Book description
The classic book on color photography is back in print and completely revamped for a digital photography audience!
Learn from step-by-step instruction, illustrative charts, and unbelievably inspirational imagery in this guide meant just for color photographers. World renowned artists give you insight as to "how they did that" and the author provides challenging assignments to help you take photography to a new level.
With aesthetic and technical instruction like no other, this book truly is the bible for color photographers.
Be sure to visit the companion website, featuring portfolios and commentary by contemporary artists:
www.exploringcolorphotography.com
Table of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Dedication
- Preface
- Contributors to Exploring Color Photography
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CHAPTER 1 Color Photography Concepts
- Newton’s Light Experiment
- Dual Nature of Light: Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle
- How We See Color
- Young’s Theory Applied to Color Photography
- Color Reality
- Color Description—Hue, Saturation, and Luminance (HSL)
- Color Relativity
- Color Contrast
- Color Harmony
- Color Observations
- Subtraction of Color
- Afterimage
- Cooking with Color
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CHAPTER 2 A Concise History of Color Photography
- The First Color Photographs: Applied Color Processes
- Direct Color Process: First Experiments
- The Hillotype Controversy
- The Additive Theory: First Photographic Image in Color
- Direct Interference Method of Gabriel Lippmann
- Additive Screen Processes
- Additive Equipment
- The Subtractive Method
- Subtractive Film and Chromogenic Development
- The Kodachrome Process
- Additional Color Processes
- Color Gains Acceptance in the Art World
- Digital Imaging
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CHAPTER 3 Exposing the Light
- An Exposure Starting Place
- How a Camera Light Meter Works
- Reflective and Incident Light
- How a Histogram Works
- Using a Gray Card
- Camera Metering Methods and Programs
- Brightness Range
- Basic Light Reading Methods
- Light Metering Techniques
- White Balance
- Color Modes
- Image Enhancement Modes
- Electronic Flash and Basic Fill Flash
- Unusual Lighting Conditions
- Reciprocity Law
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CHAPTER 4 Filtering the Light
- Our Sun: A Continuous Spectrum Source
- Color Temperature and the Kelvin Scale
- The Color of Light
- What Does a Filter Do?
- Filter Categories for Color Films
- Reflections: Polarized and Unpolarized Light
- Ultraviolet Light Filters
- Special Effects Filters
- Fluorescent and Other Gas-Filled Lights
- Why a Color May Not Reproduce Correctly
- Taking Chances
- CHAPTER 5 Seeing the Light
- CHAPTER 6 The Visual Language of Color Design
- CHAPTER 7 Working Color Strategies
- CHAPTER 8 The Interaction of Color, Movement, Space, and Time
- CHAPTER 9 Digital Input
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CHAPTER 10 Analog Input: Color Films
- Transparency Film
- How Transparency Film Works
- E-6 Processing
- Diversity of Materials
- Transparency Viewing and Duplication
- Color Negative Film
- Type S and Type L Films
- C-41 Process: Chromogenic Development of Negative Film
- Chromogenic Black-and-White Film
- Scanning Negatives
- Instant Photography
- Special Films and Processes
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CHAPTER 11 Digital Output
- Digital Printing Technology
- Displaying the Image
- Sizing a Digital File
- Achieving Photographic Quality
- Paper: Uncoated and Coated
- Inks: Dye and Pigment Based
- Printing Methods and Output Issues
- Service Bureaus
- Working with a Computer
- The Color Monitor
- Image Processing/Editing
- Software and Imaging Applications
- Basic Digital Imaging Categories and Tools
- Digital Memory
- The Computer as Multimedia Platform
- The Internet and the World Wide Web as a Virtual Gallery
- The Chemical, the Dry, and the Hybrid Darkroom
- CHAPTER 12 Analog Output: Color Printing
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CHAPTER 13 Color Projects
- The Camera
- The Pinhole Camera and Birth of the Camera
- Self-Portraits
- View From Within/Portrait as Social Identity
- The Human Form
- Landscape Defined
- The Power of Nature: Visceral vs. Theoretical
- Still Life
- Internal Color Events: Evoking Inner Realities
- Fabricating Photographic Reality
- Words and Photographs
- Photographs from a Screen
- Hand-Altered Photography: Flexible Images
- Artists’ Books and Albums
- Individual Problem Solving
- Photograms
- Chemigrams
- Non-silver Approaches
- Postcards
- Stereoscopic Photography
- Future Developments
- CHAPTER 14 Photographic Problem Solving and Writing
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CHAPTER 15 Presentation and Preservation
- Analog Spotting: Chromogenic Prints
- Spotting Prints from Transparencies
- Digital Retouching and Repair
- Waxing a Print
- Archival Presentation
- Dry and Wet Mounting
- Floating a Print
- Frames
- Portfolios
- Self-Publishing: Print on Demand
- Images on a Screen: Web Sharing
- Print Preservation
- Digital Archives
- Camera Copy Work
- Presenting Work on a Disk
- Appendix 1. Safety: Protecting Yourself and Your Digital Imaging Equipment
- Appendix 2. Safety in the Color Darkroom
- Appendix 3. Advanced Exposure Techniques/The Zone System for Color Photography
- Index
Product information
- Title: Exploring Color Photography Fifth Edition, 5th Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: February 2013
- Publisher(s): Focal Press
- ISBN: 9781136089732
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