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Holmes' poignant book contains 500 photographs, almost all of them black-and-white and most drawn from Britain's Imperial War Museum. ... George Cohen

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This highly respected text, now in paperback, has been thoroughly updated and revised. It introduces a logical theory of photographic lighting --- one that teaches beginning photographers to predict results before setting up lights. This is not primarily a how-to book with only set examples for photographers to follow. Rather, Light: Science and Magic provides the reader with a comprehensive theory of the nature and principles of light to allow individual photographers to use lighting to express their own creativity. Numerous photographs and illustrations provide clear examples of the theories delineated within the text, while sidebars highlight special lighting questions.

Great food always elicits strong reactions-the smell of freshly baked bread, the taste of a perfectly prepared steak. The job of a food photographer is to elicit that same mouth-watering reaction, but without the benefit of scent or taste. A well-shot photograph can send crowds flocking to a new restaurant or boost the sales of a culinary magazine. Capturing the perfect image requires a trained eye, finesse, and photographic skill. Digital Food Photography gives you the ingredients to cook up your own recipe for success-with professional lighting techniques, composition, food and prop styling, retouching, and tricks of the trade. You\'ll learn how digital photography combines teamwork, creativity, and technology, and how to make money creating delectable works of photographic art.

Photo Magic: A Mini E-Book focuses on photo manipulation via masking and selecting. Twelve new tutorials walk the Fireworks student through numerous masking and selecting techniques.

Digital Photography: Top 100 Simplified Tips & Tricks 2nd Edition has been totally updated for Photoshop Elements 3 and the latest digital camera features to provide adventurous users with 100 useful and surprising techniques that can be used to make better digital photos, prints, and photo-based projects.

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The 7th edition of Langford's Advanced Photography brings this bestselling advanced guide bang up to date. Efthimia Bilissi maintains Michael Langford's renowned level of technical detail, balancing art and technique, whilst adding information on all the latest digital technologies. This book covers it all; from cameras, lenses, digital imaging sensors and films to insights into photography as an industry and how to kick start your career. Genres are explored, from portraiture and fine art to aerial, and broad coverage of digital manipulation, film processing, colour theory, archiving and storage provide everything the serious photographer needs to extend their art into professional realms. Exciting new areas such as infrared, underwater and stereoscopic photography are included, with a key section on business practices covering how to manage accounts, charge for jobs and self-promote. The book benefits from a full glossary, charts and inspirational images throughout, with a summary and projects to try at the end of each chapter. A comprehensive guide to digital and film photography for the serious amateur, student or training professional Fully updated to cover new digital technologies, workflow and methods from image manipulation to colour management and archiving The ONLY comprehensive guide to photography at an advanced level

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Popular Photography and Imaging is one of the magazine that runs review of new products, hardware and software from average to experienced level. Their reviews is good for beginner but had some limits for professional. Here is the set of 2007; 1-3 and 9-12 of 2006

More than 650 pages in full color for less than $40 make this one-stop Photoshop reference an exceptional value Photoshop ranks up right up there as one of the top computer book categories, and sales of Photoshop books are sure to increase with the new software release Thoroughly updated to cover new features and enhancements in the latest release.

"Now, heres a professional photographer who is also a professional writer...I AM impressed and think the sales potential is astronomical!" -Shan Canfield, photographer and photography educator --Shan Canfield, photographer and photography educator

Professional photographer tricks are shared to develop professional images immediately! Digital Photography and Imaging provides a thorough understanding of everything one needs to know about how digital cameras and scanners work together to produce outstanding images. This book educates on the special requirements and advantages of digital imaging compared to conventional photography; as well as, takes one beyond point-and-click as it explains how to create well-designed slide shows, ways to edit for creating professional or fun shots, how to output images with various devices and ways of sharing, and how to use digital cameras and scanners to develop Web images.