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Basics Photography: Lighting guides the reader through the different methods of capturing images using light creatively. The book explores the theory and background of how all light ‘works’ for the photographer, encouraging the reader to explore and experiment.

The book makes the case that understanding lighting is fundamental to good photography, and a good photographer learns to paint with light. Technical concepts and different light sources available are explained through the use of clear diagrams and inspiring images.

Basics Photography: Lighting offers an essential introduction to the subject and represents a comprehensive reference for students of photography.

Key features

* Beautifully illustrated with inspiring and compelling images, many taken especially for this publication.
* Offers an in-depth exploration of lighting and how to achieve results without expensive kit.
* Small-format book which is easy to carry around and refer to.

Readership: Intermediate

* Suitable for foundation and undergraduate students of photography.
* Relevant to GSCE and visual art students taking a module in photography.
* A practical guide for students, practitioners and teachers involved in photography.

Black and white occupies a special place in the development of photography, and the sharp revival of interest in it testifies to its enduring appeal. The simplicity of a monochrome image, recorded just in the modulation of tones, makes it an elegant visual medium in which to work. The economy of the palette focuses the attention on certain essentials, such as shape, form and quality of light, as well as texture and subtle tonal graduations. Now, with digital photography and all its tools and possibilities for editing images, there is a new era of the hand-crafted print. Black & White is an essential guide that will teach both enthusiasts and professionals how the digital workflow can create stunning monochrome images.

Michael Freeman is an acclaimed international photographer and writer who has published a number of titles on photography, with more than a million copies sold. He has worked on commissions for many well-known publishing clients, including Time-Life, Reader’s Digest, Condé Nast Traveler and GEO.

Photography is a dominant force in the blogosphere, and the potential reach and influence of a successful blog is something photographers of all levels can hardly ignore but where to begin? Veteran blogger Jolie O’Dell shares the secrets of finding success online with reliable and inspirational methods for building, maintaining, and promoting your own personal photo blog. Your images will find new audiences, your voice will be heard across the web, and your business will grow by leaps and bounds!

• Dozens of inspirational blogs featured throughout show off some of the very best work done today.
• Loaded with tips on how to consistently create content that’s fun for you and your readers.
• Learn how to engage your readership and interact with the global community.

The complete manual to boudoir, one of the fastest growing trends in photography

Once popular mainly with brides, boudoir portraits are now enjoyed by women of all ages to celebrate everything from anniversaries to birthdays to their own independent spirit. This isn’t old-fashioned glamour photography - it’s an altogether new genre, with a focus on flattering the subject and creating stunning, intimate images.
In this one-stop guide, successful boudoir photographer Critsey Rowe reveals all you need to get started with your own boudoir studio, whether you’re an amateur shooting at home or a professional looking to tap into this exciting new revenue stream. Inside you’ll discover:

- A complete guide to boudoir, from equipment, makeup, and styling, to lighting, shooting, and step-by-step retouching.
- Thirty poses to flatter any subject, whatever her body type.
- Essential postproduction techniques to lift, smooth, and tone.
- Tips on making clients comfortable and collaborating with them to produce portraits they’ll love.

C PHOTO MAKING MOVIES presents a visual outline of two related, yet unmistakably different media: cinema and photography. By including artists from both media, C PHOTO MAKING MOVIES attempts to convey the influence that the motion picture has had on photography on conceptual and aesthetic levels, as well as the way photography has continued to resonate through cinema.

Collector: A selection from the private collection of English collector and gallery owner Michael Hoppen: Araki, Nobuyoshi / Bourke-White, Margaret / Brandt, Bill / Breitenbach, Joseph / Jones, Colin / Lartigue, Jacques-Henri / Moon, Sarah / Moriyama, Daido / Papageorge, Tod / Sander, August / Szabo, Joseph / Tomatsu, Shomei / Walker, Tim / Winogrand, Garry

Norman McLaren: A series of images from the animator and film director Norman McLaren, who, during the middle decades of the twentieth century, produced an extensive body of work and made many innovations in the medium, among them his novel technique of drawing both sound and pictures on film.

Archive: A series of cinema-related images from Magnum Photos, reflecting the agency’s long-standing relationship with the film industry. Photographers include: Arnold, Eve / Barbey, Bruno / Burri, Rene / Capa, Robert / Davidson, Bruce / Glinn, Burt / Smith, William Eugene / Seymour, David / Stock Dennis.

