Photography & Video
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Alien – The Weyland -Yutani Report
For 100s of years, scientists at Weyland-Yutani Corp. have been monitoring the behaviour of an alien life-form whose potential for military application appears limitless. Though all attempts to harness its abilities have ended in bloodshed, acquisition of the Xenomorph remains a priority. As such, Weyland-Yutani has granted you access to their files on the alien in the hope that you will be able to help capture this fascinating, deadly creature.Read more
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Don1, the King from Queens: The Life & Photos of a NYC Transit Graffiti Master: The Life and Photos of a NYC Transit Graffiti Master
Among the famous graffiti artists from New York City’s 1970s subway era was an unassuming talent from the unassuming borough of Queens. The Italian-American rock and roller who wrote DON 1 MAFIA blasted onto the scene like a meteorite out of nowhere. His influence on this art form transcended the inner city and he became a legend and a household name. But his descent from the top of this name game, a result of the hedonistic lifestyle of New York City at the time, was just as swift, and for years DON1 has lived in obscurity. Fortunately, as a photographer studying at the prestigious school of Art and Design, DON1 documented his iconic work, along with that of his well known contemporaries, using his trusted 35mm camera. This penetrating work takes the reader inside the supernova that was DON1’s creative life with nearly 200 never before seen graffiti photos of the most undocumented NYC train lines and an even rarer glimpse at work from his black book.Read more
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David Busch s Nikon D500 Guide to Digital Photography (David Buschs Guides) (The David Busch Camera Guide)
David Busch s Nikon D500 Guide to Digital SLR Photography is the most comprehensive reference and guide book for Nikon s long-awaited 20.9-megapixel enthusiast/professional DX-format digital camera. With the same 180,000-pixel metering sensor and lightning-fast 153-point autofocus system found in Nikon s top-of-the-line D5, this model offers precise exposure and fast focusing at up to 10 frames per second. The D500 adds stunning 4K/UHD video capabilities, and a new SnapBridge feature that provides a seamless connection between the camera and a smartphone using a Bluetooth link. With this book in hand, you will discover all the capabilities of the Nikon D500 as you explore the world of digital photography, develop your creativity, and capture the best photographs you ve ever taken. Filled with detailed how-to steps and full-color illustrations, David Busch s Nikon D500 Guide to Digital SLR Photography describes every feature of this sophisticated camera in depth, from taking your first photos through advanced details of setup, exposure, lens selection, lighting, and more. It relates each feature to specific photographic techniques and situations. Also included is the handy camera roadmap, an easy-to-use visual guide to the D500 s features and controls. Learn when to use every option and, more importantly, when not to use them, by following the author s recommended settings for every menu entry. With bestselling photographer and mentor David Busch as your guide, you ll quickly have full creative mastery of your camera s capabilities, whether you re shooting on the job, taking pictures as an advanced enthusiast, or just out for fun. Start building your knowledge and confidence, while bringing your vision to light with the Nikon D500.”Read more
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David Busch’s Nikon D3500 Guide to Digital SLR Photography (The David Busch Camera Guide)
David Busch’s Nikon D3500 Guide to Digital SLR Photography is your all-in-one comprehensive resource and reference for the Nikon D3500 camera, the company’s most compact and easy-to-use entry-level dSLR. Taking and sharing pictures is easier than ever, thanks to the D3500’s enhanced Guide Mode and SnapBridge Bluetooth Low Energy wireless link between the D3500 and your Android or iOS smartphone or tablet.. This 24-megapixel camera offers Full HD 1080p 60 fps video, continuous shooting at up to 5 frames per second, and increased battery life of up to 1550 shots per charge. With this book in hand, you can fine tune your camera skills as you explore the world of digital photography, develop your creativity, and take great photographs with your D3500. Filled with detailed how-to steps and full-color illustrations, David Busch’s Nikon D3500 Guide to Digital SLR Photography covers all the camera’s features in depth, from taking your first photos through advanced details of setup, exposure, lens selection, lighting, and more, and relates each feature to specific photographic techniques and situations. Also included is the handy visual guide to the D3500, with close-up photos and descriptions of the camera’s essential features and controls. Learn when to use each option and, more importantly, when not to use them, by following the author’s recommended settings for every menu entry. With best-selling photographer and mentor David Busch as your guide, you’ll quickly have full creative mastery of your camera’s capabilities, whether you’re shooting on the job, as an advanced enthusiast, or are just out for fun. Start building your knowledge and confidence, while bringing your vision to light with the Nikon D3500 today.Read more
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David Busch’s Nikon Z50 Guide to Digital Photography (The David Busch Camera Guide)
David Busch’s Nikon Z50 Guide to Digital Photography is your all-in-one comprehensive resource and reference for getting the most out of your Nikon Z50 mirrorless camera. Nikon’s first APS-C format mirrorless model is compact, weighs just 14 ounces, and is very affordable, making it the perfect camera for budding photo enthusiasts. It’s built around a 21-megapixel sensor that offers excellent image quality and is sensitive enough for low light shooting. With a 209-point phase-detect autofocus system covering more than 85 percent of the frame, the Z50 can shoot sports and action at up to 11 frames per second, with lightning fast focus. The Z50 can capture both 4K and Full HD movies, too, and the flip-down rear LCD is ideal for selfies and vlogging. With this book in hand, you’ll master all the camera’s impressive features, and fine tune your camera skills as develop your creativity taking great photographs with your new Z50. Filled with detailed how-to steps and full-color illustrations, David Busch’s Nikon Z50 Guide to Digital Photography covers all the camera’s capabilities in depth, from taking your first photos through advanced details of setup, exposure, lens selection, lighting, and more, and relates each feature to specific photographic techniques and situations. Also included is the handy visual guide to the Z50, with close-up photos and descriptions of the camera’s essential features and controls. Learn when to use each option and, more importantly, when not to use them, by following the author’s recommended settings for every menu entry. With best-selling photographer and mentor David Busch as your guide, you’ll quickly have full creative mastery of your camera’s capabilities, whether you’re shooting on the job, as an advanced enthusiast, or are just out for fun. Start building your knowledge and confidence, while bringing your vision to light with the Nikon Z50 today.Read more
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Art in Motion: Riding the Paris Metro
