Creative And Experimental Photography

Author : John Humphrey
Publisher : The Crowood Press
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-29
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780719840005

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Creative and Experimental Photography by John Humphrey Pdf

More photos are taken than ever before, but most are neglected and unused. This book suggests new creative directions and explains how you can produce distinctive and exciting works of art. Packed with technical advice and in-depth practical detail, it shows you how to use cameras and equipment for experimental photography. There are ideas on how to develop a creative eye and a personal photographic style. It explains when to use the rules of composition, and when to break them and shows you how to create amazing pictures from everyday objects. It provides inspiration, ideas and techniques for making abstract and pattern pictures, and using textures for artistic impact. Finally, it advises on using software to convert pictures to artwork and how to present art images for maximum effect. Through step-by-step guides and stunning examples, it also helps you create images that tell a personal story. It's an essential guide to help you take photos that count, not just click away.

Author : Nitsa
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-12
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1453771018

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So Much More Than Photography by Nitsa Pdf

So Much More than Photography is a book of ideas, inspiration and actual practices for creative and experimental photography. Every photographic and mixed media artist is sure to find something they can apply. Start the journey with exploring new methods and ideas to approach photography without following the rules. Next, learn numerous ways to present your photographs artistically such as image transfers, texture layers, and mixed media photography. Discover how easy it is to apply these creative techniques, taking your ordinary photos to the next level. And finally, find out everything you need to know about print-on-demand, read selected entries from "Still Alive" photography blog, and final thoughts. All the processes in the book are easy to follow and will sure to inspire you to create your own photo-art work.

Author : Marco Antonini,Luca Bendandi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Camera obscuras
ISBN : 0500544379

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Experimental Photography by Marco Antonini,Luca Bendandi Pdf

The first handbook to systematically detail experimental photographic techniques that manipulate conventional camera technology to create stunning images

Author : Rick Doble
Publisher : Lark Books (NC)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Arts
ISBN : 1600595170

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Experimental Digital Photography by Rick Doble Pdf

Thanks to the popularity of digital photography and user-generated Internet content, interest in experimental photographic techniques continues to build. This unique guide helps photographers go beyond the snapshot, flex their creative muscles, and push the boundaries of their art. Rick Doble presents a wealth of imaginative concepts, from creating ambience through a mix of flash and available light to panning the camera and zooming the lens during an exposure. He explains how to manipulate time and motion in an image, use inventive white balance methods, and "paint" with light in time exposures. There are even original self-portrait techniques. Put these procedures in practice and you'll make photography a riveting, even surreal, art form!---from the publisher.

Author : Steve Sonheim,Carla Sonheim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Photographs
ISBN : 9781592538324

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Creative Photography Lab by Steve Sonheim,Carla Sonheim Pdf

Collects photography exercises that can be completed with any type of camera, including tutorials that focus on such topics as reflections, backlighting, tension, portraiture, and shadows.

Author : Jillian Lerner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000214826

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Experimental Self-Portraits in Early French Photography by Jillian Lerner Pdf

This book explores a range of experimental self-portraits made in France between 1840 and 1870, including remarkable images by Hippolyte Bayard, Nadar, Duchenne de Boulogne, and Countess de Castiglione. Adapting photography for different social purposes, each of these pioneers showcased their own body as a living artifact and iconic attraction. Jillian Lerner considers performative portraits that exhibit uncanny transformations of identity and embodiment. She highlights the tactical importance of photographic demonstrations, promotions, conversations, and the mongrel forms of montage, painted photographs, and captioned specimens. The author shows how photographic practices are mobilized in diverse cultural contexts and enmeshed with the histories of art, science, publicity, urban spectacle, and private life in nineteenth-century France. Tracing calculated and creative approaches to a new medium, this research also contributes to an archaeology of the present. It furnishes a prehistory of the “selfie” and offers historical perspectives on the forces that reshape human perception and social experience. This interdisciplinary study will appeal to readers interested in the history of photography, art, visual culture, and media studies.

Author : Chris Gatcum
Publisher : 52 Assignments
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1781453543

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52 Assignments by Chris Gatcum Pdf

52 Assignments: Experimental Photography is filled with prompts and projects, nudges and sparks, innovations and inspirations, and--most importantly--experiments in shooting, processing, and printing, to help you kick your photographic habits, step out of your comfort zone and create your own collection of experimental work. You will be briefed to tackle modern uses for traditional film (hacking vintage film cameras, making pinholes, playing with plastic, collecting the filters that inspired Instagram) and traditional uses for digital (multiple exposures, extreme speeds, timed challenges, focus tricks), as well as lo-tech and hi-tech ways to manipulate your prints (staining prints with water, digital effects, photocopy prints, burning photos, printing on flexible surfaces). The rest of the journal's pages are styled for you to add your own thoughts, notes, lists, Top 10s, technical specifications, quotes, and even sketches and doodles, creating a record of your own 52 photographic assignments. These may be completed weekend by weekend over the course of a year, or dipped into every time you need to bring a new edge or experimental approach to your photography.

Author : Lee Frost
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0715311271

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The A-Z of Creative Photography by Lee Frost Pdf

This volume shows the powerful benefits that can emerge when therapists acknowledge illness as a vital part of everyone's psychology.

