Fundamentals of Photography: The Essential Handbook for Both Digital and Film Cameras Feature
- ISBN13: 9780375711572
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Fundamentals of Photography: The Essential Handbook for Both Digital and Film Cameras Overview
The most comprehensive, accessible, and completely up-to-date guide available for today’s photographer: whether beginner or advanced, using a film camera or digital.
Award-winning photographer Tom Ang provides a thorough, explicitly detailed bottom-to-top understanding of modern photography, explaining all the techniques that will help anyone who uses a camera—in a professional capacity or as a snapshot shooter—improve the quality of his or her photographs. Here is everything you need to know: from the most practical advice (the fundamental facts about light sources) to the most sophisticated nuances (how light is measured through photometry), from the basics of the camera (which button controls which function) to the finer points of framing with an LCD viewfinder, featuring a selection of Ang’s most inspiring images. For users of film cameras, Ang explains the differences between types of film and details the various methods of processing and darkroom techniques.
Ang delves into the development and transformation of photography by digital techniques. For the digital-camera contingent, there’s a specificity of previously unavailable information about the cameras and about processing, digitizing, and outputting the images. Ang also discusses subjects usually ignored in manuals but of interest to all photographers, including critical theory, the presentation of images, the function of the human eye in the perception of images, and ethical and copyright issues.
Fundamentals of Photography is an essential book for every photographer.
Customer Reviews
Several years ago, I was enamored with black and white photography and, for an amateur, owned a plethora of very good 35mm equipment. Unfortunately, in a series of events with the cyber harlot I was living with at the time that should have aired on some shock value TV talk shows, it was absconded and ended up in the hands of a short-lived lover which ate walrus blubber in the far north. Fortuitously, a wondrous friend of mine rekindled my interest in film photography again.
This book is what I deem "The Holy Grail of Photography." It is authored by an award-winning photographer, and it covers the gamut of information, from the fundamentals to the advanced. It is inclusive and pertains to both the film and digital realms, covering the topic of light to the mechanics of cameras and the handling and use of lenses and shooting. This book covers an astounding and varied amount of material and is easily comprehensible and applicable--not to mention fascinating.
Each topic is also color-coded at the top of the page, so the separation of subject matter can easily be discerned, and, after time, memorized for easy access and referenced with the color-coding without referring to the index. This is a thoughtful feature.
I actually believe Tom Ang utilized some state-of-the-art equipment that was capable of extracting a perfect data dump directly from his brain to the written word. His love for his craft is very evident. If you happen to be neophyte to photography and have caught the fever, or are a grizzled old pro, you will benefit from Tom Ang's incredible amount of photographic knowledge. I believe I will make a trip up north this year and shoot some Canadians--with a camera of course!
Reviewed by Lee Crawford
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