Students and seasoned photographers have relied on Basic Photographic Materials and Processes for its comprehensive explanation of the photographic process, giving them the technical base they need to achieve the effects they want. Heavily illustrated and enhanced with study questions, this book has served as an excellent resource both in and out of the classroom. Basic Photographic Materials and Processes, Second Edition continues to present the fundamental principles of the craft and science of photography in a clear, practical manner. To bring this classic text completely up-to-date, in-depth information on digital imaging has been added, including the scanning, storage and printing of digital images, as well as conversion from analog to digital.

Basic Photographic Materials and Processes

Arts & Photography

Zakia, Richard D.

Compton, John

Stroebel, Leslie

Current, Ira

Photography & Video

Focal Press

An essential resource for understanding how photography works and how to solve the many problems photographers face when learning this trade. It deals with the fundamental principles upon which the photographic process is based and presents the principles in a practical manner. The new edition of this classic text has been updated to include a new chapter on Digital Imaging. This important addition covers, in depth, everything photographers need to know in order to be completely up-to-date on the digital aspects of photography. This book is heavily illustrated with helpful photographs and line drawings, and also includes a special color insert. Since Basic Photographic Materials and Processes deals with the capturing, recording, and reproduction of visual images, the principles discussed have direct applications to graphic arts printing, graphic design, computer graphics and electronic imaging. Learn about converting analog to digital- bits to gray levels, brightness resolution, and spatial resolution Covers image processing basics- concepts, filters, color spaces Up-to-date information on storage of Digital Images- magnetic, optical, electrical, CD Media, and Digital Printing

Focal Pr

Taking photographs has become easier over the years, but taking photographs that have impact and lasting power has not. Such images require heart, and some understanding of the factors that make an image noteworthy. Perception and Imaging, Second Edition will lead you into areas and concepts that will spark your intellectual curiosity and assist you in your image making. What is known about vision and the visual process is overwhelming; what is directly applicable to pictures is not. Perception and Imaging, Second Edition is the visual artist's gateway to the principles that drive visual perception. Perception and Imaging, Second Edition invites you to explore the domain of the subconscious and collective unconscious, and the role subliminals, secondary images, and archetypes play; the role of memory and association, and why ambiguity and illusion are an important components; why soft and hard contours (edges) are critical to sharpness, contrast, color, and depth perception; and how visual rhetoric has been used to give impact to photographs, advertisements, posters, promotional material, and motion pictures. Perception and Imaging, Second Edition is for anyone and everyone involved with visual images and has a desire to better understand them. Many examples of metaphor, metonymy, paradox, pun, homology, hyperbole, ellipses, inversion chiasmus, allusion, and other rhetorical devices. A new enlarged section on color, with 15 new color images presenting color measurement and notation, color connotations, color illusions, color constancy, color synesthesia, metamerism, and defective color vision. The chapter on Critique has been expanded to include the use of Group Dynamics. Photographs are polysemantic, possessing layered meanings.

Perception and Imaging

How do you experience a photograph? What do you want a viewer to feel when they look at your image? Perception and Imaging explains how we see and what we don't see. Relevant psychological principles will help you predict your viewer's emotional reaction to your photographic images, giving you more power, control, and tools for communicating your desired message. Knowing how our minds work helps photographers, graphic designers, videographers, animators, and visual communicators both create and critique sophisticated works of visual art. Benefit from this insight in your work. Topics covered in this book: gestalt grouping, memory and association, space, time, color, contours, illusion and ambiguity, morphics, personality, subliminals, critiquing photographs, and rhetoric.

Perception and Imaging: Photography--A Way of Seeing

Photographic Composition: A Visual Guide

A note from the author, Richard Zakia: P. H. Emerson reminds us that Every artist is at first an amateur. One of the great American photographers of the 20th Century, Edward Weston, as a young photographer, only got honorable mention in a photographic contest sponsored by an amateur camera magazine. Ansel Adams, Paul Strand and others also began as amateurs. Wynn Bullock began his outstanding photographic career later in life when he was in his 40s Today, in our digital age, everyone is a photographer. Recognizing this and the fact that there are some basic proven guidelines for creating winning photographs, we put together this highly visual book especially for beginning photographers who want to improve their photography. In doing so we discovered that some professional photographers also found it helpful. One can think of our book as a visual grammar that will help you better compose what you desire to express and to do so with clarity. -------------------------------- However amazing the subject or technically excellent the photography, the single biggest factor in deciding whether a photograph is good or bad is how well it is composed. Photographic Composition Visualized offers a unique take on this fundamental issue by offering instruction in a visual format - the book is laid out in a unique spread format of a beautiful image on one page, with an in-depth break down of why the rule of composition works in the image, but also how a photographer can apply it to their own photography. Inspirational, instructive, and, most importantly, visually stunning and beautiful, photography master Richard Zakia teaches the lessons he has learned from over 40 years as a photographer. This is the book every photographer needs to own in order to create the outstanding images they always wanted to - but didn't know how.
*Learn the rules of photographic composition direct from a master photographer *Unique format SHOWS the reader specific rules of composition with inspirational images and then TELLS them exactly how to apply it to their own photography *Covers the full range of compositional considerations, from pre-capture to post-processing

