Digital photography Books
HarperCollins Publishers Complete Photography Course
Book SynopsisA practical, affordable and accessible home photography tutor. This inspiring project-based course book covers everything from basic composition to the latest digital darkroom techniques.Learn at your own pace as this practical, comprehensive course helps you develop your key photographic techniques. Contents include: step-by-step projects on exposure, aperture, lenses, light, filters, colour, black and white and image enhancement; plus professional secrets and stunning shots from around the world.The fully interactive and project-based approach of Collins Complete Photography Course will help you to raise both your camera confidence and your level of photography.
£15.29
HarperCollins Publishers Bird Photographer of the Year
Book SynopsisThis beautiful book celebrates the artistry of bird photography and showcases the best of the best. It accompanies an annual competition, Bird Photographer of the Year, which brings together the most outstanding examples of recent bird imagery.The Bird Photographer of the Year competition celebrates the artistry of bird photography, and this large-format book is lavishly illustrated to reflect this. A celebration of avian beauty and diversity, it is a tribute to both the dedication and passion of the photographers as well as a reflection of the quality of today's modern digital imaging systems.The book includes the winning and short-listed images from the sixth year of this annual competition, showcasing some of the finest bird photography and with a foreword by long-term birdwatcher, Bill Bailey. A proportion of the profits from the book goes directly to Birds on the Brink to support their conservation work.The advent of digital technology has revolutionised photography in recent yearTrade Review‘Treat yourself to the latest lavish round-up of the best of the competition’s entries … [with] an excellent foreword by comedian and birder Bill Bailey … One to enjoy at your leisure over the long winter nights’ Bird Watching magazine
£22.50
GMC Publications 52 Assignments: iPhone Photography
Book Synopsis52 Assignments: iPhone Photography is a year’s worth of inspiring weekly assignments to kick-start your creativity. This book is a mission brief, a portfolio of photographic workshops, a personalized journal and an inspirational guide to putting the creativity back into your craft. It is filled with a year’s worth of weekly commissions and concepts for conceiving and composing powerful iPhone photographs. From capturing the night sky, reflections and silhouettes to shooting street festivals, newborns and skyscrapers, all the assignments in this book have been written to inspire you to embrace the possibilities of your phone. Whether you are photographing natural elements or urban landscapes, each assignment encourages you to capture the world around you without the aid of a range of lenses and other kit, just your iPhone. Full of technical advice and professional tips, the book includes journal space for you to add your own notes, lists and tech specs, creating a unique journal in which you can record the journey you have made with your imagery. Complete the assignments weekend by weekend over the course of a year, or dip in every time you need to bring a new concept or creative approach to your iPhone photography. New title in the bestselling 52 Assignments series A year’s worth of weekly iPhone assignments to kick-start your creativity Innovative briefs from one of the world’s leading iPhone photographers Aimed at beginners and enthusiasts Table of Contents1 Selfies 2 Incredible Edibles 3 Magic Hour 4 Tall Buildings 5 Along the Coast 6 After Dark 7 Film Simulation 8 Vintage and Retro 9 Find Your Beach 10 Street Festivals 11 Doors and Windows 12 Black and White 13 Twilight 14 Astrophotography 15 Pets 16 Red 17 Leading Lines 18 Still Life 19 Silhouettes 20 Coffee shops and shots 21 Everyday fashion 22 The Great Outdoors 23 Sports 24 Abstraction 25 Fall colours 26 Sacred Places 27 Reflections 28 Flowers and gardens 29 Head in the clouds 30 Concerts 31 Macro 32 Parenting 33 Poolside 34 Tattoos 35 Camping 36 Around the House 37 Holidays and Vacations 38 People in Nature 39 Skylines 40 Bokeh 41 Cruising 42 Newborns 43 Signage 44 Cowboys and Indians 45 Slow Shutter 46 Panoramas 47 Neon Signs 48 Waterfalls 49 Ocean and beachscapes 50 Weddings 51 Family Life 52 Food Trailers
£11.04
Rocky Nook David Busch's Sony Alpha a7 IV Guide to Digital
Book SynopsisDavid Busch's Sony Alpha a7 IV Guide to Digital Photography is the most comprehensive resource and reference for Sony s long-awaited 33-megapixel full frame mirrorless camera. Capable of 10 frame-per-second bursts even at full resolution, the a7 IV is fast enough for action photography, and its enhanced dynamic range delivers the image quality that the most demanding landscape or fine-art photographer requires. This camera s remarkable low-light performance, fast sensor-based phase detect autofocus (with real-time face and eye tracking in both still and movie modes), and improved 5-axis in-body image stabilization, the a7 IV has all the tools needed to take incredible images. This book will show you how to master those features as you explore the world of digital photography and hone your creativity with your a7 IV. Filled with detailed how-to steps and full-color illustrations, David Busch's Sony Alpha a7 IV Guide to Digital Photography covers every feature of this camera in depth, from taking your first photos through advanced details of setup, exposure, lens selection, lighting, and more, and relates each feature to specific photographic techniques and situations. Also included is the handy camera "roadmap" chapter, an easy-to-use visual guide to the camera's features and controls. Learn when to use every option and, more importantly, when not to use them, by following the author s recommended settings for each menu entry. With best-selling photographer and mentor David Busch as your guide, you'll quickly have full creative mastery of your camera s capabilities, whether you're shooting on the job, as an advanced enthusiast exploring full frame photography for the first time, or are just out for fun. Start building your knowledge and confidence, while bringing your vision to light with the Sony a7 IV.