A rich history and moving look at the accessible, immersive art embedded in the Paris subway systemSubmarine wall decorations, a ceramic declaration of human rights, a stained-glass red hen, a mosaic mouth, an aedicule made of Murano glass. The Paris Métro, the city’s public subway network, has been exhibiting on its walls for over a century, through works imagined by French and foreign artists, punctuating and enhancing the underground travels of Parisians and tourists. Beginning in 1900, architect Hector Guimard was entrusted with creating the subway entrances. Through the style of Art Nouveau, his works embrace the notion of free art―accessible to all, moving, surprising, and ambitious.Today, the subway system still champions this approach of an immersive cultural experience and artistic openness as evidenced by the twenty or so creations selected for Art in Motion. With concise and well-researched texts, Anaël Pigeat introduces us to the artists and gives them a voice. She explains their creative process, pays tribute to the work of the many craftsmen and craftswomen and to the innovations found, and also highlights the numerous constraints entailed by the subway environment. With a contemporary perspective by photographer Philippe Garcia, the book captures the works in their environment, then moves closer to show us the material and the artistic gestures. Each creation carries its own story and its own relationship to the underground: Whether they offer a reinterpretation of existing works or take us down memory lane, lead us into a dream-like world or fit in the framework of an international exchange, these works shine on and imperceptibly change our travels.Read more
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Photoshop Elements 2024 For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))
Get in touch with your creative side using Photoshop Elements
Photoshop Elements 2024 For Dummies covers the newest version of Adobe’s beginner-friendly photo editing software. With the help of this Dummies guide, you’ll discover the ins and outs of Photoshop Elements, so you can transform your images from ordinary to extraordinary. The software is packed with all the photo editing tools you need to turn your images into showstoppers. With the help of the easy-to-understand instructions in this book, you’ll learn how to use the editing tools, utilize layers, make one-click fixes, brighten colors, add filters, and beyond.
- Get started with Photoshop Elements and make basic edits in quick mode
- Create different views of an image and use the history panel to find the best version of your image
- Replace backgrounds, merge photos, and do other neat editing tricks
- Understand camera raw to turn your camera’s image data into a stunning photo
This bestselling Dummies guide is the book you need to get started with Elements and learn the insider tips that will give your images that “wow factor.”
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Accidentally Wes Anderson: Accidentaly
Wes Anderson’s beloved films announce themselves through a singular aesthetic – one that seems too vivid, unique, and meticulously constructed to possibly be real. Not so – in Accidentally Wes Anderson, Wally Koval collects the world’s most Anderson-like sites in all their faded grandeur and pop-pastel colours, telling the story behind each stranger than-fiction-location.
Based on the viral online phenomenon and community of the same name, Accidentally Wes Anderson celebrates the unique aesthetic that millions of Anderson fans love – capturing the symmetrical, the atypical, the unexpected, the vibrantly patterned, and distinctively coloured in arresting photographs from around the world.
Authorised by Wes Anderson himself, and appealing to the millions who love his films, this book is also for fans of Cabin Porn and Van Life – and avid travellers and aspiring adventurers of all kinds.
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A Year With My Camera, Book 2: The ultimate photography workshop for complete beginners: Volume 2
This is Book 2 in a 2 part series. *This book is printed in black and white and designed to be written in – more details below; please read the whole description if you are expecting a coffee-table glossy book.* The two A Year With My Camera workbooks accompany the online course of the same name from Emma Davies. You can complete the course just from the workbooks, but if you want to join the online community, find the details at AYearWithMyCamera.com. This is Book 2 in a 2 part series. This is a practical workbook, PRINTED IN BLACK AND WHITE, designed to be written in and picked up every week – not a coffee table book to put on your shelf and never look at. The course is designed to be finished, and this is not a glamorous, well-finished book, it is a rough-and-ready *work* book – it’s for people who want to finally understand their camera, not just read about it. Be warned – there are plenty of photographs and illustrations, but they are NOT COLOUR and they are not fine art quality. Please use the “Look Inside” feature which is enabled – you can see the workbook nature of the book before you buy, and check it is what you are expecting. Book 2 includes: editing advice, using a tripod, landscape photography, travel photography, macro and how to share images online and in print. Do you need to do Book 1 first? If you can shoot confidently on manual mode, understand how the camera exposes for a mid-grey tone, know how to compose an image and understand how the direction and quality of light affects your image, then you don’t need Book 1.Read more
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National Geographic Stunning Photographs
Shot by National Geographic’s most renowned photographers and peppered throughout with inspiring quotations, Stunning Photographs is a vibrant tapestry of images that showcases the medium’s ability to reveal extraordinary moments of wit and discovery, harmony and intimacy, energy and joy. Definitive, striking, and always unstaged, the remarkable pictures in this book will appeal to all who want to enjoy the smorgasbord of colors, textures, and sensations that comprise the fabric of everyday lifeRead more
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British Trash Cinema
BRITISH TRASH CINEMA is the first overview of the wilder shores of British exploitation and cult paracinema from the 1950s onwards. From obscure horror, science fiction and sexploitation, to art-house camp, Hammer’s prehistoric fantasies and the worst British films ever made, author I.Q. Hunter draws on rare archival material and new primary research to take us through the weird and wonderful world of British trash cinema. Beginning by outlining the definitions of trash films and their place in British film history, Hunter explores topics including: Hammer’s overlooked fantasy films, the emergence of the sexploitation film in the 1950s and 60s, the sex industry in the 1970s, Ken Russell’s high camp Gothic and erotic adaptations since the 1980s, gross-out comedies, revenge films, and contemporary straight-to-DVD horror and erotica.Read more
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Magnum Streetwise: The Ultimate Collection of Street Photography
Ambitious in scope, democratic in nature, Magnum Streetwise is an unmissable tour through the photographs and practices that have helped define what street photography is and can be. Magnum photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson pioneered ‘modern’ concepts of street photography before the term was even coined. But their influence is far from historic. A rich seam of street photography runs through the heart of Magnum to this day, both in the work of recognized masters of street photography – such as Erwitt, Parr, Gilden and Kalvar – and of those who might not even consider themselves street photographers; a continued influence that has not gone unnoticed among the current generation of budding street photographers and fans.Magnum Streetwise is a true visual feast, interleaving insightful texts and anecdotes within an intuitive blend of photographer- and theme-based portfolios, exploring not only the work of outstanding photographers, but how common subject matter (places of leisure, marketplaces, travel) and locations (Paris, New York, Tokyo) have been addressed, conceptually and practically, across the agency and through the ages. Magnum Streetwise is an essential addition to the bibliography of street photography, showcasing hidden gems alongside many of the genre’s most famous images.
