Obama: An Intimate Portrait
Obama: An Intimate Portrait
Relive the extraordinary Presidency of Barack Obama through White House photographer Pete Souza's behind-the-scenes images and stories in this #1 New York Times bestseller--with a foreword from the President himself.During Barack Obama's two terms, Pete Souza was with the President during more crucial moments than anyone else--and he photographed them all. Souza captured nearly two million photographs of President Obama, in moments highly classified and disarmingly candid.Obama: An Intimate Portrait reproduces more than 300 of Souza's most iconic photographs with fine-art print quality in an oversize collectible format. Together they document the most consequential hours of the Presidency--including the historic image of President Obama and his advisors in the Situation Room during the bin Laden mission--alongside unguarded moments with the President's family, his encounters with children, interactions with world leaders and cultural figures, and more.Souza's photographs, with the behind-the-scenes captions and stories that accompany them, communicate the pace and power of our nation's highest office. They also reveal the spirit of the extraordinary man who became our President. We see President Obama lead our nation through monumental challenges, comfort us in calamity and loss, share in hard-won victories, and set a singular example to "be kind and be useful," as he would instruct his daughters.This book puts you in the White House with President Obama, and will be a treasured record of a landmark era in American history.Age Range: Adult* * *A deluxe limited slipcase edition is also available.
- ASIN: 0316512583
- ISBN: 0316512583
- Brand: LITTLE BROWN AND COMPANY
- Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company
Doug Box's Guide to Posing for Portrait Photographers
Doug Box's Guide to Posing for Portrait Photographers
Often overshadowed by complicated lighting techniques or advanced postproduction tips, this resource seeks to remind the professional photographer of the fundamental importance of a subject's pose. Conveniently designed in two-page spreads—a striking portrait on one side, a comprehensive how-to of the strategies used on the other—this reference includes countless techniques for studio sessions as well as outdoor and location shoots, with individuals or groups, male or female clients, and in sitting, standing, or lying poses. With advice from a well-known and respected professional, it covers all the basics, showing how to emphasize a client's assets and downplay perceived flaws, how to create a cohesive, engaging group photo, how to use natural elements on location to enhance an image, and how to ensure that the result flatters the subject and adds the essential professional polish to an image.
- ASIN: 1584282487
- ISBN: 1584282487
- Brand: Brand: Amherst Media
- Manufacturer: Amherst Media
The Portrait Photographer's Lighting Style Guide: Recipes for Lighting and Composing Professional Portraits
The Portrait Photographer's Lighting Style Guide: Recipes for Lighting and Composing Professional Portraits
Take Your Portraiture in Dramatic New Directions Whether you’re a pro looking to update and diversify your portfolio, or an amateur ready to experiment with exacting new styles, you’ll find inspiration and clear how-to in The Portrait Photographer's Lighting Style Guide. Today’s most popular portrait styles are broken down with lighting diagrams and exposure information, as well as the story behind the shot, to create an indispensable reference for anyone interested in creating more up-to-date, professional-style portraits. Inside you’ll find: • Diagrams for lighting 60 portraits in a wide variety of styles • Gear, lens, and exposure information for each shot • Photoshop tutorials for everything from RAW processing to HDR, digital makeovers, and more • Inspiring photographs—including celebrity shots of Angelina Jolie, Samuel L. Jackson, and more—from 11 international photographers
- ASIN: 0817400052
- ISBN: 0817400052
- Brand: Brand: Amphoto Books
- Manufacturer: Amphoto Books
National Geographic The Photo Ark: One Man's Quest to Document the World's Animals
National Geographic The Photo Ark: One Man's Quest to Document the World's Animals
The lush and unique photography in this book represents National Geographic's Photo Ark, a major initiative and lifelong project by photographer Joel Sartore to make portraits of the world's animals—especially those that are endangered. His powerful message, conveyed with humor, compassion, and art: to know these animals is to save them. Sartore is circling the globe, visiting zoos and wildlife rescue centers to create studio portraits of 12,000 species, with an emphasis on those facing extinction. With a goal of photographing every animal in captivity in the world, he has photographed more than 6,000 already and now, thanks to a multi-year partnership with National Geographic, he may reach his goal. This book showcases his animal portraits: from tiny to mammoth, from the Florida grasshopper sparrow to the greater one-horned rhinoceros. Paired with the eloquent prose of veteran wildlife writer Douglas Chadwick, and an inspiring foreword from Harrison Ford, this book presents a thought-provoking argument for saving all the species of our planet.
