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Studio Photography: Essential Skills, 3rd Edition

Studio Photography: Essential Skills, 4th Edition
John Child
ISBN: 978-0-240-52096-4

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 essential techniques for creative and successful studio photography. Whether photographing a person or a product, this book shows you how to take control of the light, mood, and look to arrive at the perfect result for a particular assignment. Taking a commercial and creative approach, John Child considers the important elements of lighting, exposure, capture, art direction, and the studio setting to ensure a successful shoot... [more]

Photography Courses
To find textbooks, click the course headings below.

Photojournalism courses:

  • Photojournalism

Introductory Photography courses:

  • Exploring Color Photography
  • Photographic Composition
  • Langford's Basic Photography
  • Digital Photography Best Practices and Workflow
  • Langford's Starting Photography

Intermediate Photography courses:

  • Perception and Imaging
  • The Elements of Photography

Advanced Photography courses:

  • The Elements of Photography
  • Langford's Advanced Photography
  • Photographic Possibilities
  • Exhibiting Photography
  • Perception and Imaging

Traditional Photography courses:

  • The Elements of Photography
  • The Darkroom Cookbook
  • John Hedgecoe's New Introductory Photography Course

Photographic Lighting courses:

  • Light, Science, and Magic
  • Stoppees’ Guide to Photograph yand Light
  • Digital Photography

Theory courses:

  • Photography as Activism
  • The Elements of Photography
  • Perception and Imaging
  • Basic Critical Theory for Photographers

Studio Photography courses:

  • Studio Photography: Essential Skills

Digital Photography courses:

  • Digital Collage and Painting
  • Adobe Photoshop CS5 for Photographers: The Ultimate Workshop
  • Photoshop CS5: Essential Skills
  • How to Cheat in Photoshop CS5
  • Adobe Photoshop CS5 for Photographers: A Professional Image Editor's Guide to the Creative Use of Photoshop for the Macintosh and PC
  • Black and White in Photoshop CS4
  • The Photoshop Lightroom Workbook

Alternative Processes courses:

  • Pinhole Photography

Composition courses:

  • The Elements of Photography

Graphic Art/Graphic Design courses:

  • 3D in Photoshop
  • How to Cheat in Photoshop CS5


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