£28.05
MACK Say Yes
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£57.00
Octopus Publishing Group You Will be Able to Take Great Photos by The End
Book SynopsisDo you want to take photos that make people say 'wow'? Photography has never been so easy; nor has it ever been so hard. Digital cameras and smartphones can deliver perfect exposures and pin-sharp focus time after time, but the tech alone won't create draw-dropping imagery, or supply the sort of photos that stand out in a sea of online visual overload.Stripped of pointless jargon and focusing instead on the most important element in the image-making process - the person holding the camera or phone - this book makes good on its promise to teach the key skills and mind-set for taking great photos on any device.- Gain the core skills needed by every photographer- Learn to see the world as a photo opportunity- Discover the tools that will raise your photography to the next level- Develop a visual sense that can be applied to a range of photographic situations
£17.09
ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc Aesthetics in Digital Photography
Book SynopsisAutomatically evaluating the aesthetic qualities of a photograph is a current challenge for artificial intelligence technologies, yet it is also an opportunity to open up new economic and social possibilities. Aesthetics in Digital Photography presents theories developed over the last 25 centuries by philosophers and art critics, who have sometimes been governed by the objectivity of perception, and other times, of course, by the subjectivity of human judgement. It explores the advances that have been made in neuro-aesthetics and their current limitations. In the field of photography, this book puts aesthetic hypotheses up against experimental verification, and then critically examines attempts to "scientifically" measure this beauty. Special attention is paid to artificial intelligence techniques, taking advantage of machine learning methods and large databases.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Image and Gaze xi Chapter 1 The Legacy of Philosophers 1 1.1. The objectivist approach 3 1.1.1. The source: ancient Greece 3 1.1.2. After Greece 5 1.1.3. Kant and modern aesthetics 7 1.1.4. Objectivism after Kant: from pseudo-subjectivism to aesthetic realism 9 1.2. The subjectivist approach 13 1.2.1. From classicism to romanticism 14 1.2.2. The moderns 15 1.2.3. The influence of neurobiology 18 1.3. Subjectivism and objectivism: an ongoing debate 19 Chapter 2. Neurobiology or the Arbitrator of Consciousness 25 2.1. fMRI protocols and neuroaesthetics 27 2.2. The fMRI quest for “beauty processes” in the brain 28 2.2.1. The role of the prefrontal cortex 28 2.2.2. The role of the insular cortex 31 2.2.3. The role of the visual areas 33 2.2.4. The role of memory and cognition 35 2.2.5. The role of embodiment 35 2.3. Responses from functional electric encephalography 36 2.4. A global cognitive scheme for aesthetic judgment? 39 2.4.1. J. Petitot’s neurogeometric model 40 2.4.2. A. Chatterjee’s aesthetic emotion model 40 2.4.3. The model by Brown et al. 42 2.4.4. Model proposed by H. Leder 43 2.4.5. The model by C. Redies 45 2.4.6. The emotions model developed by S. Koelsch et al. 47 2.4.7. L.H. Hsu’s model of emotions based on A. Damásio 47 2.4.8. Other models 50 2.5. A critique of neuroaesthetic methods 51 2.5.1. Criticism of neuroaesthetic methods 51 2.5.2. Criticisms of the objectives of neuroaesthetics 52 Chapter 3. What Are the Criteria For a Beautiful Photo? 55 3.1. Before we enter into the fray 56 3.1.1. What reference books do we have? 56 3.1.2. “Beauty of an image” or “quality of an image”? 57 3.1.3. A glossary of aesthetic appraisal 58 3.1.4. Measuring beauty 60 3.2. Composition 63 3.2.1. Complexity versus simplicity 63 3.2.2. Unity 64 3.2.3. A specific case in composition: landscapes 64 3.2.4. Using oculometry to analyze composition 67 3.2.5. Format or aspect ratio 68 3.2.6. The rule of thirds (RoT) 70 3.2.7. The center of the image 72 3.2.8. Other rules for composition 73 3.3. Histograms, spectral properties and textures 76 3.3.1. Histograms and gray levels 76 3.3.2. Focus, spectral density, fractals 78 3.3.3. Textures 80 3.4. Color 82 3.4.1. About the concept of color 82 3.4.2. Preferences related to isolated colors 84 3.4.3. Preferences related to color palettes 86 3.5. What behavioral psychosociology has to say 93 3.5.1. Images of nature 93 