Description
Discover the history behind photography and learn the skills to get the best from your photographs.
A comprehensive all-in-one guide, Photography introduces you to the art, history, and culture of photography, and shows you how to take your own fantastic professional-standard photographs.
An in-depth guide to all things photographic, Photography opens with a gallery of more than 30 key figures in photography, from 19th-century pioneers to the top photographers working today.
The gallery provides fascinating contrasts between diverse genres, such as art photography, reportage, portrait, and wildlife photography. The book then tells the story of photography, from its "garden shed" beginnings to the rise of the "selfie" today.
Photography further features:
- All the skills and techniques of photography and features tips for using a smartphone to create stunning photos.
- Combines creative typography, graphics, and clear text to present photographic skills in a clear, easily understood way.
- Provides an introduction to the history of photography.
- Includes a guide to the leading photographers
The second half of the book introduces cameras, accessories, and software, explaining what they can do and how to use them. It shows how to take better photographs by mastering the technical aspects of your camera, how to experiment with composition, colour and light, and how to digitally enhance your photos. Inspirational masterclasses covering all genres of photography - landscape, portraits, wildlife, architecture, art - also provide you with an opportunity to apply your newfound skills in a clear and practical way and give advice on becoming a professional photographer yourself.
The ideal book for anyone with an interest in the history of photography, or who wants to improve their own photography technique, doubling up as the perfect gift book for photography and art students who are seeking to learn more about these subjects.
About the Author
Photographer, author, and educator.
Travel and digital photography have been my love, but I m best known as the author of over 40 books (over 190 if you count all the co-editions). They re almost all on photography and include the best-selling Digital Photographer s Handbook published in twenty languages and sold over 700,000 copies. My award-winning Photography - the definitive visual history is a lavish and rich history of photography from a fresh perspective that was published in 2014. It s the book I m most proud of. The latest, is my Photography - history:art:technique is a beautifully packaged up-date of the perennial Eyewitness Companion Photography book.
In 2019, I was awarded the prestigious Hamdan International Photography Award (HIPA) prize for Photography Content Creator in recognition of my authorship, workshops and teaching activities. That year, I also had to honour of co-presenting the HIPA ceremony in Dubai Opera.
I ve had the luck to present two ground-breaking six-part series A Digital Picture of Britain and Britain in Pictures for BBC. That led to writing and presenting an eight-part series for Channel News Asia, Singapore in 2009. This won Bronze at the New York Film && TV Awards that year.
My Digital Photography Masterclass was named The Crème De La Crème of the Top Digital Imaging Books of 2008 by Shutterbug and Best How-to Book of 2008 by Library Journal. I won the Thomas Cook Award for Best Illustrated Travel Book for his book on the Marco Polo Expedition back in 1988.
Going back further, I was Technical Editor of Camera magazine; editor of Photography magazine; Picture Editor of The Sunday Correspondent Magazine . I held the post of Senior Lecturer in photographic practice at the University of Westminster for over 12 years. During the university tenure, I was a pioneer of academic links to the Former Soviet Central Asia, leading a Know How Fund project for journalism in Kyrgyzstan.
I am a founding member of the World Photographic Academy and was for many years the photography chair for the Royal Geographical Society s Expedition Workshops. I ve been a jury member on Wildlife Photographer of the Year, Czech Press Photo, Sony World Photography Awards, Hamdam International Photography Award.
I was born in Singapore and now live in New Zealand. I ve been a Sony Digital Imaging Ambassador for several years.
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