Studio Photography

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PHOTOGRAPHY TECHNIQUE
Studio
Photography

John Child has refreshed and updated his inspirational studio photography guide to cover all the latest techniques. Now beautifully illustrated in full colour, featuring brand new student and author work, Studio Photography: Essential Skills guides you through the techniques you need to create successful studio images.
Through a clearly structured learning approach, you will stimulate and express your creative ideas using a wide variety of activities and assignments. With a strong commercial orientation, the emphasis is highly practical and focuses on technique, communication and design within the genres of still life, advertising illustration, portraiture and fashion.
This successful guide is an essential tool-for those working in a controlled environment where the image output is to film or digital file. You are encouraged to experiment, whether you have expensive equipment or are using natural light sources - either way, you will... Tovább

Fülszöveg

PHOTOGRAPHY TECHNIQUE
Studio
Photography

John Child has refreshed and updated his inspirational studio photography guide to cover all the latest techniques. Now beautifully illustrated in full colour, featuring brand new student and author work, Studio Photography: Essential Skills guides you through the techniques you need to create successful studio images.
Through a clearly structured learning approach, you will stimulate and express your creative ideas using a wide variety of activities and assignments. With a strong commercial orientation, the emphasis is highly practical and focuses on technique, communication and design within the genres of still life, advertising illustration, portraiture and fashion.
This successful guide is an essential tool-for those working in a controlled environment where the image output is to film or digital file. You are encouraged to experiment, whether you have expensive equipment or are using natural light sources - either way, you will see how it is possible to achieve acceptable results and develop your skills.
Revision exercises, useful links and up-to-date advice are featured on the associated websitewww.photographyessentialskills.com.
Contents
Introduction • Genres • Communication and Design • Art Direction • The Studio • Light • Exposure • Image Capture • Creative Controls • Using Light • Lighting Still Life • Lighting People • Lighting on Location • Assignments • Revision Exercises • Glossary • Resources
John Child lectures in photography at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia - the leading photography course in the southern hemisphere. He has wori<ed for many years as a professional photographer, with clients including Ford, L'Oreal, American Express and British An^eys.
Email: john.child(a)nnit.edu.au
The Essential Skills Photography Series offers a highly stnjctured teaming approach to the fijndamental skills of photography. They mix theoretical infom-iation with practical advice to maximize the opportunities for creative results.
Each subject includes;
• dear aims and objectives
• short sub-sections illusb^ted by student and author work
• student activities to check learning outcomes
• student assignments to put theoretical knowledge into a creative context
• glossary of terms
Other titles in the series are Photographic Lighting: Essential Skills by John Child and Mark Galer; Location Photography: Essential Skills by Mark Galer; Digital imaging: Essentia! Skills by Mark Galer and Les Horvát; Photoshop: Essential Skills by Mark Galer and Philip Andrews.
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