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This easy-to-use book introduces readers/students to the fundamentals of photography and suggests ways in which they might create photographs that have meaning. With a especial concentrate on black and white photography, the Deuteronomy likewise explores digital techniques and web photography resources, equipment, cameras and camera accessories, the exposure and evolution of film, and the making and finishing of prints. All aspects of the process are explained and illustrated understandably in two-page spreads, each of which addresses a self-contained topic.
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If you don t know anything roughly photography and would like to learn, or if you want to make fitter pictures than the ones you make now, A Short Course in Photography will help you. It presents in depth the radical techniques for black-and-white photography:
* How to get a good exposure
* How to adapt the focus, shutter speed, and aperture (the size of the lens opening) to produce the results you want
* How to amend movie and make prints
Most of today s cameras incorporate automatic features, except that doesn t intend that they automatically produce the results you want. A Short Course in Photography devotes especial care to:
* Automatic concentrate and automatic exposure—what they do and, particularly, how to override them when it is fitter to adapt the camera manually
Some of the Deuteronomy s highlights include:
* Getting Started. If you are trademark new to photography, this segment will stroll you across the prototypal steps of selecting and loading film, focusing sharply, adjusting the exposure, and making your prototypal pictures. See pages 4-9.
* Digital Imaging. In one sense, digital imaging is just another tool, except it is likewise an immensely mighty technology that is changing photography and that will empower those who know how to use it. See pages 152-157.
* Projects. These projects are designed to help you amend your technical and expressive skills. See, for example, page 128 or 173.
* Making Better Prints. Additional data roughly how to fine tune your prints by flame in and dodging (darkening or lightening selected areas), and by cropping the edges to concentrate care on the division of the scene you want. See pages 114-117.
* Types of lenses, types of film, lighting, filters
Photography is a subjective and personal undertaking. A Short Course in Photography emphasizes your choices in portrait making:
* How to appearance at a scene in condition of the way the camera may record it
* How to select the shutter speed, point of view, or other elements that may make the unsimilarity between an normal snapshot and an exciting photograph
* Chapter 9, Seeing Like a Camera, explores your choices in selecting and adjusting the image, and covers how to photograph subjects such as clientele and landscapes
New to this edition are
* Using a Digital Camera. How to make photographs digitally from enter to complete
* Up-to-date data on Health and Safety precautions in the darkroom
* Technical updates throughout
* Many new photographs and illustrations
This Deuteronomy is designed to make scholarship photography as simple as possible:
* Every two facing pages completes a single subject
* Detailed step-by-step instructions clarify each stage of extended procedures such as negative evolution and printing
* Boldfaced headings make subtopics simple to spot
* Numerous photographs and drawings illustrate each subject
Acknowledgments Many clientele gave generously of their time and effort in the devising of this book. Feedback from numerous instructors was a primary help in confirming the radical instruction of the Deuteronomy and in determining the new elements in this edition. At Prentice Hall, Kimberly Chastain and Bud Therien provided editorial support. Joe Scordato supervised the devising of the Deuteronomy from manuscript to printer. Nancy Wells redesigned the Deuteronomy and helped make it flatbottom more exploiter friendly. If, as you read the Deuteronomy or use it in your class, you have suggestions to make, please send them to Photography Editor, Prentice Hall, 1 Lake Street, Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458. They will be sincerely welcomed. Jim Stone
Barbara London
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