Digital Photography Best Practices and Workflow Handbook:
A Guide to Staying Ahead of the Workflow Curve
Patricia Russotti
Richard Anderson
ISBN: 978-0-240-81095-9
Teaching students how to manage their digital files can be extremely challenging. Authors Patti Russotti (professor at R.I.T.) and Richard Anderson (board member of the ASMP) provide you with the best workflow practices for planning and capturing to archiving your digital photography and everything in between. Stay current with the accompanying website that provides resources and links for ever changing technology and the latest advances in workflow, including interactivity, QuickTime movie tutorials, the Seminar series presentations and interviews with professional photographers.Co-published with the American Society of Media Photographers and DPBestflow (A Library of Congress funded project) Digital Photography Best Practices and Workflow Handbook is the most trusted resource for digital photographers and digital imaging artists... [more]
Photojournalism: The Professionals' Approach,
6th Edition
Kenneth Kobre
ISBN: 978-0-7506-8593-1
The sixth edition of Photojournalism: The Professionals’ Approach features
penetrating interviews with leading professionals, hard-hitting
photographs, and easy-to-understand technical illustrations.
Students learn from the pros through interviews with photojournalists
from leading newspapers and major magazines, as well as with independent
freelancers and those working with international picture agencies.
This edition also features the best in photojournalism – including
new, award-winning international picture stories, some seen for
the first time – to teach and inspire future photojournalists... [more]
Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers: A Professional Image Editor's Guide to the Creative use of Photoshop for the Macintosh and PC
Martin Evening
ISBN: 978-0-240-52125-1
This leading reference for Photoshop offers pre-eminent advice on a professional photographer’s Photoshop workflow. Martin covers every core aspect of working with Photoshop, including organizing your digital workflow, and improving accessibility. This edition has been completely overhauled to make it even more accessible than previous editions.
- Accompanying DVD — with 8 brand new videos — includes the images Photoshop users need to follow along as they read, with QuickTime movie tutorials for hands-on learning
- Over 750 professional, color images – 50% are new to this edition — make this book stand above the rest
- 50% new content, including three brand new chapters
Every chapter is packed with real-life examples, diagrams, illustrations, and step-by-step explanations to get the reader right up to speed with the newest incarnation of this industry-standard software... [more]
Photoshop CS4: Essential Skills
Mark Galer
ISBN: 978-0-240-52124-4
This guide to creative image editing teaches the essential features and tools of Adobe Photoshop CS4. Three individual modules form a structured, self-study guide, developing from teaching the foundation skills of Photoshop to the more advanced techniques you need to enhance photographs creatively and professionally. Ten hours of movie tutorials and over 100 sample images on the DVD allow the reader to practice alongside the practical, step-by-step imaging projects at their own pace... [more]
Black and White in Photoshop CS4 and Lightroom:
A complete integrated workflow solution for creating stunning monochromatic images in Photoshop CS4, Photoshop Lightroom, and beyond
Leslie Alsheimer
Bryan O'Neil Hughes
ISBN: 978-0-240-52159-6
This comprehensive reference will help your students maximize their 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. Complex, key topics such as color management, optimizing the workspace, softproofing and calibration (both onscreen and for output), evaluating histograms, non-destructive editing, and much more are covered in depth through the use of clear step-by-step instruction and screenshots. In addition, breathtaking color and black and white photographs throughout the text will keep your students engaged and inspire them to expand their own creativity to limitless possibilities... [more]
Digital Collage and Painting: Using Photoshop and Painter to Create
Fine Art
Susan Ruddick Bloom
ISBN: 978-0-240-80705-8
Digital Collage and Painting proudly showcases
the work of twenty-one talented digital artists. Each artist walks
you through the creation of a piece of their art and lets you in
on their secrets about equipment, software, favorite papers, and
how their creative process begins... [more]
The Photoshop Lightroom Workbook:
Workflow not Workslow in Lightroom 2
Seth Resnick
Jamie Spritzer
ISBN: 978-0-240-81067-6
The Photoshop Lightroom Workbook is a no-nonsense guide to setting up an efficient workflow in Lightroom.
