Category: Digital Photography

As images grew as an artwork shape, so did the know-how that sponsored it up. specifically, lights types replaced to mirror either the advancing expertise and the altering social mores of every decade. As style and society replaced, so did images. relocating from the 1910s to the Nineteen Sixties, Christopher gray walks readers step by step via a number of shoots designed to emulate the lights kinds of each one interval, supplying functional suggestions in addition to a heritage of portrait photography.

within the electronic age, offering a photograph in black and white is an intentional aesthetic and artistic selection. during this visible consultant, popular photographer Harold Davis introduces you to the attention-grabbing international of black and white photography.

When making a monochromatic photograph, a photographer must pre-visualize the picture in black and white---which could be a daunting job in our vibrantly coloured international. how are you going to realize a chance for a gorgeous black and white snapshot? and the way does taking a monochromatic photo range from shooting a full-color photograph? this booklet will train you.

-- discover ways to see and imagine in black and white
-- Convert uncooked documents to black and white
-- Use complete colour info to create black and white photographs in LIghtroom and Photoshop
-- Create monochromatic photographs utilizing multi-RAW processing and HDR
-- the right way to observe tinting, firming, and different designated effects

It was once that the single people who wanted professional-looking headshots have been actors and versions, yet now due to fb, Twitter, LinkedIn, and social media generally, headshots are sizzling! they have by no means been extra well known than they're this day, and Peter Hurley's special headshot type and trademark glance have made him the main sought-after headshot photographer on the earth this day. here is your probability to benefit precisely easy methods to create "the glance" that everybody's after.

 

This is bankable stuff! in case you are now not including headshots to what you supply as a photographer, you are leaving handsome profit at the desk. Peter understands first-hand the secrets and techniques not to in basic terms lighting fixtures your headshots like a professional (there's a complete bankruptcy on that alone), yet during this booklet he unearths, within the exact same style that made him a recognized identify with photographers in every single place, how he will get real expressions and quite flattering positioning that would make your consumers glance greater than they ever have in any photo—period!

 

It's all the following: he indicates you his positioning innovations, his secrets and techniques for buying real smiles and pictures that glance so typical you will not think they are posed (but in fact, they are), and you may examine the exact same options that Peter makes use of to create notable headshots for everybody from pros at best Fortune 500 businesses, to Silicon Valley startups, to actors and public figures who understand all too good how very important a great-looking headshot quite is.

 

Peter does not carry something again. He unearths all his tips of the exchange, from his trademark lights glance, to find out how to create handsome backgrounds on situation, to positioning tips you will not pay attention anyplace else, and it is all written in Peter's enjoyable, quirky, inspiring kind that allows you to understand, correct from the start, you are able to do this, and you may do that large! those are the options that Peter has made from years in entrance of the lens, as a version for high manufacturers like Abercrombie & Fitch and wager, and years at the back of the lens, giving him an perception few photographers will ever own, and he is keen to proportion each piece of it—every trick, each approach, and each nuance—in this e-book that might pay for itself at your very subsequent shoot. convinced, it truly is that sturdy.

Everything you must learn about your new N1 camera!

Portable and whole colour, this advisor is jam-packed with every thing you will have and want to grasp so that it will take notable images utilizing your new Nikon digital camera N1. Veteran writer J. Dennis Thomas walks you thru the basic controls, good points, and capabilities of the N1 utilizing step by step directions and offering full-color photographs of every menu display. you are going to easy methods to regulate white stability, autofocus, and publicity in addition to pick out lens and alter settings. The convenient trim measurement permits this advisor to move the place you pass, permitting you quick access to info speedy so that you can get the precise shot you will want for those who wish it.

