The Complete Digital SLR Handbook: Master Your Camera to Take Pictures Like a Pro [With CDROM]

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The explosion in affordable digital SLRs has given many amateur photographers a truly powerful camera for the first time. This special handbook will teach SLR owners everything they need to know about their equipment. Includes a free CD with step-by-step video tutorials.

Digital SLR Photography All-In-One for Dummies : 2nd. edition

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A compilation of 7 minibooks in one volume:

•  Getting started with Digital SLRs
• Going through the looking glass
• Hey, your exposure's showing
• Spiffying your shots
• Shooting movies
• Getting specific about your subject

Picture Perfect Practice: A Self-Training Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Taking World-Class Photographs ( Voices That Matter )

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The author presents his advice and practice routines for composing and capturing photographs of people, illustrated with examples from his own practice sessions and from his extensive work photographing weddings around the world.

Photographing Families: Tips for Capturing Timeless Images

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Portrait photography is so much more than just photographing people. You must be photographer, psychologist, director, stylist, kindergarten teacher, puzzle-maker, salesperson, artist, and post-production technician. Michele Celentano has perfected every skill. Now, she shows you how to create family portraits to be cherished for generations. Find the style that fits your personality. Create portraits that illustrate family relationships. Learn to work with kids, nervous moms, reluctant dads, elderly subjects, and the family pet. Transform plain locations into great backgrounds. Pose your subjects so they look their best. Master post-production techniques. Promote your brand and market your business

Make Good Art

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In May 2012, bestselling author Neil Gaiman delivered the commencement address at Philadelphia's University of the Arts, in which he shared his thoughts about creativity, bravery, and strength. He encouraged the fledgling painters, musicians, writers, and dreamers to break rules and think outside the box. Most of all, he encouraged them to make good art.
The book Make Good Art, designed by renowned graphic artist Chip Kidd, contains the full text of Gaiman's inspiring speech.

An Artist in Venice

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Architect and artist Van Doren offers a love letter to Venice in this elegant and slender volume, and he sings his praise to the city through majestic prose and 23 beautiful watercolor paintings of Venice. He quickly discovers, after wandering into San Giacomo di Rialto, perhaps Venice's oldest church, that the city has one "great transformative advantage: Mediterranean light," which offers a new way of seeing the city's architecture, the history of art, and his own painting. Van Doren praises numerous artists from whom he draws lessons as he explores the city. James Whistler captures the "sweet serenity with perfect pitch." He admires deeply John Singer Sargent's watercolors of Venice that exhibit his "supreme confidence with color." Van Doren takes John Ruskin as his model, confessing that Ruskin was an "artist of architecture" whose writings convinced him that he could become a painter. In all of his paintings, he has attempts to keep in mind the lesson of one of his teachers: "Keep it simple. Don't try to make it more complicated than it already is." Clearly, he's learned his lesson well. Illus. (Jan.) Copyright 2013 Publishers Weekly.

New Markets for Artists: How to Sell, Fund Projects, and Exhibit Using Social Media, DIY Pop-Ups, eBay, Kickstarter, and Much More

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Although the book title touts mostly online markets, artist and writer Carey ("Making It in the Art World: New Approaches to Galleries, Shows, and Raising Money") also covers the benefits, drawbacks, and strategies for success in art fairs, public art, museums, and galleries. However, the bulk of the book is about using web-based tools: one chapter details relevant features of Facebook and Twitter in great depth, others advise on website development, advertising, eBay, and digital art galleries. Carey occasionally misses the mark, as when he devotes an entire chapter to selecting appropriate passwords (information readily available on the web), but in most cases the information provided is carefully tailored to artists. Case studies throughout illustrate successful usage of each tool, market venue, or strategy. He also offers advice on interpersonal communication, such as how to talk to studio visitors and how to follow up with email and phone contacts. A final chapter suggests methods for using the book in a professional development course. VERDICT Recommended for all artists looking for a market online.--Heidi Senior, Univ. of Portland Lib., OR Copyright 2012 Reed Business Information. Library Journal (11/01/2012)