Fundamentals of Photography: The Essential Handbook for Both Digital and Film Cameras - Hardcover

Ang, Tom

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375711570 ISBN 13: 9780375711572

Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group, 2008

Synopsis

From the award-winning photographer--a comprehensive, accessible, and detailed guide for every photographer: whether beginner or advanced, using a digital camera or film.

Award-winning photographer Tom Ang provides a thorough, explicitly detailed bottom-to-top understanding of modern photography, explaining all the techniques that will help anyone who uses a camera--in a professional capacity or as a snapshot shooter--improve the quality of his or her photographs.

Here is everything you need to know: from the most practical advice (the fundamental facts about light sources) to the most sophisticated nuances (how light is measured through photometry), from the basics of the camera (which button controls which function) to the finer points of framing with an LCD viewfinder, featuring a selection of Ang's most inspiring images. For users of film cameras, Ang explains the differences between types of film and details the various methods of processing and darkroom techniques.

Ang delves into the development and transformation of photography by digital techniques. For the digital-camera contingent, there's a specificity of previously unavailable information about the cameras and about processing, digitizing, and outputting the images. Ang also discusses subjects usually ignored in manuals but of interest to all photographers, including critical theory, the presentation of images, the function of the human eye in the perception of images, and ethical and copyright issues.

Fundamentals of Photography is an essential book for every photographer.

About this title

About the Author

Tom Ang is an award-winning photographer and a leading authority on digital photography. His books include Dictionary of Photography and Digital Imaging, Digital Photographer's Handbook, Photoshop CS for Photography, and How to Photography Absolutely Everything. His work has been exhibited internationally, and for twelve years he was Senior Lecturer in Photographic Practice at the University of Westminster, London. He was the presenter for two six-part BBC programs on digital photography.

Edition details

• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0375711570
• ISBN 13: 9780375711572
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352