• Helps you're making the main of your digicam N1 and get the pictures you want
• Features important perception from a profitable expert photographer for shooting specific and noteworthy portrait, candid, motion, go back and forth, activities, and different shots
• Provides step by step motives on strategies and suggestions, all geared toward getting you cozy and assured together with your camera

Go past the elemental handbook and the traditional settings and notice what your digicam N1 can do with Camera N1 electronic box Guide!

during this e-book, David Pereira leads you on an edifying and encouraging trip into the depths of the HDR photographer’s electronic darkroom. via his lucid, intensive, and step by step tutorials on HDR, you'll fast grasp the basic constituents of professional-looking HDR pictures, whereas studying the right way to surmount the typical pitfalls of HDR images that stymie so much newbies. the superior HDR courses resembling Photomatix and HDR Efex are mentioned intimately. moreover, complete chapters dedicated to tutorials on picture manipulation through layers in Photoshop will remodel you right into a grasp electronic artist, in a position to harnessing the ability of Photoshop, no matter if you haven't any past wisdom of it. Separate chapters at the intricacies of Composition and colour idea will type you right into a consummate photographer, in a position to framing landscapes with a photographer’s eye for max evocative strength. eventually, a complete bankruptcy is dedicated to the nuances of colour administration, in order that your prints fit what you notice on-screen. To most sensible it off, the entire uncooked photos utilized by the writer to create HDR photos can be found for obtain on his web site, http://www.pixelsandpaintstrokes.com.

Photoshop is the cornerstone of the portraits and knowing its 3D functions is changing into a demand for photograph designers, photographers, and creatives alike.

Starting with the basic instruments and finishing with complicated assets, Adobe neighborhood specialist Stephen Burns publications you with a transparent voice and inventive routines that motivate you to paintings as you learn. followed through a free app that comes with video tutorials, interactive types to match your job paintings from the booklet opposed to, and on-going updates concerning the most recent Photoshopreleases, this booklet will bring up your paintings off the web page and right into a new international of chances.

(The app is on the market for the iPad and iPhone within the iTunes App shop, and Android clients can locate it via Google Play. simply look for 3D Photoshop on both of those structures and obtain it on your device.)

 

 

Master Nikon's first mirrorless digital camera with this full-color guide

The Nikon 1 is a innovative new pocket-size digital camera line that packs the facility of a electronic SLR right into a smaller physique. This easy-to-follow consultant covers either the J1 and V1 types, displaying you the entire modes and services of every and the way to take advantage of them. Illustrated with full-color pictures to teach what you could in attaining, it explores the entire controls, various lenses, automobile and video taking pictures modes, and the way you could take artistic regulate of your photos.

It additionally teaches you which of them layout to take advantage of, how one can arrange and deal with your photographs, and the way to get great photographs of individuals, landscapes, motion, and more.

• This consultant through major images teacher Julie Adair King offers a whole creation to utilizing the hot Nikon 1 J1 and V1 models
• Covers all of the digicam controls and the way to exploit them, lenses, automobile and video modes, and the way to take keep watch over of publicity, colour, and lighting
• Explains tips on how to get photographs from the digicam to the pc, deal with your picture documents, and make simple edits
• Full-color illustrations convey the nice results you could achieve

Nikon 1 J1/V1 For Dummieshelps you get the main from Nikon's new mirrorless camera.

• Praktisches Expertenwissen für farbverbindliche Fotos
• Messgeräte und andere Farbmanagement-Tools gezielt einsetzen
• Monitor, Kamera, Scanner und Drucker profilieren

In jedem fotografischen Workflow sollte Farbmanagement eine Selbstverständlichkeit sein, damit Sie als Fotograf Ihre Farben für den Druck in den Griff bekommen.

Nach einer Einführung in die Grundlagen des Farbmanagements stellt Ihnen Thomas Hoppe die nötigen Hilfsmittel für die Kalibrierung und Profilierung von Monitoren und Druckern vor. Im großen Praxisteil demonstriert er Schritt für Schritt alle Arbeitsgänge mit so unterschiedlichen Farbmanagement-Tools wie x·rite i1 Profiler oder Eizo ColorNavigator 6. Er zeigt Ihnen deren praktische Handhabung und gibt Ihnen zugleich konkrete Hilfestellung bei der Bedienung, sodass Sie auf dieser foundation entscheiden können, welche software program Ihren eigenen Arbeitsvorstellungen am nächsten kommt.

Zudem erhalten Sie umfangreiche Informationen zum Farbmanagement-Workflow mit professioneller software program wie Photoshop, Lightroom, seize One professional, SilverFast, VueScan und Adobe digicam uncooked sowie viele unterschiedliche Profi-Tipps zu z.B. Weißabgleich oder der Hauttonwiedergabe.

