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The Volcano Adventure Guide

Cambridge University Press, 2005

The Volcano Adventure Guide is the first book of its type. It contains vital information for anyone wishing to visit, explore, and photograph active volcanoes safely and enjoyably. Following an introduction that discusses eruption styles of different types of volcanoes, how to prepare for a volcano trip, and how to avoid volcanic dangers, the book...

Totality: Eclipses of the Sun

Oxford University Press, 2008

A total eclipse of the Sun is the most awesome sight in the heavens. Totality takes you to eclipses of the past, present, and future, and lets you see--and feel--why people travel to the ends of the Earth to observe them.

An absolutely indispensable resource for anyone who plans to observe an eclipse, and a must read for all...

The Art of Sport

Prentice Hall, 2003

The Art of Sport is a book about sport, but not only this: it is also a book about the beauty, the unexpected, the grace, the anguish, the triumph and the pain of sport.

In this collection, Reuters photographers have captured the significance of moments in time. More often than not the photograph needs no caption: it tells its own story...

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...

Easy Electromyography

Oxford University Press, 2000

The seed for this book was planted by a second-year resident in Neurology, Vicente (ÑÐÐ¬EnzoÑÐÐ) Trapani, who desired a handbook in electromyography (EMG) that emphasized both muscle localization and clinical pearls. A gifted artist, Trapani envisioned a text that would provide high-quality illustrations of skeletal...

The Photographer's Mind: Creative Thinking for Better Digital Photos

Focal Press, 2010

The source of any photograph is not the camera or even the scene viewed through the viewfinder--it is the mind of the photographer: this is where an image is created before it is committed to a memory card or film. In The Photographer's Mind, the follow-up to the international bestseller, The Photographer's Eye,...

The Photographic Image in Digital Culture (Comedia)

Routledge, 2013

This new edition of The Photographic Image in Digital Culture explores the condition of photography after some 20 years of remediation and transformation by digital technology.

Through ten especially commissioned essays, by some of the leading scholars in the field of contemporary photography studies, a range of key topics...

Engineering Design via Surrogate Modelling: A Practical Guide

John Wiley & Sons, 2008

Think of a well-known public personality whom you could easily identify from a photograph. Consider now whether you would still recognize them if most of the photograph was obscured, except for the corner of an eye, a small part of their chin and, perhaps, a half of their mouth. This is a game often played on television quiz shows...

Photoshop CS3 for Forensics Professionals: A Complete Digital Imaging Course for Investigators

Sybex, 2007

The First Practical Guide to the Use of Photoshop in Forensics Investigations

This timely book is the first to take the forensic use of digital imaging out of the classroom and into the real world for law enforcement, legal, and other forensics professionals. How do you show the exact position or...

101 Spy Gadgets for the Evil Genius

McGraw-Hill, 2006

101 SPY DEVICES FOR SERIOUS SNOOPING

This book offers an amazingly awesome and complete collection of professional spy tools that you can build yourself. You can build any project in this thrilling arsenal of spy devices for $30 or less! Not only that, even total beginners to electronics can construct these mind-boggling...

Color Constancy (The Wiley-IS&T Series in Imaging Science and Technology)

John Wiley & Sons, 2007

A human observer is able to recognize the color of objects irrespective of the light used to illuminate the objects. This ability is called color constancy. In photography, color constancy is known under the name white balance. Most amateur photographers have probably experienced the following problem at one time or another when a photograph is...

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...

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