Authors Seth Resnick and Jamie Spritzer are co-founders of the renowned photography training and consultancy company D-65 (D-65.com). They are the perfect guides to lead students through the maze of technical problems and practical challenges that stand in the way of a seamless digital workflow with Lightroom at the core.
KEY FEATURES
- Subjects are covered in clear, logically-ordered, self-contained chapters, with summaries and questions included at the end of chapters to reinforce learning
- Highly-illustrated, the book includes quality, inspirational images throughout
- Explains not only how to use Lightroom but also how best to work pre-capture to ensure you get the best out of Lightroom post-capture... [more]
Light and Lens: Photography in the Digital Age
Robert Hirsch
ISBN: 978-0-240-80855-0
Light & Lens: Photography in the Digital Age is
a groundbreaking introductory book that clearly and concisely provides
the instruction and building blocks necessary to create thought-provoking
digitally based photographs. It is an adventurous idea book that
features numerous classroom-tested assignments and exercises from
leading photographic educators to encourage you to critically explore
and make images from the photographers’ eye, an aesthetic
point of view... [more]
The Elements of Photography: Understanding and Creating Sophisticated
Images
Angela Faris Belt
ISBN: 978-0-240-80942-7
Photographic technology is
evolving at an ever-accelerating rate. In order to excel at this
complex craft, students need to master both creative vision as
well as technical skills to produce images that are visually inspiring
as well as technically accurate.
In this highly visual, informative new book, Angela Faris Belt
discusses the four crucial elements of photography that are essential
for successful technical and conceptual image-making... [more]
Light: Science and Magic: An Introduction to Photographic Lighting,
3rd Edition
Fil Hunter
Steven Biver
Paul Fuqua
ISBN: 978-0-240-80819-2
Light: Science & Magic is not
a typical how-to book! Students will be instructed on the importance
of understanding and predicting the size of light, types of reflections,
and the family of angles.
This highly-respected guide introduces students to a logical theory
of photographic lighting so instructors can teach beginning photographers
how to predict results before setting up lights... [more]
Stoppees' Guide to Photography and Light:
What Digital Photographers, Illustrators, and Creative Professionals Must Know
Brian and Janet Stoppee
ISBN: 978-0-240-81063-8
Brian & Janet Stoppee have incorporated their decades of daily, hands-on expertise at image-making plus their leading seminars and one-on-one training into the most comprehensive guide to photographic lighting available!
It’s impossible to be successful in photography without a mastery of light. It’s the basis of all things photographic. The Stoppees welcome the reader into their professional world with a conversational tone that makes you feel as if you are a member of their team in pre-production planning, out on a shoot, or back at their studio, in post-production. They’ve packed the book with full color, vibrant images and lighting diagrams that make the technology easy to quickly understand. This compendium of professional know-how shows you how to both manipulate nature’s light and create natural-looking illumination with artificial light sources. Whether you’re a professional photographer, you use photography in your profession, or you just want your images to look more professional, this book is your resource to creating far superior digital images... [more]
Photographic Lighting: Essential Skills, 4th Edition
John Child
Mark Galer
ISBN: 978-0-240-52095-7
Photographic Lighting: Essential Skills offers practical coverage of everything you need to know to understand the characteristics of light and the foundations of photographic lighting, including film, filters, exposure, compensation, zone system and an array of creative techniques. Students and committed amateurs will find sound technical knowledge with inspiring projects. Developing professionals in need of a refresher or a reference need look no further. The authors use terminology that is easy to understand and explain techniques in a clearly written, no nonsense manner. Photographic Lighting: Essential Skills ensures all the fundamentals of lighting are learnt and applied to help improve the use of light in photography and encourage visual expression... [more]
Langford's Starting Photography,
6th Edition
Philip Andrews
Michael Langford
ISBN: 978-0-240-52110-7
'The' Focal Press introductory photography book, this authoritative classic by leading photography writer and lecturer Michael Langford has been refreshed and revised by best-selling photography author Philip Andrews for today's photographers. Strongly focused on digital, but with key references to traditional photography where relevant, to offer a full grounding in the topic, Langford's Starting Photography is an ideal technical introduction.
