Digital Photography Pocket Guide, Third Edition (Pocket Reference (O'Reilly))

Digital Photography Pocket Guide, Third Edition (Pocket Reference (O'Reilly)) Review

Even film diehards have a tough time resisting the instant gratification of the digital camera. Today's digital cameras are more affordable then ever before, and they deliver high quality images that are a snap to share. Plus, you can take risks with a digital camera you never would with a film camera. You waste nothing; there's no film required, and because you only print the pictures you need, digital photography is cost effective and environmentally friendly.

But to take full advantage of a digital camera, you need to be an experienced photographer and an expert at digital photography too. With more than 15 years of experience as a photojournalist, author Derrick Story brings you Digital Photography Pocket Guide, 3rd Edition. For everyone who owns or will own a digital camera (and that pretty much means everyone!), this is the perfect on-the-go guide for taking top-notch digital photos.

In this third edition of the bestselling pocket guide, Story expands on the basic photography techniques that he introduced in earlier editions, including an explanation of each camera component and what it does, tips for choosing just the right settings for your needs, and much more. This indispensable guide covers everything from how to shoot sports action, close ups, and night shots, to dealing with image resolution, archiving, and memory cards.

Affordable and portable, Digital Photography Pocket Guide, 3rd Edition offers full-color photographs, screen shots, and line art illustrating all the topics in the guide's three main sections ("Digital Camera Components," "Standard Camera Functions," and "How Do I?"). Contents are labeled A to Z for quick reference. There's also a comprehensive table of contents and index so you'll waste no time flipping to the specific information you need--whether you want to transfer images, make a QuickTime movie, or just figure out what purpose that mystery setting on your camera serves. There's even a section of easy-to-read reference tables for quick look-up of white balance settings, exposure compensation, camera mode explanations, and plenty more.

LED Lighting: Professional Techniques for Digital Photographers

LED Lighting: Professional Techniques for Digital Photographers Review

Accessible for professionals and hobbyists alike, this guide helps photographers navigate the transition from traditional flash and hot lights to light-emitting diode (LED) lights, the hottest new trend in lighting technology. The arrival of cost effective LED lights has facilitated radical advances in photographic science and required photographers to change the way they use lighting. This book explains how these innovations have influenced conventional light theory and offers a seamless transition from old lighting technologies to new ones. It demystifies the process of choosing the right LED light for projects, presents common sense methods for using LEDs, and offers suggestions for achieving the perfect lighting color and balance. In addition, numerous examples using a range of LED lights provide instruction on how to use them in still life images, portraits, and even moving pictures. Using the tools in this handy reference, visual artists can invent new styles unencumbered by the limits imposed by standard light sources.

Christopher Grey's Lighting Techniques for Beauty and Glamour Photography: A Guide for Digital Photographers

Christopher Grey's Lighting Techniques for Beauty and Glamour Photography: A Guide for Digital Photographers Review

Incorporating several categories of beauty photography—maternity, fitness, boudoir, Maxim style, Goth glamour, and fetish glamour—this guide describes the artistic and technical nuances of each genre while teaching posing and compositional techniques. Explaining how to choose popular lights and modifiers, the guide helps novice and professional photographers create stunning portraits with mood and personality that highlight the most desirable aspects of the subject. A series of case studies from portrait sessions and detailed diagrams for recreating the shots are also included.

Build your photo business by teaching digital photography.(Viewpoint): An article from: Photo Marketing

Build your photo business by teaching digital photography.(Viewpoint): An article from: Photo Marketing Review

This digital document is an article from Photo Marketing, published by Photo Marketing Association International on October 1, 2003. The length of the article is 1258 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Build your photo business by teaching digital photography.(Viewpoint)
Author: Chris Lydle
Publication:Photo Marketing (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2003
Publisher: Photo Marketing Association International
Volume: 78 Issue: 10 Page: 6(2)

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2009 U.S. Photography Studios Industry Report

2009 U.S. Photography Studios Industry Report Review

The U.S. Photography Studios Industry report, published annually by Barnes Reports, contains timely and accurate industry statistics, forecasts and demographics. The report features 2009 current and 2010 forecast estimates on the size of the industry (sales, establishments, employment) nationally and for all 50 U.S. States and over 900 metro areas. The report also includes industry definition, 5-year historical trends on industry sales, establishments and employment, a breakdown of establishments, sales and employment by employee size of establishment (9 categories), and estimates on up to 10 sub-industries, including photographic studios, school photographers and still and video photographers.

