Digital Photography Expert: Close-Up Photography: The Definitive Guide for Serious Digital Photographers (A Lark Photography Book)

By Michael Freeman

Book Overview

An acclaimed professional photographer, with a display of more than 400 beautiful color images, shows how to get close-up and personal with a digital camera. Michael Freeman teaches amateurs how to meet the challenges of this very special type of photography, with plenty of information on the ins and outs of magnification, parallax control, and depth of field. See how to apply selective focus to enhance the subject and make it stand out from the background. Such issues as using found and commonplace objects and capturing the beauty of shadows, all receive detailed attention. With technical tips and software retouching projects too, this guide is simply an indispensable resource for the avid digital photographer who wants to take great close-up shots.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1579905447
• ISBN13: 9781579905446
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Lark Books (NC)
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Close Up Work is a Different World

Cameras and lenses are normally designed for and indeed used for standard photography at standard distances. When taking pictures at normal distances standard equipment, standard techniques work well. When you move into pictures where the image is the same size or larger than the object being photographed the whole picture changes. The equipment, the lighting, and the techniques are different. Michael Freeman is a consummate master of close work. In this book he goes into the equipment and more important the concepts that become important in photographing things may be too small to be seen through the naked eye. He is a professional photographer and has had numerous difficult assignments to photograph. In this book he discusses several of his projects and the extraordinary efforts he had to go through to get the final result. The book is less a tutorial than a series of examples of pictures and the detailed setup required to produce them.

A Great Reference & Learning Tool

This book has examples of any type of close-up photography you can imagine, plus tips on how to take pictures of each type of object. It also reviews some of the basics of the techniques behind it. It is very light however on talking about the tools, especially the lighting tools.