All the core basics are included, from how to select and compose a good picture to how different cameras operate and how to decipher their controls. Different subjects are explored, with advice on how to tackle people, places, animals, landscapes and close-ups, and valuable guidance on presenting and assessing finished work. This established, detailed beginner's guide is the perfect choice if you’re looking to develop your knowledge and skills, and take your photography to the next level.... [more]
 Digital Photography: Essential Skills, 4th Edition
Mark Galer
ISBN: 978-0-240-52112-1
In a market overwhelmed with ill-defined, low level digital photography guides, this book takes a refreshingly practical, focused approach to cover exactly what the learning novice and student needs to know to develop a creative, competent style and a seamless photography workflow.
Packed with quality images to inspire and enthuse, Digital Photography: Essential Skills covers all the essentials, from choosing cameras to perfecting capture, managing files, editing images and developing a creative, critical eye. With learning outcomes listed at the start of each chapter, step-by-step examples, a full glossary and activities to reinforce learning, this is a perfect resource for self-learning and classroom-based teaching.
As a working photographer and teaching lecturer, Mark Galer is the ideal guide to take readers through the skills and knowledge they need to take fantastic images... [more]
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]
Exhibiting Photography:
A Practical Guide to Choosing a Space, Displaying Your Work, and Everything in Between
Shirley Read
ISBN: 978-0-240-80939-7
Creating and organizing successful photography exhibitions requires business finesse and expertise as well as artistic ability. Exhibiting Photography offers step-by-step guidance, paired with anecdotes and case studies of real situations to help photographers at any level improve their business skills, explore new exhibiting techniques and learn to self promote with confidence.
Addressing the technical and aesthetic concerns of amateur and professional photographers, rarely discussed in such detail, Shirley Read’s informative new book explores:
- The process of finding the right exhibition space
- How to design and install an exhibition
- The right and wrong way to approach a gallery
- How to navigate contracts
- Pricing and selling
- How to establish budgets and timetables
Exhibiting Photography also includes documents and check-lists to help photographers stay organized and maximize the success of an exhibition.
Enhance your artistic ability by mastering the fundamental social, strategic and organizational skills that successful photographers utilize when navigating the world of art exhibition and commerce... [more]
Basic Photographic Materials and Processes, 3rd Edition
Nanette Salvaggio
ISBN: 978-0-240-80984-7
Photography is both an art and a science. While many books speak to the art of the craft, this book gets to the science. A classic textbook that offers the most comprehensive treatment of the science of photography available, this edition has been updated throughout to reflect the changing needs of today's students. Topics covered include light and photometry, optics, sensitometry, tone reproduction, visual perception, and more. Covering both analog and digital photography for both color and black and white, this scientific textbook gives materials and processes students the foundation they need to truly understand the photographic process…[more]
Langford's Advanced Photography,
Seventh Edition
Efthimia Bilissi
Michael Langford
ISBN: 978-0-240-52038-4
Contents: Amateur and professional photography; Camera equipment;
Camera lenses; Colour in photography; Films – types and technical
data; Digital imaging sensors; Lighting; Tone control; Subjects;
Digital imaging systems; Digital image manipulation; Film processing
and colour printing; Extending photography; Reproduction and archiving;
Business Practice; Appendices: Optical calculations, Chemical formulae:
health and safety, Batteries, Colour conversion filter chart; Glossary... [more]
Perception and Imaging: Photography—A
Way of Seeing, 3rd Edition
Richard D Zakia
ISBN: 978-0-240-80930-4
How do you experience a photograph?
