Photography

Nice, Brian Rescue Tails: Portraits of Dogs and Their Celebrities eBook

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Thomas, J. Dennis Nikon Creative Lighting System Digital Field Guide eBook

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 49:11:30 GMT

A full-color, go-anywhere guide to Nikon's entire array of creative lighting possibilities

Nikon's Creative Lighting System is like having a low-cost, wireless, studio lighting system that's portable enough to fit into a camera bag. Although the possibilities are endless and exciting, setting up, synchronizing the equipment, and determining lighting ratios can be a bit overwhelming. Luckily, this Digital Field Guide has been completely updated to shed some light on the situation!

Beginning with the basic functions of the Nikon SB-900, the SB-800, and the SB-600, the author then goes on to demystify the complexities of using multiple speedlights, adjusting flash outputs, and setting up a wireless studio.

Clearly explains how to get the best results when using multiple speedlights
Includes examples and unique advice on how to light specific subjects, such as weddings, wildlife, portraits, product shots, and corporate locations
Covers other Creative Lighting System components, such as Nikon's wireless commander and macro speedlights

With this handy, on-the-go guide, you'll no longer be in the dark on Nikon's Creative Lighting System.

Chicago Folk: Images of the Sixties Music Scene (Adobe Reader) eBook

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 49:11:30 GMT

The vibrant urban folk scene of the 1960s is dazzlingly portrayed in this collection of more than 150 previously unpublished photographs by Raeburn Flerlage. From concert performances and studio sessions to interviews and intimate club shows, Flerlage's images effortlessly capture the essence of both the artists and their music. Arresting photographs of popular performers, such as Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, and Pete Seeger, mingle with those of more traditional musicians, including the Reverend Gary Davis, Booker White, Dock Boggs, and Mother Maybelle Carter as well as many other blues, bluegrass, Cajun, and gospel artists who performed at the University of Chicago Folk Festival.

PHOTOGRAPHY & PHILOSOPHY (Adobe Reader) eBook

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 49:11:30 GMT

This anthology offers a fresh approach to the philosophical aspects of photography. The essays, written by contemporary philosophers in a thorough and engaging manner, explore the far-reaching ethical dimensions of photography as it is used today.

A first-of-its-kind anthology exploring the link between the art of photography and the theoretical questions it raises
Written in a thorough and engaging manner
Essayists are all contemporary philosophers who bring with them an exceptional understanding of the broader metaphysical issues pertaining to photography
Takes a fresh look at some familiar issues - photographic truth, objectivity, and realism
Introduces newer issues such as the ethical use of photography or the effect of digital-imaging technology on how we appreciate images

Davis, Harold Creative Composition: Digital Photography Tips & Techniques (Adobe Reader) eBook

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 49:11:30 GMT

Take your best shots with this invaluable guide to composition for DSLR cameras

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.

Fish, Steven Dale Final Cut Pro for Underwater Video (Adobe Reader) eBook

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 49:11:30 GMT

Final Cut Pro for Underwater Video by Steven Fish is a complete guide for editing Underwater Videos using the Apple Final Cut Pro editing system. It has chapters covering project workflow, the FCP user interface, customizing FCP, producing soundtracks, editing techniques, titles and graphics, filters, effects and transitions, color correction, final output, archiving and an over of the complete Final Cut Studio suite of applications. The book is 144 pages with numerous color illustrations and examples. A companion book on UW video equipment and techniques is also available under the title: High Definition Underwater Video. Both books are available in either eBook pdf formats or printed versions.

Fish, Steven Dale High Definition Underwater Video (Adobe Reader) eBook

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 49:11:30 GMT

High Definition Underwater Video by Steven Fish is a complete guide for the Underwater Videographer. It has chapters covering selection of camcorders appropriate for UW video, selection of UW video housings, lights and accessories, equipment care, maintenance and troubleshooting, conditions that affect UW video, using a housing's controls effectively, UW video shooting techniques, using lights and accessories, editing equipment and software, basic editing techniques and future trends in UW videography. The book is 167 pages with numerous color illustrations and examples. A companion book on advanced editing techniques for UW video is also available under the title: Final Cut Pro for Underwater Video. Both books are available in either eBook pdf formats or printed versions.