Minimalist Lighting: Professional Techniques for Studio Photography

Minimalist Lighting: Professional Techniques for Studio Photography Review

Photographers learn how to create amazing photography with this simple, basic, money-saving approach to working in the studio. While exploring available lighting and equipment, this reference tackles the concerns of studio photographers regarding too much gear, not enough space, and a strict budget and offers alternative techniques for photographing subjects. Tips for how to set up a studio in a limited amount of space, what kind of equipment works best for different effects, and finding great tools for budget prices make this a truly comprehensive reference.

Professional Portrait Retouching Techniques for Photographers Using Photoshop (Voices That Matter)

Professional Portrait Retouching Techniques for Photographers Using Photoshop (Voices That Matter) Review

Each year, Scott Kelby, Editor-in-Chief of Photoshop User magazine and the #1 best-selling Photoshop author, trains literally thousands of photographers on how to retouch portraits using Photoshop through his live seminars, online classes, DVDs, and standing-room only workshops at the Photoshop World Conference & Expo. Now you can learn the same techniques he uses in his own retouching workflow, in the only book of its kind–one written expressly for photographers who do their own retouching.

As a pro photographer himself, Scott understands that photographers make their living shooting, not retouching. But, delivering fully retouched images is now expected by clients. That’s why Scott put together this amazing resource for teaching photographers the quickest, easiest, and most effective ways to create professional-looking, retouched final images without spending hours grinding away at painstaking, detailed techniques.

LEARN HOW THE PROS DO IT

It’s all here–the step-by-step methods for fixing, enhancing, and finishing your portraits in Photoshop. Using the techniques in this book, you’ll create images that will absolutely wow your clients. You’ll learn:
• How to soften skin and still retain detail and texture

• The best tricks for beautifully enhancing eyes, eyebrows, and eyelashes

• How to selectively sharpen portraits without complicated masking

• How to create gorgeous-looking lips

• How to remove blemishes fast and keep the most detail

• The pros’ tricks for body sculpting

• How to make your subject’s hair look fabulous

• How to give your retouches that natural look that sets them apart

• Plus, you get Scott’s complete 5-minute, 15-minute, and 30-minute start-to-finish workflows

If you’re ready to learn the “tricks of the trade”–the same ones that today’s leading pro photographers use to retouch, tuck, tighten, and tone their images for that pro-retouched look–you’re holding the book that will do exactly that. It will radically change the way you retouch your portraits from here on out, and give you the best-looking, most natural retouches you’ve ever done.

Posing for Portrait Photography: A Head-to-Toe Guide

Posing for Portrait Photography: A Head-to-Toe Guide Review

Photographers learn how to gauge the needs of their clients before placing them into a stale, preconceived “women’s,” “men’s,” or “children’s” pose that hardly fits the client’s personality or preferences. Provided with a two-pronged approach to fail-safe posing, photographers learn first to determine what the mood of the portrait should be and how to use an appropriate posing genre—traditional, casual, glamour, or journalistic. Photographers are then shown how that genre can be used as a basis to produce a pose that best suits the client, allowing them to create dynamic yet natural-looking pose that the subject—and the intended recipient—will love.

Digital Alchemy: Printmaking techniques for fine art, photography, and mixed media (Voices That Matter)

Digital Alchemy: Printmaking techniques for fine art, photography, and mixed media (Voices That Matter) Review

In Digital Alchemy, acclaimed printmaker Bonny Pierce Lhotka shows how to turn your standard inkjet printer into a seemingly magical instrument capable of transforming your printed images into true works of art. Using plenty of visuals and straightforward terms, Lhotka walks you step-by-step through over a dozen projects. Forget printing on boring old paper, in Digital Alchemy, you’ll learn how to transfer and print images to a variety of surfaces including metal, wood, fabric, stone, and plastic using the techniques Lhotka’s spent years developing.

