A View from the Wild Side

A Manual for Better Pictures – Photographic Techniques

Chapter I: The Camera
Chapter II: Optics/Perspective
Chapter III: Focus
Chapter IV: Design Principles
Chapter V: Composition
Chapter VI: Color
Chapter VII: Visual Perception
Chapter VIII: Time-Motion-Space
Chapter IX: The Characteristics of Light
Chapter X: Intro to Portraiture
Chapter XI: Styles from the Past
Chapter XII: Fine Arts B&W
Chapter XIII: Wildlife
Chapter XIV: Infrared
Chapter XV: Post-production

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A View from the Wild Side, takes the reader through the picture-making-process in fine arts photography. I have gathered relevant images from my early days of photography and through the years, to illustrate the design, composition and strategies to take better pictures.

• Practical instructions on the use of the camera: the viewing system, digital functions and operation.
• Apply color theories, methods of design, composition and visual perception.
• Illustrations in previsualizations and motion and imagination imagery.
• Explore the characteristics of light, working with glassware and reflective subject.
• Concise guides and explanatory diagrams for black-and-white and print making.
• Colorful close-up wildlife digital images from the Amazonas rainforest.

Advanced Lighting

Study Book in Portraiture & Media Lighting Design

It centers on portrait lighting techniques in the studio and location, with emphasis on facial forms and posing.

PART 1: Introduction
Chapter I The Characteristics of Light
Chapter II Photographic Lights

PART 2: Basic Lighting
Chapter III Direction of Light-lighting Highly Reflective Subjects
Chapter IV Intensity of Light-Lighting with Electronic Flash

PART 3: Basic Portrait Lighting
Chapter V Light Sources/Movements
Chapter VI Basic Light Forms

PART 4: Advanced Portrait Lighting
Chapter VII Continuous Lighting
Chapter VIII Studio Strobes
Chapter IX The Beauty Dish
Chapter X Portable Strobes
Chapter XI Daylight

PART 5: SPECIAL TOPICS
Chapter XII Filters in Photography
Chapter XIII Long Exposure

A complete instructional course. This book is available in PDF format or print.
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