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Entangled Life (The Illustrated Edition): A beautiful new gift edition featuring 100 illustrations for Christmas 2023
The smash-hit Sunday Times bestseller now illustrated with over 100 spectacular full-colour images, showcasing this wondrous and wildly various lifeform as never before
‘Astonishing … it seems somehow to tip the natural world upside down’ Observer
‘Completely mind-blowing … reads like an adventure story’ Sunday Times
*WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY BOOK PRIZE 2021*
*WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION WRITING 2021*The more we learn about fungi, the less makes sense without them. They can change our minds, heal our bodies and even help us avoid environmental disaster; they are metabolic masters, earth-makers and key players in most of nature’s processes. In Entangled Life, Merlin Sheldrake takes us on a mind-altering journey into their spectacular world, and reveals how these extraordinary organisms transform our understanding of our planet and life itself.
‘Dazzling, vibrant, vision-changing’ Robert Macfarlane
‘Urgent, astounding and necessary’ Helen Macdonald
‘Gorgeous!’ Margaret Atwood (on Twitter)
‘Wonderful’ Nigella Lawson
‘This book is like one surprise after another’ David Byrne
‘Uplifting’ Jeanette Winterson*SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2021*
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021** A Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman, The Times, Evening Standard, Mail on Sunday, BBC Science Focus and Time Book of the Year *
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David Busch’s Nikon D5500 Guide to Digital SLR Photography (The David Busch Camera Guide Series)
David Busch’s Nikon D5500 Guide to Digital Photography is your all-in-one comprehensive resource and reference for the Nikon D5500 camera. This ultracompact and lightweight Nikon digital SLR has a swiveling touch screen LCD that makes taking photos or changing settings quick and easy. The D5500 includes built-in Wi-Fi, so you can use your iOS or Android device to control the camera or upload photos to your phone, tablet, or personal computer. The D5500 captures 24-megapixel still images and 1080p 60 fps high-definition movies with stereo sound, too. With this book in hand, you can fine-tune your camera skills as you explore the world of digital photography, develop your creativity, and take great photographs with your D5500.Filled with detailed how-to steps and full-color illustrations, David Busch’s Nikon D5500 Guide to Digital Photography covers all the camera’s features in depth, from taking your first photos through advanced details of setup, exposure, lens selection, lighting, and more, and relates each feature to specific photographic techniques and situations. Also included is the handy visual guide to the D5500, with close-up photos and descriptions of the camera’s essential features and controls, including the versatile LCD touch screen. Learn when to use each option and, more importantly, when not to use them, by following the author’s recommended settings for every menu entry. With best-selling photographer and mentor David Busch as your guide, you’ll quickly have full creative mastery of your camera’s capabilities, whether you’re shooting on the job, taking shots as an advanced enthusiast, or are just out for fun. Start building your knowledge and confidence, while bringing your vision to light with the Nikon D5500 today.
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Dance Vision: Dance Through the Eyes of Today’s Artists
A breathtaking collection of contemporary photography, sculpture, illustration, and design that celebrates the world of danceThere’s no question that humans have been fascinated by movement and dance for as long as we’ve been creating art, from prehistoric cave drawings to the paintings of Degas. This stunning art anthology brings together a unique collection of 50 renowned contemporary artists from across the globe whose works celebrate, pay tribute to, and are inspired by the dazzling world of dance. From social media stars to international fine art sensations, household names to rule-breaking newcomers, Dance Vision showcases the wondrous diversity of art and dance today. The artists featured within this anthology boast a variety of unique personal perspectives, approaches, and styles that will be sure to delight and mystify dance and art enthusiasts of all ages and backgrounds.Read more
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A Transport Travelogue of Britain by Road, Rail and Water 1948-1972
The Combined Volumeof a set of 6 additions to the best selling Recollections series taking us on a nostalgic tour of Britain during the 1950s, 60s and 70s.Read more
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A Year With My Camera: Workbook Four for Year Two: Weekly photography lessons for intermediate photographers
A Second Year With My Camera picks up where the first year ended and takes you, step by step, through a professional curriculum for intermediate photographers. (Search for “A Year With My Camera” if you haven’t done the first year yet it yet and want the complete beginner’s camera course by the same author – the first two workbooks also make a great gift to give anyone who has just got their first big camera.) These workbooks are designed to be written in. They have pages set aside for you to stick your own images in. They are printed in black and white. Do not buy them if you are expecting a coffee table style photo book – they are more like textbooks.Workbook 4 (this book) includes six monthly projects based on the photography genres of:
– portraits
– events
– action
– macro
– black and white
– doing a “big project”In addition to the genre project itself, each monthly project also incorporates a technical aspect of photography (such as hyperfocal distance or exposure values), a mindset exercise (such as focussed attention and serendipity) and a printing project (for example printing at home and using ICC profiles).