Scope / Portfolio: Altman, Robert / Cassavetes, John / Coen, Joël / De Palma, Brian / Dreyer, Carl Theodor / Doyle, Christopher / Ferrara, Abel / Fleming, Victor / Gilliam, Terry / Glen, John / Korine, Harmony / Kubrick, Stanley / Lasseter, John / Lee, Spike / Lynch, David / Mekas, Jonas / Mills, Mike / Polanski, Roman / Scorsese, Martin / Smight, Jack / Sugimoto, Hiroshi / Van Sant, Gus / Wall, Jeff

C Action: The grants for Issue 10 were awarded to Alfonso Zubiaga and Alexander Gronsky.

Vintage: C PHOTO devotes a retrospective portfolio to a series of stills from Swiss collector and photography enthusiast Christoph Schifferli. These unpublished images reveal the technical sophistication and artistic value of early Hollywood film still photography.

Guest features the work of Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar who has established himself as one of the leading filmmakers of his generation. He shares a mixture of personal photography, self-portraits and images from both his early short films and later features.

Interviews and Essays: Campany, David / Hoppen, Michael / Mekas, Jonas / Self, Will / Sen, Aveek.

Это одно из первых фундаментальных исследований природы фотографии и одновременно оммаж покойной матери автора. Интерес к случайно попавшей в руки фотографии 1870 года вызвал у Барта желание узнать, благодаря какому существенному признаку фотография выделяется из всей совокупности изображений. Задавшись вопросом классификации, систематизации фотографий, философ выстраивает собственную феноменологию, вводя понятия Studium и Punftum. Studium обозначает культурную, языковую и политическую интерпретацию фотографии, Punftum - сугубо личный эмоциональный смысл, позволяющий установить прямую связь с фотоизображением.

Album prezentuje obraz nowoczesnej fotografii erotycznej w wykonaniu ponad 100 fotografów z całego świata. Wybór zdjęć dokonany został wyłącznie na podstawie ich wartości artystycznych, a nie "renomy" fotografów.

It is a long-held truism that 'the camera does not lie'. Yet, as Mia Fineman argues in this illuminating volume, that statement contains its own share of untruth. While modern technological innovations, such as Adobe's Photoshop software, have accustomed viewers to more obvious levels of image manipulation, the practice of "doctoring" photographs has in fact existed since the medium was invented. In "Faking It", Fineman demonstrates that today's digitally manipulated images are part of a continuum that begins with the earliest years of photography, encompassing methods as diverse as overpainting, multiple exposure, negative retouching, combination printing, and photomontage. Among the book's revelations are previously unknown and never before published images that document the acts of manipulation behind two canonical works of modern photography: one blatantly fantastical (Yves Klein's "Leap into the Void" of 1960); the other a purportedly unadulterated record of a real place in time (Paul Strand's "City Hall Park" of 1915). Featuring 160 captivating pictures created between the 1840s and 1990s in the service of art, politics, news, entertainment, and commerce, "Faking It" provides an essential counterhistory of photography as an inspired blend of fabricated truths and artful falsehoods.

You’ve got the gear, the training, and the technology. You’re ready to make the leap from aspiring to professional photographer. Now what?

With today’s affordable, high-quality cameras, Internet technology, and training, any weekend warrior can hang a shingle and open a photography business. But what then? While anyone can buy a professional quality camera, few have the skills to turn their dreams into a profitable business.

Going Pro is the essential guide to leaping successfully into any genre of professional photography. Industry powerhouses Scott Bourne and Skip Cohen share invaluable advice on defining your niche, putting together a portfolio, pricing and showing your work, marketing, positioning your brand, and, most important, building an online social media platform from the ground up. Throughout, advice and tips are offered from 25 of the biggest names in the industry, including Chase Jarvis, Vincent Laforet, Matthew Jordan Smith, Jeremy Cowart, Jules Bianchi, Bambi Cantrell, Tony Corbell, Kevin Kubota, Jerry Ghionis, and more.

WHERE INSPIRATION MEETS TECHNICAL CRAFT, this guide to professional filmmaking  with a GoPro is packed with hundreds of beautiful photos and interactive links to videos created by professional athletes, filmmakers, and inspired GoPro users around the world.

As the only book to cover the art and technique of advanced filmmaking by the team at GoPro, you’ll get a unique insider’s look at GoPro’s history, all the different camera modes and settings, standard and experimental mounts, shooting principles, and editing techniques. Compelling stories from users such as Kelly Slater, Shaun White, and Kevin Richardson offer a rare view into an incredible world of athleticism, artistic beauty, and storytelling.

