Color Photography: A Working Manual
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Book Overview
This guide to photographing and processing in colour starts with an historical overview and moves into practical advice on types of film and how to photograph in colour in different light conditions, how to adjust for best exposure, and how to use filters to alter colour balance. Film processing is reviewed in detail, along with a section on how to work with professional labs, since many photographers do not process their own colour film. A section on colour printing is intended particularly for students and committed amateurs, and other chapters cover health and environmental hazards and how to minimize them as well as long-term permanence of colour materials.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0316373168
ISBN13:9780316373166
Release Date:January 1995
Publisher:Little Brown and Company
Length:224 Pages
Weight:1.57 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 8.1" x 9.5"
Customer Reviews
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Color Photography
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
A great book who like printing color photographs the old fashioned way (not digital). Hard to beat this book and the price.
A Guide For Color Photographers
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
Henry Horenstein, author of BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY: A BASIC MANUAL, a book often used as a photography text book, has a similar book on color photography. COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY: A WORKING MANUAL offers the same excellent how-to information provide in the black and white counterpart. The book contains many of Horenstein's excellent photographs and offers information regarding filters and developing color prints. While it contains some information on color transparencies (slides), it is somewhat scant and may in the long run be more helpful for printmakers. At a time when digital photography is all the rage, this book is not obsolete since Horenstein's expertise will help ant photographer, no matter what the medium.
Great Book for Beginners and Intermediate Students
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
This book is well-written and lavishly illustrated with good-quality color photographs from a number of well-known contemporary photographers. The basic physics of color theory and color perception are well laid out. The text and explanations are easy to follow, even for a novice. Having taught color photography for a number of years, in the US and in France and Italy, I have found that this text to be the most consistently useful for my students.
Excellent book!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
Much like his Basics of B & W photography Horenstein 's Color photography manual is a easy to read, is filled with excellent information and contains tons of photographs that inspire his readers. In short, this book is perfect for anyone beginning in color photography.
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