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Tabletop Photography
Professional Digital Photography
Soft-cover, 8 1/2 x 11", 128 pages, 120 full-color photos. This book provides photographers skilled in basic digital imaging with the techniques required to take their images to the next level. Beginning with digital capture, Dave addresses the latest advances in technology, then provides techniques for color balancing your camera, exposure, and monitor calibration. Next, color and professional color printing are discussed, with techniques for making your images look their best in print. There is also step-by-step instruction on techniques for using Adobe Photoshop for color and contrast control, advanced sharpening, and applying professional artistic techniques. Finally, you'll learn how the digital equivalent of light painting called Painting With Pixels can give you complete control of your images in Adobe Photoshop.
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Creative Lighting Techniques
Second Edition. Softcover, 8-1/2 x 11", 124 pages, over 100 b&w and color photographs. Gain complete control over light and shadow formation, and use it to create outstanding photographs. The author draws on images from real assignments to give you concrete, practical examples that make it easy to duplicate or adapt every effect.
Designed to strike a balance between lighting theory and methodology, this book teaches you universal principles and backs them up with practical applications. It is not about methods of lighting for a single type of photography, but instead it covers the knowledge that will allow you to light more creatively for your specialty.
After touching upon the fundamentals of lighting theory, the majority of the book is devoted to two main topics: forming images with shadow, and lighting with specular energy. Each section is loaded with technical specifications and examples that illustrates how theory translates into practice. Stunning images and helpful diagrams show you how to apply these insights to photographs of any subject and guide you towards studio lighting mastery.
Whether you are a profesional studio photographer or just getting started in the business, this book will greatly increase your skills as well as expand your versatility. This "how to" detailed diagrammed book will enable you to light everything from portraits, advertising, fashion and automobiles.
"Home-Made" Photography
This video is designed to expose amateurs and students to the creative possibilities of lighting. The photographic examples that are performed in this video, produce dramatic images that use simple, easy to learn lighting setups - setups that can be performed on your own at home.
The photographic examples in this video are designed to inspire and to excite you into painlessly learning the necessary lighting principles. This information is packaged within a humorous little story, a story about a photographer who wakes up one Sunday morning to find that it is raining and that he cannot spend the day outside shooting as he had planned.So he spends the day lighting people and interesting small sets which he photographs in his house using house-hold items for lighting equipment (the "McGyver" approach to photography or yet another way of recycling house-hold junk).
You will learn how to:
create dramatic lighting
adapt household objects into lighting equipment and rigging
apply pro-metering techniques with your in camera meter
Only photographic equipment you require:
a SLR or DSLR camera and a tripod.
Everything You Ever Wanted
To Know About Metering - Volume I
VOLUME I - METERING "EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT METERING, BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK!" This first volume of the humorous two volume series by Canadian lecturers and commercial photographers Dave and Mark Montizambert answers burning questions covering key aspects of photography. Volume I Metering is an in-depth look at how to meter efficiently and effectively - it is jam-packed with information.
Information such as:
how and when to use incident or reflective readings for accurate exposures every time
how to create your images within the tonal ranges of both photography and lithography
how the traditional B&W "Zone System" does and doesn't work
If you want to remove the frustration from your photography and replace it with consistency and accuracy, then this video is a must see.
Volume I video length - 45 minutes
Cost - $29.95 US / $39.95 CDN plus taxes where applicable.
$6.00 US / $8.50 CDN for shipping.
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To Know About Metering - Volume II (Colourizing)
This second volume of the humorous two volume series by Canadian lecturers and commercial photographers Dave and Mark Montizambert answers burning questions covering key aspects of photography. Volume II, Colorzoning, is an in-depth look at how to zone and how to apply your metering skills to make you more efficient, effective, and creative as a photographer - it is jam-packed with information.
how to set up and use your own Colorzone system
an easy to understand zoning system used by advertising photographers that is designed to work in both B&W and color
how to create and predict backgrounds in color and in B&W with 100% accuracy
how to photograph glowing objects such as computers, LED readouts, liquor glows, glowing stained glass church windows, and flame
If you want to become more creative with capturing light as well as increasing your consistency and accuracy, then you must see this video.
Volume II video length - 45 minutes
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