3.5.2. The aesthetics of faces 96 3.5.3. The role of the signature, title and context 99 3.5.4. Perception and memory: prototypicality 101 Chapter 4. Algorithmic Approaches to “Calculate” Beauty 103 4.1. First steps: C. Henry 103 4.2. G.D. Birkhoff’s mathematical approach 104 4.3. Those who followed G.D. Birkhoff 106 4.3.1. Beauty according to H.J. Eysenck 106 4.3.2. The Post-War years: the designers, A. Moles and M. Bense 106 4.3.3. A dynamic approach: P. Machado and A. Cardoso 107 4.3.4. Work carried out by J. Rigau, M. Feixas and M. Bert 108 4.4. Algorithmic approach with AI: J. Schmidhuber 110 Chapter 5. The Holy Grail of the Digital World: Artificial Intelligence 113 5.1. Which artificial intelligence? 114 5.1.1. The principles 114 5.1.2. Learning algorithms 115 5.2. Why artificial intelligence in aesthetics? 116 5.3. Expert opinions 118 5.4. The database 120 5.4.1. Generalist databases, used for aesthetic judgments 122 5.4.2. Databases that are specialized for aesthetic photography 126 5.4.3. Databases dedicated to artistic judgment 129 5.4.4. Other image databases that are sometimes used 130 5.4.5. Increasing databases 131 Chapter 6. Primitive-based Classification Methods 133 6.1. Judging aesthetics 136 6.1.1. Multimedia primitives: the ACQUINE system (Datta et al.) 136 6.1.2. Edges and chromatic distance: Ke et al. 137 6.1.3. Photography rules: Luo and Tang and Mavridaki and Mezaris 140 6.1.4. High-level primitives: Dhar et al. 143 6.1.5. Generic descriptors of vision: Marchesotti et al. 144 6.2. Help in composing beautiful photos 148 6.2.1. The library of aesthetic primitives developed by Su et al. 148 6.2.2. The OSCAR system by Yao et al. 148 6.2.3. Embedded systems: Lo et al. and Wang et al. 150 6.3. Some specific research related to the evaluation of aesthetics using primitives 151 6.3.1. Color harmony: Lu et al. 151 6.3.2. Group photography: Wang et al. 153 6.3.3. Social networks and crowdsourcing: Schifanella et al. 153 6.3.4. Looking at comments: San Pedro et al. 154 Chapter 7. Deep Neural Network Systems 155 7.1. DNNs dedicated to aesthetic evaluation 157 7.1.1. High and low resolutions: the RAPID system, Lu et al. 157 7.1.2. The multi-path DMA-Net architecture: Lu et al. 160 7.1.3. Adapting to the size of the image: Mai et al. 160 7.1.4. Finding beauty on the Web: Redi et al. 163 7.1.5. Siamese and GAN networks: Kong et al. and Deng et al. 165 7.1.6. Paying attention to the image construction: A-Lamp 167 7.2. Variants around the basic DNN architecture 170 7.2.1. Comparing photos between themselves: Schwarz et al. 170 7.2.2. Making use of knowledge of the subject: Kao et al. 172 7.2.3. BDN: halfway between classification and DNN 174 7.2.4. Using the distribution of the evaluations 175 7.2.5. Extracting a “dramatic” image from a panorama: the Creatism system 178 7.3. Written appraisals: analyzing them and formulating new ones 179 7.3.1. Photo critique captioning dataset (PCCD) 181 7.3.2. Neural aesthetic image retriever (NAIR) 182 7.3.3. Semantic processing by Ghosal et al. 182 7.3.4. Aesthetic multi attribute network (AMAN) 183 7.4. Measuring subjective beauty 185 7.4.1. Recommendation systems 186 7.4.2. Defining the user’s psychological profile 188 7.4.3. Learning the user’s tastes through tests 191 7.4.4. Multiplying concurrent expertise 194 Chapter 8. A Critical Analysis of Machine Learning Techniques 197 8.1. The popularity of studies on aesthetics 197 8.2. A summary of learning methods 199 8.2.1. Which architecture? Which software? 199 8.2.2. What performances? 200 8.3. Questioning the hypotheses 203 8.4. Specific features of beautiful images detected by a computer 204 8.4.1. Some observations on the photos in the AVA database 205 8.4.2. The scores in the AVA database 207 Conclusion 213 Appendix 1. A Brief Review of Aesthetics 219 Appendix 2. Aesthetics in China 237 Appendix 3. The Aesthetic of Persian Miniatures 251 Appendix 4. Aesthetics in Japan 263 References 271 Index 295
£118.80
The Lilliput Press Ltd Road to Repeal