If you’re a photographer looking for new ways to personalize your work or a digital artist who’s ready to take your work to the next level, you’ll find all of the tools, techniques, and inspiration you need in this book. Lhotka’s enthusiasm for experimenting with unusual printing materials and processes has led her to create new and amazing transfer techniques, including one that resembles a Polaroid™ transfer on steroids. She also shows you how to make prints using unexpected, everyday materials such as hand sanitizer and gelatin. You’ll even learn direct printing, the technique for sending your custom substrate through your printer almost as if it were paper.

In Digital Alchemy, you’ll learn how to:

• Transfer images to metal, wood, plastic, and other materials that will not feed through an inkjet printer
  

• Print directly on metal for a fraction of the cost of using a print service
  

• Simulate a print from an expensive UV flatbed printer using an inexpensive desktop printer
  

• Use carrier sheets and paintable precoats to print on almost any surface
  

• Achieve near-lithographic quality digital prints with transfer processes to uncoated fine art paper
  

In addition to the tutorials in the book, you can watch Lhotka in action on the included DVD-ROM, which has over 60 minutes of video footage where you’ll learn how to perform an alcohol gel transfer, transfer an image to a wooden surface, use your inkjet printer to achieve remarkable prints, and more. Simply insert the DVD-ROM into your computer's DVD drive. Note, this DVD-ROM will not work in TV DVD players.

Master Lighting Guide for Portrait Photographers

Master Lighting Guide for Portrait Photographers Review

Time-tested lighting strategies that will improve the quality of a portrait are detailed in this book for beginning photographers. Terminology used by industry pros is explained, the equipment needed to create professional results is outlined, and the unique role that each element of the lighting setup plays in the studio is explored. Photographers learn how color, direction, form, and contrast affect the final portrait. The concise text, photo examples, and lighting diagrams enable photographers to easily achieve traditional lighting styles that have been the basis of good portraiture since the advent of the art.

WildScapes bringing the outside in. (Focus Small Business).(Brief Article): An article from: Mississippi Business Journal

WildScapes bringing the outside in. (Focus Small Business).(Brief Article): An article from: Mississippi Business Journal Review

This digital document is an article from Mississippi Business Journal, published by Venture Publications on July 8, 2002. The length of the article is 804 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: WildScapes bringing the outside in. (Focus Small Business).(Brief Article)
Author: Elizabeth Kirkland
Publication:Mississippi Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 8, 2002
Publisher: Venture Publications
Volume: 24 Issue: 27 Page: 22(1)

Article Type: Brief Article

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Hollywood Studios Press Photos and Official Portraits of Stars and Legends in the Twenties and Thirties. Vol.II (The United States in the Twenties and Thirties) (Spanish Edition)

Hollywood Studios Press Photos and Official Portraits of Stars and Legends in the Twenties and Thirties. Vol.II (The United States in the Twenties and Thirties) (Spanish Edition) Review

Volume 2. A superb photos album of Hollywood’s legends, icons, divas, superstars and motion pictures greatest names (The famous, the immortal and forgotten), in the twenties and thirties, taken directly from the vaults and archives of Hollywood’s studios and legendary photographers of the era. Hundreds upon hundreds of rare, vintage photos signed by the stars, and rare portraits of the legends that would enrich any treasured collection!! A true gem of the golden era of the silver screen. See the superstars as they REALLY looked when they started their careers, and their glamorous headshots as publicized by Hollywood’s studios. A MASSIVE set of 3 volumes.
Author’s website: www.maximilliendelafayettebibliography.com

Digital wedding portrait studio sells quality, not speed: high-end clients receive reproduction rights in contract.(Feature)(Jeff Hawkins Photography): An article from: Photo Marketing

Digital wedding portrait studio sells quality, not speed: high-end clients receive reproduction rights in contract.(Feature)(Jeff Hawkins Photography): An article from: Photo Marketing Review

