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Visual effects are among the most exciting-and one of the most in-demand-aspects of contemporary film-making. But not all visual effects are created using prohibitively expensive equipment. For the first time, this compelling art form is explained and made accessible to aspiring film-makers and artists in a unique book/DVD combination. Exploring Visual Effects describes and illustrates each phase of visual effects production, from design and research through model building, photography, digital editing, and composition. The authors, drawing on extensive industry and classroom teaching experience, present a range of options for creating Hollywood-style effects using traditional and contemporary technologies-with explanations on how to choose the right technique based on content, budget, and time. The creative and budget-conscious ideas in this book can be explored using commonly available supplies and software-an important consideration when it comes to building the confidence to create convincing visual effects. The accompanying DVD provides a striking visual counterpoint to the text and features a gallery of downloadable stills and video clips for practicing techniques used in the video demonstrations.
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Strictly For Beginners.......2006-11-27
I might recommend this book to somebody studying to be in the visual effects business. It has some of the basic information for beginners but even there it falls short on what you would need to know.
I did enjoy the interviews with Bill Taylor, who I would consider a master of the art form, but this book only scratches the surface.
The price is also very high for what you get, which in my opinion is not very much.
Good book for someone starting out..........2006-06-29
This book has a lot of good information. It focuses more on practical effects and model building rather than digital effects, which is cool. However, if you are already in the business of creating visual effects, you probably will not get a lot out of it. With that said, the book is good and I DO recommend it for people getting started.
Informative, Entertaining, and Very Freakin' Cool.......2006-05-20
I'm not a professional filmmaker (I'm barley a hobbyist), but I totally dug this book! I've always been fascinated with visual effects, and I've read plenty of books on the subject...but none were as clear, concise, and easy to understand as this one. As I was reading, I had to look up a couple of technical terms, but like I said, I don't do this for a living. I have to believe that as much as I enjoyed the read, someone who will actually implement the author's techniques, will freakin' love this thing.
Excellent for beginner and veteran .......2006-05-16
I have woked in visual efeects for over 10 years and I like to think I know a great deal about my field but I still found that this book provded me with additional information on subjects I was already aquainted with. If you are new to visual effetcs the book provides a good overview of the many crafts associated with VFX and it is also a great refresher for those with experience. Mr Woodys book covers a wide spectrum of concpets and disciplines used in visual effects work in an enjoyable, easy to read style. If you're looking to get into VFX this is a great place to start.
A must have for learning visual effects.......2006-05-03
This was a fantastic book that covers a variety of areas of visual effects. I found the examples and DVD to be a huge help. I found it to be well written and the practical industry information is great. A must have for anyone learning the industry.
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Here is an authoritative, comprehensive, practical resource for understanding the ideas, images, history, and processes of color photography. It shows readers how theory relates to practice with hands-on examples and activities and includes a diverse portfolio of work from 200 photographers along with their commentary. A tear-out 18% gray card, color checker, and sliding gray scale (items that bought separately would cost more than the book!) are also included.
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Useful thorough text.......2003-05-10
If you want to get a quick grasp of color photography - theory, technique, history etc... this is the right book for you. It is simple and straight forward. The format is a bit to text bookish but after all it is a text book.
I highly recommend this book.
A great guide for beginners and advanced.......2000-03-17
This book is great for those just begining color photography or those who wish to improve thier techniques. It'll teach you everything you need to know, including using color as a fine art. I would definity recommend!
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Alaska Geographic is an award-winning series that presents the people, places, and wonders of Alaska to the world. Over the past 30 years, Alaska Geographic has earned its reputation as the publication for those who love Alaska. The series boasts more than 100 books to date, featuring communities from Barrow to Ketchikan, animals from bears to dinosaurs, history from the Russian explorers to today, and natural phenomena from the aurora to glaciers. Written by leading experts in their fields, these books are illustrated throughout with world-class photography and include colorful maps for reference.
