New photography titles from Focal Press
100% Photoshop
Create stunning illustrations without using any photographs
By Steve Caplin
Price: £24.99
The digital art world is becoming a highly saturated and competitive place, filled with artists who have grown up on Photoshop and know the ins and outs of the program extremely well. In order to stand out among the crowd, these artists need to take their Photoshop skills to another level, and this book will help them do that. Many books on the market discuss ways of incorporating external elements into Photoshop to create the final image. This book takes a different approach and shows the reader how to create everything, from start to finish, directly within Photoshop. Each technique is discussed in careful step-by-step sections, and two supplemental chapters provide a quick overview of Photoshop basics in case the reader needs a refresher on a particular feature.
Not only will this approach enhance the artist’s design, drawing, and painting skills, but it will also save tons of time and resources, otherwise spent on searching for just the right element to complete a project. With these new skills, artists will be able to more carefully and accurately realize their artistic vision, resulting in a more authentic, hand drawn final image that will stand out amongst the plethora of imitators.
The Underwater Photographer
4th Edition
By Martin Edge
Price: £24.99
The award-winning third edition of 'The Underwater Photographer' dragged the topic kicking and screaming in to the digital age and with the fully updated fourth edition highly respected photographer and tutor Martin Edge takes you deeper in to the world of Underwater Photography.
Practical examples take you step-by-step through the basic techniques from photographing shipwrecks, divers, marine life and abstract images to taking photographs at night. Brand new chapters cover not only highly specialist Underwater Photography techniques such as low visibility/greenwater photography, but also the digital workflow needed to handle your images using the latest software such as Lightroom.
Packed with breathtaking images and an easy to read style honed from over twenty years of diving photography courses, this book is sure to both educate and inspire underwater photographers of all skill levels.
FACES: Photography and the Art of Portraiture
BySteven Biver and Paul Fuqua
Price: £18.99
There is so much detail to be captured in a face. Cicero (106-43 BC) said: "The face is a picture of the mind as the eyes are its interpreter." To capture a person's personality, there are so many things to keep in mind and the authors of FACES show us how to match up a personality with lighting, posing, and composition. Portraiture is truly an art and this book dives deep into the details so that the reader ends up with a gorgeous and artistically done portrait.
Not only is this book the most comprehensive available on portraiture, but unlike most of the competition, it contains stunning images. Each image is paired with a lighting diagram, a description of why the type of image was chosen, and then takes the reader through postproduction to put the finishing touches on. The authors also showcase a gallery of portraits by renowned photographers.
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