White,Jim, Sweet,Tony Nikon DSLR: The Ultimate Photographer's Guide (Adobe Reader) eBook

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 49:11:30 GMT

Whilst camera-specific guides provide the how-to, manual style information on how to use your particular model of camera, this manufacturer-specific guide provides you with all the information you need as a Nikon DSLR photographer to optimise your workflow and capture great images... Jim White and Tony Sweet show you how to increase the quality of your photos, save time and work smarter, starting with the most pressing questions: Which camera should you use? Which lens is best? Which accessories are must-haves? How can you get the most out of Nikon's Capture NX Software?.. In-depth, specific features of the newest Nikon DSLRs are also covered, helping you to make your camera really work for you. Complete with practical advice, key workflow solutions and detailed images that display multiple camera functions, this book is a must have for every Nikon photographer... Part of Focal's Digital Workflow series, this is the Nikon version of the popular Canon DSLR: The Ultimate Photographer's Guide.

Benjamin,Louis The Naked and the Lens: A Guide to Nude Photography (Adobe Reader) eBook

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 49:11:30 GMT

The Naked and the Lens is designed as both a technical guide and an artistic inspiration. Filled with beautiful images of the nude form, it also shows you how this can be technically achieved. The book covers key topics: concept, lighting, directing, post-production, and artisic re-interpretation and how to find models. Legal and photo release issues are covered as well. The techniques are up-to-date, including Photoshop CS4, RAW capture and shooting with a gray card to capture accurate white balance information. The lighting section will also show how to get studio quality light from hot-shoe flashes by adapting them to umbrellas and soft boxes. Regardless of whether you are shooting in a studio or in a field, this book will show you how to create works of art with nude bodies and it will also teach through advice in a unique interview section with leading nude photographers around the world through their words and their images.

Gerlach Digital Landscape Photography (Adobe Reader) eBook

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 49:11:30 GMT

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 sunrisesDigital 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.

Andrews The Adobe Photoshop CS4 Dictionary: The A to Z desktop reference of Photoshop (Adobe Reader) eBook

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 49:11:30 GMT

The indispensable encyclopedic guide to Photoshop's tools and features

Hilz Nikon D60 (Adobe Reader) eBook

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 49:11:30 GMT

For new owners of a Nikon D60 digital camera who are looking to combine practical know-how with inspiration, this easy-to-use guide is full of full-color images, tips, and tricks that will get photographers up and running in no time.

Barnett Sony A200 (Adobe Reader) eBook

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 49:11:30 GMT

Featuring a quick-start guide that will have new owners of the Sony A200 digital camera taking great photos in just minutes, this handbook provides expert coverage of lenses, lighting, and subject matter along with step-by-step instructions on photo editi

Caplin How to Cheat in Photoshop CS4: The art of creating photorealistic montages (Adobe Reader) eBook

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 49:11:30 GMT

Photoshop CS4 edition of Steve Caplin's widely acclaimed classic on photomontage

Langenbach, Randolph Don't Tear It Down! Preserving the Earthquake Resistant Vernacular Architecture of Kashmir (Adobe Reader) eBook

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 49:11:30 GMT

This book makes the case for the preservation of the traditional domestic architecture that make up the urban form of Srinagar and the other cities in Kashmir. Published initially by UNESCO's New Delhi Office for distribution in Indian and Pakistan Administered Kashmir, the book is a product of UNESCO's mission to advance scientific understanding following the 2005 Kashmir earthquake which affected both Pakistan and India. The author, international heritage preservation consultant Randolph Langenbach, brings to it a vision of how the heritage buildings of Kashmir can become an armature on which to help rebuild people's pride of place after years of civil unrest. The work makes the case for preservation, not in spite of the antiquated construction of these buildings, but because of it. It is framed on the capacity of the best examples of Kashmiri traditional construction to resist one of Nature's most prodigious forces - earthquakes. By discussing two traditional forms of construction found in Kashmir: 'taq' and 'dhajji dewari', this book documents an often ignored architectural heritage and a construction tradition that has demonstrated a level of earthquake-resistance that has led experts to introduce their attributes into the Indian and Pakistan building codes and to use features of them as the basis of ideas for how to improve the earthquake performance of modern structures of reinforced concrete. The book is illustrated with photographs by the author, who is also a noted photographer.

