For those who want to make the transition into the world of vocational photography—staying true to your craft and vision, while fusing that craft with commerce VisionMongers is a great place to begin your journey. With a voice equally realistic and encouraging, photographer David duChemin discusses the experiences he’s had, the lessons he’s learned, and the practices he’s adopted in his own winding journey to becoming a successful working photographer.

When it comes to this personal, honest combination of craft and commerce, there is no single path to success. Everyone’s goals are different, as is everyone’s definition of success. As such, VisionMongers does not prescribe a one size-fits-all program. Instead, duChemin candidly shares ideas, wisdom, and inspiration to introduce you to, and help you navigate, the many aspects of transforming your passion into your vocation. He addresses everything from the anxiety-riddled question “Am I good enough?” to the basics—and beyond—of marketing, business, and finance, as well as the core assumption that your product is great and your craft is always improving.

Along the way, duChemin features the stories of nine other photographers—including Chase Jarvis, Gavin Gough, and Zack Arias—whose paths, while unique, have all shared a commitment and passion for bringing their own vision to market. With VisionMongers, you’ll learn what paths have been taken—what has worked for these photographers—and you’ll be equipped to begin the process of forging your own.
VisionMongers: Making a Life and a Living in Photography

Photography and Cinema

Friday, November 27th, 2009 at 5:38 am  
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What did the arrival of cinema do for photography? How did the moving image change our relation to the still image? Why have cinema and photography been so drawn to each other? Close-ups, freeze frames and the countless portrayals of photographers on screen are signs of cinema’s enduring attraction to the still image. Photo-stories, sequences and staged tableaux speak of the deep influence of cinema on photography.

 

Photography and Cinema a considers the importance of the still image for filmmakers such as the Lumière brothers, Alfred Hitchcock, Michelangelo Antonioni, Jean-Luc Godard, Chris Marker, Mark Lewis, Agnès Varda, Peter Weir, Christopher Nolan and many others. In parallel it looks at the cinematic in the work of photographers and artists that include Germaine Krull, William Klein, John Baldessari, Jeff Wall, Victor Burgin and Cindy Sherman.

 

From film stills and flipbooks to slide shows and digital imaging, hybrid visual forms have established an ambiguous realm between motion and stillness. David Campany assembles a missing history in which photography and cinema have been each other’s muse and inspiration for over a century.


Photography and Cinema

Photoshop Pro Photography Handbook: Advanced Post-Production Techniques

Friday, November 27th, 2009 at 4:07 am  
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Photographers who want to master the art of digital manipulation will find this information-packed resource essential! It’s chock-full of illustrations, insider tips, and practical examples for making the most of Photoshop’s popular software—including the new CS3. Pros and advanced amateurs who want to correct, enhance, or simply play with their images will be able to make sure they’ve got the ideal equipment setup for their needs, and get the lowdown on Photoshop basics. They’ll eagerly explore more advanced tools, including layers, blending, masks, and paths. And best of all, photographers not only learn how to master such techniques as resizing, cropping, and working with lighting effects and filters, but they’ll understand why they’re so important for getting the best quality prints possible.

Photoshop Pro Photography Handbook: Advanced Post-Production Techniques

A Short History of Photography

Friday, November 27th, 2009 at 3:17 am  
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‘While looking through his contact sheets, Harvey Benge noticed that one of his pictures reminded him of a ‘Friedlander’, another someone else. All photographers do this, and if the photograph in question apes another photographer too closely, it’s usually a cause for rejection. But Benge did the opposite. Picking out his ‘Friedlander’ and his ‘Parr’ and his ‘Baltz’ he decided to make an ‘anthology’ of contemporary photography featuring some of its biggest names. Yet they are all genuine, original Benges. They are also all good pictures, not mere pastiches of the ‘originals’ of which they gently but insistently remind one. This may be a game, but games can be very serious, and this fascinating book is both a serious and light-hearted exploration of photographic style.’ – Gerry Badger.
A Short History of Photography

Lighting the Nude: Top Photography Professionals Share Their Secrets

Friday, November 27th, 2009 at 2:06 am  
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400 nudes–and the lighting setups that make them look so good

* A best-seller, available for the first time in paperback!
* Side- and plan-view diagrams of the lighting setup for each shot
* Includes a directory of photographers, valuable for art directors and designers

Available for the first time in paperback, the top-selling Lighting the Nude reveals the lighting secrets of the top photographers working today. It showcases more than 400 images of the nude, in a wide variety of styles. Each photograph is accompanied by detailed lighting diagrams and an explanation of what makes the shot work. Both beginners in this branch of photography and seasoned pros will find plenty of inspiring lighting ideas and practical guidance. Lighting the Nude is an essential reference for every studio photographer’s bookshelf.
Lighting the Nude: Top Photography Professionals Share Their Secrets

Jazz, Giants and Journeys: The Photography of Herman Leonard

Friday, November 27th, 2009 at 12:10 am  
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First book on Herman Leonard’s full body of work

Only book in print containing his iconic jazz portraits of Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Dexter Gordon, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Quincy Jones, among others.

Accompanies traveling exhibition of Herman Leonard’s photography organized by the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans.

Foreword by Quincy Jones

With a camera as his backstage pass, Herman Leonard has photographed the giants of jazz in their golden age, movie stars on set and the fashion world of Paris in the 1960s, as well as the inner sanctums of his beloved New Orleans. His friendships with the jazz greats allowed him to vividly capture the magical moments of the Harlem and Paris jazz clubs in the 1940s and 50s, using his unique command of cinematic lighting to capture the essence of the time. His colorful life and travels enabled him to document the lives of cultural icons of his day, with such rare images as Marilyn Monroe on an elephant in the circus, to Albert Einstein at his desk.

This exquisite book is the first full treatment of this extraordinary life and distinctive body of work, giving Leonard’s photographs the artistic recognition they deserve.

David Houston is Chief Curator at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans.
Jazz, Giants and Journeys: The Photography of Herman Leonard

Print the Legend: Photography and the American West

Thursday, November 26th, 2009 at 11:07 pm  
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This prize-winning book tells the intertwined stories of photography and the American West–a new medium and a new place that came of age together in the nineteenth century.
Print the Legend: Photography and the American West

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