eBook - ePub

Light and Lens

Name: Light and Lens
Author: Robert Hirsch

Thinking About Photography in the Digital Age

Robert Hirsch,

456 pages
English
ePUB (mobile friendly)
Available on iOS & Android

eBook - ePub

Light and Lens

Thinking About Photography in the Digital Age

Robert Hirsch,

About this book

The latest edition of this pioneering book allows students to acquire an essential foundation for digital photography. Fully updated, it clearly and concisely covers the fundamental concepts of imagemaking, how to use digital technology to create compelling images, and how to output and preserve images in the digital world. Exploring history, methods, and theory, this text offers classroom-tested assignments and exercises from leading photographic educators, approaches for analyzing, discussing, and writing about photographs, and tools to critically explore and make images with increased visual literacy.

New to this fourth edition:

Completely updated and renewed to reflect social trends and technological advances
Highly reconstructed Chapter 3: Image Capture: Cameras, Lenses, and Scanners
Revamped Chapter 4: Exposure: Capturing the Light
Entirely new Chapter 8: Digital Studio: The Virtual and the Material Worlds
Expanded smartphone photography coverage
Featuring nearly 300 international artists and over 360 innovative images and illustrations
New engaging assignments

Ideal for undergraduate students of digital photography and hobbyist photographers.

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