- ASIN: 1426217773
- ISBN: 1426217773
- Brand: National Geographic
- Manufacturer: National Geographic
How to Create Stunning Digital Photography
How to Create Stunning Digital Photography
Stunning Digital Photography is much more than a book; it's a hands-on, self-paced photography class with over 14 hours of online training videos and free help from the author and other readers. That's why award-winning author and photographer Tony Northrup's book is the #1 photography book with over 250,000 readers. This book gives you five innovations no other book offers: 1) Free video training. Watch over 12 hours of fast-paced, hands-on video tutorials integrated into the book to support and reinforce the lessons. View the videos using any web browser or by scanning QR codes with your smartphone. 2) Hands-on practices. Complete the practices at the end of every chapter to get the real world experience you need. 3) Practice quizzes. At the end of Chapters 2-13 you have the option of taking an online quiz to apply what you learned in the chapter and make sure you didn't miss anything important. 4) Classroom support. Join an author led private community of supportive, helpful people who also want to improve their photography. 5) Free ebook with lifetime updates. When you buy the book and join the private Stunning Digital Photography readers community, you can download the ebook and copy it to your smartphone or ereader for easy reference. The ebook is regularly updated with new content and videos as new photography trends and equipment emerge, so it never becomes outdated. In this book, beginner photographers will master: * Using composition to take great photos with any camera * Adjusting exposure to control the brightness of your photos * Setting your shutter speed to freeze action or blur motion * Controlling your aperture to blur or focus the background * Setting your ISO for bright and dark environments * Finding beautiful natural light for landscapes and portraits * Using flash without the ugly effects * Troubleshooting blurry, dark, and bad pictures * Taking great pictures of pets * Wildlife photography (mammals, birds, insects, fish, and more) * Taking pi... [Read More]
- ASIN: 0988263408
- ISBN: 0988263408
- Brand: Tony Northrup
- Manufacturer: Mason Press
The Photographer's Guide to Posing: Techniques to Flatter Everyone
The Photographer's Guide to Posing: Techniques to Flatter Everyone
When photographing people, you can have a great composition, perfect light, and the right camera settings, but if your subject doesn’t look right―if the pose is off―the shot will not be a keeper. Posing is truly a crucial skill that photographers need to have in order to create great photographs. If you’re looking to improve your ability to pose your subjects―whether they’re men, women, couples, or groups―best-selling author and photographer Lindsay Adler’s The Photographer’s Guide to Posing: Techniques to Flatter Everyone is the perfect resource for you.In the first half of The Photographer’s Guide to Posing, Lindsay discusses how the camera sees, and thus how camera angle, lens choice, and perspective all affect the appearance of your subject. Lindsay then covers the five most important things that ruin a pose―such as placement of the hands, and your subject’s expression and posture. If you can look out for and avoid these five things, your skills (and your images) will quickly improve. Next, Lindsay dives into “posing essentials,” outlining her approach to start with a “base pose,” then build on that to create endless posing opportunities. She also discusses posing the face―with specific sections dedicated to the chin, jaw, eyes, and forehead―as well as posing hands.In the second half of the book, Lindsay dedicates entire chapters to posing specific subject matter: women, men, couples, curvy women, families and small groups, and large groups. In each chapter, Lindsay addresses that subject matter’s specific challenges, provides five “go-to poses” you can always use, and covers how to train the eye to determine the best pose for your subject(s). In the final chapter of the book, Lindsay brings it all together as she teaches you how to analyze a pose so that you can create endless posing opportunities and continuously improve your work
- ASIN: 1681981947
- ISBN: 1681981947
- Brand: Rocky Nook
- Manufacturer: Rocky Nook
Digital Photography Complete Course: Learn Everything You Need to Know in 20 Weeks
Digital Photography Complete Course: Learn Everything You Need to Know in 20 Weeks
Build your photography skills step-by-step with an independent photography course that guides you through every aspect of digital photography. Packed with advice and stunning images, this guide will help you master your photography and image-editing skills, and maximize your artistic talent in as little as 20 weeks.Digital Photography Complete Course uses a combination of tutorials, step-by-step demonstrations, practical assignments, and Q&As to help you understand and use your camera to its full capacity. Choose your own pace to work through the modules—the program is completely customizable to your schedule. As you work through the lessons, test your new knowledge and troubleshoot common issues.With the aid of helpful text and innovative graphics in Digital Photography Complete Course, you'll explore a wide range of genres: Find out how to create landscapes, portraits, still life, and action shots as you discover the full range of your camera and learn how to take professional-looking pictures you'll be proud to display.
