Rethinking digital photography making & using traditional & contemporary photo tools

Demonstrates how to create innovative photographs through the use of digital cameras, current software, and such unconventional methods as homemade lenses made with household items or parts from obsolete cameras.

Main Author: Neel, John.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Pixiq, c2011.
Edition: 1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Gadgets and hybrids. TTB camera contraptions ; Constructing a TTV contraption ; So, you want to take some TTV pictures? ; TTV gallery ; DIY fisheye lenses ; Building a DIY fisheye lens ; DIY fisheye lens gallery
  • Lens systems. Fisheye and extreme wide angle ; Think of a lens as a mark-making tool ; Zoom vs. fixed ; Analog lenses ; Focal length factors ; Micro four thirds systems ; Gallery M4/3
  • Alternative lenses. Found lenses ; Diana and Holga lenses ; Tilt-shift lenses ; DIY tilt-shift ; Single use camera lenses ; No lens ; Digital lens effects ; Alternative lenses gallery
  • Macro and pinhole photography. Macro photography ; Compact digital cameras ; DSLR cameras ; Macro lenses ; Close-up lenses ; Extension tubes ; Lens reversal ; Macro photo gallery ; The softer image ; Digital pinhole photography ; DIY digital pinhole ; Digital zone plate photography ; DIY digital zone plate ; Pinhole and zone plate gallery
  • High dynamic range [HDR]. HDR Efex Pro ; Photomatix Pro ; Shooting HDR images ; Auto-exposure bracketing (AEB) ; RAW format ; Step-by-step HDR processing ; Creating a black-and-white HDR image ; HDR gallery
  • Painting the photograph. Wacom tablet ; Corel Painter essentials ; Corel Painter ; Painter demos ; Using Painter to texture and alter the lighting and surface ; Corel Painter gallery ; Studio Artist ; Photo enhancing techniques ; Studio Artist gallery
  • Panoramas. Panoramic projections ; VR rig ; Panorama gallery
  • MicroPlanets and mandalas. Preparation ; Shooting your images ; Stitching your panorama ; Flexify ; Polar coordinates ; Photo-digital mandalas ; Planet gallery
  • Multiple dimensions, multiple media. Illusion of depth ; Cross view ; FinePix stereo cameras ; Anaglyphs ; Hyper-stereo ; ArtMatic imagery ; Sound from an image ; ArtMatic gallery.