The Best of Portrait Photography: Techniques and Images from the Pros

Price: $23.07

Price: $23.07
I’ve been asked dozens of times “how do you do it?” and after answering emails from doll collectors, artists, and doll fashion designers, I’ve decided to go ahead and share the methods that have taken me six years and hundreds of hours to learn
You’ll receive several options for an easy-to-set-up photo stages, and I’ll show you my personal photo stage so you can see exactly how I do it.
If after reading this book you don’t learn new and easier ways to photograph your dolls, then I will personally give you a full and immediate refund without any questions asked.
I include step by step printing instructions so you’ll end up with a high quality book.
It’s filled with full color photographs and illustrations to guide you through the process of taking professional quality pictures of YOUR doll
It doesn’t matter if you sell dolls, doll clothing, or anything else, this book will help you get more money from each and every auction!
Price: $19.95
This art book shows contemporary and cutting-edge work as well as historical. It deals with real-life issues of taking pictures and making prints in the practical way working photographers do. Using strong contemporary portfolio photographs, profiles of top photographers with a look at career matters, it includes practical strategies for taking and printing photographs, and a seamless mix of color, black-and-white, and digital technologies. For photographers and photojournalists.
Price: $107.51
Your digital camera can do so much! And Digital Photography For Dummies, 6th Edition helps you shoot, edit, and share great photos. This full-color guide is packed with stuff that’s not in your camera manual - tips on upgrading your equipment, working with focus and exposure, shooting like a pro, organizing and enhancing your images, and printing them or getting them online.
Are you already you’re hip-deep in images? Here’s how to manage them. This guide helps you learn what you need for the way you take pictures, how to prolong battery life, the pros and cons of digital SLR, and more. Baffled by the lingo? The glossary explains all those terms and acronyms. You’ll also learn to:
Rich, full-color examples show what you can achieve. Digital Photography For Dummies, 6th Edition will make your digital camera a lot more fun!
Price: $16.49
Advanced Techniques for Beginning Photographers is a mini-course to take you from shooting snapshots to fine art!
Hello! My name is Chip Clark, of Chip Clark Photography, and I am excited about the opportunity to introduce to you my self-study mini-course, Advanced Techniques for Beginning Photographers!
While I have been involved with photography on a professional level for several years, I am just as passionate about simply making great photographs. I am also just as passionate about helping beginning photographers with some of the challenges we have all encountered when first bitten by the ’shutter bug’. This became the inspiration for me to develop this mini-course for beginning photographers!
In a nutshell, Advanced Techniques for Beginning Photographers addresses, step-by-step, some of the most perplexing challenges beginning photographers encounter, and teaches you how to work with them in easy-to-understand instruction.
This guide will teach you, step-by-step, many of the same techniques used by the most famous photographers around the world; because much of what separates a snapshot from a fine art photograph, can be learned. The technical aspects of making a photograph are no different than the step-by-step procedures for putting a bicycle together. Notice I said the technical aspects! Talent, of course, cannot be taught.
The mini-course alone will normally be priced at $24.95 but for a limited time you can have all this for only $9.95!
A fascinating look at the perils and possibilities of photography in a digital age. After Photography examines the myriad ways in which the digital revolution has fundamentally altered the way we receive visual information, from photos of news events taken by ordinary people on cell phones to the widespread use of image surveillance. In a world beset by critical problems and ambiguous boundaries, Fred Ritchin argues that it is time to begin energetically exploring the possibilities created by digital innovations and to use them to better understand our rapidly changing world.
Ritchin-one of our most influential commentators on photography-investigates the future of visual media as the digital revolution transforms images into a hypertextual medium, fundamentally changing the way we conceptualize the world. Simultaneously, the increased manipulation of photographs makes photography suspect as reliable documentation, raising questions about its role in recounting personal and public histories. In the tradition of John Berger and Susan Sontag, Ritchin analyzes photography’s failings and reveals untapped potentials for the medium.
50 color illustrations.
Price: $18.33
Looking to take your photography to the next level? Need guidance on the basics, from choosing cameras to perfecting capture, managing files, editing images and developing a creative, critical eye?
Packed with quality images to inspire and enthuse, Digital Photography: Essential Skills takes a refreshingly practical, focused approach to cover exactly what you need to know develop a creative, competent style and a seamless photography workflow.
As a working photographer and teaching lecturer, Mark Galer is the perfect guide to take you through the skills and knowledge needed to take fantastic images. Now updated to cover file management and editing in Lightroom, Adobe’s popular workflow software, for a stream-lined process from capture to output.
* Covers all the basics, from choosing a camera, managing files and editing images, to exposure, composition and lighting
* Clear, detailed explanations make understanding the concepts a breeze and activities help you to put theory into practice
* Packed with inspiring photographs to illustrate what you can achieve with skills and knowledge covered in the book
Price: $19.77

