Photography Science

First published in 1973, this is a study of the force of photographic images, which are continually inserted between experience and reality. When anything can be photographed, and photography has destroyed the boundaries and definitions of art, a viewer can approach a photograph freely, with no expectations of discovering what it means. This collection of six lucid and invigorating essays, with the most famous being "In Plato's Cave", make up a deep exploration of how the image has affected society.

The Art and Science of Macro Photography Macro photography opens a world of incredible detail and beauty, revealing the hidden intricacies of subjects often overlooked by the naked eye. Whether it’s the delicate structures of a flower petal, the compound eye of an insect, or the mesmerizing patterns of a frost crystal, macro photography allows us to explore and capture the minute details of our environment. This book, "Macro Photography: Advanced Editing Techniques," aims to equip you with the knowledge and skills necessary to enhance these captivating images, transforming them from mere ...

In?Grizzly Confidential, author Kevin Grange—former paramedic and park ranger at Yellowstone and Grand Teton—comes face-to-face with North America’s most fearsome predator, Ursus Arctos. His quest takes him from his home in the Tetons to an eerie, mist-shrouded island of gigantic bruins...

Today it's routine to take photos from an airplane window, use a camera underwater, watch a movie, or view an X-ray. But the photographic innovations more than a century ago that made such things possible were experimental, revelatory, and sometimes dangerous—and many of the innovators, entrepreneurs, and inventors behind them were memorable eccentrics. In Flashes of Brilliance, writer and photo editor Anika Burgess engagingly blends art, science, and social history to reveal the most dramatic developments in photography from its birth in the 1830s to the early twentieth century.

Photography is one of the most fulfilling, creative, lucrative, and challenging art forms. While cameras come in all shapes, sizes, costs, and capacities, digital cameras have the potential to make any novice photographer seem like an expert with a couple of adjustments. While photography is art, there are still scientific rules that apply to its expression. While the artistic side of photography can be achieved by the photographer's creativity, passion, and personal expression, the technical side has to be learned.

Join Cecilia Blomdahl in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, the world's northernmost town. Located in the Arctic Ocean near the North Pole, Svalbard is a unique archipelago that boasts stunning wintry landscapes, endangered arctic animals, and awe-inspiring natural phenomena. Since 2016, Cecilia has called...

If you want to create interesting photos that will go above Instagram selfies and vacation memories, you need to switch to manual mode. You probably bought your first semi-professional or professional camera, but it looks so complicated. With all the buttons and switches, new cameras might look scary at the beginning. It’s easy to get overwhelmed. Auto mode is the safest bet, and it served you well up until now.

Learn about George Eastman and the invention of the Kodak camera.

Prepare for lift-off and embark on an exciting journey to master the world of homemade rocketry with the ultimate guide, "Rocketry Resources and Suppliers." This comprehensive and engaging eBook will fuel your passion for rockets, launching you deep into the intricacies of amateur rocketry and providing you with the knowledge and connections you need to succeed in this thrilling hobby. Explore the captivating realm of rocket science, as this eBook expertly guides you through the history of rocket building and the key principles that govern the heavens. Satisfy your curiosity and learn about...

The divide between the digital and the real world no longer exists: we are connected all the time. How do we find out who we are within this digital era? Where do we create the space to explore our identity? How can we come together and create solidarity? The glitch is often dismissed as an error, a faulty overlaying, but, as Legacy Russell shows, liberation can be found within the fissures between gender, technology and the body that it creates.

The focus of this audiobook is not only on learning how to use lighting properly, but how to set up a solid home studio. The audiobook walks through all of the specifications you need to select a good space: north-facing light and wide open space with clean, plainly painted walls. Don't know what you'll need for your studio? Following chapter three, you will!

Three audiobooks with tips and tricks for using Photoshop are included in this bundle.

Photography for beginners is an audiobook directed to anyone who is interested in learning how to take amazing photographs. It can be used whether you take photos as a hobby, as an aspiring professional photographer, or if you’ve simply never picked up a camera in your life. This audiobook highlights the main concepts required to consciously start taking great photographs. Everything is explained simply to make them useful for both complete beginners and already initiated photographers.

Introducing Winged Majesty: Your Ultimate Guide to Monarch Butterflies Are you fascinated by the beauty and grace of monarch butterflies? Do you want to capture their majestic flight and stunning colors through photography? Or perhaps learn about their life cycle and migration patterns? Look no further than Winged Majesty, the definitive guide to all things monarch butterfly. This comprehensive eBook is packed with 19 chapters of expert knowledge and advice, covering every aspect of monarch butterfly photography, conservation, and folklore. From the anatomy of a monarch butterfly to the ...

Repulsive and yet strangely attractive, the gimmick is a form that can be found virtually everywhere in capitalism. It comes in many guises: a musical hook, a financial strategy, a striptease, a novel of ideas. Above all, acclaimed theorist Sianne Ngai argues, the gimmick strikes us both as working too little (a labor-saving trick) and as working too hard (a strained effort to get our attention).

Join Cecilia Blomdahl in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, the world's northernmost town. Located in the Arctic Ocean near the North Pole, Svalbard is a unique archipelago that boasts stunning wintry landscapes, endangered arctic animals, and awe-inspiring natural phenomena. Since 2016, Cecilia has called...

Olena Vansiuk is broke, brilliant, and working alone in a basement darkroom in DUMBO, Brooklyn. A specialist in archival film restoration, she has spent six years developing a scanning method that extracts hidden spectral data from the silver crystals in photographic negatives, data no one knew was there. When a package arrives from Lviv containing a 1945 negative and a note in her dead great-grandfather's handwriting... You will know what to look for... Olena runs the scan and finds something standing in the photograph that no one present could see. Something with volume, with structure, ...

One man’s “curiously thrilling joyride” of travelogue, history, and climatology, across a planet on the brink of cataclysmic transformation. As the planet warms, winter is shrinking. In the last fifty years, the Northern Hemisphere lost a million square miles of spring snowpack and in the...

This book will teach you everything you want to know about digital photography, including how to make the most from your camera's exposure triangle, how to compose photos, the composition rules to use, and a lot more. Say good-bye to boring photos once you listen to and implement what this book teaches.

In a ruined future split between those who have and those who do not, America has contracted like a singularity into a single city. There, citizens live under a divided society, split by five walls. At the center, their depraved leader, Gideon, rules with the iron fisted reach of propaganda and an oppressive governmental agency.