Workbook 3 (the previous book in the series) includes a further six monthly projects:
– still life
– wildlife
– street
– abstract
– long exposures
– colourRead more
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A Year With My Camera: Workbook Three for Year Two: Weekly photography lessons for intermediate photographers
A Second Year With My Camera picks up where the first year ended and takes you, step by step, through a professional curriculum for intermediate photographers. (Search for “A Year With My Camera” if you haven’t done the first year yet it yet and want the complete beginner’s camera course by the same author – the first two workbooks also make a great gift to give anyone who has just got their first big camera.) These workbooks are designed to be written in. They have pages set aside for you to stick your own images in. They are printed in black and white. Do not buy them if you are expecting a coffee table style photo book – they are more like textbooks.Workbook 3 (this book) includes six monthly projects based on the photography genres of:
– still life
– wildlife
– street
– abstract
– long exposures
– colourIn addition to the genre project itself, each monthly project also incorporates a technical aspect of photography (such as hyperfocal distance or exposure values), a mindset exercise (such as focussed attention and serendipity) and a printing project (for example printing at home and using ICC profiles).
Workbook 4 (the next book in the series) includes a further six monthly projects:
– portraits
– events
– action
– macro
– black and white
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Victorian Giants: The Birth of Art Photography
Oscar Rejlander (1813–75), Julia Margaret Cameron (1815–79), Lewis Carroll (1832–98) and Clementina Hawarden (1822–65) embody the very best of photography from the Victorian era. They experimented with new approaches to picture making and shaped attitudes towards photography that have informed artistic practice ever since. Discover the images that made people think about the photograph as a work of art in this beautiful book.The idea of ‘art photography’ is nearly as old as photography itself, but it wasn’t until the 1850s that photographers began to claim fine-‐art status for their work. Debates about photography and its role raged internationally, but it was in England, through the work of Oscar Rejlander, Julia Margaret Cameron, Lewis Carroll and Clementina Hawarden in particular, that the new art found its fullest expression.
These four artists – a Swedish émigré with a mysterious past, a middle-‐aged Ceylonese expatriate, an Oxford academic and writer of fantasy literature, and a Scottish countess – formed the most unlikely of schools. Both Carroll and Cameron studied under Rejlander briefly, and maintained a lasting association based around intersecting approaches to portraiture and narrative. Influenced by historical painting and working in close association with the Pre-‐ Raphaelite brotherhood, they formed a bridge between the art of the past and the art of the future, standing as true giants in Victorian photography.
Separately, Cameron, Carroll, Hawarden and Rejlander produced some of the most spectacular images in history. Divided into three main sections, this book brings together many of these works for the first time, drawing heavily from the National Portrait Gallery Collection. The selection will be enriched with key works from other collections from around the globe. Of special interest is an exploration of historical and contemporary painters and their role in the young fine-‐art-‐photography movement.
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The World Atlas of Street Art
This truly global and visually stunning compendium showcases some of the most breath-taking pieces of street art and graffiti from around the world.Since its genesis on the East Coast of the United States in the late 1960s, street art has travelled to nearly every corner of the globe, morphing into highly ornate and vibrant new styles.
This unique atlas is the first truly geographical survey of urban art, revised and updated in 2023 to include new voices, increased female representation and cities emerging as street art hubs.
Featuring specially commissioned works from major graffiti and street art practitioners, it offers you an insider’s view of the urban landscape as the artists themselves experience it.
Organized geographically, by continent and by city – from New York, Los Angeles and Montreal in North America, through Mexico City and Buenos Aires in Latin America, to London, Berlin and Madrid in Europe, Sydney and Auckland in the Pacific, as well as brand new chapters covering Africa and Asia – it profiles more than 100 of today’s most important artists and features over 700 astonishing artworks.
This beautifully illustrated book, produced with the help of many of the artists it features, dispels the idea of such art as a thoughtless defacement of pristine surfaces, and instead celebrates it as a contemporary and highly creative inscription upon the skin of the built environment.
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How Do I Do That In Photoshop?: The Quickest Ways to Do the Things You Want to Do, Right Now! (2nd Edition)
The simplest, easiest, and quickest ways to learn over 250 Photoshop tips, tricks, and techniques! Scott Kelby, the world s #1 best-selling photography technique books author, is back with a totally updated and revised new edition of his bestselling book How Do I Do That In Photoshop? The first edition of this bestselling book presented an entirely new concept in Photoshop books one that s designed from the ground up to get you straight to whatever it is you need to do in Photoshop right now, get your answer fast, and get you back to editing your images in Photoshop. Thanks to Adobe s incredibly popular Creative Cloud Photography plan, which includes Photoshop and Lightroom, photographers are extending the depth and power of Lightroom by jumping over to Photoshop to do all those things Lightroom just can t do (or Lightroom can do, but in Photoshop, it s faster and easier, or the results are just better). Because Photoshop has so much power and depth, sometimes the things you need are well kinda hidden or not really obvious. There will be a lot of times when you need to get something done in Photoshop, and you know Photoshop can do it (because Photoshop can do just about anything), but you have no idea where Adobe hid that feature, or what the secret handshake is to do that thing you need now so you can get back to working on your images. That s why this book was created: to quickly get you to the technique, the shortcut, the setting, or exactly the right thing you need to do right now. Here s how it works: When you need to know how to do a particular thing, you turn to the chapter where it would be found (Layers, Printing, Fixing Problems, Special Effects, etc.), find the thing you need to do (it s easy, each page covers just one single topic), and Scott tells you exactly how to do it just like he was sitting there beside you, using the same casual style as if he were telling a friend. That way, you get back to editing your images fast. This isn t a book of theory, full of confusing jargon and detailed multi-step concepts. This is a book on which button to click, which setting to use, and exactly how and when to use it, so you re never stuck in Photoshop again. This will be your go to book that sits within reach any time you re working in Photoshop, and you are going to love having this type of help right at your fingertips.Read more
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Canon EOS R50 For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))
Move on from phone snapshots and start making amazing images
Canon EOS R50 For Dummies helps you create superior photo and video content, with step-by-step instructions for how to make the most of this advanced, interchangeable-lens digital camera. You’ll walk through the controls, interface, and accessories of the Canon EOS R50, and you’ll learn the basics of image-making, so you can take impressive shots, even if you’ve never taken a photography class. Let this Dummies guide be your teacher as you learn to take great action shots, stunning portraits, detailed closeups, low-light photos, and professional-looking video.