What do you want a viewer to feel when they look at your image? Perception
and Imaging explains how we see and what we don’t
see. Relevant psychological principles will help you predict your
viewer’s emotional reaction to your photographic images,
giving you more power, control, and tools for communicating your
desired message. Knowing how our minds work helps photographers,
graphic designers, videographers, animators, and visual communicators
both create and critique sophisticated works of visual art. Benefit
from this insight in your work... [more]
Langford's Basic Photography, 8th Edition
Michael Langford
Anna Fox
Richard Sawdon Smith
ISBN: 978-0-080-47888-3
Langford's Basic Photography has informed the
work and career of many of the world's leading photographers. It
is a comprehensive guide to all aspects of photography, from pre-capture
to output, written for photographers who want to understand the
principles behind photography and how to create great images... [more]
Digital Photographic Capture
Glenn Rand
David Litschel
Robert Davis
ISBN: 978-0-240-80632-7
Digital Photographic Capture explores
construction and functions of the various parts and processes used
to capture images. Sensors, lenses, creation, storage, and hybrid
imaging are all broken down into basic explanations, enabling the
photographer to have a basic understanding of the photography today... [more]
Basic Critical Theory for Photographers
Ashley la Grange
ISBN: 978-0-240-51652-3
If you want to understand the key debates in photography and
learn how to apply the fascinating issues raised by critical theory
to your own practical work, this is the book for you! This accessible
book cuts through often difficult and intimidating academic language
to deliver understandable, stimulating discussion and summaries
of the original texts.
Key works by great writers such as Sontag and Barthes are explored,
along with those from other prominent critics. You are guided through
a broad range of issues, including the differences between Eastern
and Western art, post-modernism, sexism, the relationship between
photography and language and many other crucial debates. The book
is illustrated by many classic images by eminent international
photographers... [more]
The Advanced Digital Photographer's Workbook: Professionals Creating
and Outputting World-Class Images
Yvonne Butler
ISBN: 978-0-240-80646-4
THE ADVANCED DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHER’S
WORKBOOK is packed full of real-world yet incredibly practical
and effective solutions to move digital photographers to a new
level of performance. Contributors include twelve world-class professional
digital photographers who share their tips and tricks. The authors
provide details to move you beyond the basics of capture, processing
and output to more sophisticated workflow functions and techniques
that will help you create world-class images. They cover rigorous
yet easy-to-understand approaches to: capture a great image in
black-and-white and color, correct color, calibrate and set up
systems properly, creatively manipulate and enhance the image,
and produce an excellent print or output of the image... [more]
Photographic Possibilities: The Expressive
Use of Ideas, Materials and Processes,
3rd Edition
Robert Hirsch
John Valentino
ISBN: 978-0-240-81013-3
Photographic Possibilities,
Third Edition continues to provide a reliable source
of techniques and ideas for the use of alternative and contemporary
photographic processes that photographers have come to depend on.
Professional photographers and advanced students seeking to increase
their skills will discover modern and classic methods of creating
and manipulating images. This practical guide integrates technical
methods with the aesthetic outcome. It offers readers clear, step-by-step
instructions on historic and on contemporary processes that integrate
both the technical information and the aesthetic inspiration needed
to create outstanding photographs... [more]
Pinhole Photography: From Historic Technique to Digital Application, 4th Edition
Eric Renner
ISBN: 978-0-240-81047-8
A respected guide for students, amateurs, and advanced photographers
— inside you will find more varieties of pinhole cameras for beginners,
expanded instructional information on pinhole and zone plate practices,
and new information on where to get pinhole supplies throughout
the world. With listings of workshops, pinhole photographer's web
sites, pinhole books available, and a guide to commercial and individual
suppliers of pinhole equipment, this is the one guide you'll need
to navigate the industry... [more]
Darkroom Cookbook,
Third Edition
Steve Anchell
ISBN: 978-0-240-81055-3
The art of darkroom developing and printing will never go out of style. Master darkroom specialist Steve Anchell is back to prove it in this long-awaited third edition of his enormously successful Darkroom Cookbook. Packed with over 200 "recipes," some common and others rare gems, you'll discover something new every time you open this guide, whether you're new to the darkroom or have been making your own prints for years. In addition to the formulas, you'll find tons of useful information on developers, push-processing, where to get darkroom equipment, how to set up your own darkroom, how to work and play in your darkroom safely, and much more. This handy guide will become a constant companion for every darkroom enthusiast creating prints at home or in the studio.... [more]
New Dimensions in Photo Processes: A Step by Step Manual for Alternative
Techniques, 4th Edition
Laura Blacklow
ISBN: 978-0-240-80789-8
Clear instructions and step-by-step
photographs teach you how to mix chemicals and apply light-sensitive
emulsions by hand, how to create imagery in and out of the darkroom,
how to translocate Polaroid photos, photocopies,magazine and newspaper
pictures, and how to alter black-and-white and color photographs.
