"Seeing subjects with a new perspective is at the heart of the Lensbaby experience! Take your creative exploration to the next level by immersing yourself in the wonderful world of Lensbaby. This book is packed with easy to implement insider tips on composition and technique for capturing your best images. Written by Lensbaby Guru Corey Hilz, the second edition of Lensbaby: Bending Your Perspective begins with an overview of each lens in the Lensbaby suite, then goes in depth about the creative options offered by the optics and accessories. It includes the Composer Pro lens, Sweet 35 Optic and Edge 80 Optic - the latest additions to the extensive product line. Need inspiration? On nearly every page you'll find a full color image created by a Lensbaby expert to inspire your own shooting. With this gorgeous and practical book by your side, you'll never see the world in the same way again. - The only complete resource with all of the information you need to know to create successful Lensbaby images - Includes beautiful portfolio galleries covering a full range of styles from some of the best photographers working with a Lensbaby - Offers a fine survey of possibilities for using different lenses, optics and accessories in the Lensbaby suite"--

Tips and tricks for getting the best landscape and nature pictures with a digital camera.

Nurture your creativity with this three-part e-book collection Harold Davis, a well-known photographer whose work is widely displayed and collected, has shared his techniques on black-and-white, close-up, and nighttime photography in three beautifully illustrated guides. This Creative Collection presents all three in e-book format, offering insight and inspiration to photographers. Davis explains the challenges of these three photographic genres and shows you how to take creative control. His spectacular images are used to illustrate the techniques, making the collection a visual delight. Close-up, nighttime, and black-and-white photography all pose unique challenges to the photographer; this e-book collection teaches you how to take creative control and produce outstanding images in all three genres Includes e-book versions of Creative Black and White, Creative Night, and Creative Close-Ups Author Harold Davis is a renowned photographer whose images are used to illustrate the techniques discussed Covers the basic rules of black-and-white photography, ideal camera settings for nighttime exposure, advice on equipment for close-up shooting, and pages of field-tested techniques to help you master all three The Creative Collection, Volume 1 offers both instruction and inspiration to photographers interested in improving their skills with black-and-white, close-up, and nighttime photography.

Take a tour of the burgeoning world of plastic cameras and low-tech photography in this fun and funky guide to creating the most artistic pictures of your life! Whether you're an experienced enthusiast or toy camera neophyte, you'll find this guide full of tantalizing tips, fun facts, and absolutely striking photographs taken with the lowest tech tools around. You'll learn how to prep your plastic camera, their advantages and quirks, and what film to feed it. You'll also explore what makes a good subject, vignetting, multiple exposures, panoramas, close-ups, night photography, color, flash, problems and solutions, and so much more. Michelle Bates also takes you from a negative to either prints or pixels so that you can show off your photos and jump on the toy-camera revolution! Contributors include: Michael Ackerman, Thomas Michael Alleman, Erin Antognoli, Jonathan Bailey , James Balog, Michelle Bates, Phil Bebbington, Gyorgy Beck, Susan Bowen, Laura Corley Burlton, David Burnett, Susan Burnstine, Nancy Burson, Perry Dilbeck, Jill Enfield, fotovitamina, Annette Elizabeth Fournet, Brigitte Grignet, Eric Havelock-Bailie, Christopher James, Michael Kenna, Wesley Kennedy, Teru Kuwayama, Louviere & Vanessa, Mary Ann Lynch, Anne Arden McDonald, Ted Orland, Sylvia Plachy, Dan Price, Becky Ramotowski, Nancy Rexroth, Francisco Mata Rosas, Richard Ross, Franco Salmoiraghi, Rosanna Salonia, Jennifer Shaw, Nancy Siesel, Mark Sink, Kurt Smith, Sandy Sorlien, Pauline St. Denis, Harvey Stein, Gordon Stettinius, Ryan Synovec, Rebecca Tolk, Marydorsey Wanless, Shannon Welles, Matthew Yates, Dan Zamudio

Successful nature photographer and lecturer Charles Needle often asks students in his workshops if they understand the difference between “looking” and “seeing”. The difference he is pointing out is that while we are constantly “looking” at countless people, places and things, we might not be actually seeing what is right in front of us. Being tuned into this difference can elevate your art as a photographer, allowing you to be more in tune with your surroundings. Needle has applied this concept to his work and it shows. Utilizing macro photography to capture the nuances of the nature all around us. In this extensive handbook, Needle covers not only his philosophy for seeing and capturing nature photography but delves into the equipment he uses. Needle covers composition, flash techniques, the fundamentals of macro photography and so much more. The book features many set-up shots, equipment shots and sequential shots detailing the progression towards creating the final images. This essential text provides both the inspiration and the technique required to beautifully capture the wonders of nature.

Creative Photography will provide photographers with a range of techniques that will inspire and give them confidence to experiment with their own photography. The first half of the book covers the latest in-camera techniques including the use of Long Exposures, Intentional Camera Movement and Multiple Exposures.

Few areas of photography require the level of unwavering technical expertise required for successful macrophotography. When you’re shooting very big images of very small subjects, even tiny flaws—be it in the lighting, composition, focusing, or any other aspect of the process—can result in unusable images. In this book, Stan Sholik provides a practical approach to overcoming the most common challenges faced when shooting macro. He takes you behind the scenes and explains each step of the process involved in photographing a vast array of subjects with varying colors, shapes, textures, and surfaces. You’ll get inside the creative process, learn what specialized equipment is required for top results, and how simple light tweaks can make or break your images. With these skills, you’ll be ready to take on any macrophotography challenge with confidence!