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Photography 11th edition offers an in-depth approach to photography that spans the ever-changing landscape of photography — from dark-room to digital print. This edition presents all facets of photography, laying out what you need to know to make photographs with digital tools as well as the integral steps to perfecting film print.
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Jim Stone is an Associate Professor of Photography at the University of New Mexico. His photographs have been collected by the Museum of Modern Art and The Smithsonian American Art Museum, among many others. Books of his work include Stranger Than Fiction (Light Work, 1993),Historiostomy (Piltdown Press, 2001), and Why My Pictures are Good (Nazraeli Press, 2005).
He has also published six higher education titles that are widely used in university courses: A User¹s Guide to the View Camera, Darkroom Dynamics, Photography, Photography: The Essential Way, A Short Course in Photography, and A Short Course in Digital Photography.
Barbara London has authored and co-authored many photography books from their first editions to their current ones, including Photography, Photography: The Essential Way, A Short Course in Photography, A Short Course in Digital Photography, The Photograph Collector's Guide, and more.
John Upton, Professor Emeritus, was for many years Chair of Photography at Orange Coast College, one of the largest photography departments in the U.S. He has curated a number of exhibitions, including Color as Form: A History of Color Photography. His work is included in many private and public collections, including the New York Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art.
In this Section:
1) Brief Table of Contents
2) Full Table of Contents
BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Chapter 1. Getting Started
Chapter 2. Camera
Chapter 3. Lens
Chapter 4. Exposure, Sensors and Film
Chapter 5. Color
Chapter 6. Setting up a Digital Darkroom
Chapter 7. Image Editing
Chapter 8. Digital Printing
Chapter 9. Organizing and Storing Your Work
Chapter 10. Print Finishing and Display
Chapter 11. Lighting
Chapter 12. Extending the Image
Chapter 13. Seeing Photographs
Chapter 14. History of Photography
FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Chapter 1. Getting Started
Introducing the Camera
Getting Your Camera Ready
Focusing and Setting the Exposure
Taking Your Picture
What Will You Photograph?
Chapter 2. Camera
Basic Camera Controls
The Shutter
The Aperture
Using Shutter and Aperture Together
Choosing a Camera
Keeping the Camera Steady
Chapter 3. Lens
From Pinhole to Lens
Lens Focal Length
Special-Purpose Lenses
Focusing your Lenses
Focus and Depth of Field
Perspective
Guidelines for Buying a Lens
Getting the Most from your Camera and Lens
Chapter 4. Exposure, Sensors and Film
Exposure Basics
How to Meter
Responding to Light
Selecting and Using Film
Exposure Latitude and Dynamic Range
Film and Sensor Speed
Using Filters
Extending Beyond Visible Light
Using Exposure
Chapter 5. Color
Color: Additive or Subtractive
Color Photographs: Three Image Layers
Color Characteristics
Color Balance
Making a Color Print from a Negative
Chapter 6. Setting up a Digital Darkroom
Hardware and Software
Photographs Are Files
Color Management
Channels
Histograms
Importing Your Images
Setting Up a Workflow
Workflow Applications
Chapter 7. Image Editing
Digital Post-Processing: Getting Started
An Image-Editing Workflow
Adjusting Color and Value
Adjusting All or Part of an Image
Other Editing Commands
Compositing
Chapter 8. Digital Printing
Printers and Printing
Printing Options
Display your Work
Ethics: How Far Can You Go?
Chapter 9. Organizing and Storing Your Work
Image Storage
Metadata: Data About Your Files
Software to Keep You Organized
Archiving Digital Images
Archiving Film and Prints
Chapter 10. Print Finishing and Display
Spotting to Remove Minor Flows
Mounting a Print
Chapter 11. Lighting
Direction of Light
Degree of Diffusion: From Hart to Soft Light
Available Light – Outdoors
Available Lights – Indoors
Artificial Light
The Main Light: The Dominant Source
The Fill Light: To Lighten Shadows
Lighting with Flash
Simple Portrait Lighting
Multiple-Light Portrait Setups
Lighting Textured Objects
Lighting Reflective Objects
Lighting Translucent Objects
Using Lighting
Chapter 12. Extending the Image
Using Scale
Multiple Images
Fabricated to be Photographed
The Photograph as Object
Using Projections
Making a Book
Alternative Processes
Pinhole Photography
How to Make a Close-Up Photograph
Chapter 13. Seeing Photographs
Basic Choices
Basic Design
More Choices
Looking at – and Talking About – Photographs
Showing Your Work to Editors and Others
Chapter 14. History of Photography
The Invention of Photography
Daguerreotype: “Designs on Silver Bright”
Calotype: Pictures on Paper
Collodion Wet-Plate: Sharp and Reproducible
Gelatin/Emulsion/Roll-Film Basse: Photography for Everyone
Color Photography
Early Portraits
Early Travel Photography
Early Images of War
Time and Motion in Early Photography
The Photograph as a Document
Photography and Social Change
Photojournalism
Photography as Art in the 19th Century
Pictorial Photography and the Photo-Secession
The Direct Image in Art
The Quest for a New Vision
Photography as Art in the 1950s and 1960s
Photography as Art in the 1970s and 1980s
Digital Photography Becomes Mainstream
A Gallery of Contemporary Photography
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