Clear, direct and guaranteed, the perfect exposure method looks at the way professionals work, and lays out the decisions and sequences with absolute clarity, while incorporating the latest, powerful post-processing techniques. Chosing the exposure for a photograph is infinitely complex and one of photography's most absorbing paradoxes because it affects everything in the image and its effect on the viewer. Understanding how and why exposure works is essential, not only because it helps you to decide what is instinctively "right," but this book will give you confidence in that decision--an invaluable skill for every single photographer.
 
 

The Visual Dictionary of Photography provides clear definitions of key terms and concepts, backed up by hundreds of illustrative examples. Covering practical terms such as Lens Hood and Sheet Film as well as movements and styles such as Pictorialism and the Photosecession, it deals with the terminology of both digital and traditional photography.

Fine art quality, black-and-white prints are within every photographer's reach with the techniques illustrated in this digital image editing guide. Taking advantage of the control and reproducibility that the digital darkroom offers, this handbook teaches photographers how to fine-tune images with contrast and exposure levels, crop and rotate images for dynamic results, and remove flaws such as dust and scratches long after the photograph has been taken.

This stunning book celebrates the art of that uniquely American institution–the “Sports Illustrated” annual swimsuit issue. Besides assembling a selection of the best photographs from the swimsuit issues in book form for the first time, “Knockouts” offers an ample selection of out-takes and other previously unpublished photos, quotes from models, photographers, and art directors, and commentaries.
 
 

No matter what your subject or medium, you can improve your use of color with George Allen Durkee's Crash Course in Color video workshop. Follow along with this video as George demonstrates the value, hue and intensity of color; the temperature of color; how light affects color; and how color can be used to manipulate the mood of your paintings. George shows you how to mix colors and helps you understand the principles of color, using finished paintings and mini demonstrations throughout to help you create powerful paintings.

A digital camera is functionally identical to a traditional film camera in all respects except image storage, right? Not at all, and Mikkel Aaland shows exactly why in his excellent Shooting Digital.
He shows why digital cameras?the point-and-shoot variety as well as fancier models meant for professional photographers?are overall neither better nor worse than cameras of older design, and goes on to show you how to take advantage of their special traits. He shows how to compensate for their shortcomings, too, notably shutter lag (for which he documents a useful testing procedure) and color fringing. Though there?s some coverage of creating animated GIFs, this book generally sticks to shooting time and leaves editing to other volumes.
Aaland never forgets that digital cameras should be more cameras than digital, and his book serves as an excellent photography text for hobbyists and aspiring professionals. The author?s advice in this area is both technical (how to light a still life and how to best a strobe to eliminate shadows) and artistic (why kids should be encouraged to photograph other kids, and how you can use perspective to create weird effects). He?s an accomplished photographer who obviously loves his work, and his enthusiasm for making art with a camera?and, for that matter,

 With more than two hundred photographs - many rarely seen and some never before published - this is the most comprehensive collection of Ansel Adams' photographs of America's national parks and wilderness areas. For many people, Yosemite, Yellowstone, Glacier National Park, and other iconic American wildlands exist in the mind's eye as Ansel Adams photographs.
 

 

 The Ancient Celts developed four principal forms of ornament: Knotwork, spirals, key patterns, and interlacing human, beast, bird and reptile figures. Until now, there has never been such a concise guide to re-creating the patterns for artistic puposes. Iain Bain, author of Celtic Knotwork, has written a complete and informative guide to the history and reconstruction of the work of the ancient scribes, destined to become the classic work on the subject. Included are color plates of the Book of Kells and the Lindisfarne Gospels that show how intricate and beautiful Celtic design was thousands of years ago. The easy-to-follow construction methods for key patterns offer artists access to these classic methods. Bain shows that the simple disciplines of these construction techniques will inspire anyone to begin working with these fascinating geometric patterns in a variety of ways.