Light and lens : photography in the digital age / Robert Hirsch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hirsch, Robert, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photography--Digital techniques.

Photography.

Lighting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (416 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Boston : Focal Press, an imprint of Elsevier, 2008.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Light & Lens: Photography in the Digital Age is a groundbreaking introductory book that clearly and concisely provides the instruction and building blocks necessary to create thought-provoking digitally based photographs. It is an adventurous idea book that features numerous classroom-tested assignments and exercises from leading photographic educators to encourage you to critically explore and make images from the photographers' eye, an aesthetic point of view. Acquire a basic foundation for digital photography. Light a

Contents:

Front cover; Half title page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Table of contents; Preface; Artist Contributors; Chapter 1: Why We Make Pictures: A ConciseHistory of Visual Ideas; THE GRAMMAR OF PHOTOGRAPHY; THE EVOLUTION OFPHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGING; DETERMINING MEANING; BPS: BEFORE PHOTOSHOP; THE DIGITAL IMAGING REVOLUTION; NEW MEDIA; QUESTIONS ABOUT PHOTO-BASED IMAGEMAKING; ADDITIONAL INFORMATION; Chapter 2: Design: Visual Foundations; LEARNING TO SEE: COMMUNICATING WITH DESIGN; BEGINNER'S MIND; THE DESIGN PROCESS; THE NATURE OF PHOTOGRAPHY: SUBTRACTIVE COMPOSITION; DEPARTURE POINT

ATTENTION SPAN AND STAYING POWERPHOTOGRAPHY'S PRIVILEGE; THE LANGUAGE OF VISION; PHOTOGRAPHY'S NATIVE CHARACTERISTICS; DESIGN PRINCIPLES; VISUAL ELEMENTS; REFERENCES; Chapter 3: Image Capture: Cameras, Lenses, and Scanners; THE ROLE OF A CAMERA; WHAT IS A CAMERA?; HOW A CAMERA IMAGING SYSTEM WORKS; DIGITAL CAMERAS; TYPES OF CAMERAS; CHOOSING A CAMERA; CAMERA FILE FORMATS; OPENING FILES; THE LENS SYSTEM AND EXPOSURE; DIGITAL CAMERA FEATURES; CAMERA, LENS, MONITOR, AND SENSOR CARE; SCANNERS; FRAME GRABBER; STORING DIGITAL IMAGES

LIVING PHOTOGRAPHY: AUTHORSHIP, ACCESS, AND THE WORLD'S LARGEST PICTURE BOOKNOTE; Chapter 4: Exposure and Filters; EXPOSURE BASICS; FILTERING THE LIGHT; Chapter 5: Seeing with Light; NATURAL LIGHT; THE TIME OF DAY/TYPES OF LIGHT; ARTIFICIAL LIGHT; BASIC LIGHTING METHODS; LIGHTING ACCESSORIES; Chapter 6: Observation: Eyes Wide Open; HOW WE SEE; WHY WE MAKE AND RESPOND TO SPECIFIC IMAGES; THE EFFECTS OF DIGITAL IMAGING; AESTHETIC KEYS FOR COLOR AND COMPOSITION; FIGURE-GROUND RELATIONSHIPS; Chapter 7: Time, Space, Imagination, and the Camera; IN SEARCH OF TIME; THE PERCEPTION OF TIME

CONTROLLING CAMERA TIMEIMAGING SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS; REFERENCES; Chapter 8: Digital Studio: Where the Virtual Meets the Material World; DISPLAYING THE IMAGE FILE: TRANSFERRING IMAGE FILES FOR DISPLAY, WEB, OR PRINT; WORKING WITH A DIGITAL NEGATIVE: THE ORIGINAL CAPTURE; TRUE RESOLUTION AND THE REAL WORLD; MAKING PHOTOGRAPHIC-QUALITY PRINTS; IMAGES AND THE COMPUTER WORKSTATION; SOFTWARE AND IMAGING APPLICATIONS; BASIC DIGITAL IMAGING CATEGORIES AND TOOLS; COMMON TOOLBAR ICONS FROM PHOTOSHOP; THE COMPUTER AS A MULTIMEDIA STAGE: MOVING IMAGES; THE INTERNET AND THE WORLD WIDE WEB

THE DIGITAL FUTUREREFERENCES; Chapter 9: Presentation and Preservation; DIGITAL RETOUCHING AND REPAIR; ARCHIVAL PRESENTATION; DIGITAL ARCHIVES; REFERENCES FOR DIGITAL ARCHIVES; DIGITAL PRINT STABILITY; CAMERA COPY WORK; PRESENTING WORK ON A DISK; REFERENCES; Chapter 1 0: Seeing with a Camera; THE FRAMING EFFECT: VIEWPOINT; SELECTIVE FOCUS; CONTRAST; DOMINANT COLOR; HARMONIC COLOR; ISOLATED COLOR; MONOCHROME IMAGES; PERSPECTIVE; QUIET OR SUBDUED COLOR; HIGHLIGHTS AND SHADOWS; ATTRACTION AND REPULSION; COUNTERPOINTS AND OPPOSITES; Chapter 1 1: Solutions: Thinking and Writing about Images

THINKING STRUCTURE: A PROCESS FOR DISCOVERY AND PROBLEM SOLVING

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9786611019655

9781136104381

1136104380

9781281019653

1281019658

9780080549934

0080549934

OCLC:

179862500