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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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#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...
26) Much Loved
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Award-winning photographer Mark Nixon has created a trove of quirky and nostalgic portraits of teddy bears and other stuffed animals that have been lovingly abused after years of play. MuchLoved collects 60 of these images along with their accompanying background tales. An exhibit in the photographer's studio led to a small sensation on the Internet when a few of the pictures circulated unofficially on scores of blogs and on many legitimate news sites....
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The book all amateur digital photographers need - learn how to take the perfect photograph every time, from the authors of the bestselling Collins Complete Photography Course.
In this book, John and Graeme apply their years of experience as professional photographers and instructors to teaching you the techniques and tips for capturing your friends and family, children and pets, holidays, sports days, celebrations, parties, festivals, weddings, births...
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#1 I had two parents, a dog, a cat, a parakeet named Buttons, and three good meals a day. In my early years, my sweet mom made sure that my wild daddy came across as a tame, devoted father-figure, but no matter how much she buffered and suffered, it couldn't alter the fact that he was from the Old South, and I was from the New West.
#2 I was a teenager in the early...
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Mire a su alrededor durante un minuto. Si fuera a hacer una fotografía que captara sus pensamientos y sentimientos sobre el lugar donde se encuentra justo en este momento, ¿de qué sería? Complicado, ¿verdad? Tomar excelentes fotografías de lugares depende de qué, cuándo y cómo. Qué tipo de lugares activa sus ideas o emociones (naturaleza, escenas industriales, lugares con un significado histórico), cuándo le gusta fotografiarlos (pronto...
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Here is a tongue-in-cheek photo guidebook that shows you how to select the ideal shelter dog when considering one for adoption. Every dog appearing on these pages was living at the Cleveland Animal Protective League at the time their pictures were taken, and was photographed while working and/or playing with the author in the course of his activities as a volunteer. This book is intended to capture the quirks, charm, and unwavering spirit of its subjects...
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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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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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Erleben Sie die vielseitigen Möglichkeiten Ihrer Canon EOS 1200D und lernen Sie ihre Funktionen ausführlich kennen. Anhand ansprechender Beispiele und leicht verständlicher Anleitungen zeigt Ihnen das Buch, wie Sie einfach besser fotografieren - von Anfang an, dieses Buch zeigt Ihnen wie es geht!
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#1 I was born in 1956 in Salford. My parents split up when I was young, and I and my brother went to live with our grandmother. We had little to do except mooch around and kick a tin.
#2 In 1962, Bill was offered a new job that would take him and his family to Jamaica. They were moving there, and my mother was terrified because they would only have chicken and chips...
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Mary Theresa McDonough B.A. B.Ed. OCT is a wildlife photographer who has travelled extensively throughout many wilderness area throughout the world. This time she has captured the essence of the true wilderness habitats of the animals in the African nations of Kenya and Tanzania and has noted their trusting nature with humans in her close-ups, in a country that doesn’t allow any
hunting by humans.
She has cofounded her own survival program in Canada...
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Photographer Dominic Greyer has spent the last twenty years roaming the British landscape in search of the country's most unusual placenames. He has an eye for quirky, rude and downright ridiculous name signs, and has photographed them all. But this is not merely a book of silly placenames—Dominic's exquisite, atmospheric photography, featuring the landscapes in which the signs sit, makes the images really special, and this book into a beautiful...
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During the post-war era in Communist East Germany in the seventies, Karen von Wagner is enjoying her life in East Berlin. She had grown up indebted and grateful to the GDR for giving her an excellent education in the arts in spite of what her father had done and was imprisoned for-guilty of war crimes as an SS Nazi. He had been arrested and taken to prison when she was barely five. At fifteen, she was told by an official he had died in Siberia. She...
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* Reportaje fotográfico y las historias humanas que hay detrás que ilustran el pasaje mortal a Europa para numerosos refugiados y migrantes: el sufrimiento y la resistencia en todo ese periplo.
* Desde Libia y sus centros de detención, pasando por la travesía imposible por el Mediterráneo central rumbo a Europa, hasta la situación extrema de un país devastado por las tres guerras que ha sufrido desde 2011.
* Se muestran en contexto los países...
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Photoshop CC 2014 es el programa de retoque fotográfico y tratamiento de imágenes por excelencia. Con este manual aprenderá a utilizar sus diferentes herramientas, filtros y funciones para mejorar el aspecto de sus fotografías digitales y para crear sorprendentes composiciones.
Con este libro:
o Aprenderá a corregir los clásicos defectos en las fotografías de fotógrafos inexpertos (sobreexposición, subexposición, desenfoques, keystoning,...