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This one-stop practical guide will show you how to make the most of your digital photos. To make your progress easier, it comes in a handy format with colour photos and expert advice throughout. Over three billion digital photos are sitting on hard discs in the UK alone - yet the potential they contain remains largely unfulfilled, and many are in danger of being lost forever if a computer crashes. This is the next step for digital photographers: they...
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DISCOVER THE INS AND OUTS OF LEARNING PHOTOGRAPHY!
Here Is A Preview Of What You'll Learn...
PICKING OUT THE RIGHT CAMERA
THE RULES OF COMPOSITION
COLOUR AND LIGHTING
EDITING YOUR PHOTOS
LEVELING AND LAYERS
THE ORTON EFFECT
FIXING COMMON PROBLEMS WITH YOUR PHOTOS
MUCH, MUCH, MORE!
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The Pencil of Nature by H. Fox Talbot. "the first commercially published book illustrated with photographs"The little work now presented to the Public is the first attempt to publish a series of plates or pictures wholly executed by the new art of Photogenic Drawing, without any aid whatever from the artist's pencil. The term “Photography” is now so well known, that an explanation of it is perhaps superfluous; yet, as some persons may still be...
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From the creation of the QWERTY keyboard to the world's first portable typing machine, this handsome collection is a visual homage to the golden age of the typewriter. From the world's first commercially successful typewriter-the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer of 1874-to the iconic electric models of the 1960s, eighty vintage devices are profiled in elegant photographs and fascinating text that highlights the design modifications, intricate details,...
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* ¿Cómo se puede alcanzar y potenciar la creatividad en fotografía?
* El célebre escritor y fotógrafo Michael Freeman nos descubre el concepto del acceso (cómo acercarse al sujeto, cómo conseguir el mejor ángulo, la mejor oportunidad, la imagen perfecta) y nos muestra cómo aplicarlo en una amplia variedad de géneros fotográficos.
* A través de diversos ejemplos de algunos de los fotógrafos más reconocidos a nivel mundial, este libro...
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As they set off for Madagascar in 2003, photographer Max Pam and writer Stephen Muecke adopted as their guiding principle the idea of contingency-central to which is the conscious embrace of risk and chance. In doing so, they established a new aesthetic in which image and text are inextricably linked to the notion of possibility. This stunning collection of photos and essays is the result of their vision, collectively illustrating the beauty and wisdom...
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* La diferencia entre este libro y la mayoría de los que se han escrito sobre fotografía básica es que se ha diseñado como un curso en el que el lector debe participar del mismo modo que en una clase presencial o en línea.
* Se presentan cuatro secciones que cubren lo esencial en el aprendizaje de la fotografía: Exposición, Composición, Luz e iluminación y Procesado y posproducción.
* Con desafíos prácticos al final de cada unidad de aprendizaje...
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On 4 March 1824, thirty philanthropic gentlemen – including the abolitionist William Wilberforce and Archbishop of Canterbury Charles Manners-Sutton – met in a London pub. Here, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution was born.
In the following 200 years, the RNLI has been woven into the fabric of our island nation, saving over 144,000 lives, despite some rescuers losing their own in the process. With over 100 fascinating images from Mirrorpix,...
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#1 Sense-bound writing is when you draw the images from your own experiences to the words of a song. It pulls the listener into the song by using his own memories as the song's material.
#2 Write sense-bound when you draw the images from your own experiences to the words of a song. The more senses you incorporate into your writing, the better it breaths and dances.
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Existe un enorme abismo entre lo que vemos y lo que creemos ver. Nuestra evolución está orientada hacia la supervivencia. Y esta depende de la eficiencia, que implica la capacidad de procesar todo lo que sucede a una velocidad increíble. Todas las experiencias se añaden a un vasto catálogo de comportamiento y consecuencias. Nuestra mente está constantemente actualizando el modelo mental del mundo. Solo podemos concentrarnos en una estrecha banda...
51) Scribble Shots
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Journey with me into picturesque poems, riddled with truth, and ponder the possibilities. Experience God's mysteries of past, present, and future, and the unknown through my eyes.
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This book is about the many birds that visit my backyard year around. I have taken my skills in photography to capture remakable, colorful birds in their everyday habit and to share with you, the readers of this book, pictures and information about birds that may have visited your backyard. At any time of year, you can look around in your backyard and a colorful little bird will catch your eye. After watching the birds in my backyard for a few months,...
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Embark on an enchanting journey of artistic innovation in Every Flower Has Its Place. Acclaimed floral artist Graham King takes you on a visual odyssey to intriguing and uncommon settings, where he brings to life his extraordinary floral arrangements. Captured in striking detail by professional photographer Stephen Barney, each composition showcases the rich textures and exquisite craftsmanship that are King's signature style. Page after page, allow...
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Considered the southern border of Europe, a territory that the far right describes as a strange and wild land, full of overcrowded cities, empty villages, exotic landscapes, exuberant raw materials, successful footballers and hordes of menacing migrants, the regions of the Sahel and North Africa share and suffer from the pernicious effects of the decline of its traditional patterns of life, ruined by accelerated imposition of modernity, capitalism,...
56) Show Business
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Throughout the United States, businesses compete for the attention of buyers by presenting their products in striking, often outrageous, ways at trade shows. In Show Business, ex-trade show photographer Ron Schramm presents a collection of black-and-white photographs displaying the theatrical ways in which these products are marketed to American businesses, and to America. The images in this volume include selected exhibits and photographic editorials...
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With the invention of the digital camera, most of us have large collections of photos in our personal libraries. Some have photos in several libraries like iPhoto, Picasa, and Flickr. Amongst the hundreds of photos we have, there are many that would qualify as stock photos. The photos that we identified as stock, can be uploaded to a number of different photos stock sites.
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In the inner west Himalayas, India lies a wonderland known as the Valley of Flowers. Included in the list of eight World Heritage Sites by UNESCO, it is spread over 33 square miles spanning altitudes of 11,000 - 21,000 feet, surrounded by 5 mountain peaks (Niligiri in North; Ghodi and Ratavan in the East; Saptasring in the South and Khunt-Khal in the West). The raging Pushpawati River crisscrosses throughout the Valley of Flowers between glaciers...
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#1 I have always had a fascination with Johnny Mathis, a legendary singer who is almost never mentioned in gossip columns. I wish I were Johnny Mathis, and I believe that we all secretly idolize our imagined opposites, yearning to become the role models for others we know we could never be for ourselves.
#2 I had always felt nuts, not romantic. I was too angry to be...
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Art that endures is sincere. It is universal in its appeal though it may have been produced in a remote corner of the world by one, who was unacquainted with the work of artists. I remember going with a friend into a picture gallery in Chicago, where an artist—I think his name was Bradford—was showing some sketches he had brought back from the arctic regions. “How true these are” I exclaimed. “How do you know?” said my companion, “you...