Books
The Landscape Photography Workshop
Wow your friends and relatives with awe-inspiring landscape shots and discover how to take fantastic shots with this workshop-in-a-book. Two of the UK's leading landscape photographers come together to share their wealth of experience and teaching skills in this new title. The Landscape Photography Workshop aims to take the reader from the very basics of equipment and exposure through to advanced techniques. Landscape essentials, such as composition and filtration, are covered in-depth and explained in a precise yet easy-to-understand manner. This book also has chapters dedicated to post-processing and printing, enabling the reader to go successfully from camera to print, plus a number of practical assignments to encourage development and ensure that it stands out from other landscape photography publications.
Publisher: Photographers' Institute Press (May 2011)
RRP: £16.99
ISBN-13: 978-1861088918
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Lenses for Digital SLRs
It is easy, when investing in new camera equipment, to put all your energy into choosing the right body, only for that most crucial of factors - the lens - to become an almost secondary consideration. Lenses for Digital SLRs: The Complete Guide, redresses that balance. Covering everything from focal length to depth of field, prime versus zoom lenses and specialist optics, this book manages to unravel the technicalities of lenses while remaining comprehensible and reader-friendly. Throughout the book, the reader is guided through basic terminology, common focal lengths, what optical quality means in terms of the photographs they take and eventually comes to understand the anatomy of the camera lens and its effect on the image.
Publisher: Ammonite Press (28 Feb 2010)
RRP: £16.99
ISBN-13: 978-1906672768
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Digital Exposure Handbook
Exposure is an essential part of photographic technique, but is often thought of as mysterious or difficult to understand. Digital cameras have brought a new dimension to exposure control, offering photographers the ability to review images in the field, as well as being able to change the sensitivity of the sensor from shot to shot. In this handy new book, Ross Hoddinott unravels the fundamentals of this fascinating subject and presents it in a clear and easy-to-understand way. This practical, jargon-free guide will be an essential companion out in the field, helping photographers turn theory into practice and to achieve creative control over their images.
Publisher: PIP
RRP: £14.99 (paperback)
ISBN-13: 978-1861085337
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The Digital Photographer's Guide to Filters
Digital photography has changed the art of filtering forever - no longer is it just a matter of in-camera technique, but now encompasses a wide range of manipulations in the digital darkroom. In this comprehensive guide for the modern photographer, Ross Hoddinott explains when and how to use traditional hardware filters on your camera and how to achieve the same effects with software instead - as well as a wealth of other digital filter-effects that were impracticable or impossible on film. This book provides an up-to-the-moment guide to all photographic filtering issues and is beautifully illustrated with Ross Hoddinott's superb digital pictures.
Publisher: David & Charles
RRP: £25.00 (hardback) £14.99 (paperback)
ISBN-13: 978-0715326541
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Digital Macro Photography
Macro photography is one of the most popular photographic disciplines. Spectacular images are within the grasp of every photographer, and you don't need to invest in kit worth thousands to start taking impressive close-up images. The world of close-up photography is endlessly varied, and includes insects that look like aliens, the hidden symmetries of plants or the normally invisible workings of a machine blown-up to huge proportions. Ross Hoddinott is a past winner of the BBC's Countryfile competition and the BBC Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year Award, and his work features regularly in 'Outdoor Photography', 'Practical Photography', 'Digital SLR Photography', 'BBC Wildlife' and many more. This is Ross's first book, and showcases his particular talent for the world of macro photography
Publisher: PIP
RRP: £14.99
ISBN-13: 978-1861084521
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