- Learn your way around the Canon EOS R50 and its settings and controls
- Get familiar with common photography terms and basic techniques
- Start shooting right away with user-friendly instructions on using automatic modes
- Go manual to adjust focus, color, sharpness, and more to get the look you’re after
Photography hobbyists and content creators will love Canon EOS R50 For Dummies, the quick-start guide to the camera built for those looking for superior photo and video results.
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Tony Northrup’s DSLR Book: How to Create Stunning Digital Photography
This book gives you five innovations no other book offers:-Free video training. Watch over 20 hours of fast-paced, hands-on video tutorials integrated into the book to support and reinforce the lessons. View the videos using any web browser or by scanning QR codes with your smartphone.
-Hands-on practices. Complete the practices at the end of every chapter to get the real-world experience you need.
-Practice quizzes. At the end of most chapters you have the option of taking an online quiz to apply what you learned in the chapter and make sure you didn’t miss anything important.
-Classroom support. Join an author led private community of supportive, helpful people who also want to improve their photography.
-Free ebook with lifetime updates. When you buy the book and join the private Stunning Digital Photography readers community, you can download the ebook and copy it to your smartphone or ereader for easy reference. The ebook is regularly updated with new content and videos as new p
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Digital SLR Cameras and Photography For Dummies
The perennial DSLR bestseller―now expanded with more photography tipsDigital SLR Cameras & Photography For Dummies has remained the top-selling book on DSLR photography since the first edition was published. Now in its Fifth Edition, itcovers the latest technologies in the world of DSLR cameras and photography to help you master the techniques that will take your digital photography skills to the next level. Written in plain English and complemented with full-color photos, this hands-on, friendly guide covers the mechanics of the camera; exposure, lenses, and composition; how to capture action, portrait, and low-light shots; editing and sharing images; tips for improving your digital photography skills; and much more.
Digital SLR cameras offer the mechanisms and flexibility of traditional pro-level cameras with the instant results and output of digital cameras. If you’re a proud owner of a DSLR camera and want to take stunning shots that were once only achievable by the pros, this is the guide you need. Written by one of the most recognized authors in digital photography, this accessible resource makes it fast and easy to start capturing professional-quality photos.
- Full-color format helps bring the information to life
- Includes coverage of the latest DSLR cameras to hit the market
- Provides a foundation on exposure settings, file formats, and editing photos
- Offers expanded content on capturing the portraits, action shots, nature shots, and night shots photographers love to take
If you’re interested in capturing more than just a “selfie” and truly want to hone the craft of digital SLR photography, Digital SLR Cameras and Photography For Dummies sets you up for success.
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Creative food photography: How to capture exceptional images of food
Creative Food Photography is for photographers who already know how to shoot in manual mode, who have watched the Youtube videos, googled all things food photography and want MORE – more creativity, more information, more of what’s not on the internet! In this beautiful, inspiring and thoughtful book, food photographer, stylist and photography teacher Kimberly Espinel explores the ways in which food photography can be brought to life, through planning, styling, and the study of natural light. With warmth, passion and gentle encouragement, Kimberly helps you to play with new ideas and grow in confidence as you discover your own unique style. If you’re looking for a highly technical book and want to study artificial light, then this book is may not be the right fit for you. In turn, if you want to delve into your creativity, learn how to put together a professional mood board, understand how to compose your images far beyond the rule of thirds, develop your photographic eye, create images that evoke emotion and learn to style in your own unique way, then this book is for you!Read more
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Wimbledon 2023: The Official Review of The Championships
Wimbledon 2023 – The Official Story of The Championships is the comprehensive, entertaining and beautifully illustrated re-telling of a spell-binding fortnight of tennis at the All England Club.Since 1984 the official ‘annual’ has reviewed in detail each Championships held at Wimbledon and this 39th edition promises to be one of the best yet with the tournament playing host to established stars and exciting emerging talents.
Paul Newman’s crafted text, coupled with the stunning images captured by Wimbledon’s team of award winning photographers, provides readers with a wonderful and comprehensive review of a memorable tournament played out under blue skies and on stunningly green courts.
Following the full story of the tournament, from Qualifying through to the concluding Mixed Doubles final on Centre Court, the book also focuses on some of the other stories and characters that make Wimbledon so colourful and includes daily features and light-hearted stories from the sold out grounds in south west London!
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Sea Pools: 66 saltwater sanctuaries from around the world
A celebration of sea swimming – looking at the architecture, history and social significance of sea pools around the world.
The sea can be challenging and changeable. Protected from the dangers of currents, crashing waves and extreme cold, sea pools (also known as tidal or ocean pools) are manmade pools that provide a safe space for swimmers to enjoy the benefits of the sea at all states of the tide and weather.