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Filled from cover to cover with gorgeous color photography.......2002-09-08
Exploring Alaska's Birds: Alaska Geographic, Volume 28, Number 1 is filled from cover to cover with gorgeous color photography of Alaska's wild birds, ranging from ospreys to three-toed woodpeckers. Packed with insightful articles on these colorful and diverse feathered friends, their migration patterns and navigation systems, adaptations to Alaskan winters, as well as their relationships to people, Exploring Alaska's Birds is a remarkable and highly recommended addition to personal, school, and community library ornithological reference collections.
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Exploring Color Photography is a flexible, multiple duty text that clearly and concisely instructs students in the fundamental aesthetic and technical concepts needed to create thought provoking photographs in both the digital and the analogue processes. This conceptual approach will not be rapidly outdated, nor will it get students bogged down in complex technical matters. Coverage of Light, Design, Color, Movement, Time, and Space, and Presentation is pertinent to all levels of photographic education.
A comprehensive, diverse, high-quality art program stresses a multitude of approaches through its inspiring visual examples and well-structured illustrative informational charts and tables.
Exploring Color Photography's thoughtful assignments encourage students to be adventurous and to take responsibility for learning and working independently. The emphasis on design and postmodern theoretical concepts stresses the thought process behind the creation of successful images. Image captions give insight into how imagemakers apply technology in the service of their ideas. A "Problem Solving and Writing" chapter offers methods and exercises that help students learn to be visual problem solvers and to talk and write succinctly about the ideas at the foundation of their work.
From the journal Afterimage, November/December 2004, page 15:
"A textbook for college-level students and serious amateurs with a historical and pragmatic approach. Theory is related to practice and it is abundantly illustrated by original works form various sources and many professional practitioners and artists. The digital section has been expanded. Hirsch accompanies his "lectures" with creative assignments for the reader to complete."
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Excellent Service and Condition.......2005-10-05
I bought the book, Exploring Color Photography: From the Darkroom to the Digital Studio by Robert Hirsch, and the book is excellent! The person that I bought it from, shipped it fast and in perfect condition.
Review from AlternativePhotography.com.......2005-07-24
This book covers everything from the history of color photography to color theory, filters, film, digital photography, preservation and even breezes over some alternative processes at the end (thumbs up!).
"Assignments" thoughout the book encourages your own thinking and the development of your skills, and if you don't mind the "textbook" approach, they are very useful.
The book does indeed feel like a complete guide to color.
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This addition to White Star's series transports readers to the famous beaches, rain forests, and vibrant cities of Brazil. Hundreds of full-color photographs provide a whirlwind tour of this complex country, a country whose legacy extends far beyond its world-famous Carnival, soccer, and Samba. Supplemented by an entertaining text, the images in this volume bring to life the unique cultural and environmental heritage of the country, and explore the exciting changes taking place, including preservation of the Amazon jungle and restoration of ancient monuments and architecture.
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Author Franco Figari's passion for Finland, and in-depth knowledge of it's history and culture, makes him the perfect tour guide to this edition of White Star's Exploring Countries of the World series. With vibrant full-color photographs and evocative text, Finland invites readers to explore a country of remarkable natural beauty and rich cultural identity, demonstrating the unspoiled charm of "the Land of 60,000 Lakes."
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Abundant photographs and illustrations visually enhance the fundamental information offered in this new book for learning the manual operation of basic equipment, including a 35 mm camera. Unique in its use of student photographs, this introductory-level book provides a starting point for work in black and white photography that fosters ideas, inspires creativity, and serves as a method for measuring one's own work and techniques. Basic darkroom skills are examined including proper exposure of the negative, processing film, and printing, with an emphasis on camera techniques that helps readers fine-tune their personal vision while also serving as a foundation for more advanced photographic techniques.
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General Photography Book.......2007-08-24
This book is ok. I am a beginning photographer looking to get back in the swing of things. I t has been quite some time since I last photographed, but had a brief background. This book- is basically for someone that has no knowledge about photography at all. The book explains the basics of the history of photography and functions of the camera...all in all- the book is just ok. Very little talk about HOW to take black and white photos/ balance- moreless photos/ negatives/ and developing in general. Nothing about DSLR's.... JUST OK.
