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Barron’s Aspire Series

150 Projects To Strengthen Your Photography Skills

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The ultimate guide to beginner's photography Learn to take the best digital photographs that you can and challenge yourself with 150 amazing digital photography projects! In this helpful photography book, distinguished photographer John Easterby teaches aspiring artists the basics of digital photography. A comprehensive guide to visual storytelling, this serves as a gift or resource for any new photographer. To start, Easterby advises on studying the work of professional photographers in galleries, books, and magazines as an important first step in understanding how to look at photos and set your photography aspirations. Carefully structured lessons encourage will help you develop your own style and explore exciting techniques. Tutorial projects include "remaking" a well-known photo by a famous photographer, shooting a natural light portrait, using backlighting, shooting scenes at night, expressing movement in photos, freezing action, keeping a photographic diary, photographing sports events and crowd scenes, using a series of pictures to tell a photo story, and many others. Covering the process from beginning to end, you'll finally learn how to set up a desktop studio, edit images, and build a portfolio. This comprehensive art book

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

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September 14, 2013
Se non avete mai compreso cosa siano gli ISO, se la differenza tra apertura ed esposizione vi sembra pura fantascienza, questo manuale è ciò che fa per voi. La pretesa di essere un manuale per chi vuole diventare fotografo di professione forse è un po' troppo alta, ma di certo è ottimo per muovere passi sicuri all'interno del mondo della fotografia. Senza dilungarsi in spiegazioni articolate e tecnicismi, questo manuale è un eserciziario eccellente che vi obbligherà ad esporvi in prima persona per prendere confidenza con la vostra macchina fotografica, offrendo un modo divertente e utile per sviluppare una buona tecnica. Non importa quale macchina utilizzerete: ogni scatto sarà una sfida e il risultato assicurato. Consigliato a chiunque voglia migliorare le proprie fotografie, anche solo per avere eccezionali album dei ricordi.
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June 6, 2020
Per chi è alle primissime arme, ci sono delle informazioni importante insieme a dei consigli su come muovere i primissimi passi nel mondo della fotografia, ma che il libro aiuti a diventare un fotografo, è una descrizione eccessiva e non veritiera.
Il libro da la possibilità di una generale è diversificata infarinatura sulla composizione, tecniche, trucchetti, diverse presentazioni fotografiche, i momenti importanti, e, in fine, fa riferimento al portafoglio e come scegliere i migliori corsi da seguire.
Compatto come realizzazione e di facile lettura.
Author 4 books1 follower
June 26, 2012
I like the approach of the author and many of the examples were very good, but even though the book was published in 2010, it seems as if it were written for film years ago.

Not enough concrete examples and then comments based on the suggested projects.

One thing I found odd was that I didn't care for many of the photos. I think that's why I didn't give the book 4 stars.
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July 13, 2012
Excellent book if you want to challenge yourself with all kinds of different projects. Deals with everything from the very basics of taking a picture up to professional assignments and advertising yourself online.
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May 2, 2019
This is a book I keep going back to ... Love the excercises that push me to do better!
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