Book SynopsisRoad to Repeal: 50 Years of Struggle in Ireland for Contraception and Abortion opens in 1970 when the Irish Women's Liberation Movement burst onto the streets and screens of a society bewildered by women demanding equal status in the home and in the workplace. It tracks the bitter backlash to their successes that culminated in the Eighth Amendment's fixture in the Irish Constitution in 1983. Over five decades, Road to Repeal describes and depicts individual tragedy, referendums, court cases, the actions of a misogynist Church and State. It shines a light on the journey of thousands of women and girls who braved stigma and hardship, often travelling alone and anonymously for medical treatment they were denied in Ireland. Road to Repeal closes with the visually dazzling Together For Yes campaign whose determination and grit finally got rid of Article 40.3.3 on May 25th, 2018.Trade Review“Amazing history, very pertinent now” MARGARET ATWOOD ; "Road to Repeal is a splendid production, both visually and in textual content. There is a terrific balance between the vibrant images and the really informative text." CATRIONA CROWE, archivist and broadcaster ; "This powerful book is a memento of what it was like to grow up in a theocracy and a monument to the courage of the citizenry who organised and fought for bodily autonomy over decades, across generations, classes, and genders." PAULA MEEHAN, poet ; "The editors of Road to Repeal do an exceptional job of charting that painful history and exposing how women in Ireland were outcast, stigmatised, and criminalised for having a body. They have set it down in a beautifully produced photobook that should be required reading because it explains why we are where we are right now, which is in a country where women still have a struggle on their hands." Clodagh Finn, Irish Examiner
£19.80
Danann Media Publishing Limited Teach Yourself Photography: Get Started with Your
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£18.90
Trope Publishing Co. Wonder Around Every Corner: Travel Photography
Book SynopsisWonder Around Every Corner takes you behind the scenes with travel photographer Michael Sidofsky, better known by his Instagram handle @mindz.eye. A prolific photographer who travels the world taking photos of some of the most breathtaking places on Earth, Wonder Around Every Corner, shares some of Sidofsky’s most iconic photographs and details the editing process and technique behind each photo. Featuring more than 60 color images from places like Paris, Barcelona, San Francisco, Switzerland, Toronto, and more, Sidofsky will inspire readers to take exceptional photos of their own, showing that the next moment of wonder really can be found around any corner.Table of ContentsFeatured locations included in the book:Dolomites, Italy; Krakow, Poland; Hamburg, Germany; San Francisco, California; Lucerne, Switzerland; Toronto, Canada; Budapest, Hungary; Paris, France; Mt. Pilatus, Switzerland; Venice, Italy; Bavaria, Germany; Rome, Italy; Brig, Switzerland; Burg Eltz, Germany; Chateau de Chillon, Switzerland; Chicago, Illinois, New York, New York; Raj Ampat, Indonesia; Jordan Harbour, Canada; Borneo, Indonesia; Dubai, UAE; Wengen, Switzerland; Mistaya Canyon, Canada; Dominica, Dominica; Florence, Italy; Frankfurt, Germany; Bali, Indonesia; Yosemite National Park, California; Hallstatt, Austria; Arches National Park, Utah; Hintersee, Germany; Niagara Falls, Canada; Ice Fields Parkway, Canada; Lausanne, Switzerland; Maddalena, Italy; Prague, Czech Republic; Matterhorn, Switzerland; Mont Saint-Michel, France; Monument Valley, Arizona; Morant's Curve, Canada; Morraine Lake, Canada; Mount Tamalpais, California; Denali, Alaska; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Quenlingberg, Germany; Quebec, Canada; Davenport, California; Emerald Lake, Canada; Gdansk, Poland; Warsaw, Poland; Sunwapta Falls, Canada; Berlin, Germany; Hohenzollern Castle, Germany; Lauenen, Switzerland; Big Sur, California; Matera, Italy; Marksburg Castle, Germany; Tiffany Falls, Canada; Vatican City; Wawel Royal Castle, Poland; Jasper National Park, Canada
£32.39
Prestel You Will Be Able to Take Great Photos by the End
Book SynopsisAs straightforward as it is encouraging, this concise guide to the art and science of photography can help anyone take a good photo, regardless of the camera they are using. Photography has never been so easy-or so hard. While virtually anyone with a smartphone has the ability to take a photo, most of us don't know how to take a great one. Free of intimidating technical jargon, and filled with suggestions, examples, and helpful illustrations, this book offers everything the average person needs to deliver a well-executed, interesting, and thoughtful image. Its concise chapters explore the anatomy of digital, film, and smartphone cameras; photo editing apps and lenses; and the basic principles of composition, light, and exposures times. It offers pointers on different types of images, such as portraits, landscapes, still lifes, and travel photography, and a list of projects at the end of the book will inspire readers to put what they learn into practice. Throughout it encourages readers to see the world as a photo opportunity, and to develop a photographer's eye in every situation. Because the most important element in the picture-taking process is not the sophistication of the camera, but the creative vision of the person holding it.