Exploring Basic Black & White Photography.......2005-09-25
This is an excellent book, whether you are shooting black & white or color. It covers camera & lens basics as well as posing, exposure, lighting, development, printing, breaking the rules, & more. It would work well for high school or adults. Our college class finds it easily understandable - the many photos show you exactly what is being discussed. It is far better than some of the more expensive books out there!
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The tradition of aerial photography arose from a keen nineteenth-century desire to see "the world in motion." Starting with Nadar's photographic balloon trips, airborne experimentation with landscapes and cityscapes continued through great photographers from Steichen to Burkhardt.
With Alex MacLean, we enter a different world. For thirty years, this committed photographer has portrayed the history and evolution of the American land, from great desert spaces to agricultural patterns to city grids. A trained architect who is closely involved in landscape heritage protection issues, MacLean has set out to create a series of pictures that show and explain the universal history of town and countryside. What he has to say may be invigorating or alarming, but it always raises the issue of the landscape's future.
This new collection of exemplary photographs taken across the American landscape reflects MacLean's passionate interest in the effects of time, geological movements, shifting landscapes, redeployment, pollution, urban sprawl, and the overlapping of surfaces and activities. More than 400 color photographs reveal in a unique way the physical splendor of America: both the beauty of the ongoing inhabiting of the land and the potential for modern planning to create spectacular environments.
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Amazing! Great perspective for a conservationist........2004-07-15
Most of us who do not fly very often are mesmerized by the aerial views we get out of the tiny portal windows in commercial airliners. "Designs on Land" gives the reader those views without the neck-craning or the other discomforts of flying.
This book was intended mainly as a photographic recording of the aesthetics and unintentional beauty/coherence of the changes and structures which mankind has brought to pass on this continent. However, I am not a student of landscape architecture or photography. As someone who is conservation-oriented, I found Maclean's photos to be literally jaw-dropping. He is immensely effective at showing the overpowering impact that our species has had on the land.
Even for those who have no interest in landscapes, design, or the environment this book is still a "can't-put-it-down" coffee table book.
I give my highest recommendation for anyone and everyone.
An upbeat look at down........2003-08-10
This the third book I have bought of Alex MacLean's stunning aerial photographs of the American landscape. The other two, `Look at the Land' (1993) and `Across the American Landscape' (1996) were lovely to look at but this latest book with 430 photos is excellent.
MacLean captures the changing American scene beautifully and in pin sharp detail. Unfortunately, none of the photos are dated and many of them appeared in both his earlier books so some of them could be ten years old. The various chapters cover America from above though the concentration is on the man-made environment, including such delights as parking, city grid, pollution, sprawl, abandonment and more. These might seem dreary objects to photograph but MacLean can make a half-full parking lot look exciting and in many cases, when seen from above, so many of these images have a definite abstract art look about them. The agriculture photos, of huge fields stretching into the horizon, must be seen to be believed.
Comprehensive though the coverage is there is one area of the landscape MacLean has not been able to cover, the huge amount of land controlled by the military. Some their activities would make fascinating photos. You might get the impression looking through the pages that open land in the US is fast disappearing but the reality is that the hand of man affects less than ten percent of the nation, the remainder is just open country.
Get this fascinating book if you want to see what the American landscape looks like from a view that most of us will never normally see.
