Fundamentals of Photography: The Essential Handbook for Both Digital and Film Cameras (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780375711572)

From the award-winning photographer--a comprehensive, accessible, and detailed guide for every photographer: whether beginner or advanced, using a digital camera or film.

Award-winning photographer Tom Ang provides a thorough, explicitly detailed bottom-to-top understanding of modern photography, explaining all the techniques that will help anyone who uses a camera--in a professional capacity or as a snapshot shooter--improve the quality of his or her photographs.

Here is everything you need to know: from the most practical advice (the fundamental facts about light sources) to the most sophisticated nuances (how light is measured through photometry), from the basics of the camera (which button controls which function) to the finer points of framing with an LCD viewfinder, featuring a selection of Ang's most inspiring images. For users of film cameras, Ang explains the differences between types of film and details the various methods of processing and darkroom techniques.

Ang delves into the development and transformation of photography by digital techniques. For the digital-camera contingent, there's a specificity of previously unavailable information about the cameras and about processing, digitizing, and outputting the images. Ang also discusses subjects usually ignored in manuals but of interest to all photographers, including critical theory, the presentation of images, the function of the human eye in the perception of images, and ethical and copyright issues.

Fundamentals of Photography is an essential book for every photographer.

Author: Tom Ang
ISBN-10: 0375711570
ISBN-13: 9780375711572
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 11/25/2008
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.95lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.40w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Scitech Book News 03/01/2009 pg. 179