£19.96
Ediciones Larousse (MX) El ABC de la Fotografía
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£18.95
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Digital Photography Explained
Book SynopsisThis book can serve as a missing guide for technical features of digital photography that many enthusiasts are unaware of or remain bewildered about. An interesting example is that cameras with sensor sizes differing by a factor of three or four can have the same size resolution. The advantages of sensors — found in larger and more expensive cameras — are elucidated to readers. Another example is the explanation to why the depth of field increases as the lens aperture becomes smaller. The transition from diffraction-limited to sensor-limited resolution is also discussed. Through these examples, one discovers that the optics of practical, thick compound lenses can be understood using the formulas for the more familiar thin lenses.The book further expounds on procedures that are necessary to obtain true color images. For example, CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor) sensors are equipped with color filters such that the intensity of the red, green and blue colors are recorded separately. Since the colors must be combined for print and digital displays, the separate colors recorded in the camera must somehow be merged. This process known as demosaicing is vividly explained. In fact, the technology for defining colors is a separate issue that is also treated in this book.Readers will learn that both our vision and computer displays respond in a nonlinear fashion that requires an operation known as gamma mapping, which is built into all monitors. An important takeaway for camera and photography enthusiasts is that in order to avoid moiré effects in certain types of photographs, most cameras have an anti-aliasing filter that has the unfortunate effect of smearing the resolution. This filter can, however, be removed in certain high-end cameras.
£49.50
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Digital Photography Explained
Book SynopsisThis book can serve as a missing guide for technical features of digital photography that many enthusiasts are unaware of or remain bewildered about. An interesting example is that cameras with sensor sizes differing by a factor of three or four can have the same size resolution. The advantages of sensors — found in larger and more expensive cameras — are elucidated to readers. Another example is the explanation to why the depth of field increases as the lens aperture becomes smaller. The transition from diffraction-limited to sensor-limited resolution is also discussed. Through these examples, one discovers that the optics of practical, thick compound lenses can be understood using the formulas for the more familiar thin lenses.The book further expounds on procedures that are necessary to obtain true color images. For example, CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor) sensors are equipped with color filters such that the intensity of the red, green and blue colors are recorded separately. Since the colors must be combined for print and digital displays, the separate colors recorded in the camera must somehow be merged. This process known as demosaicing is vividly explained. In fact, the technology for defining colors is a separate issue that is also treated in this book.Readers will learn that both our vision and computer displays respond in a nonlinear fashion that requires an operation known as gamma mapping, which is built into all monitors. An important takeaway for camera and photography enthusiasts is that in order to avoid moiré effects in certain types of photographs, most cameras have an anti-aliasing filter that has the unfortunate effect of smearing the resolution. This filter can, however, be removed in certain high-end cameras.
£23.75
