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Arnold Newman by Philip Brookman Arnold Newman was a giant among photographers. In his lifetime, he photographed for the most famous magazines including Life, Look, Fortune, and the New Yorker. This superb new book is filled with his images of people, places, and things - from painters to a Watusi king, and from a stone wall to Picasso in shorts. Most of the images are well-published portraits of people like Georgia O’Keefe and other well-known artists, but there are also many of his documentary images of city life from back in the 1940s. No matter what the image though, they all show that they were made by a master photographer. If you have a photo library, you do not want to be without this book in it!!! (And take a look at this unbelievable low price. It is worth twice that, if not more!) This hardback book is about 9x12 inches, with 280 pages, retails for US$24.99 – and is published by Taschen at: www.taschen.com I Rate it: A+++ |
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The Collectible Moment I Rate it: A++
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Black & White Digital
Photography by Les Meehan Color images are nice, but there are some subjects that just don’t translate well into color, and that is where monochrome (B&W) comes more into play. Black and White can make many subjects stand out a lot more because it emphasizes the subject itself and not the colors involved with it. This new book covers most of what you will need to know to create excellent B&W images in the camera, if it is programmed for that, or convert the image file into a B&W one. Either way you do it, creating a good B&W image is not all that easy if you do not know the proper steps involved, but this book will show them to you. The section on conversion also contains screen captures of the tools used and their settings; and with before and after illustrations, you do not have to guess what does what. This is an excellent book to have in order to take your images up that one extra step in added quality. This soft cover book is about 9x11 inches, with 127 pages, retails for US$19.95 – and is published by Collins & Brown and distributed by Sterling Books and distributed by: www.sterlingpub.com I Rate it: A
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Fine Art Printing for
Photographers by Uwe Steinmueller & Juergen Gulbins Up until the last few years, any photographer who wanted the best prints of their work had to still rely on a darkroom to get them. Now with photo quality inkjet printers, anyone can get prints as good, if not better, than any print ever made in a darkroom, and a whole lot faster. This new book contains everything you need to know about picking the right printer, paper, and inks for the job you are doing. It also will show how to use Photoshop to correct your images, color manage them and get exhibition quality prints. With this new fine art printing book, the amateur will learn what the pros already know, and the pros can become master printers. There have been plenty of books published on printing, but this is the first one I can think of that goes as far as showing you how to make prints good enough to show in a gallery. So why settle for less when you can learn how to get the best, and this new book will give you just that. This soft cover book is about 8x10 inches, with 230 pages, retails for US$44.95 - and is published by RockyNook and distributed by O’Reilly Media and can be checked out at: www.oreilly.com I Rate it: A+ |
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Nikon D200 DVD Guide by the experts at Magic Lantern Guidebooks are the way most people learn about a new product. With the advent of DVDs, however, this new medium has become a super way to learn just about anything. With this new DVD, the owners of the new Nikon D200 can learn about it right from the comfort of a nice easy chair. Book guides are nice in that you can take them with you, but you also have the hassle of having to put the camera down every time you use the book or change the page. With a DVD you can watch and learn right along with the instructor as you hold and work with your camera at the same time. This new DVD guide takes you beyond what you get in camera manuals and also shows you how to take great images. It is an in-depth guide created for photographers, by photographers. This is one great and easy way to learn your new camera inside and out. There are also guides for other camera makes as well, so check out their site. This DVD guide is almost 1 and ½ hours long and retails for US$24.95 – and is published by Lark Books and distributed by www.sterlingpub.com I Rate it: A+ |
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The Perfect Digital Portfolio
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Digital Photo Artist,
