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The Color Photo Book - Improve the quality of your color photographs Hardcover
Dear Reader
I assume you reach for this book because you wish to improve the quality of your color photographs in regard to technical proficiency and pictorial effect; and you, of course, assume that I will be able to guide you toward this goal. Whether or not we both will be happy�I, with your progress as a student of photography, and you, with the effect of this book upon your work�depends to a great extent upon mutual understanding right from the start of our common venture. Let me clarify: You are entitled to expect from me an authoritative, technically sound, and completely up-to-date guide to color photography, giving you the benefit of my twenty-year experience as a Life staff photographer and thirty-year preoccupation with photography and the needs of photographers. However, I realize that I have strong convictions and definite ideas on many aspects of photography. I therefore feel it is only fair to warn you that you may be in for surprises. My approach to the subject is often different from that of the average textbook. If all you want is a conventional introduction to color photography, you may be disappointed. But if you are open-minded and willing to try new ways, I believe you will find the following discussions both stimulating and profitable.
On the other hand, I expect that you have faith in my ability as a teacher. And since teaching implies learning, I also expect a certain effort on your part. Even if, as far as you are concerned, photography is merely a hobby; to make it successful and rewarding, you must memorize a few technical terms and familiarize yourself with certain principles and rules. However, do not worry; what at first may seem strange and difficult because it is new, will soon become familiar to you.
Content
FACTS ABOUT THIS BOOK
Part I DEAR READER
Why do you wish to photograph?
Photography as a hobby
Photography as a means of self-expression
Photography as a career
Photography as supplement to other work
Your attitude toward photography
Motivation
Equipment
Technique
What makes a photograph "good"?
Stopping power
Purpose and meaning
Graphic quality
Summary
Emotional impact
Conclusions
Part II EQUIPMENT AND MATERIAL
Suitability
Simplicity
Indispensable equipment
Camera
Lens shade
Exposure meter - (reflected-light meters, incident-light meters types of photocells)
Flash attachment - (flashbulbs, electronic flash )
Color-conversion filters
Gadget bag
Color fil
Equipment to widen the scope of your work
Additional camera
Additional lenses
Extension tubes and auxiliary bellows
Reflex housing
Additional filters and polarizer - (color-conversion filters light-balancing filters, color-compensating filters - ultraviolet or haze filters, polarizers)
Additional lighting equipment - (lamps producing continuous light: floodlamps, professional tungsten lamps, photoflood lamps, blue photoflood lamps reflector floods and reflector spots, tungsten-halogen lamps, spotlights fluorescent lamps)
Lamps producing discontinuous light - (flashbulbs 41 electronic flash or speedlight)
Tripods
Equipment of relatively limited usefulness
and much, much More
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