FULL COLOR throughout for the first time, this redesigned fourth
edition of New Dimensions in Photo Processes beautifully highlights
the work of internationally known artists such as Robert Rauschenberg,
Todd Walker, Doug and Mike Starn, and John Wood. An invaluable
list of supply sources (including e-mail addresses) from throughout
North America and Europe is included at the end of the book. Landscape
layout allows for easy readability in the studio!... [more]
Digital Negatives: Using Photoshop to Create Digital Negatives
for Silver and Alternative Process Printing
Brad Hinkel
Ron Reeder
ISBN: 978-0-240-80854-3
Digital Negatives: Using Photoshop
to Create Digital Negatives for Silver and Alternative
Process Printing bridges the world of traditional photographic
printing with digital technology. A digital negative, prepared
in Photoshop, allows you to skip the dark room time developing
the negatives—getting straight to a variety of printing processes
including silver, platinum, and a host of other “alternative” processes.
You will see this as an opportunity to mix technology with traditional
photo processes resulting in more time for your art! In the recent
past, photographers that wanted digital negatives had to take their
business to labs. Now all of you Photoshop users can incorporate
this practice into your workflow of choice... [more]
The Practical Zone System: For Film and
Digital Photography, 4th Edition
Chris Johnson
ISBN: 978-0-240-80756-0
The Practical Zone System:
for Film and Digital Photography 4th edition is an updated
version of what has become the classic book on the technique developed
by Ansel Adams in the 1940's. The zone system was designed to provide
photographers with a precise and intuitive way to control the dynamic
range of their negatives to produce printable results regardless
of the contrast of the subjects they are shooting... [more]
The Zone System for 35mm Photographers:
A Basic Guide to Exposure Control,
2nd Edition
Carson Graves
ISBN: 978-0-240-80203-9
Thousands of photographers
have used the simple techniques described in this book to produce
consistently excellent negatives and luminous prints. In this long
awaited new edition, offering updated material and examples, Graves
shows photographers how to apply the principles and procedures
of the Zone System to both black and white and color photography.
His proven methods allow even beginning photographers to relate
the theory of the Zone System to their own equipment, materials,
working procedures, and photographic tastes. Better still, the
book imparts the understanding that the Zone System is not just
a technique, but a way of thinking about photography that allows
its practitioners greater freedom and creativity... [more]
Platinum and Palladium Printing, 2nd Edition
Dick Arentz
ISBN: 978-0-240-80606-8
Platinum and palladium printing is one of the easiest of the
non-silver processes to learn. This guide offers a number of variations,
which the photographer can closely control. Photographers interested
in learning, or improving upon this process, will find this book
an indispensable resource and reference guide. This is an absolute
must-have for professional photographers and printmakers... [more]
Copper Plate Photogravure: Demystifying the Process
David Morrish
Marlene MacCallum
ISBN: 978-0-240-80527-6
Copper Plate Photogravure describes
in comprehensive detail the technique of traditional copper plate
photogravure as would be practiced by visual artists using normally
available facilities and materials. Attention is paid to step-by-step
guidance through the many stages of the process. A detailed manual
of technique, Copper Plate Photogravure also offers the history
of the medium and reference to past alternative methods of practice... [more]
Creative Camera Control, 3rd Edition
Peter Laytin
ISBN: 978-0-240-80426-2
For beginning and intermediate photographers, this proven text
provides the fundamentals of film photography in an easy-to-follow
style. You will learn, in a step by step approach, to understand
the interrelationship of the camera, lens, and film, and achieve
a new level of confidence. With more control of the camera, you
will be able to further develop the art of creative photography... [more]
View Camera Technique, 7th Edition
Leslie Stroebel
ISBN: 978-0-240-80345-6
Now in its seventh edition,
View Camera Technique is a unique, comprehensive book that presents
clearly and precisely the features, operations and applications
of view cameras. It details camera movements, image formation,
exposure control, and information concerning lenses and accessories.
Diagrams, comparison charts, and more than 500 photographs and
illustrations by distinguished professional photographers provide
the reader with the tools necessary to analyze a picture situation,
set up and manipulate the camera, and portray the subject to meet
the expectations of the professional photographer... [more]
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