Creative Techniques and Ideas for Digital Image-making By Tony Worobiec and Ray Spence For those people who have never been satisfied with just creating “normal” type images, and I have always been one of them, here is a new book that will not only inspire that need, but also show you how to do it. All of the main alternative photo processes are covered, plus a few that are more normal to a darkroom, like Cyanotypes and Gum prints, but with this book you will learn how to do them digitally. The book also covers how to make images that look like Polaroid transfers, sepia tones, and even make them look like they were taken with a pinhole camera - all on your computer. One of the great things about special effects is that you can take images that are not really good for other uses, and manipulate them into pieces of art, as this book will show you. This soft cover book is about 9x11 inches, with 128 pages, retails for US$19.95 – and is published by Collins & Brown and distributed by Sterling Books and distributed by www.sterlingpub.com I Rate it: A++ |
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Shooting Digital - Pro Tips
for Taking Great Pictures with Your Digital Camera
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SKIN – The Complete Guide to
Digital Lighting, Photographing, and Retouching Faces and Bodies by Lee Varis If you are a “People Person” and that is what you shoot a lot, then here is one new book that you do not want to be without. It will show you how to do just about anything you can think of when dealing with your people images, from simple retouching work, to major image manipulations like adding a full tattoo to a persons back. This will teach you from beginning how-to, up to very advanced work, and do it with everything you need to know, from the first lighting to the final retouching. It is richly illustrated with step-by-step shots, as well as the tools used and their settings. If that isn’t enough, the book also comes with a bonus CD with even more material on it. This is a must-have book for anyone doing people pictures, and you will never stop impressing people with what you can show them later. This soft cover book is about 8x10 inches, with 404 pages, retails for US$39.99 – and is published by Sybex, an imprint of Wiley at: http://www.sybex.com/WileyCDA/ I Rate it: A++ |
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2007 Photographer’s Market by Writer’s Digest Books It is that time of year again, and another edition of the Photographer’s Market book is now in the stores. For those photographers who know about this book, there is no explaining to do. For those who do not, the Photographer’s Market book is the most complete reference book around for finding and selling your work to all sorts of photo buyers. It starts out with the information you will need to know to present your images to buyers around the world, (including sample contracts and releases,) but most of the book is a list of 1,800 names and contact info on those buyers, what they are looking for, what they pay, and how to submit your work to them. This is the 30th annual edition of the book that has more or less become the bible for photo sellers. They don’t last long, so get a copy while you can. This soft cover book is about 7x9 inches, with 633 pages, retails for US$26.99 – and is published by Writer’s Digest and distributed by www.fwpublications.com I Rate it: A |
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Creative Photoshop Lighting
Techniques by Barry Huggins This new revised edition is updated for Photoshop CS2 and is one of the best, and most complete, how-to books I have seen on dealing with whatever lighting problems you may have in an image. Every step includes the tools used and their settings, with before and after images to show you what happens with each image. I can’t think of a single situation that is not covered in this book, and then some. It not only shows you how to remove unwanted reflections from some object in an image, but also how to add a reflection to another object, such as in sunglasses. Add a drop shadow near a subject that is flat looking, or how about taking a daylight street scene and turning it into night shot and then adding the glow from a street light. Those are just a few of the lighting effects you can learn, and this is one book that is not going on my bookshelf. It will be right next to my workstation where I can get at it in seconds. This soft cover book is about 9x10 inches, with 192 pages, retails for US$29.95 – and is published by Lark Books and distributed by Sterling Books at www.sterlingpub.com I Rate it: A+++ |
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Complete Guide to Digital
Infrared Photography by Joe Farace I was going to hold onto this book and cover it in an IR (infrared) article I am working on, but I found it to be too good to wait until then. If digital infrared photography is of interest to you, then this book is a must-have, as it covers everything that you will need to know in order to create great IR images no matter what digital camera you use to take them with. Having been taking digital IR images for several years now, I can tell you first hand that there is a whole lot more to consider with it than the old film method, but at the same time it is a whole lot easier than film. This new book covers filtered IR images, converted IR cameras, regular digital cameras capable of IR work, and even how you can have your full color RAW files and IR at the same time. You can spend a lot of your time shooting test IR images as I have, or you can learn everything you need to learn from this book first. It will be one of the best investments you can make for doing IR images. This soft cover book is about 9x11 inches, with 160 pages, retails for US$24.95 – and is published by Lark Books and distributed by Sterling Books at www.sterlingpub.com I Rate it: A++ |