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A Hugely Successful Synthesis.......2003-06-23
Alex S. MacLean is an architectural geologist with an impressionist's eye for composition and light. He is a pilot and a gifted photographer as well. The consistently fascinating imagery he has has created by fusing all these talents into a rigorous and aesthetically gorgeous body of work is on splendid display within the pages of Designs On The Land which ably demonstrates how uniquely important an aerial vertex is to a complete understanding of human interaction with the planet Earth. I recently drove thousands of miles through the high desert southwest and had a marvelous opportunity to appreciate that landscape from a mostly horizontal vertex. What a revelation to see the same tableaux from above! So much that is only hinted at at ground level reveals itself completely from above. The central thesis of Designs On The Land is that human transformation of the environment is among the most revealing indicators of man's developmental and evolutionary status. By extension, aerial views of the results of man's activities on the land provide a powerful tool for interpreting and understanding this interaction. As with any authentic synthesis, Designs On The Land functions on many levels simultaneously. Most significantly, the images presented in this critically important portfolio are simply beautiful and moving; both compositionally and as sophisticated studies in shadow, light and color. But aside from the captivating imagery, this volume contains a wealth of data that provide for informed consideration of land use protocols, environmental degradation and pollution, and the shifting utilization of land over time, to name but a few of topics taken up here. To quote from the introduction by James Corner, "What one sees from the air, then, are not merely attractive patterns and forms but great metabolic scaffoldings of material transformation, transmission, production and consumption. The country is an enormous working quarry, an operational network of exchange and mobility. To appreciate the essential character of the American landscape, it is first necessary to understand how its appearance is less an evolving expression than it is an activating agent of American ways of life and other material practices...The implicit subjectivity in the content of Alex MacLean's photographs reveals not only the strange working beauty of this busy, ongoing inhabiting of America, but also its potential for modern design and planning to create even more spectacular environments-this time for on the ground reception and effect as well as from the air."
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PhotoTherapy techniques use ordinary personal snapshots and family photos (and the feelings, memories, thoughts and information these evoke) as catalysts for therapeutic communication and personal healing, reaching areas inside a person that words alone cannot access. "PhotoTherapy Techniques: Exploring the Secrets of Personal Snapshots and Family Albums" is the most comprehensive introduction to the field of PhotoTherapy available. Emphasizing the "what", "why", and "how" of these practical techniques, this book is an excellent substitute for a training workshop! Written by psychologist, art therapist, consultant, trainer, and PhotoTherapy pioneer Judy Weiser, this book (now in second edition) explains and demonstrates each of the major techniques involved, and provides theoretical rationale from both psychology and art therapy contexts. It also includes many photo-illustrated client examples, case transcripts, and practical experiential "starter" exercises so that readers can immediately begin using these techniques in their own practice. This book is about photography as "personally-symbolic communication", rather than "art" -- exploring what a photograph is about emotionally, in addition to what shows on its surface visually. Thus these techniques require no previous experience with cameras or photographic art -- and they can therefore be used successfully by therapists of all theoretical orientations, work settings, or client specializations. Often used as a text for university courses as well as for "Continuing Education" licensing credits for numerous mental health professions, this book is a "must" for not only therapists and counselors, but also anyone interested in family communication, diversity/cross-cultural work, conflict resolution, special education and other classroom applications, grief and bereavement counseling, coaching, community development, media/cultural studies, visual literacy, visual anthropology/sociology, research, and even scrapbooking! [*For more information, see: www.phototherapy-centre.com] *TABLE OF CONTENTS*: 1) Photographs as Therapeutic Tools 2) The Five Techniques of PhotoTherapy 3) The Projective Process: Using Photographic Images to Explore Client Perceptions, Values, and Expectations 4) Working with Self-Portraits: Understanding the Images Clients Make of Themselves 5) Seeing Other Perspectives: Examining Photographs of Clients Taken by Others 6) Metaphors of Self-Construction: Reflecting on Photographs Taken or Collected by Clients 7) Photo-Systems: Reviewing Family Albums and Photo-Biographical Collections 8) Using PhotoTherapy to Promote Healing and Personal Growth **AUTHOR BIO**: Founder and Director of the PhotoTherapy Centre in Vancouver, Canada, and former Editor of the Journal Phototherapy, Judy Weiser is a licensed Psychologist and registered Art Therapist who has focused her thirty-plus years of therapy practice on using PhotoTherapy techniques to help her clients heal. She currently consults, lectures, and gives training workshops world-wide, teaching people how to use these techniques to improve their therapy practice -- and their lives.
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