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Let Jamie Beck transport you to the South of France with An American in Provence: part art book, part travelogue, part memoir, and part cookbook, and perfect for art lovers, Francophiles, and armchair travelers alike.

Learn the secrets to photo composition: There's a common misconception that composition is mysterious and that only certain people have that natural gift for the techniques involved. The truth is that composition involves a set of skills that you can master. Just as you can use cookbook recipes to make your favorite meal - you don't have to be a famous French chef - you also can take amazing photos by just following a recipe!

War photographer Lynsey Addario’s memoir It’s What I Do is the story of how the relentless pursuit of truth, in virtually every major theater of war in the twenty-first century, has shaped her life. What she does, with clarity, beauty, and candor, is to document, often in their most extreme moments, the complex lives of others. It’s her work, but it’s much more than that: it’s her singular calling.

For decades, Janet Malcolm's books and dispatches for the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books poked and prodded at reportorial and biographical convention, gesturing toward the artifice that underpins both public and private selves. In Still Pictures, she turns her gimlet eye on her own life—a task demanding a writer just as peerlessly skillful as she was widely known to be. Still Pictures, then, is not the story of a life but an event on its own terms, an encounter with identity and family photographs as poignant and original as anything since Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida.

The Business of Real Estate Photography provides the blueprints to start your own real estate photography business by providing a detailed guide on developing a business strategy and marketing plan, in addition to valuable information on the financial and legal aspects of the business. It assists you in gaining a thorough understanding of the market and includes many useful tips and lessons learned from the author’s own experiences that can save you time and money when establishing and growing your own business.

Wife and husband team Hannah Shaw and Andrew Marttila have made cats their lives' work: they rescue and rehabilitate neonatal kittens, educate the public on cat and kitten care, and capture our feline friends' unique personalities through writing and photography. Now, in the project of their dreams, they've taken their passion for cats global. In Cats of the World, Shaw and Marttila travel across thirty countries to explore feline welfare and cat culture around the globe, documenting their travels with stunning photos and stories from each location.

In this second edition, Murch reconsiders and completely revises his popular first edition's lengthy meditation on digital editing (which accounts for a third of the book's runtime) in light of the technological changes that have taken place in the six years since its publication.

In 2019, Humans of New York featured a photo of a woman in an outrageous fur coat and hat she made herself. She instantly captured the attention of millions. Her name is Stephanie Johnson, but she’s better known to HONY followers as “Tanqueray,” a born performer who was once one of the best-known burlesque dancers in New York City. Reeling from a brutal childhood, immersed in a world of go-go dancers and hustlers, dirty cops and gangsters, Stephanie was determined to become the fiercest thing the city had ever seen. And she succeeded.

Lee Miller, 1927 - New York: A classically beautiful young woman, she is discovered by Condé Nast. Lee Miller, 1929 - Paris: Protégé and lover of Man Ray, she invents with him the solarization technique of photography, develops into a brilliant Surrealist photographer, and plays the statue in Cocteau's film Blood of a Poet. Lee Miller, 1939-45 - Europe: Living at times with her future husband, the painter Roland Penrose, she becomes a US war correspondent and covers the siege of St Malo and the liberation of Paris.

Whether you are thinking about a new purchase or already have a camera, smartphone, or drone, this guide will put you on the path to a future of great picture-taking! This guide will help you with selecting the right equipment and accessories. It will help you understand how to start using your camera or smartphone for drone photography and how to start vlogging. Beyond equipment, this guide will help you understand how a great photographic image is created, based on using skills in lighting, composition, framing, and an eye for the quirky or unusual.

David Molnar was never supposed to be a professional photographer. Until the fateful day he almost died from a head on collision. While learning to walk again, photography became his escape and a form of therapy. But he found that turning pro in photography wasn't clear. There is no Bar exam for photography. He wished he had a mentor to show him the way. He struggled for a decade using trial and error before finding eventual success.

Con el libro Iluminación Fotográfica aprenderás cómo elegir un buen espacio para instalar tu estudio fotográfico y el tipo de equipo que vas a necesitar para comenzar. El autor entrega un completo listado con los tipos de pedestales, fondos y luces, además de la apariencia y las ventajas de todos los tipos de luces. También encontrarás un capítulo de modificadores, que constituyen la parte más divertida de la iluminación. Los modificadores, son reflectores como las cajas difusoras de luz, que ayudan a dirigir la iluminación produciendo una luz más clara y suave.

Who else wants to take mind-blowing pictures? If you want to stand out from the crowd and capture all those magic moments for posterity, you have come to the right place. Most guides to digital SLR photography will overwhelm you with jargon, but you and I both know that’s not what photography is all about. When I first started out, I couldn’t find any course or guide that actually helped me become a better photographer. That's why I’ve written this guide - so you don’t have to go through what I did.

In a world with more and more photographers, where everyone has phones with multiple cameras in them, many photographers who want to make their job what they love find it difficult. I have been blessed and worked hard to make a living out of creating images with the press of the shutter button. I'm proud to be a working professional photographer, and I am happy to share 10 important principles I followed to get here.

This book will give you a rounded and complete idea of how to control exposure. The book isn't DSLR or analog specific and covers aspects of both. It explains the three components to exposure, which are ISO, aperture, and shutter speed. Concepts such as depth of field and a quick overview of Ansel Adams' zone system are also covered. The focus is mainly on how to get a great exposure from the start, but there are also tips on how to fix an overexposed or underexposed photo.

Si tienes una innegable pasión por la fotografía, quizás sea el momento de pensar en llevarla al siguiente paso. ¡Lo más probable es que, si estás leyendo esto, sepas que el siguiente paso es convertirlo en un negocio! Al iniciar un negocio de fotografía, es importante tener en cuenta que si bien hay similitudes (debes tener un producto y necesitas un plan de negocios) las cosas funcionan de manera un poco diferente en los campos artísticos. Es por eso que la mayor parte de este libro se va a centrar en la forma de construir la marca y comercializarte con éxito.

Exploring the National Parks across the United States is an opportunity that should not be taken for granted. To understand the profound notion of stewardship, in terms of responsibility and accountability, we must know the land as intimately as possible.

¡Domina hoy el arte de la composición fotográfica! En Composición fotográfica encontrarás todo lo que necesitas saber para aprender los fundamentos de la composición. Te enseñará los términos y las maneras adecuadas de aplicar las reglas que posiblemente ya conoces instintivamente, pero que no entiendes bien por qué funcionan de la manera en que lo hacen.

For lovers of travel, design, and exploration, AWA presents a brand-new collection of real-world places that seem plucked from the films of Wes Anderson, and the stories that bring each location to life. You’ll venture to Antarctica through the treacherous Drake Passage, make a stop in lesser-known Jincumbilly, Australia (where platypuses outnumber people), discover the bridge in Wisconsin that went to nowhere, and drop into the most peculiar umbrella shop in London.

This book will guide you in starting your own photography business; it's truly an advantage if you are a photographer by profession, but if not, it doesn't mean that you could not open your own business. I can help you get the ball rolling.