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作者： Michael Bussell 著

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出版时间： 2005-12-1字数：版次： 1页数： 128印刷时间： 2006/12/01开本：印次：纸张： 铜版纸I S B N ： 9781902538419包装： 平装编辑推荐

作者简介：

Michael Busselle is one of the world's great landscape photographers. One would expect that this book would provide a complete guide to digital landscape photography with an emphasis on seas and skies.

The book is divided into four parts. The first is called "Nineteen Steps to Capturing Images". Rather than being a process for digital landscape photography, this is a series of random tips, with accompanying photographs, for landscape photography. The next part is called "Ten Steps to Enhancing Images" and this provides tips on digital post processing. The third part is a gallery of the author's images with a brief discussion of the circumstances of the capture and sometimes, of the digital post-processing. The final part is a brief discussion of equipment.

This is another example of what I'm beginning to think of as "how-to-itis". This is the circumstance when an author or publisher decides that the photographs available from the photographer are unlikely to sell as a picture book, so they cloak the pictures in the garb of an instructional manual. (A related disease is "digital-itis". This disease is related to the fact that many photographers are now seeking help in using their new digital cameras.) How-to-itis sometimes works as an instructional manual when the pictures are organized in a pedagogical way with well organized teaching points made strongly. Sometimes these books work as picture books when the pictures are somehow related and are really of the best quality.

Unfortunately, this book meets none of these tests. The tips and related pictures are presented in a random way and the depth of instruction is quite shallow. During the discussions of capture there is nothing that tells how taking a picture with a digital camera requires more than pointing and shooting. The digital tips will only be understood by those who understand how Photoshop tools work and they probably will not need the skimpy instruction provided. As a photo book, the pictures are quite small and are not related in any way so there is no synergistic effect.

Finally, there are a few annoying characteristics. For example, Busselle loves to insert turbulent skies from one picture into another picture. One quickly tires of the repeated comment that the sky was added "using the method described on pages 64-65." This is made even more irritating when one looks at the description on pages 64-65. It would have been nice if there had been really detailed instruction on inserting a new sky in a picture. I would have liked to see a discussion of how Busselle considers cloud formations to make sure the lighting is consistent with the landscape below.

There are some excellent pictures that prove the author's skills but the presentation is not designed to make the book interesting as a picture book or as an instructional manual.

内容简介

The Better Digital Photography Guides are aimed at amateur photographers who want to explore the potential of digital technology to improve the quality and range of their work, be it snapshots of family activities, records of their travels, landscapes, portraits, or still-lifes. Master photographer Michael Busselle breaks down the image-making process into three phases: Capture, Enhance, and Print. While his stunning photographs educate through visual inspiration, his clear step-by-step text simplifies all the procedures.

To landscape photographers, digital offers previously undreamed of possibilities for enhancing their work or eliminating snags that were not apparent at the time a pictures was taken. Telegraph lines can be removed, skies can be improved, and light and shadow effects that didn’t quite work can be strengthened. In short, photographers have a second chance to produce a print that more fully reflects the vision they had in mind at the point of capture. Each of Michael Busselle’s stunning images, which he uses to demonstrate the ways in which landscape photographers can use digital techniques to improve their work, is accompanied by instructions broken down into three phases—Capture, Enhance, and Print—which explain his original intentions and the ways in which they were finally realized. Inspired by these examples, amateurs will quickly discover the immense creative possibilities opened up by the new technology.

目录

Introduction

Nineteen Steps to Capturing Images

The Classic View

Featuring the Sky

Looking for Patterns

Using Texture

Photographing Trees

Nature in Close-up

The Abstract Approach

Photographing Water

The Urban Scene

Coastlines

Man-made Landscapes

Seascapes

An Eye for Colour

The Monochrome View

Using Light

Choosing a Viewpoint

Framing the Image

Understanding Exposure

Using Depth of Field

Ten Steps to Enhancing images

Creative Cropping

Adjusting Density and Contrast

Contrast Control

Controlling Colour

Accentuating Skies

Adding Skies

Using Special Effects

Converting to Monochrome

Creating Toned Images

Adding a Border

Gallery

Case Studies of Thirty Successful Images

Cameras and Equipment

Sensors and Pixels

Digital Cameras

Lenses and Accessories

Making Prints

Web Images

Saving and Storing

Organising and Filing

Glossary

 

 

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