Page, David

Routledge

When you look at an image, what do you see and feel? What do you want your audience to see and feel when they view your work? In today's digital age, it has become all too easy to randomly click away, without really focusing on what exactly it is that you are trying to capture in your shot. For over fifteen years, Professor Richard Zakia has been helping thousands of photographers hone in on their creative vision through the inspirational, informative text and images included in his classic book, Perception and Imaging. In this updated fourth edition, Professor Zakia continues to share his wisdom in what is so much more than a step-by-step, technical photography instruction manual. Instead, it explores the fundamental act of photography - in other words, seeing - through a combination of technique, history, visual perception, philosophy, and psychology. Photographers of all levels will benefit from the information in this book, because it will help you to think more clearly about what it is that you want to convey in your images, no matter what level you are at in terms of technical skill. 
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<li>Includes inspirational images from some of the world's most well-known photographers, like Henri Cartier-Bresson and Man Ray</li> <li>All new sections on what perception means for your photography in the digital age </li> <li>New coverage of the Rule of Thirds and Contemplative Photography; how can these tools work for you?</li> </ul>

Experimental problems introduce varied aspects of the photographic process, printing, and developing

101 Experiments in Photography

Morgan Morgan

Black is a color ... and so is white! Red light mixed with green light produces ... yellow! Color is three-dimensional! Learn to understand these, and hundreds of other facts about color with the Programmed Instruction in Color Primer I & II -- two unique books back-to-back in the same binding. Learn by seeing and doing. See the colors; answer each questions to learn a new fact.

Color Primer I and II

Todd, Hollis N.

Perception and Photography relates Gestalt laws of perception to photography, art, and design. The principles are easily grasped and are presented in a highly visualized manner. As author Richard D Zakia explains, "This book, therefore, although addressed to photographers and graphic designers, is really intended for anyone seriously concerned in the shaping or making of visual messages and visual environments. We all have a common purpose - visual communication and expression." Over 163 illustrations - photographs, paintings, graphic designs and type designs - make the book more visual than verbal. Zakia writes for practitioners rather than theorists and shows them the most effective ways to arrange visual elements for best organization and communication.

Perception and Photography

Light Impressions Corp

Perception and Imaging: Photography as a Way of Seeing

When you look at an image, what do you see, think, and feel? How do you want your audience to react when they view your work? For over 30 years the late Richard Zakia helped photographers enrich their creative vision through his classic book, Perception and Imaging. Now he is joined by co-author John Suler. Together they present their insights into the principles of perception, memory, color, time, space, shapes, illusion, subliminals, rhetoric, personality style, and photo critique. Unlike any other book, Perception and Imaging will give you an extensive understanding of how photography relates to art, design, advertising, psychology, and philosophy, as well as what makes photography unique among the image-making disciplines. Whether you are a beginner or a professional, this information will help you appreciate photography not simply as a mastering of technique and composition, but as a way of truly seeing, especially now in the digital age. – New sections about photo sharing in social media and online groups devoted to photography critique. – Includes inspirational images from some of the world’s most well-known photographers, including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Man Ray, and Ansel Adams. – A comprehensive discussion of the "decisive moment" photo, its vital ingredients, and why some consider it the essence of photography. – New sections about body language in photographs, camera angles, aspect ratios, self portraits and selfies, and how memory and personality affect photography.

Suler, John

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Basic Photographic Materials and Processes

Basic Photographic Materials and Processes

Perception and Imaging

Perception and Imaging: Photography--A Way of Seeing

Photographic Composition: A Visual Guide

Perception and Imaging: Photography--A Way of Seeing

101 Experiments in Photography

Color Primer I and II

Perception and Photography

Perception and Imaging: Photography as a Way of Seeing