A guide to over fifty photography techniques, including cross-processing, panning, backlighting, close-ups, and framing a scene

Collects photography exercises that can be completed with any type of camera, including tutorials that focus on such topics as reflections, backlighting, tension, portraiture, and shadows.

The classic guide to creative photography, now updated for the digital age. This much-anticipated update to the bestselling The A-Z of Creative Photography explains all aspects of creative digital photography, with more than 70 techniques presented in practical A-Z format. Filled with advice, insight, and hundreds of inspiring images from master photographer Lee Frost, The A-Z of Creative Photography, Revised Edition, gives you the know-how to take digital photos that instantly come alive. You'll learn how to: * Expose for low-light scenes * Merge multiple exposures * Create Polaroid-style images * Add richness by using do-it-yourself filters * Take backlit photos * Enhance images with software plug-ins * and much more!

This is a comprehensive guide to a wide range of popular and less familiar photographic techniques for photographers seeking ways to become more creative with their work.

Reproduced from the 1948 edition of The Home Place, the Bison Book edition brings back into print an important early work by one of the most highly regarded of contemporary American Writers. This account in first-person narrative and photographs of the one-day visit of Clyde Muncy to "the home place" at Lone Tree, Nebraska, has been called "as near to a new fiction form as you could get." Both prose and pictures are homely: worn linoleum, an old man?s shoes, well-used kitchen utensils, and weathered siding. Muncy?s journey of discovery takes the measure of the man he has become and of what he has left behind.

From accountant to zoologist, this new edition of The A-Z of Careers & Jobs offers detailed insights into more than 300 career areas. For those looking for their first job after school or university, or for anyone considering a change of career, the book provides reliable and up-to-date careers advice on a wide range of professions, covering practical issues such as job opportunities in each market, personal skills and qualities, entry qualifications and training, useful contact details and realistic salary expectations. The A-Z of Careers and Jobs is also a valuable reference for careers advisors working in schools, colleges and universities who need to keep track of new developments - new roles and routes of entry, professional associations and exams - to offer the very best guidance to today's job hunters.

The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography explores the vast international scope of twentieth-century photography and explains that history with a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary manner. This unique approach covers the aesthetic history of photography as an evolving art and documentary form, while also recognizing it as a developing technology and cultural force. This Encyclopedia presents the important developments, movements, photographers, photographic institutions, and theoretical aspects of the field along with information about equipment, techniques, and practical applications of photography. To bring this history alive for the reader, the set is illustrated in black and white throughout, and each volume contains a color plate section. A useful glossary of terms is also included.