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Lou Lesko, Bobbi Lane
Advertising Photography: A Straightforward Guide to a Complex Industry
by Course Technology PTR (Paperback)
If you are an aspiring or professional photographer looking to break into advertising, "Advertising Photography: A Straightforward Guide to a Complex Industry" will provide you with an honest and uncensored look at this highly competitive and lucrative business. While working in the advertising photography industry can be glamorous and financially rewarding, it can also be intimidating and difficult to break into, requiring networking savvy, financial know-how, and marketing and business skills on top of photographic talent. Advertising Photography strips away the glitz and presents a candid and complete picture with solid advice to newcomers. You’ll learn how to get your business started, including writing a business strategy, successfully negotiating a bid, what to expect during the shoot, post production and delivery tips, and how to properly invoice your clients. The book explores several business management styles supported by the real-world experiences of veteran ...
Simon Stafford
Magic Lantern Guides: Nikon D60 (Magic Lantern Guides)
by Lark Books (Paperback)
Model Magic Lantern Guides®: Nikon D60
Photographers will be happy to see this successor to Nikon’s user-friendly D40x. Small and light, it’s perfect for those moving up from compact digital cameras. And it’s better than ever, with its enhanced Retouch menu options; new EXPEED digital image processing for refined tone and color; lightning-like start-up time; and Active D-Lighting that improves image quality in high-contrast conditions. Magic Lantern DVD Guide provides a perfect introduction to the model, while the book, written by Nikon expert Simon Stafford, will take them even more deeply into the camera’s every function.
Magdalene Keaney
The World's Top Photographers Workshops: Fashion & Advertising (World's Top Photographers' Workshops)
by Rotovision (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2007-10-16)
The World’s Top Photographers’ Workshops is a dynamic series that brings big-name professional photographers together in a roundtable-style format. These artists discuss and explore the fundamental technical aspects of photography: lighting, composition, color, tone, and imaging. Stunning images and in-depth interviews plus checklists and tips-and-hints panels make these books beautiful as well as practical. Fashion and Advertising, the first title, offers hardworking advice plus image portfolios combined with the photographers’ comments on their influences and signature styles.
Martin Parr
Boring Postcards USA
by Phaidon Press (Paperback)
Rohn Engh
Sell & Re-Sell Your Photos
by Writers Digest Books (Paperback)
What distinguishes Rohn Engh's book on how to sell photographs--now in its fourth edition--from the many volumes on the subject? Could it be his honest, no-nonsense approach to the topic, as opposed to the get-rich-quick slant of many competitors? His practical, step-by-step advice? His pragmatic sales techniques and principles, which teach niche marketing and explain the vast difference between good pictures of popular subjects (sunsets, wildflowers) and the type of photographs in demand by the editors who actually buy them? All of the above and more, including solid advice about selling photos in the electronic age.
Bambi Cantrell, Skip Cohen
The Art of Wedding Photography: Professional Techniques with Style
by Amphoto Books (Paperback)
The most lucrative trend in wedding photography is gorgeously illustrated and explained in this cutting-edge guide that shows professional photographers -- and those aspiring to be -- how to create the art, yet elegant, wedding albums sought by today's brides.
Cliff Hollenbeck
Big Bucks Selling Your Photography
by Amherst Media, Inc. (Paperback)
This updated guide to financial success for aspiring photographers helps them make the leap to earning a living as freelancers. Explaining how to handle the financial complexities of professional photography, this resource provides expert guidance on attracting clients, staying out of legal trouble, navigating the ins and outs of copyright law, and setting and collecting fair but competitive rates. Important advice is also included on how freelancers can handle tax preparation and deal with the threat of audits. New sections feature discussions on how freelance photographers can effectively market their work and how to capitalize on new digital technologies. Forms to help freelancers elevate their careers, such as model release contracts and copyright applications, are also included.
Ken Light
Witness in Our Time: Working Lives of Documentary Photographers
by Smithsonian (Paperback)
"Everything in the world must be shown and people around the world must have an idea of what's happening to the other people around the world. I believe this is a function of the vector that the documentary photographer must have, to show one person's existence to another."—Sebastião Salgado Illustrated with a compelling image from each photographer, Witness in Our Time traces the recent history of social documentary photography in the words of twenty-two of the genre's best photographers, editors, and curators, showing that the profession remains vital, innovative, and committed to social change. Featuring interviews with Hansel Mieth, Walter Rosenblum, Michelle Vignes, Wayne Miller, Peter Magubane, Matt Herron, Jill Freedman, Mary Ellen Mark, Earl Dotter, Eugene Richards, Susan Meiselas, Sebastião Salgado, Graciela Iturbide, Antonin Kratochvil, Donna Ferrato, Joseph Rodriguez, Dayanita Singh, Fazal Sheikh, Gifford Hampshire, Peter Howe, Colin Jacobson, and Ann Wilkes Tucker
Peter Stepan
50 Photographers You Should Know
by Prestel USA (Paperback)
This dynamic introduction to the world s greatestphotographers from the inception of photography to todaybears proof of the magic of the camera. From Félix Nadar toNan Goldin, each of the photographers featured hererepresents an important aspect of photography s evolution.The artists are presented in double-page spreads thatinclude reproductions of their most important works,concise biographies, informative sidebars, and a timelinethat extends throughout the volume. The result is afascinating overview of the way photographers continue topush the limits of their genre, offering their audiences newways of seeing and understanding our world.
Richard D. Schoenberg
The Only Easy Day Was Yesterday: Making Navy SEALs
by Naval Institute Press (Hardcover)
This is the second edition of the "The Only Easy Day Was Yesterday". The book has been revised and contains a new dedication page. Now published by the Naval Institute Press.