Author : Nick Fancher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1681987392

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The Creative Portrait by Nick Fancher Pdf

Go beyond the photographic conventions, break the rules, and create compelling portraits. While the ability to create a conventional, traditional portrait is a must-have skill for any photographer of people, it can often yield a fairly predictable result: a straightforward likeness of the subject, created with a flattering lens in flattering light with a flattering composition. The subject may be pleased with the results, but it's not a very interesting photograph. And in the constant, endless stream of images we consume daily, the portrait is likely forgotten as quickly as it appeared. A truly creative portrait comes from the two-sided exchange between the subject and the photographer, with both parties working together to create an image that goes beyond the simple representation of the subject. The end result is not an image that simply breaks the rules--it's an engaging photograph that both captures the essence of the subject and compels the viewer to stop and take notice. In The Creative Portrait, photographer and author Nick Fancher walks you through a plethora of ideas and techniques for making such creative work. Known for imagery that is bold, colorful, expressive, and widely varied, Nick has built a career by going against the grain. The result has been a consistent output of innovative and striking photographs. In this book, Nick will help you go beyond the conventional approach and explore the endless possibilities that come with intentionally breaking the rules. He'll teach you all about: -The gear he uses, and his overall approach to shooting -Why it's so important to practice photographing paper, plastic, and plants -Multiple long exposure techniques for creating unique and expressive images -Blocking, directing, and concentrating light with cookies, flags, gobos, and snoots -Shooting through glass for numerous creative effects -How he employs smoke, mirrors, and projectors in his work -And much more Throughout the book, Nick includes behind-the-scenes photos and diagrams of his shoots, as well as Lightroom post-processing techniques so you can follow along. He also includes over a dozen creative prompts to actively push you to go beyond your own comfort zone in your photography in order to create compelling portraiture.

Author : John Humphrey
Publisher : Crowood
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-30
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781847975980

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Close-Up and Macro Photography by John Humphrey Pdf

High magnification photography is immensely exciting and rewarding. Through the close-up lens, everyday objects produce striking images, and small creatures show amazing detail that usually goes unnoticed. This book is both a practical guide to each step of the close-up process, as well as a source of inspirational ideas and subjects for producing high-impact images. Topics covered include: cameras, lenses and equipment; step-by-step techniques for high quality results; ideas for close-up subjects, including flowers, insects and still life; composing close-up pictures for maximum impact; using software for creative effect and suggestions for presenting macro photographs.Superbly illustrated with 229 stunning colour photographs.

Author : Chris Gatcum
Publisher : Ilex Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-21
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781781570937

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Creative Photography by Chris Gatcum Pdf

Experiment with new projects and techniques, and create arresting images time and again Digital cameras have made it easy for us all to take photos that are, technically, perfect: clearly exposed, sharply focused, and beautifully composed. However, what most photographers want from their photography is something more personal, more individual ? in short, more creative. In this sequel to the highly successful Creative Digital Photography: 52 Weekend Projects, respected author and prize-winning photographer Chris Gatcum will show you how to create images that pack that creative punch and involve fun.

Author : Harold Davis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781136109812

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Photographing Flowers by Harold Davis Pdf

Capture stunning macro floral images with this gorgeous guide by acclaimed photographer Harold Davis. You'll learn about different types of flowers, macro equipment basics, and the intricacies of shooting different floral varieties in the field and in the studio. Harold also shows you techniques in the Photoshop darkroom that can be applied to flower photography to help you get the most out of your images. Beautiful and authoritative, this guide to photographing flowers is a must-read for every photographer interested in flower photography. Photographing Flowers will also win a place in the hearts of those who simply love striking floral imagery.

Author : Christina Z. Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-12
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0984681604

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The Experimental Photography Workbook by Christina Z. Anderson Pdf

The Experimental Photography Workbook, now in its 6th edition, is completely revised, updated, and professionally published, with full-color images from 100 photographers illustrating all processes. Inside you will find succinct how-to's on the photogram, cliche-verre, lumenprint, chemigram, photo-chemigram (chromo/painting with light), collage, photomontage, photo transfer, pinhole, zoneplate, Holga, paper negative, Sabattier, lith printing, liquid emulsion, modern tintype, mordancage, dye mordanting, bleachout, toning, applied color, abrasion tone, bromoil, encaustic, distressing film, and more. The Workbook is the perfect "short & sweet" manual to put play back into the analog black & white darkroom, and will be a great impetus to increased creativity for students and professionals alike.

Author : Michael Crouser
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-02
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1477312935

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Mountain Ranch by Michael Crouser Pdf

"The ranches where Michael Crouser so affectionately captures these scenes tell a story of staying power, of joy in the beauty of the world, of gratitude for the working animals—the dogs and the horses—of midwifery and husbandry, of seeing the seasons through. . . . It is a pleasure to be brought into this out-of-the-way part of the world with such understated passion." —Gretel Ehrlich, from the introduction The mountain ranches of western Colorado preserve a way of life that has nearly vanished from the American scene. Families who have lived on the same land for five or six generations raise cattle much as their ancestors did, following an annual cycle of breeding, birthing, branding, grazing, and selling livestock. Michael Crouser spent more than a decade (2006–2016) photographing family cattle ranches in Colorado, intrigued "not by the ways their lives are changing but by the way they have stayed the same." He was, he says, "most interested in the traditional elements of these traditional lives, . . . what they call 'cowboying.'" Intimate without being sentimental about the realities of ranch work, Mountain Ranch's duotone images capture the raw and basic elements of a hard and basic life. In the afterword, Crouser pays verbal tribute to ranch people who are "the real deal," whose seasonal round of work forms the subject of the acclaimed nature writer Gretel Ehrlich's foreword. Portraits of eight men and women who eloquently describe their long lives on Colorado mountain ranches complete the volume. The ever-increasing commercial and residential development of traditional ranch land and the economic difficulties facing a new generation of ranchers threaten the future of cattle ranching in the mountains of Colorado. Mountain Ranch powerfully records the last vestiges of a tradition that exerts a nearly universal fascination and mystique—cowboying in the American West.

Author : John Warren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0863430422

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Experimental Photography by John Warren Pdf