- UPC: 790778036072
- ASIN: 1465436073
- ISBN: 1465436073
- Brand: DK Publishing Dorling Kindersley
- Manufacturer: DK
Brave Companions: Portraits In History
Brave Companions: Portraits In History
From Alexander von Humboldt to Charles and Anne Lindbergh, these are stories of people of great vision and daring whose achievements continue to inspire us today, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough.The bestselling author of Truman and John Adams, David McCullough has written profiles of exceptional men and women past and present who have not only shaped the course of history or changed how we see the world but whose stories express much that is timeless about the human condition. Here are Alexander von Humboldt, whose epic explorations of South America surpassed the Lewis and Clark expedition; Harriet Beecher Stowe, “the little woman who made the big war”; Frederic Remington; the extraordinary Louis Agassiz of Harvard; Charles and Anne Lindbergh, and their fellow long-distance pilots Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Beryl Markham; Harry Caudill, the Kentucky lawyer who awakened the nation to the tragedy of Appalachia; and David Plowden, a present-day photographer of vanishing America. Different as they are from each other, McCullough’s subjects have in common a rare vitality and sense of purpose. These are brave companions: to each other, to David McCullough, and to the reader, for with rare storytelling ability McCullough brings us into the times they knew and their very uncommon lives.
- ASIN: 0671792768
- ISBN: 0671792768
- Brand: McCullough, David
- Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
Annie Leibovitz: Portraits 2005-2016
Annie Leibovitz: Portraits 2005-2016
In this new collection from Annie Leibovitz, one of the most influential photographers of our time, iconic portraits sit side by side never-before-published photographs. Afterword by Annie Leibovitz.Annie Leibovitz: Portraits 2005-2016 is the photographer's follow-up to her two landmark books, Annie Leibovitz: Photographs, 1970-1990 and A Photographer's Life, 1990-2005. In this new collection, Leibovitz has captured the most influential and compelling figures of the last decade in the style that has made her one of the most beloved talents of our time. Each of the photographs documents contemporary culture with an artist's eye, wit, and an uncanny ability to personalize even the most recognizable and distinguished figures.
- ASIN: 0714875139
- ISBN: 0714875139
- Manufacturer: Phaidon Press
Mastering Aperture, Shutter Speed, ISO and Exposure
Mastering Aperture, Shutter Speed, ISO and Exposure
Amazon Best Seller! #1 Photography Reference Book for most of 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 Mastering the Exposure Triangle is the key to photographic excellence.Without a guide on your path to better pictures, you run the risk of spending a great deal of time and money heading down the wrong road. Frustration and confusion can easily take the wind from your sails and replace excitement with disappointment. This guide to EXPOSURE builds a solid foundation of photographic knowledge with easy-to-follow discussions of everything that you need to know in order to create better images with confidence. Every photographic term used in the book is clearly defined and thoroughly explained. All terms are also highlighted by using BOLD CAPS so that you can easily find them again to refresh your memory. By the time you finish reading this book, you will be well on your way to Mastering Aperture, Shutter Speed, ISO and ExposureThere are thousands of Photography Books in the Kindle Store. So, why should you buy this book?Al Judge is an exceptional teacher. His books are arguably the best on the topic of Photography.This book requires no prior knowledge of Photography or Photographic Jargon.It is highly illustrated, well written and easy to understand.In a few hours, you will learn what others have taken years to learn. You will not waste your time reading meaningless banter.There is no risk. If you are not 100% satisfied, you can return it for a full refund within the first seven days. This only takes a single click on “Manage My Kindle.” What reviewers have said about Mastering Aperture....Despite this book's rather advanced topics, it is perfect for beginners wanting to learn more. JeffA great guide for all levels of photography, well written and illustrated!!! AlbertThis is another great book of Al's. He does a wonderful job at explaining all the needed information to better understand photography. Very easy to understand and lots of pointers. DJAs I am about... [Read More]
- ASIN: B00B6Y8O2K
- Brand: Unknown
- Manufacturer: Subtle Visions Media