Learn IT - Books tags film

Photographic Lighting Simplified

Allworth Press, 2003

"An essential how-to guide." -- Shutterbug

For aspiring photographers ready to transform their work from average to expert, here is the "bible" to lighting any subject and space effectively. In specific but nontechnical terms, Photographic Lighting Simplified explains how to take light...

More than a Game: The Computer Game as Fictional Form

Manchester University Press, 2003

Taking its cue from practices of reading texts in literary and cultural studies, this book considers the computer game as a new and emerging mode of contemporary storytelling. In a carefully organized study, Barry Atkins discusses questions of narrative and realism in four of the most significant games of the last decade: Tomb Raider,...

The Best of 2600: A Hacker Odyssey

John Wiley & Sons, 2008

" … The Best of 2600: A Hacker Odyssey is an important, amazing book that tells the story of these kids and adults as they explore a new frontier."
—John Baichtal (Wired Blog, August, 2008)

"...a testament to a culture which thrived before computers and the internet mattered to most of...

Imaging Beyond the Pinhole Camera (Computational Imaging and Vision)

Springer, 2007

The world's first photograph was taken in 1826 using a pinhole camera, known as camera obscura. The camera obscura, the basic projection model of pinhole cameras, was already known in China more than 2500 years ago. Cameras used since this first photograph are basically following the pinhole camera principle. The quality of projected images...

Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software

Duke University Press, 2008

In "Two Bits", Christopher M. Kelty investigates the history and cultural significance of Free Software, revealing the people and practices that have transformed not only software, but also music, film, science, and education. Free Software is a set of practices devoted to the collaborative creation of software source code that is made...

Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design (Interactive Technologies)

Morgan Kaufmann, 2007

There is almost a fervor in the way that new products, with their rich and dynamic interfaces, are being released to the public-typically promising to make lives easier, solve the most difficult of problems, and maybe even make the world a better place. The reality is that few survive, much less deliver on their promise. The folly? An absence of...

Photographic Lighting: Essential Skills, Fourth Edition (Photography Essential Skills)

Focal Press, 2008

This book is fantastic! ...The terminology is easy to understand and techniques are explained in a no nonsense format. Excellent for beginners to intermediate photographers. I have had this book for a few months now and through practicing and completing the revision exercises, I have a better understanding of the techniques used for photograhic...

Photoshop Effects for Portrait Photographers

Focal Press, 2006

Deepen your bag of tricks by building on tools Photoshop offers to expand your product mix and offer your clients more options to choose from!

Want to offer your clients more to chose from? Here's how: award winning photographer, Christopher Grey, has developed techniques to enhance portrait photography, using the...

Studio Photography: Essential Skills, Third Edition (Photography Essential Skills)

Focal Press, 2005

Now beautifully illustrated in full colour with brand new full colour student and author work, Studio Photography has been updated and improved to cover all the latest techniques. With the refreshed images and illustrations you will clearly be able to see how to use a wide range of photographic effects to their full advantage.

In this...

Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography (3 Volumes)

Routledge, 2005

Photography is an international cultural form, practice, and profession. Encompassing art, advertising, journalism, fashion, commercial, political, and everyday photography, the field of photography also includes chemical processes, mechanical inventions, equipment, industries, movements, techniques, terms and concepts. In addition, photography has...

The Darkroom Cookbook, Third Edition

Focal Press, 2008

The art of darkroom developing and printing will never go out of style. Master darkroom specialist Steve Anchell is back to prove it in this long-awaited third edition of his enormously successful Darkroom Cookbook. Packed with over 200 "recipes," some common and others rare gems, you'll discover something new every time you open this...

Basic Photographic Materials and Processes, Third Edition

Focal Press, 2008

"This is the most understandable broad coverage of the material on the market... I will continue using this title until next edition or if another publisher comes out with a better title (but I doubt that)."

"No question, content wise this one tops most pubs on the subject."

"Having taken the...

Result Page: 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9