Presenting the tools needed to create and control photographic lighting with either digital capture or film, this book shows how to perfect lighting in the studio as well as on location. The tips in this resource cover the principles and rules of lighting that are not confined to any single pursuit, thus giving photographers an understanding of the rudiments of light and lighting, rather than a series of limited solutions that work only in certain situations. In addition to sample images, the book includes numerous diagrams and detailed captions that explain why and when particular lighting methods are chosen, as well as how they are executed. A technical book with an in-depth exploration of lighting, this resource will assist any photographer in understanding varying light conditions in both the studio and the natural world.
Price: $23.07
The Nature Photography Cookbook …by Esther Beaton will show you “the 60 Easiest and Most Effective Techniques of Professional Nature Photography that get Salable Results Fast”.
With Esther’s step-by-step recipes, you’ll learn how to turn ordinary subjects, ordinary situations, ordinary places, into truly amazing artwork. By following her secret nature photography recipes, you will learn how to:
* get it all in focus
* use color to create exciting compositions
* compose with reflections, clouds and shadows
* create dramatic landscapes
* use different lenses for different effects
* create soft even lighting without a flash unit
* use the built-in flash on your camera
* make captive animals look wild
* eliminate distracting backgrounds
* get close, closer, closest
* stalk wild animals
* take advantage of “bad” weather
* set your camera to not miss important shots
* use fill flash technique properly
* and much, much more.
Find out more about Esther Beaton and her achievements as a wildlife and nature phtographer from her website, Estherbeaton.com
After 25 years as a full time, award-winning nature and wildlife photographer, Esther is ready to teach you all she knows. You’ll love dipping into this book one recipe at a time!
Price: $47.00
Scott Kelby, the man who changed the “digital darkroom” forever with his groundbreaking, #1 bestselling, award-winning book The Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers, now tackles the most important side of digital photography–how to take pro-quality shots using the same tricks today’s top digital pros use (and it’s easier than you’d think).
This entire book is written with a brilliant premise, and here’s how Scott describes it: “If you and I were out on a shoot, and you asked me, ‘Hey, how do I get this flower to be in focus, but I want the background out of focus?’ I wouldn’t stand there and give you a lecture about aperture, exposure, and depth of field. In real life, I’d just say, ‘Get out your telephoto lens, set your f/stop to f/2.8, focus on the flower, and fire away.’ You d say, ‘OK,’ and you’d get the shot. That’s what this book is all about. A book of you and I shooting, and I answer the questions, give you advice, and share the secrets I’ve learned just like I would with a friend, without all the technical explanations and without all the techno-photo-speak.”
This isn’t a book of theory-it isn’t full of confusing jargon and detailed concepts: this is a book of which button to push, which setting to use, when to use them, and nearly two hundred of the most closely guarded photographic “tricks of the trade” to get you shooting dramatically better-looking, sharper, more colorful, more professional-looking photos with your digital camera every time you press the shutter button.
Here’s another thing that makes this book different: each page covers just one trick, just one single concept that makes your photography better. Every time you turn the page, you’ll learn another pro setting, another pro tool, another pro trick to transform your work from snapshots into gallery prints. There’s never been a book like it, and if you’re tired of taking shots that look “OK,” and if you’re tired of looking in photography magazines and thinking, “Why don’t my shots look like that?” then this is the book for you.
Price: $16.49