Dickman, Jay, Kinghorn, Jay Perfect Digital Photography eBook

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 49:11:30 GMT

Master the art of digital photography "Jay Dickman and Jay Kinghorn again have brought an insightful book on digital photography based on creating your best digital photographs, regardless of the rapid changes in the digital technology... From cover to cover, this book is filled with priceless information on how to get the great photos, and how to make sure they are your best." --John Knaur, Senior Marketing Manager, Digital SLR, Olympus Imaging America In this completely updated, full-color work, a Pulitzer Prize-winning National Geographic photographer and an Adobe Photoshop Certified Expert guide you through the entire photographic process, from composition to printing and archiving. The expert techniques inside this masterful guide help you greatly improve both the quality of your photographs and your proficiency in the digital darkroom. Perfect Digital Photography, Second Edition covers the latest technologies, including digital SLR cameras, Adobe Photoshop CS4, and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, and offers tips for developing an efficient workflow. Stunning color photographs throughout the book show you the results that you too can achieve.

LANGFORDS ADVD PHOTOGRAPHY eBook

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Highly respected guide for serious photographers wanting to advance their skills; fully updated to cover cutting-edge digital technologies.

Studio and Location Lighting Secrets for Digital Photographers (Adobe Reader) eBook

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 49:11:30 GMT

Improve your photography with more than 200 lighting tips from a top photographer

Written by Canon Explorer of Light Rick Sammon and leading fashion and studio photographer Vered Koshlano, this guide is packed with professional advice on the essential element of photography: lighting. It provides detailed information and insider secrets that are bound to make you a better photographer.

You'll learn the basics of studio lighting as well as how to achieve special effects. A 90-minute DVD is included, with additional tips on using reflectors, diffusers, accessory flashes, and more.

Explores the basics of studio lighting in various situations
Features more than 200 lighting tips and secrets for planning and taking the most impressive digital images in the studio
Compares available camera equipment, accessories, software, and printing options
Covers post-shoot digital darkroom techniques and workflow tips and tricks
Companion DVD includes advice on making the most of accessories such as diffusers, reflectors, and accessory flashes
Written by two top professional photographers and illustrated with full-color examples

Studio and Location Lighting Secrets provides information from the pros to improve your photograpic skills.

Rand, Glenn Teaching Photography: Tools for the Imaging Educator (Adobe Reader) eBook

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 49:11:30 GMT

Finally, a book for you teachers! Because making great photographs does not always translate into an ability to teach effectively. Teaching Photography will show you how to help your students expand their knowledge and abilities in the techniques, the aes

Gunderman, Richard B. We Make a Life by What We Give (Adobe Reader) eBook

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 49:11:30 GMT

How generosity enriches lives and communities

Gruber, Ruth WITNESS eBook

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 49:11:30 GMT

With her perfect memory (and plenty of zip), ninety-five-year-old Ruth Gruberadventurer, international correspondent, photographer, maker of (and witness to) history, responsible for rescuing hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees during World War II and aftertells her story in her own words and photographs. Grubers life has been extraordinary and extraordinarily heroic. She received a B.A. from New York University in three years, a masters degree from the University of Wisconsin a year later, and a Ph.D. from the University of Cologne (magna cum laude) one year after that, becoming at age twenty the youngest Ph.D. in the world (it made headlines in The New York Times; the subject of her thesis: the then little-known Virginia Woolf). At twenty-four, Gruber became an international correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune and traveled across the Soviet Arctic, scooping the world and witnessing, firsthand, the building of cities in the Siberian gulag by the pioneers and prisoners Stalin didnt execute . . . At thirty, she traveled to Alaska for Harold L. Ickes, FDRs secretary of the interior, to look into homesteading for G.I.s after World War II . . . And when she was thirty-three, Ickes assigned another secret mission to herone that transformed her life: Gruber escorted 1,000 Holocaust survivors from Italy to America, the only Jews given refuge in this country during the war. I have a theory, Gruber said, that even though were born Jews, there is a moment in our lives when we become Jews. On that ship, I became a Jew. Grubers role as rescuer of Jews was just beginning. In Witness, Gruber writes about what she saw and shows us, through her haunting and life-affirming photographstaken on each of her assignmentsthe worlds, the people, the landscapes, the courage, the hope, the life she witnessed up close and firsthand: the Siberian gulag of the 1930s and the new cities being built there (Gruber, then untrained as a photographer, brought her first Rolleicord with her) . . . the Alaska highway of 1943, built by 11,000 soldiers, mostly black men from the South (the highway went from Dawson Creek, British Columbia, 1,500 miles to Fairbanks) . . . her thirteen-day voyage on the army-troop transport Henry Gibbins with refugees and wounded American soldiers, escorting and then photographing the refugees as they arrived in Oswego, New York (they arrived in upstate New York as Adolf Eichmann was sending 750,000 Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz). In 1947, Gruber traveled for the Herald Tribune with the United Nations Special Commission on Palestine (UNSCOP) through the postwar displaced persons camps in Europe, and then to North Africa, Palestine, and the Arab world; the committees recommendation that Palestine be partitioned into a Jewish state and an Arab state was one of the key factors that led to the founding of Israel. We see Grubers remarkable photographs of a former American pleasure boat (which had been renamed Exodus 1947) as it limped into Haifa harbor, trying to deliver 4,500 Jewish refugees (including 600 orphans), under attack by five British destroyers and a cruiser that stormed the Exodus with guns, tear gas, and truncheons, while the crew of the Exodus fought back with potatoes, sticks, and cans of kosher meat. In a cable to the Herald Tribune, Gruber reported that the ship looks like a matchbox splintered by a nutcracker. She was with the people of the Exodus and photographed them when they were herded onto three prison ships. Gruber represented the entire American press aboard the ship Runnymede Park, photographing the prisoners as they defiantly painted a swastika on the Union Jack. During her thirty-two years as a correspondent, Ruth Gruber photographed what she saw and captured the triumph of the human spirit. Take photographs with your heart, Edward Steichen told her. Witness is a revelationof a time, a place, a world, a spirit, a belief. It is, above all el