Freuen Sie sich auf farbgetreue Bilder von der Bearbeitung bis zum fertigen Druck.

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Aus dem Inhalt:

• Grundlagen des Farbmanagements: Sehen, Farbe, Profiltechnik und Workflows
• Messgeräte und Hilfsmittel
• Profilierung von video display, Scanner und Kamera
• Besondere Tipps zum Weißabgleich und zur Eventfotografie
• Kameraprofiloptimierungen mit dem Schwerpunkt der Qualitätsverbesserung in der Hauttonwiedergabe
• Profilierung des Druckers und anderer Ausgabegeräte
• Arbeiten mit software program von basICColor, datacolor, x·rite, LaserSoft, VueScan sowie Eizo und NEC
• Farbmanagement und software program: trap One professional, Lightroom, Adobe digital camera uncooked (ACR), Design-Programme der artistic Cloud, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign

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Über den Autor:

Thomas Hoppe ist Medienpädagoge und als freiberuflicher Fotograf tätig. Seine Schwerpunkte sind die enterprise- und Werbefotografie. Über mehrere Jahre hat er ein exertions betrieben und sowohl Fotoprints als auch superb paintings Drucke für Fotokünstler, Fotografen und Museen erstellt - alles natürlich komplett farbmanagementgesteuert.

In her lengthy occupation as Product Evangelist for Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom, Julieanne Kost has taught millions of electronic photographers tips on how to get the main out of Adobe's electronic imaging software program, in seminars, shows, and weblog posts starting from nuts-and-bolts tips and tips to inspirational tutorials on growing refined creative results. As Lightroom has grown into the most appropriate picture association and enhancing device for photographers, she is usually requested by means of her scholars and different enthusiasts to stipulate her personal Lightroom workflow in a booklet. this can be that book!

 

Using her personal attractive photos because the start line, Julieanne stocks her operating tools with the reader, ranging from the preliminary proposal for a photograph venture, carrying on with via making plans and executing the shoots, and spending the majority of the time describing the post-capture workflow: organizing the photographs in Lightroom, acting easy and complicated edits, off-loading photographs to Photoshop for specified reasons, then packaging the undertaking for ebook and distribution as a publication, slideshow, or internet site.

 

Readers will achieve the advantage of Julieanne's lengthy and deep adventure with either Lightroom and Photoshop in addition to her sophisticated artist's sensibility. The ebook deftly combines functional information regarding operating with the digicam and laptop, yet less than Julieanne's counsel the sensible is usually provided within the provider of retaining and assisting the photographer's imaginative and prescient for the general project.

 

There are different books on utilizing Lightroom to catalog and edit photographs, yet they generally tend to be general-purpose manuals that disguise any and all kinds of pictures and makes use of. This booklet makes a speciality of these ideas and workflows that Julieanne unearths most valuable for her personal photographic tasks; as a result a chain of pictures shot from the window of a relocating motor vehicle facing quite a few landscapes at assorted occasions of the yr.

 

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With over 800 of the main heavily guarded photographic “tricks of the trade,” this boxed set—consisting of all 4 components of Scott Kelby’s best-selling sequence, The electronic images Book—is the final word source for anyone who desires to shoot dramatically better-looking, sharper, extra colourful, extra professional-looking pictures each time.

Scott Kelby, the fellow who replaced the “digital darkroom” perpetually together with his groundbreaking, best-selling The Photoshop publication for electronic Photographers, now tackles crucial part of electronic photography—how to take professional-quality pictures utilizing a similar tips today’s most sensible electronic professionals use (and it’s more uncomplicated than you think). those aren’t books of thought, choked with complicated jargon and distinct options. those are books on which button to push, which environment to take advantage of, and whilst to take advantage of it. every one web page covers a unmarried thought on the way to make your images greater. at any time when you switch the web page, you’ll study one other seasoned surroundings, software, or trick to rework your paintings from snapshots into gallery prints. If you’re bored with pictures that glance “okay,” and if you’re bored with taking a look in images magazines and considering, “Why don’t my photographs appear like that?” then those are the books for you.