Sea Pools begins with an introduction to sea pools within the history of outdoor swimming, their unique designs and architectural significance and commentary on the resurgent appreciation for sea swimming in the 21st century. Chris Romer-Lee selects 66 of the most beautiful and culturally significant sea pools from around the world, including the 25-metre cliffside Avalon Rock Pool in new South Wales, Australia, the sublime Pozo de las Calcosas in Spain that is shrouded in volcanic rock, and Ireland’s historic Vico Baths to name but a few.
Sea Pools also includes four insightful essays: Nicola Larkin looks to the next generation of ocean pools in her exploration of how we can conserve, protect and regenerate the coastline; Therese Spruhan testifies to the healing and transformative benefits of ocean swimming; Freya Bromley discusses her odyssey to swim in every sea pool in Britain; and Kevin Fellingham reflects on the importance of sea pools in South Africa.
The book is illustrated throughout with beautiful colour photography, as well as fascinating archive material to give an insight into the provenance of these vital sanctuaries.
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Around the World in 80 Dishes: Classic Recipes from the World’s Favourite Chefs
David Loftus is one of the world’s leading food photographers: on the road 350 days of the year, camera in hand, shooting top chefs and their wonderful dishes from Battersea to New York to the Bahamas. Now, in Around the World in 80 Dishes, he shares the most delicious cuisine he has come across on his travels: introduced by his close friend Jamie Oliver, eighty recipes from the world’s favourite chefs, many of whom have shared David’s adventures.
Around the World in 80 Dishes features mouthwatering recipes from international chefs and cookery writers including Jamie Oliver, Nigella Lawson, Gennaro Contaldo, Heston Blumenthal and Atul Kochhar. It follows in the footsteps of Phileas Fogg and his famous Grand Tour, taking in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and America, to create a treasure-trove of treats from the four corners of the globe.
Lovingly compiled and beautifully photographed, rich with the stories behind the recipes captured in these pages, this is a dream anthology for committed cooks and amateurs alike. If you love food and travel, and you’ve a hearty appetite for life, warm up the oven, pick a destination and prepare to set off on your own culinary journey.Read more
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Complete Guide to Digital Photography: Ian Farrell
Are you intent on capturing the perfect sunset? A budding photojournalist? Or ready to take your holiday snaps to the next level? The Complete Guide to Digital Photography is your definitive guide to taking, processing and printing sharper, more colourful and better looking pictures.
Ian Farrell’s expert tips take you from the basics of using your camera to advanced darkroom techniques with 52 step-by-step projects including portraits, landscapes, still-life images, fast-moving objects and photographing live events. Introducing you to the latest software and techniques and featuring technical tips, interviews with the professionals, troubleshooting and over 400 inspirational images, the Complete Guide to Digital Photography is the ultimate master class in digital photography.
Contents include: Portrait photography, Landscape photography, Street photography, Nature and wildlife, Dynamic live action, Special effects, Macro photography, Travel photography, Wedding photography, Digital darkroom, Colour management, Sharpening, High dynamic range, Skin smoothing, Printing your images, Making a portfolio, Your first exhibition, Selling your photographs.
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Photography: The Definitive Visual History (DK Definitive Cultural Histories)
This lavish coffee-table book traces the history of photography from the first black and white images to celebrated examples of 21st-century digital photography.
Photography celebrates the most iconic photographs of the past 200 years and includes more than 50 biographies of the most famous photographers, explaining how they pushed the bounds of the medium. It also shows the extraordinary cameras that photographers experimented with, from the daguerreotype to the latest camera phones.
Charting the influence of social and cultural change, as well as the impact of science and technology, this beautiful book follows the history of photographs from the first grainy attempts at portait and landscape photography to gritty photojournalism, street photography, and digital photography, with special features delving into the stories behind photographic images that changed how people saw the world.
Packed with information and full of inspiration, Photography is the perfect photography book for budding photographers, seasoned professionals, and anyone with an interest in the fascinating story of photography.
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A Year With My Camera, Book 1: The ultimate photography workshop for complete beginners: Volume 1
*This book is printed in black and white and designed to be written in – more details below; please read the whole description if you are expecting a coffee-table glossy book.* The two A Year With My Camera workbooks accompany the online course of the same name from Emma Davies. You can complete the course just from the workbooks, but if you want to join the online community, find the details at AYearWithMyCamera.com. This is Book 1 in a 2 part series. This is a practical workbook, PRINTED IN BLACK AND WHITE, designed to be written in and picked up every week – not a coffee table book to put on your shelf and never look at. The course is designed to be finished, and this is not a glamorous, well-finished book, it is a rough-and-ready *work* book – it’s for people who want to finally understand their camera, not just read about it. Be warned – there are plenty of photographs and illustrations, but they are NOT COLOUR and they are not fine art quality. Most people who open this book breathe a sigh of relief, realising they don’t have to learn everything all at once. It’s a very liberating approach to photography. You will start by building the foundations (chapters 1-6), and then, with a solid base to support you, you will grow your creativity and find your personal style (chapters 7-18). Please use the “Look Inside” feature which is enabled – you can see the workbook nature of the book before you buy, and check it is what you are expecting.Read more
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Remarkable Football Grounds: An illustrated guide to the world’s perfect soccer pitches – Shortlisted for 2023 Illustrated Sports Book of the Year
Shortlisted for the 2023 Illustrated Sports Book of the Year
Remarkable Football Grounds is a collection of some of the most memorable places to watch and play football around the world.
Ranging from the stellar stadiums of the Premier League to windswept islands in the Scottish Hebrides or the far-flung Pacific, including stadia that resemble flying saucers, a crocodile and an armadillo! Remarkable Football Grounds features a range of the oldest, biggest, highest, quirkiest and furthest flung stadia and the stories behind their existence. Italian Serie B team Venezia can be reached by canal, with moorings nearby; Bamburgh Castle football ground lies in the shadow of a Game of Thrones-scale fortress, while Estadio Silvestre is a full-size pitch on the roof of a building in Tenerife.
