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In this title, budding photographers will learn how to take great landscape and wildlife photographs. Using simple text and dramatic photographs as examples, all the basics will becovered, including choosing the right cameras and lenses, composition, shutter speeds, depth of field, plus special field equipment used by today's top photographers. Also covered are the basics of making image adjustments in the digital darkroom. Readers will also learn...
3) Shake
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A pictorial work of different breeds of dogs shaking after being wet or touched.
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Provides advice on taking photographs of sporting events, covering choosing the right equipment; working with digital or film; exposure; lighting; capturing action, emotions, and the atmosphere; and making connections in the field. Includes hundreds of examples, assignments and projects, and commentary on the work of Walter Iooss.
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NASA Takes Photography into Space considers the work of NASA photographers as they began exploring space. Using many stunning, full-page photos, it examines the photography's contributions to NASA's overall mission, including how space exploration has pushed photography technology forward.
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Playful spaniels completely covered with snow-"There's no such thing as 'bad' weather." Two happy dogs sleeping, one on top of the other- "Sometimes you need a pillow. Sometimes you are the pillow." The bulldog who's headfirst in her bowl-"Every meal is THE BEST MEAL EVER."
Cynthia L. Copeland has a gift for discovering those sorts of simple, timeless lessons. She did it when her children were younger with Really Important Stuff My Kids Have Taught...
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With the backdrop of the ever-intriguing Andes mountains, Hugh Thomson explores the intoxicating history of the Inca people and their heartland. The author, an acclaimed documentary filmmaker and explorer, expertly weaves accounts of his own discoveries and brushes with danger with the history of those who preceded him-including the explorer Hiram Bingham, who discovered Machu Picchu; the twentieth century South American photographer, Martín Chambi;...
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"Using the AASL Standards Framework for Learners, the Create and Share: Thinking Digitally series provides younger readers with the necessary tools to successfully and safely navigate the digital world. In Creating Slide Shows, readers learn how to create engaging and informative slide shows. Activities throughout the book prompt students to think more deeply, be creative, share information and resources, and grow their knowledge. Book includes a...
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The Planets features more than 200 stunning photographs of our solar system from the archives of NASA, each paired with a detailed caption. The content is organized by distance from the Sun--beginning with Mercury and moving outward through Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and the planetary objects beyond.--
12) Second sight
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Venetia Milton earns big bucks photographing the artifacts owned by the brooding Gabriel Jones, whom she also manages to seduce, but after hearing that he is dead, she is stunned when he winds up on her doorstep very much alive and afraid for his life.
13) Tornadoes
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With winds that can reach speeds of three hundred miles an hour and funnel clouds that can measure a mile in diameter, tornadoes leave enormous damage in their wake. Now Seymour Simon examines these twisting columns of air and destruction. Simon explains how tornadoes are formed, why and when they are most likely to occur, how scientists classify and track them -- and what to do if one touches down. Full-color photographs show this powerful phenomenon...
14) Half a chance
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Lucy, with her mother and her photographer father, has just moved to a small rural community in New Hampshire, and with her new friend Nate she plans to spend the summer taking photos for a contest, but pictures sometimes reveal more than people are willing to see.
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Click! As their shutters snap, photographers capture special moments in time. Photos give us something to look at while we use our memories to look back in time. Meet a photographer and find out what it takes to be one. Along the way, sharpen your focus on place value. This nonfiction math reader builds literacy skills and math content knowledge, combining informational text, problem-solving, and real-world connections to help students explore math...
16) Taking the shot
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Photography for teens volume 2
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Designed with the upper-elementary through middle-school reader in mind, this volume in the Photography for Teens series will be useful for readers who want to put some thought into their shots. Taking the Shot has short chapters on digital cameras, camera settings, and equipment and accessories. It is slightly more technical and has everything a beginner would need to know about megapixels, apertures, light meters, memory cards, and lenses.
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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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...
19) 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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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...