This digital document is an article from Photo Marketing, published by Photo Marketing Association International on February 1, 2004. The length of the article is 1541 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: Digital wedding portrait studio sells quality, not speed: high-end clients receive reproduction rights in contract.(Feature)(Jeff Hawkins Photography)
Author: Larry Thall
Publication:Photo Marketing (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 2004
Publisher: Photo Marketing Association International
Volume: 79 Issue: 2 Page: 33(2)

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All-digital school portrait studio boosts services and sales: image capture is a breeze, post-production more challenging. (Profile).: An article from: Photo Marketing

All-digital school portrait studio boosts services and sales: image capture is a breeze, post-production more challenging. (Profile).: An article from: Photo Marketing Review

This digital document is an article from Photo Marketing, published by Photo Marketing Association International on July 1, 2003. The length of the article is 1369 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: All-digital school portrait studio boosts services and sales: image capture is a breeze, post-production more challenging. (Profile).
Author: Larry Thall
Publication:Photo Marketing (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2003
Publisher: Photo Marketing Association International
Volume: 78 Issue: 7 Page: 2(2)

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David Busch's Canon EOS 60D Guide to Digital SLR Photography

David Busch's Canon EOS 60D Guide to Digital SLR Photography Review

David Busch's Canon EOS 60D Guide to Digital SLR Photography Feature

• Shows readers how to master all the features and functions of the EOS 60D, Canon's replacement camera for the 50D model
• Clear instructions that cover the how, why and when and beautiful, full-color images will quickly help readers get familiar and comfortable with their camera
• Written by working photographer and #1 best-selling camera guide author who understands digital photography with digital single lens reflex cameras

The 60D is Canon's new, sophisticated yet affordable advanced dSLR, featuring 18 megapixel resolution, an articulated color LCD, super fast continuous shooting frame rates, and an advanced exposure metering system. As the owner of the Canon EOS 60D you demand the ability to take outstanding pictures with your new camera, and want to learn how quickly. DAVID BUSCH'S CANON EOS 60D GUIDE TO DIGITAL SLR PHOTOGRAPHY shows you how, when, and most importantly why, to use all the cool features, controls, and functions of the 60D to take great photographs of anything. Introductory chapters will help you get comfortable with the basics of your camera before you dive right into exploring creative ways to apply flash synchronization options, choose a lens, and fine-tune exposure. Beautiful, full-color images illustrate where the essential buttons and dials are, so you'll quickly learn how to use your 60D, and use it like a pro!

Heavenly Viewpoint Helps Assess Claims.(Property Loss Research Bureau's Catastrophe Services offers satellite images of disasters)(Brief Article): An ... & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management

Heavenly Viewpoint Helps Assess Claims.(Property Loss Research Bureau's Catastrophe Services offers satellite images of disasters)(Brief Article): An ... & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management Review

This digital document is an article from National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, published by The National Underwriter Company on October 23, 2000. The length of the article is 984 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: Heavenly Viewpoint Helps Assess Claims.(Property Loss Research Bureau's Catastrophe Services offers satellite images of disasters)(Brief Article)
Author: Alex Maurice
Publication:National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 23, 2000
Publisher: The National Underwriter Company
Volume: 104 Issue: 43 Page: 9

Article Type: Brief Article

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The Photographer's Blogging Book: The Easy Way To Build Your Blog and Start Attracting Traffic To Fill Your Photography Business With Customers

The Photographer's Blogging Book: The Easy Way To Build Your Blog and Start Attracting Traffic To Fill Your Photography Business With Customers Review

Are you using the Internet in the best way possible to find customers for your photography business?

Things have changed over the past few years in the marketing world. While traditional marketing tools can still be used to find clients, increasingly people are turning online to find, connect and hire their photographers. And if you aren’t there – your competition will be.

In The Photographer’s Blogging Book, professional photographer Lori Osterberg reveals the secrets to becoming a successful blogger in your chosen photographic niche. Inside this guide, you’ll discover:

* How to set up your blog the right way
* Tools and resources to give your blog more functionality
* Blog writing tips on how to attract readers
* Selling techniques
* Secrets of successful bloggers
* And more

Whether you are looking for a new way to market your photography business, or are expanding and want a new, fresh way to make money with your photography online, this book will be your reference guide into the world of blogging.