Some of the oldest, storied stadiums are here, including Anfield for Liverpool, Fulham, which has a tunnel under the pitch and the two Dundee football clubs, that have sizeable grounds, Tannadice and Dens Park, just 183 metres (200 yards) apart.
At the quirkier end of the scale, the Aveiro stadium in Portugal looks like a giant children’s playset, while in Gangwon, South Korea, the football pitch doubles as a ski jump landing area.
Many of the stadiums come with spectacular views. The Faroe Islands have produced some strong football teams in the past and many of their grounds are set in picture perfect landscapes. The same can be said of Norway’s Lofoten Islands where flat land is at a premium and the pitch sides are used for drying fish. In Slovakia, the Janosovka football pitch has a narrow gauge railway that runs between the pitch and the grandstand.
Others are located in some of the most dangerous parts of the world. Nobody loves the ‘away’ fixture at Coroico which entails tackling the ‘Death Road’.
Grounds include: the impressive new Qatari World Cup venues, Wembley Stadium, Camp Nou, Monaco, Old Trafford, Allianz Arena, Petrovsky (Zenit St.Petersburg), Trogir in Croatia, Longgang in China and the Mercedes Benz Stadium in Atlanta.
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Kim Jong Il Looking at Things
Comical and bizarre, Kim Jong Il Looking at Things is based upon one of the most followed, shared and imitated monothematic Tumblr blogs in recent years. Created by João Rocha, an art director at an advertising firm in Lisbon, the blog is a collection of photographs which depict the former “Dear Leader” of North Korea, often accompanied by military personnel or senior advisers, engaged in the act of looking at things. Since its creation in October 2010, Rocha has posted photographs appropriated from the North Korean Central News Agency, which he matches with deadpan captions: “looking at cows”; “looking at blue rods”; “looking at pastry”; “looking at a metalworker”; “looking at a DVD labeling machine.” This hilarious book collects a series of the blog’s most memorable photographs and includes an essay by visual culture writer Marco Bohr.Read more
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Nikon Z fc For Dummies
Say cheese! Explore this beginner-friendly guide to digital photography with the Nikon Z fc camera
With a design that looks like an old-school film camera, the Nikon Z fc makes photographers want to grab this very-modern model off the shelf and start taking photos. But if you really want to set your pictures apart from the average snapshot, you need Nikon Z fc For Dummies.
This book takes you on a comprehensive and user-friendly tour of the Nikon Z fc camera, its settings, and all of its automatic and manual options. You’ll learn how to control exposure, take advantage of advanced focusing options, fix color problems, and get the best image quality.
You’ll also get:
- Accessible instruction on tried and tested photography techniques
- Instruction on how to adjust color and exposure settings
- Strategies for when to use your camera’s auto options to when to take full control of settings
Ideal for anyone who wants to get the most out of their Nikon Z fc camera, Nikon Z fc For Dummies covers the photography basics you need to understand to take fantastic pictures along with how to apply those techniques to the Nikon Z fc.
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The Landscape Photography Book: The Step-By-Step Techniques You Need to Capture Breathtaking Landscape Photos Like the Pros: 2
In The Landscape Photography Book, professional photographer and bestselling author Scott Kelby teaches you how to shoot and edit jaw-dropping landscape photographs. Scott covers all you need to know, as he discusses everything from his go-to essential gear to camera settings to the photographic techniques that cover a wide variety of landscape situations and locations. Whether you’re looking to capture a beautiful scene at sunrise, shoot a silky waterfall, create star trails at night, or show an epic location in a sweeping panorama, Scott’s got you covered.
Among many other topics, you’ll learn:
– The best ways to scout locations (including online resources for faraway locations)
– How to meter your scene for the best exposure (and when you should switch to spot metering)
– Where to focus your camera for tack-sharp images from foreground to background
– How to shoot HDR and panoramas (and HDR panos!)
– The best night photography techniques for shooting the Milky Way, strair trails, and light painting
– When and how to use landscape-specific gear and techniques such as ND filters, focus stacking, and Bulb mode
Once the shoot is over, Scott covers his process for editing landscape images. You’ll quickly learn the essential ways to bring out the wow factor in your landscape images–from the basics of white balance and exposure settings to the use of graduated and radial filters, how to make your colors pop, when to convert your image to black and white (and how to do it), and much more.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Essential Gear
Chapter 2: Camera Settings and Lenses
Chapter 3: Techniques
Chapter 4: Composition
Chapter 5: Panos and HDR (and HDR Panos)
Chapter 6: Long Exposure Photography
Chapter 7: Post-Processing
Chapter 8: Landscape Recipes
Chapter 9: Other Gear and Techniques
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The Digital Photography Book: The Step-by-Step Secrets for how to Make Your Photos Look Like the Pros: 1
Learn how to take professional-quality photographs using the same tricks today’s top photographers use (surprisingly, it’s easier than you’d think)!
This is it–the latest version of the #1 best-selling digital photography book ever! It’s the award-winning, worldwide smash hit that has been translated into dozens of different languages, because it’s the one book that really shows you how to take professional-quality shots using the same tricks today’s top pros use (and surprisingly, it’s easier than you’d think).
Here’s how Scott describes this book’s brilliant premise: “If you and I were out on a shoot, and you asked me, ‘Hey, how do I get this flower to be in focus, with the background out of focus?, ‘ I wouldn’t stand there and give you a photography lecture. In real life, I’d just say, ‘Put on a long lens, zoom in tight, set your f-stop at the lowest number you can, focus on the flower, and fire away.’ That’s what this book is all about: you and I out shooting where I answer questions, give you advice, and share the secrets I’ve learned just like I would with a friend–without all the technical explanations and techie photo speak.”
