Techniques category: 2761 books
Master's Guide to Off-Camera Flash
Professional Techniques for Digital Photographers
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
By emphasizing basic principles of good lighting and how to apply them, this informative guide shows advanced amateur photographers and professionals how to improve their photographic skills. After explaining different types of light, flash basics, and the benefits of on- and off-camera lighting techniques,...
Close-up and Macro Photography
Its Art and Fieldcraft Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Focusing on fieldcraft techniques for macro and close-up photography, Thompson covers the vital but often overlooked skills necessary to achieve consistent professional results in the field. Case studies covering a broad and often challenging group of subjects from the seashore to your back garden...
by Bill Lemon
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
The techniques illustrated in this handbook inspire photographers to take photographs when they would otherwise put their camera away-in low-light and nighttime situations. A comprehensive discussion of color and tone teaches photographers how to change their overall perceptions in low-light environments...
Professional HDR Photography
Achieve Brilliant Detail and Color by Mastering High Dynamic Range (HDR) and Postproduction Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Building on a professional photographer's on-the-job experience using the high dynamic range (HDR) imaging technique, which captures an astounding range of tones that far exceeds the native abilities of any camera, this guide shows serious photographers how a more sophisticated approach to HDR can produce...
The Artist's Guide to GIMP, 2nd Edition
Creative Techniques for Photographers, Artists, and Designers
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
As a full-featured, free alternative to Adobe Photoshop, GIMP is one of the world's most popular open source projects. The latest version of GIMP (2.8) brings long-awaited improvements and powerful new tools to make graphic design and photo manipulation even easier—but it's still a notoriously challenging...
by Simon Rivera
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2017
Photography is becoming far more pervasive than anyone could have imagined. When cell phones list as a major feature the abilities of the camera as a stand-alone product, we can tell that photography is at the forefront of everyone’s mind and serves our vanity. Which really isn’t a bad thing...
Creative Wedding Album Design with Adobe Photoshop
Step-By-Step Techniques for Professional Digital Photographers
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Pairing photographic creativity with digital-manipulation techniques, this unique manual teaches the use of Photoshop to design artful, distinctive, and compelling wedding albums. Showing that the artistic process need not stop at the click of the shutter, the steps for album creation are detailed reviewing...
by Anthony Coleman
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Learn to Play Guitar in 3 Weeks or LessMastering the art of playing the guitar is a lifetime experience full of highs and lows, trials and errors. But learning the basics can be accomplished in just a few short weeks. After you know the basics you can move on to learning simple songs and perfecting...
by Jennifer Stackhouse, Debbie McDonald
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Planting Techniques is a practical and easily accessible reference guide for the budding gardener. With information on selecting the right gardening tools and purchasing plants, through to planting and propagation, this book explains the ins and outs of how to achieve a healthy garden. With step by...
Alternative Photographic Processes
Crafting Handmade Images
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Alternative Photographic Processes teaches techniques, both analog & digital, allowing artists to bring a personal touch through manipulation of a photograph, the negative, and the print. This book stands apart from recent publications on alternative processes by presenting a range of new approaches...
by Stuart Clayton
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Ultimate Tapping for Bass Guitar is the second book in the Bass Techniques series. Tapping is one of the least conventional ways of playing the bass, yet in the right hands it can be a very musical technique. The aim of the book is to demystify the various forms of tapping techniques that can be employed...
by Dr.King
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
This book describes in detail 5 most useful grafting techniques that can be used to propagate many exotic fruits. The book contains detailed illustrations, examples, fruit chart as well as root stocks and techniques well suited for these fruits.
Modern Saxophone Techniques
A Resource for Developing Sound, Improving Facility, & Enhancing Musicianship
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
(Sax Instruction). Many books present facts, but Modern Saxophone Techniques teaches the developing player how to learn. Listening, exploring, writing original music, and trial and error are some of the methods threaded throughout. The concepts presented will keep players learning, maturing, and mastering...
by Adrian Davies
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Digital Ultraviolet and Infrared Photography discusses the growing number of applications of ultraviolet and infrared photography. Scientific and technical photographers, such as those engaged in scientific, medical, forensic, and landscape and wildlife photography routinely use ultraviolet and infrared...