Composition/Lighting in Portugese

I’m delighted to see that  publisher ArtMed has produced Portugese language editions of my books Basics Photography: Composition and Basics Photography: Lighting under the Bookman imprint in recent months. ISBNs  978-8577807161 and 978-8577807142 respectively, available in both Portugal and Brazil.

Moving on

We will be moving on from our purpose-built training workshops this year. If you’d ever thought of running a photographic teaching facility (or even a B&B) in a fantastic part of Hadrian’s Wall country have a look at this link for full details.

Composition now in Turkish

Delighted to see that my Basics Photography: Composition is now available in Turkish. ISBN is  978-9944483346 and more information can be had through this link.

 

Visual Dictionary of Photography – review

Although this book by Prakel (independent scholar) is designed as a dictionary of photography, it is an ideal starter text for beginning photographers, and a useful quick reference for more advanced photographers. In many ways the work is a bridge between film photography and digital photography. Many of the entries cover film and photo-paper developing, which is rapidly becoming obsolete. But many entries address the new techniques evolving with digital photography. The work contains a rather limited index, but no bibliography (which would have been useful). The illustrations are very high quality, and very useful to understanding the text. This visual dictionary excels at explaining some of the more confusing concepts of photography. The explanation of “JPEG” is a good example of the book’s ability to reduce a complicated process to understandable terms. Other definitions are equally well done and clearly explained. While not aimed at the professional photographer, this dictionary is an indispensable purchase for amateur and advanced photographers, and for public and academic library collections. Overall, it is a useful reference work that should be of great use to a variety of readers.

Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower- and upper-level undergraduates, two-year technical program students, and general readers.

R. L. Wick emeritus, University of Colorado at Denver

Copyright American Library Association

New reviews – Fundamentals of Creative Photography

Very pleased to read these comments and reviews of Fundamentals of Creative Photography – thanks all.

“From an educator’s perspective, this is probably the best book on photography I’ve come across … This title covers everything that photographic students need from production and distribution to critical analysys (and everything in between).”

Dave Caton, Swindon College, UK

“A relevant and inspiring book that strikes a good balance between explaining the basics and giving an inspirational look into the world of professional photography. Attractively and clearly laid out with clear graphics and good examples of professional work.”

Katherine Baker, Guildford College, UK

“Very up-to-date text/layout style which students have commented on! Set out in a very clear and easy fashion.”

Richard Sainsbury, Guildford College, UK

“This book is an ideal reference to many key areas and modules on our photography courses … Engaging, easy to read and scan, well illustrated with fresh layout, graphics and typography.”

Graham Hembrough, Coleg Llandrillo, UK

 

Spanish co-editions

Spanish co-edition publisher Blume has added my titles Exposure and Working in black-and-white from the Basics Photography series to its lists. Exposición (ISBN 978-84-8076-897-9)  and Fotografía en blanco y negro (ISBN 978-84-8076-920-4) are available now for €22.90 from most Spanish language booksellers.

New Hungarian co-editions

Co-edition publisher (Scolar) has added my books on Exposure and Working in Black & white from the ava Basic Photography series to their Hungarian language lists – Expozíció and Fekete-fehér fotózás. The books sell for 5500 Hungarian Forints each but are available online at a discount at 4400Ft at http://www.scolar.hu/

Fundamentals of Creative Photography

My latest book - Fundamentals of Creative Photography – was finally launched last month and is now in stock in most bookshops.  Though I cleared proofs much earlier in the year it was a disappointingly long time in production – though I understand this delay was to prepare the simplified Chinese edition which was printed and published at the same time. The first time a co-edition has gone straight to print.

Don’t be misled by the title – it is a comprehensive 200-page introduction to the world of applied creative photography, exploring the basic principles underpinning photography, and guiding readers though the practical considerations involved in executing the perfect shot. The book is concerned with photography in a professional context – images that are to be used in the fulfilment of a brief, rather than those created solely for self-expression. For this, creativity is vital, but must be focused on meeting the client’s needs. As such, Fundamentals of Creative Photography deals in practical advice for photographers as working image-makers, from the importance of communication to useful industry information and advice. It includes guidance on acquiring and developing new skills, the practice of self-promotion and self-administration, and a discussion of the image workflow. ISBN 978-2940411139

Visual Dictionary now in Spanish

My Visual Dictionary of Photography has now appeared in Spanish translation. Diccionario visual de fotografía is a Blume co-edition published on 24 October 2010 with the ISBN 978-8480768870.

Papers

Pleased my books are making some contribution to the scientific/academic community. Basics Photography: Composition is quoted as a reference in Hwang, Jooyeon, Dongsup Lim, and Doowon Paik. “A Straight Line-Based Distance Measure to Compute Photographic Compositional Dissimilarity.” In Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 5899, edited by Y. H. Lee, T. -H. Kim, W. -c. Fang, and D. Slezak, 69-77. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 2009. Basics Photography: Lighting is quoted in Jin, Xin, Mingtian Zhao, Xiaowu Chen, Qinping Zhao, and Song-Chun Zhu. “Learning Artistic Lighting Template From Portrait Photographs.” In Proceedings, Part IV (Lecture. Vision, Pattern Recognition, and Graphics), edited by Kostas Daniilidis, Petros Maragos, and Nikos Paragios, 101-14. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 2010.