Providing a thorough overview of both digital and film photography, a helpful resource provides amateur photographers with everything they need to know in order to produce high-quality photographs using all kinds of cameras, covering such topics as lighting, exposure, lenses, filters, composition, and special film and digital techniques. Original.

Amphoto's Complete Book of Photography: How to Improve Your Pictures with a Film or Digital Camera

Arts & Photography

Bidner, Jenni

Photography & Video

Amphoto Books

• Step-by-step recipes for great pictures • Demystifies lucrative fashion and beauty photography • Beautiful examples with diagrams and instructions—everything the photographer needs in the studio or on location Learning to set up, use, and control lighting is the biggest challenge for photographers in the field of fashion and beauty. Never fear! This book shows exactly how to become a lighting master. Dozens of stunning examples—some taken in the studio, others on location—are analyzed with setup details, lens choices, composition decisions, and lighting diagrams, plus step-by-step directions on re-creating the look. From an inventory of every essential piece of equipment, with a full explanation of how, when, and why to use each one, to an in-depth discussion of film versus digital formats, The Lighting Cookbook for Fashion and Beauty Photography is the complete guide to mastering this popular and lucrative genre.

The Lighting Cookbook for Fashion and Beauty Photography: Foolproof Recipes for Taking Perfect Portraits

Bean, Eric

• Millions of dog owners need this book • Easy-to-use advice from a pro photographer and dog lover! • Great examples from ten different photographers for a variety of styles • Start getting better pictures right away More than 115 million dogs are kept as pets in the U.S. alone—and there’s hardly a decent photo of any of them. Out of focus when Fido moves. Red-eye from Barkley’s too-curious stare. Fuzzy where Rover breathed on the lens. Just awful. But now dog owners everywhere can learn how to take better pictures of their pets, posed or candid, inside or outside, in action or resting, with family members, dog friends, or alone. Author Jenni Bidner, a professional photographer and rescue-dog owner/trainer, covers photography basics like equipment, exposure, and composition, then explains just how to capture the charm, personality, and good looks of any dog. Special tips on photographing puppies, black dogs and white dogs, and show dogs, plus ideas on making money as a pet photographer, creating scrapbooks and cards, and sending digital dogs over the Web make this book as essential as paper training.

Love Your Dog Pictures: How to Photograph Your Pet with Any Camera

The Advanced Photo System has added new excitement to point-and-shoot photography. This book explains the advantages of this format, such as ease in film loading, convenient index prints and negative storage, "IX" Information Exchange, and multiple print formats, with an easy, visual approach. "Before-and-after" examples quickly instruct the reader in basic picture-taking concepts such as composition, framing, and exposure. This handy guide to shooting common subjects, such as birthday parties, portraits, travel, sports, pets, etc., helps any photographer get great results. 80 pages (over 150 color illustrations), 5 x 7.

Great Photos With the Advanced Photo System

Silver Pixel Pr

This comprehensive, popular beginner's guide for kids is now reissued with updated information and photos! Fun, easy to follow, and visually appealing, it teaches young photographers how to create, edit, and share their digital images in imaginative ways-from using basic features like the zoom and flash to changing color, removing red eye, and using the finished photos in cool projects. Sidebars simplify concepts like megapixels and megabytes, and the book includes a glossary. - New edition of a book that has sold nearly 30,000 copies, with up-to-date information and pictures - A complete beginner's handbook that covers taking the shot to creating photo projects About the author JENNI BIDNER is the author of more than 20 books, including the award-winning Is My Dog a Wolf? She is also an instructor with BetterPhoto.com and has served as the editor of several magazines, including Petersen's Photographic and Outdoor &amp; Travel Photography.

The Kids' Guide to Digital Photography: How to Shoot, Save, Play with & Print Your Digital Photos

Union Square Kids

People love to take photos of people--and capturing a portrait that's more than just a snapshot is a dream for many beginning- and intermediate-level photographers. The latest book in the Focus on Digital… series is designed to help them meet that challenge. With each lesson presented in a single, easy-to-grasp spread, it presents the techniques required to achieve a portrait that's beautifully composed, well lighted, and fully captures the subject's personality. Award-winning photographer Jenni Binder demonstrates how to shoot in a studio and in the field, and analyzes the many styles of portraiture, from formal sitting to spontaneous slice-of-life.

Focus On Digital Portrait Photography

Pixiq

A family website can bring everyone together, and this comprehensive guide helps you create one that's as unique as your loved ones. See exactly how to get up and running in no time, and how to pick the right Internet provider. Learn the basics of taking great digital photos and digitizing slides, snapshots, and documents. Check out easy and inexpensive software to improve image quality. Learn how easy it is to use cool design elements, including backgrounds, buttons, thumbnail images, and animations. Take a crash course on adding links, uploading new information, and launching a site. Consider some inspiring ideas for content, such as an on-line recipe book, complete with photos, to save those favorite family dishes for posterity. Or use the site to plan a reunion, share a wedding album, or post the family tree. You'll understand exactly how the World Wide Web can lead you straight home, right to the heart of family..

Making Family Websites: Fun & Easy Ways to Share Memories (A Lark Photography Book)

Bidner, Jen

Lark Books

This book delivers candid, specific inside information about how to get started in the competitive field of modeling, whether you're male or female or the parent of a potential child model. The advice comes from those in the know, including successful models and modeling agents, casting directors, magazine editors, makeup artists, photographers, and health professionals. These experts debunk myths about the profession and shed light on common scams that plague the industry. Get the scoop on everything from being discovered to maintaining a long-lasting career. Go behind the scenes on a New York City fashion shoot to find out what it's really like. Whether you dream of becoming the next supermodel, or just hope to supplement your income with exciting modeling work, this is the book for you. Beauty is just one trait of a successful model, find out the other 12 traits, along with important information on the business of modeling, from getting an agent, developing your portfolio, make-up advice, and more. A range of model specialties are covered in detail, including: babies and children, teens, men's division, women's division, runway, commercial, mature and classic, plus sizes, swimsuit, body and fitness, and more. Co-author Eric Bean is a successful fashion photographer in New York City, and has worked with top models and agents for over two decades. Jen Bidner is the author of over a dozen books in related fields.

Complete Guide for Models: Inside Advice from Industry Pros for Fashion Modeling

Fashion

Union Square & Co.

Digital photography is hot, and kids want to get in on the fun. This comprehensive instructional guide, created especially for youngsters, tells them exactly what they need to know to capture those birthday parties, school events, sleepovers, and family vacations. Every important question gets an easy-to-understand answer: What’s a pixel? What is resolution and why does it matter? How can I make computers, scanners, and printers work with my camera? Children will get creative with software that alters and enhances images, and learn new ways to add text, adjust color and brightness, and change a background. Fifteen appealing projects, from turning snapshots into puzzles to crafting unique CD covers, photo magnets, and digital scrapbooks, make this a no-brainer for the budding photographer.

The Kids' Guide to Digital Photography: How to Shoot, Save, Play With & Print Your Digital Photos

Children's Books

Arts, Music & Photography

The Kids' Guide To Digital Photography: How To Shoot, Save, Play With & Print Your Digital Photos

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