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These pictures were taken over a span of several years and many countless hours of trying to get the one shot that would capture the beauty that's all around us. It started when I bought my first digital camera to take on vacation. It quickly turned into seeing so much beauty that I always had my camera handy to get that perfect sunset, amazing cloud formation or wave crashing on the beach.
I did this book by the grace of God. He supplied me with...
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Botticelli is a painter not of facts, but of ideas, and his pictures are not so much a representation of certain objects as a pattern of forms. Nor is his colouring rich and lifelike, it is subordinated to form, and often rather a tinting than actual colour. In fact, he was interested in the abstract possibilities of his art rather than in the concrete. For example, his compositions, as has just been said, are a pattern of forms, his figures do not...
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Edward O. Southard learned to fly the Curtiss JN-4 Jenny at March Field in Riverside, California, in 1919. About eighteen months earlier, William Muir Russel was honing his pilot skills at Ashburn Field and then Rantoul Aviation Field, both in Illinois. But that's where the differences in their early flying school experiences end. They both learned to fly in the same plane. They both saw frequent crashes. They both mastered the same controls, take-offs,...
65) Thailand
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Dreaming of traveling? Then this book is for you. Walt Williams has put together a selection of his photography that will take you on a travel experience without leaving the comfort of your chair. The author has captured some great scenes of northern Thailand that is sure to have you dreaming of your own travels. As you page through the pages, take time to imagine yourself behind the camera snapping these images and enjoying the experience of you...
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This one-stop practical guide will show you how to make the most of your digital photos. To make your progress easier, it comes in a handy format with colour photos and expert advice throughout. Over three billion digital photos are sitting on hard discs in the UK alone - yet the potential they contain remains largely unfulfilled, and many are in danger of being lost forever if a computer crashes. This is the next step for digital photographers: they...
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DISCOVER THE INS AND OUTS OF LEARNING PHOTOGRAPHY!
Here Is A Preview Of What You'll Learn...
PICKING OUT THE RIGHT CAMERA
THE RULES OF COMPOSITION
COLOUR AND LIGHTING
EDITING YOUR PHOTOS
LEVELING AND LAYERS
THE ORTON EFFECT
FIXING COMMON PROBLEMS WITH YOUR PHOTOS
MUCH, MUCH, MORE!
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The Pencil of Nature by H. Fox Talbot. "the first commercially published book illustrated with photographs"The little work now presented to the Public is the first attempt to publish a series of plates or pictures wholly executed by the new art of Photogenic Drawing, without any aid whatever from the artist's pencil. The term “Photography” is now so well known, that an explanation of it is perhaps superfluous; yet, as some persons may still be...
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From the creation of the QWERTY keyboard to the world's first portable typing machine, this handsome collection is a visual homage to the golden age of the typewriter. From the world's first commercially successful typewriter-the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer of 1874-to the iconic electric models of the 1960s, eighty vintage devices are profiled in elegant photographs and fascinating text that highlights the design modifications, intricate details,...
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As they set off for Madagascar in 2003, photographer Max Pam and writer Stephen Muecke adopted as their guiding principle the idea of contingency-central to which is the conscious embrace of risk and chance. In doing so, they established a new aesthetic in which image and text are inextricably linked to the notion of possibility. This stunning collection of photos and essays is the result of their vision, collectively illustrating the beauty and wisdom...
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* La diferencia entre este libro y la mayoría de los que se han escrito sobre fotografía básica es que se ha diseñado como un curso en el que el lector debe participar del mismo modo que en una clase presencial o en línea.
* Se presentan cuatro secciones que cubren lo esencial en el aprendizaje de la fotografía: Exposición, Composición, Luz e iluminación y Procesado y posproducción.
* Con desafíos prácticos al final de cada unidad de aprendizaje...
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On 4 March 1824, thirty philanthropic gentlemen – including the abolitionist William Wilberforce and Archbishop of Canterbury Charles Manners-Sutton – met in a London pub. Here, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution was born.
In the following 200 years, the RNLI has been woven into the fabric of our island nation, saving over 144,000 lives, despite some rescuers losing their own in the process. With over 100 fascinating images from Mirrorpix,...
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The IRISH JOURNEYS are a summary of impressions from a time before tourism. They include a brief review of Irish history and culture through its NATIONAL MONUMENTS (Volume I) and a special tribute to the beauty and unique qualities of the Irish Landscape and the people living in it (Volume II).Each volume contains over 100 original photographs in black &white or colour chosen for their importance or merit. Highlights are the early Christian High Crosses...
74) Taking the shot
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Photography for teens volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Designed with the upper-elementary through middle-school reader in mind, this volume in the Photography for Teens series will be useful for readers who want to put some thought into their shots. Taking the Shot has short chapters on digital cameras, camera settings, and equipment and accessories. It is slightly more technical and has everything a beginner would need to know about megapixels, apertures, light meters, memory cards, and lenses.
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In this visually stunning book of historic family photographs, renown family-history photography expert Maureen A. Taylor shows genealogists, scrapbookers, and history enthusiasts how to cherish old photographs and what clues they provide on ancestors' lives. Readers will learn how to: -Identify and verify people in family photographs -Tell the story of identified photographs using the clues in the images -Locate additional family photographs -Create...
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Bloomsbury
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2013.
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In the 1840s and 1850s, "Brady of Broadway" was one of the most successful and acclaimed Manhattan portrait galleries. Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, Dolley Madison, Henry James as a boy with his father, Horace Greeley, Edgar Allan Poe, the Prince of Wales, and Jenny Lind were among the dignitaries photographed in Mathew Brady's studio. But it was during the Civil War that he became the founding father of what is now called photojournalism and his photography...
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Ever wondered how a camera works? Snap up Super Simple Camera Projects. Find out about the history of the camera. Discover how George Eastman changed the photography industry. Then do the science-based camera projects. This book has a timeline, easy-to-follow steps, how-to pictures, and best of all, it's written for kids!
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Greenwillow Books
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2007
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Given a camera that takes and prints tiny pictures just before leaving for the family farm in Canada, a young girl records a vacation that gets off to a slow start, but winds up being a family reunion filled with good memories.
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Photography for teens volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Designed with the upper-elementary through middle-school reader in mind, this volume in the Photography for Teens series will be useful for readers who want to put some thought into their shots. Setting up the Shot has information on composition, lighting, and different types of photography.
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