Jones,Lou Speedlights & Speedlites: Creative Flash Photography at the Speed of Light (Adobe Reader) eBook

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 49:11:30 GMT

Canon Speedlites and Nikon Speedlights are small, off-camera flashguns that can provide big results - if you know how to use them properly. Acclaimed Boston photographers Lou Jones, Bob Keenan and Steve Ostrowski guide you through the technical and creative aspects of how to get the most out of these powerful tools in this indispensable guide, packed full of inspirational images and comprehensive diagrams of the lighting set ups used to capture them.They are significantly more advanced, lighter and considerably cheaper than a standard flashgun, and have many advantages. They are small (and cheap) enough that a number can be carried in your kit, and they can be used in combination, triggered wirelessly. They use through-the-lens (TTL) metering, which allows you to use the in-camera LCD and histograms to calculate the required power/direction, rather than havng to use a light meter or trial and error. They use proprietary, dedicated technology (from Canon and Nikon) that means there are no compatability issues.Getting the most out of them, however, remains a mystery - most photographers still just use their speedlights in the same way as a standard flash gun. This is where this book comes in.

Lowrie, Charlotte K. CANON EOS 40D DIGITAL FIELD GD (Adobe Reader) eBook

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Thomas, J. Dennis Nikon D5000 Digital Field Guide (Digital Field Guide #205) (Adobe Reader) eBook

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 49:11:30 GMT

Get to know your D5000 and unlock new possibilities

With outstanding one-touch automatic options plus a full range of manual functions, your Nikon D5000 will nourish your creativity in new ways. This guide will help you get completely comfortable with your camera, explaining every button and dial and what you can achieve by taking control with manual settings. Explore the essence of quality photography, what different lenses can offer, and how to get professional results in various situations. Whenever you pick up your D5000, grab this book too.

Learn to use exposure, metering, auto-focus, and AF-area modes
Work with menus for setup, shooting, playback, quick settings, and custom settings
Review lighting, exposure, depth of field, and composition essentials
Explore different lenses and understand Nikon's lens codes
Discover the secrets of great action, nighttime, and macro photography, product and nature shots, and more

Lowrie, Charlotte K. Canon EOS Rebel T1i/500D Digital Field Guide (Digital Field Guide #207) (Adobe Reader) eBook

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 49:11:30 GMT

Get the information you need in an easy-to-understand way with the Canon EOS Rebel T1i/500D Digital Field Guide. You'll find over 200 beautiful pictures by acclaimed photographer Charlotte Lowrie in this portable guide. She'll help you gain a better understanding of your camera and how to get the exact shot you want when you want it. She'll also walk you through using the new HD video features available on the Canon EOS Rebel T1i/500D. With beautiful photography, step-by-step techniques, and professional tips that will further your understanding of your camera, you'll want to reference this guide again and again!