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Photofinishing with Photoshop: The Art of Printmaking in the Digital Realm By John Watts
Author, John Watts, is a professional photographic printer who has written this book to share his knowledge and expertise of the printing world. Using Adobe Photoshop, Watts explains and demonstrates the tools and techniques needed to make a professional looking print. The text is written in an easy to understand style, without sacrificing high quality information. The layout is well thought out using font style to emphasize key points, images demonstrating effects, examples of Photoshop menus and screen views and arrows to label options and tools. Watts does an excellent job of making quality prints with Photoshop an accessible concept to amateur or intermediate photographers.
Available from the author at
http://www.wattsdigital.com/photoshopebook.html Email:
john@wattsdigital.com
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Animalia By Henry Horenstein
This is a beautiful book filled with inspiring images of animals. Photographer Henry Horenstein used grainy black and white film, a macro lens, and printed in sepia to avoid documenting the animals. Instead, Horenstein says “I choose to look closely and abstractly—to see my subjects for their inherent beauty, oddness, mystery.” His success is shown with these sometimes hazy, sometimes very sharp images showing off the animals’ texture, patterns, and unique characteristics. The book is bound in a hard fabric cover with attached print of a ray, making it a perfect book to lay out on your coffee table.
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Carchitecture: Frames, Fenders, and Fins By Fredric Winkowski and Frank D. Sullivan
The photographers of this book compare a gathering of classic cars to a walk in an art museum: “There is a century and more of history here, works of art on display. . . Whether it is the angle of an air scoop or the roar of the engine within that moves you, it is worth the effort to focus on the details, to look at them as their designers might.” This small, but thick book contains 500 color photographs of classic automobiles. The images range from close-ups of the fine details to shots including the entire car in a perfect landscape. This is a perfect addition to the collection of a car enthusiast or photographer who appreciates the colors, lines and shapes of automobiles.
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Fine Art Printing for Photographers: Exhibition Quality Prints with Inkjet Printers, 2nd Ed. By Uwe Steinmueller and Juergen Gulbins
Photographer Steinmueller, along with author Gulbins use their extensive experience and knowledge to explain the technology of digital printing so a photographer can make creative yet efficient and quality decisions. This book is full of information on the topics of printing supplies and equipment, workflow, and color management. The pages include many diagrams and illustrations to help explain the mechanics and technology within this subject. When the book covers topics involving the use of computer programs, the authors include both descriptive text and images of the screen options and the sequential results to the photograph.
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Photographic Lighting: Essential Skills, 4th Ed. By John Child and Mark Galer
This Focal Press book has a perfect mix of lighting concept descriptions and instructions for creative techniques. The author covers both film and digital photography in many of the chapters. They include characteristics of light, exposure and light meters, contrast and compensation, sensitivity and image capture, color correction and filtration, lighting on location, the Zone System, studio lighting, and creative techniques. The pages are full of expert advice and explanations, along with helpful diagrams and image examples. The book also includes a gallery of professional images displayed at the end of each chapter.
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The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes, 2nd Ed. By Christopher James
This second edition is about twice as thick and has a lot more images than the first. In his introduction Christopher James says, “New to this edition is the following: a complete re-write, hundreds of new images, many new process chapters, coating table and sink set-ups to enhance the learning process, condensed chapters that mirror changes in the media, and a new section that deals with alternative photographic ideas as well as process.” Although sometimes criticized as being too narrative, this book is full of a lot of information and advice on the topic of alternative photographic processes.
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