This isn’t a book of theory, full of confusing jargon and detailed concepts. This is a book on which button to push, which setting to use, and when to use it. With more than 200 of the most closely guarded photographic “tricks of the trade,” this book gets you shooting dramatically better-looking, sharper, more colorful, more professional-looking photos every time.
Each page covers a single concept that makes your photography better. Every time you turn the page, you’ll learn another pro setting, tool, or trick to transform your work from snapshots into gallery prints. If you’re tired of taking shots that look “okay,” and if you’re tired of looking in photography magazines and thinking, “Why don’t my shots look like that?” then this is the book for you.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Pro Tips for Getting Sharp Photos
Chapter 2: The Scoop on Lenses
Chapter 3: Shooting Landscapes Like a Pro
Chapter 4: Shooting Travel Like a Pro
Chapter 5: Taking Portraits Like a Pro
Chapter 6: Using Your Flash Like a Pro
Chapter 7: Shooting Weddings Like a Pro
Chapter 8: Shooting Sports Like a Pro
Chapter 9: Shooting Other Stuff Like a Pro
Chapter 10: Pro Tips for Getting Better Photos
Chapter 11: How to Print Like a Pro
Chapter 12: Photo Recipes to Help You Get the ShotRead more
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Peter Lindbergh. On Fashion Photography. 40th Ed.
It was on a Malibu beach in 1988 that Peter Lindbergh shot the White Shirts series, images now known the world over. Simple yet seminal, the photographs introduced us to Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington, Rachel Williams, Karen Alexander, Tatjana Patitz, and Estelle Lefébure. This marked the beginning of an era that redefined beauty, and Lindbergh would go on to alter the landscape of fashion photography for the decades that followed. This edition gathers more than 300 images from forty years of Lindbergh’s career. It traces the German photographer’s cinematic inflections and humanist approach, which produced images at once seductive and introspective. In 1980 Rei Kawakubo asked Lindbergh to shoot a Commes des Garçons campaign, one of his earlier forays into commercial photography. Kawakubo gave him carte blanche. The following years brought forth collaborations with the most venerated names in fashion and resulted in a relationship of mutual reverence; Lindbergh’s respect for some of the greatest designers of our time is palpable in his portraits. Among those photographed are Azzedine Alaïa, Giorgio Armani, Alber Elbaz, John Galliano, Jean Paul Gaultier, Karl Lagerfeld, Thierry Mugler, Yves Saint Laurent, Jil Sander, and Yohji Yamamoto. Widely considered a pioneer in his field, Lindbergh shirked the industry standards of beauty and instead celebrated the essence and individuality of his subjects. He was pivotal to the rise of models such as Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Cindy Crawford, Mariacarla Boscono, Lara Stone, Claudia Schiffer, Amber Valletta, Nadja Auermann, and Kristen McMenamy. Lindbergh’s reach also extended across Hollywood and beyond: Cate Blanchett, Charlotte Rampling, Richard Gere, Isabelle Huppert, Nicole Kidman, Madonna, Brad Pitt, Catherine Deneuve, and Jeanne Moreau all appear in his works. From the picture chosen by Anna Wintour as the cover of her first Vogue issue to the legendary shot of Tina Turner on the Eiffel Tower, it is never the clothes, celebrity, or glamour that takes center stage in a Lindbergh photograph. Each picture conveys the humanity of its subject with a serene melancholy that is uniquely and unmistakably Lindbergh. From the outset of his career, Lindbergh was well-known in the contemporary art world, where his photographs were exhibited in galleries long before they appeared in magazines. This edition features an updated introduction adapted from an interview in 2016, allowing a glimpse behind Lindbergh’s lens, where the photographer recounts his early collaborations, the tenuous relationship between commercial and fine art, and the power of storytelling.
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Best Business Practices for Photographers, Second Edition
A follow-up to the successful and acclaimed Best Business Practices for Photographers, this updated and expanded edition serves as an even more comprehensive guide to achieving financial success and personal satisfaction in your business as a photographer. Included in this new edition are sections on licensing your work, making the career change from a staff photographer to a freelancer, surviving an IRS audit, and more. This book includes best practices in interacting with clients, negotiating contracts and licenses, and business operations. Best Business Practices for Photographers, Second Edition: is the key to a successful career in photography.Read more
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John Hedgecoe’s New Introductory Photography Course
An updated edition with hundreds of new photographs, information on the latest equipment, and projects reflecting today’s interests. Practical guidance is given on using today’s cameras and processing and printing photographs.Read more
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Isle of Man Transport: A Colour Journey in Time: Steam Railways, Ships, and Road Services Buses
This stunning selection of colour views, dating from the period 1953-1980, includes most of the vessels operated during this period by the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company and The Ramsey Steamship Company. Passenger boats and freighters are seen at ports on the island and on the mainland. There is comprehensive coverage of the Peel, Ramsey and Port Erin lines operated by the Isle of Man Railway with some outstanding views taken during the 1950s, together with excellent portraits of most of the locomotives, as well carriages, vans, wagons, lorries, stations, staff and signal boxes. Also covered are Douglas Station and its environs, St John’s junction and the Sunday ‘specials’ to Braddan. Many of the rich mix of bus types operated by the railway subsidiary, Isle of Man Road Services, are seen in a variety of locations. Included are some of the vehicles delivered just before and shortly after the Second World War. There are good views of the fascinating Ramsey Pier Tramway and its unusual rolling stock, as well as rare scenes taken as early as 1953 on the Groudle Glen Railway. For anyone who loves the Isle of Man and its wealth of vintage transport, this book provides a remarkable trip down memory lane and a colourful reminder of some of its lost glories. The book is dedicated to the memory of John McCann who took brilliant colour views on the island starting in 1953.Read more
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