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Jan
27

Understanding Flash Photography: How to Shoot Great Photographs Using Electronic Flash

Understanding Flash Photography: How to Shoot Great Photographs Using Electronic Flash

FEATURED Understanding Flash Photography: How to Shoot Great Photographs Using Electronic Flash

This guide to on- and off-camera flash picks up where Understanding Exposure leaves off, helping free photographers from the limitations of “auto” to get the images they want when natural light isn’t enough. For the many amateur photographers afraid to venture past natural lighting, here is the book that will finally help them explore the exciting possibilities of artificial light. In his trademark easy-to-understand style, Bryan Peterson explains not only how flash works, but how to go beyond ”

Jan
13

LIFE Guide to Digital Photography: Everything You Need to Shoot Like the Pros

LIFE Guide to Digital Photography: Everything You Need to Shoot Like the Pros

FEATURED LIFE Guide to Digital Photography: Everything You Need to Shoot Like the Pros

Photography has been the business and the passion of LIFE since the original weekly magazine’s inception in 1936, and it continues to be the business and passion of LIFE Books and LIFE.com in the new millennium. But photography has surely changed during these many decades. The rigs and gear of old have given way-first slowly, then all at once-to sleek miracle machines that process pixels and have made the darkroom obsolete. The casual photog puts eye to lens, sets everything on auto and captures

Nov
13

Understanding Exposure, 3rd Edition: How to Shoot Great Photographs with Any Camera

Understanding Exposure, 3rd Edition: How to Shoot Great Photographs with Any Camera

FEATURED Understanding Exposure, 3rd Edition: How to Shoot Great Photographs with Any Camera

  • ISBN13: 9780817439392
  • Condition: New
  • Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold!

With more than 350,000 copies sold, Understanding Exposure has demystified the complex concepts of exposure for countless photographers. Now updated with current technologies, more than one hundred new images, and an all-new chapter, this new edition will inspire you more than ever to free yourself from “auto” and create the pictures you truly want. In his trademark easy-to-understand style, author Bryan Peterson explains the relationship between aperture and shutter speed, including how to

Nov
12

Bryan Peterson’s Understanding Photography Field Guide: How to Shoot Great Photographs with Any Camera

Bryan Peterson's Understanding Photography Field Guide: How to Shoot Great Photographs with Any Camera

FEATURED Bryan Peterson’s Understanding Photography Field Guide: How to Shoot Great Photographs with Any Camera

  • ISBN13: 9780817432256
  • Condition: New
  • Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold!

Everything you need to know in one take-anywhere field guide!

This all-in-one guide from renowned photographer, instructor, and author Bryan Peterson will help you take better photos anytime, anywhere–with any camera.

Want to finally understand exposure? Interested in learning to “see” and composing your images more creatively? Ready to master the magic of light? It’s all here, the techniques every amateur photographer needs to take better nature, landscape, people, and close

Feb
24

How To Feel More Comfortable When Participating In A Sensual Photography Shoot

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If you are going to be participating in a sensual photography shoot for the first time, you may be feeling nervous. This can be understandable considering that sensual photography can be a very sensitive and personal thing. Even people who are incredibly confident may feel differently when having sensual photography or Glamour photography performed.

There are a few things that you can do to ensure that you are going to be as comfortable as possible during your Glamour photography or sensual photography session. The first is to do your research first before agreeing to have any one photographer perform your Glamour photography or sensual photography. If you are speaking with a company that has several photographers, see if you are able to speak with the photographer who will be working with you personally. This can help to put a personal face on the project and may make you feel at home. Or, if you are someone who does not want to have a personal connection to your photographer, you may want to have someone else that you trust speak with the person conducting the photo shoot.

When you are speaking with the photographer, let them know how comfortable you are with nudity. Some sensual photography sessions may result in you becoming nude or nearly nude although the shots themselves are still very tasteful. If you are someone who is not as comfortable with nudity or your body image, make that clear when booking your Glamour photography session.