Whether you’re a professional filmmaker, top athlete or an aspiring enthusiast, you’ll get all the inspiration and instruction you need to capture and create your own engaging edits to share with the world.

“This book is an invaluable window into Bradford and Brandon’s creative thinking and summarizes their years of experience. Hopefully, it serves as a spark for you just as the authors have done for GoPro.”

From the foreword by Nicholas Woodman, founder of GoPro

From the innocent allure of Audrey Hepburn and the sensuous poses of Marilyn Monroe to the macho charisma of Marlon Brando and the cool sophistication of Humphrey Bogart, this fabulous, inspirational book of star photographs provides classic portrait styles and detailed directions on how to set up, light, and shoot each photo. Step-by-step instructions reveal the techniques used by top-notch Hollywood photographers for their glittering glamour portraits of the 1920s through the 1950s. Diagrams and additional step-by-step instructions give readers the information needed to create classic Hollywood-style portraits of their own. Included are sections on equipment, processing, lighting, and modern-day equivalents, plus a decade-by-decade gallery featuring vintage portraits of the stars.

Almost everyone can “see” in the conventional sense, but developing photographic vision takes practice. Learning to See Creatively helps photographers visualize their work, and the world, in a whole new light.

Now totally rewritten, revised, and expanded, this best-selling guide takes a radical approach to creativity. It explains how it is not some gift only for the “chosen few” but actually a skill that can be learned and applied. Using inventive photos from his own stunning portfolio, author and veteran photographer Bryan Peterson deconstructs creativity for photographers. He details the basic techniques that went into not only taking a particular photo, but also provides insights on how to improve upon it - helping readers avoid the visual pitfalls and technical dead ends that can lead to dull, uninventive photographs.

This revised edition features the latest information on digital photography and digital imaging software, as well as an all-new section on color as a design element. Learning to See Creatively is the definitive reference for any photographers looking for a fresh perspective on their work. Almost everyone can “see” in the conventional sense, but developing photographic vision takes practice. Learning to See Creatively helps photographers visualize their work, and the world, in a whole new light.

Now totally rewritten, revised, and expanded, this best-selling guide takes a radical approach to creativity. It explains how it is not some gift only for the “chosen few” but actually a skill that can be learned and applied. Using inventive photos from his own stunning portfolio, author and veteran photographer Bryan Peterson deconstructs creativity for photographers. He details the basic techniques that went into not only taking a particular photo, but also provides insights on how to improve upon it - helping readers avoid the visual pitfalls and technical dead ends that can lead to dull, uninventive photographs.

This revised edition features the latest information on digital photography and digital imaging software, as well as an all-new section on color as a design element. Learning to See Creatively is the definitive reference for any photographers looking for a fresh perspective on their work.

Light is the key element in photography - it both creates the image and defines the style and feel of a picture. How does light work, both inside and outside the digital camera? What do you need to know about sensitivity, colour temperature and exposure? As part of the Digital Photography Expert series by Michael Freeman, Light & Lighting explores the capabilities of digital cameras and the theory of light, and helps you to put theory into practice and to shoot like a pro. Through informative, succinct text and breathtaking images, you’ll learn how best to work with light, whether it’s the sun streaming through a window, the glow of a neon sign, or the warm and fragile light of a burning candle.

Michael Freeman is an acclaimed international photographer and writer who has published a number of titles on photography, with more than a million copies sold. He has worked on commissions for many well-known publishing clients, includingTime-Life, Reader’s Digest, Condé Nast Travelerand GEO.

The nude is a difficult subject to light. This book gives ideas on lighting nude and semi-nude figures, based on successful examples by established and renowned photographers. It features three-dimensional illustrations, and images from photographers working in digital. It contains pictures covering full nude and semi-nude erotica.

One of the most enduring images in art and photography, the nude continues to inspire photographers of all levels to explore the nuances of lighting. Now updated for the digital age, with more than 70 all-new images and lighting diagrams, Lighting the Nude, Revised Edition offers a behind-the-scenes look at how today’s top photographers sculpt light across the human form to create stunning, unforgettable images. Inside you’ll find:

• Lighting and posing setups for more than 140 nudes.
• A wide range of styles, from classical to fantasy, romantic to erotic.
• Camera settings, tips, and techniques straight from the photographers.
• A comlete introduction to gear, along with tips for working with models.