Amherst Media: 254 books
Set the Scene
Use Props to Create Memorable Portrait Photography
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
No one likes to admit it, but photographers often reach a plateau where they feel like they've reached their creative limit. Adding the right prop to a portrait setup can elevate every aspect of the image-easing the posing process, inspiring more interesting lighting, and engaging viewers in a more personalized...
Rocky Mountain High Peaks
A Visual Tour of America's Great Range
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
Bask in the beauty of Colorado’s mountains and landscapes. The book is full of breathtaking and inspiring images created by Colorado photographers. The book has two main audiences: First, author Brian Tedesco and his contributors provide photo enthusiasts and professional photographers alike with...
Essential Elements of Portrait Photography
Lighting and Posing Techniques to Make Everyone Look Their Best
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
Creating an idealized image of a subject is a portrait photographer's job. However, the approach is not quite formulaic. From one subject to the next and one day to the next, there are different goals and scenarios-on Monday, you may be tasked with photographing your subjects under cloudy skies on a...
One Wedding: Destination Dubai
How to Photograph a Wedding from Start to Finish
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
In the past decade or so, there has been a remarkable increase in the amount of destination wedding photography work available. Clients getting married abroad are able to search online for their dream destination and find service providers that really resonate with them-whether these are photographers,...
by Jack Drafahl, Sue Drafahl
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
Using the digital darkroom to perfect underwater images, this guide is loaded with tips on how to finesse, fine-tune, retouch, and enhance underwater film scans and digital images with Adobe Photoshop. This comprehensive look at the required setup for a digital darkroom outlines the necessary hardware,...
Fine Art Photoshop
Diving Into the World of Photographic Art
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Award-winning photographer and accomplished instructor Ella Putney Carlson provides a comprehensive guide to using photographs to make art using the Photoshop software. Readers will learn the creative process of making art that can be used with most raster graphics editing software. Readers will learn...
by Lista Duren, Wil McDonald, Will McDonald
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1990
Covering every aspect from design to full operation, this clear and detailed book is perfect for photographers at all levels. It includes information on darkroom design, woodworking for the novice, lightproofing, ventilation, worktables, building enlarger baseboards, light boxes, water supply panels, print drying racks, darkroom sinks, and much more.
Art with an iPhone
A Photographer's Guide to Creating Altered Realities
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
The iPhone's powerful and highly capable camera is always at the ready, letting you instantly document the people, places, and things that surround you. In this book, Kat Sloma teaches you best how to harness natural light, both indoors and out, to create high quality images—and then creatively...
Cinematic Portraits
How to Create Classic Hollywood Photography
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
Pete Wright teaches you how to re-create mysterious, dark, and glamorous cinematic portraits reminiscent of those taken of 1920s’ and 1930s’ stars and starlets. The book contains 60 discrete sections which contain 60 of Wright’s most impressive, nostalgic black & white portraits, along with some...
The Soft Touch
A Photographer's Guide to Manipulating Focus
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Image sharpness is one of photography’s yin/yang propositions. Soft focus can impair a photograph, and just as readily enhance it-in some cases, greatly enhance it. What we perceive as blur, as soft zones in a picture, function in very much the same manner as deep shadows or overexposed highlights....
Shoot Cold
Pro Techniques for Exploring the Bold World of Winter Photography
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
The winter landscape is a relatively untapped photographic subject for most photographers. As renowned nature photographer Joseph Classen proves, though, if you venture out, you’re sure to discover a remarkable array of photo opportunities. You’ll learn to recognize the obvious and overlooked...
Storytelling Portrait Photography
How to Document the Lives of Children and Families
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Photojournalists are trained to scout important events, capture mood and emotion, predict peak action, and create images that, in an instant, tell a compelling and memorable story. In this book, award-winning photojournalist Paula Ferazzi Swift (from Framingham, MA) shows readers how she adapted her...
After the Camera
Digital Transformations for Conceptual Nude & Portrait Photography
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Thom Rouse seems to have an unbridled artistic sensibility. In this book, he offers up for review sixty of his favorite fine-art images. Rouse takes photographers behind the scenes of his creative process, showing the starting point-always a portrait, captured by him-and then details the Photoshop tools...
by Rosanne Olson
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
Everything we see is lit by one source or another. The questions are: what and how? That is what this book is designed to teach you. Through Rosanne Olson’s tried-and-true course on lighting principles for photography, video, and art in general, you will discover how the angles and heights of your...