Nikon D3000 Digital Field Guide (Digital Field Guides) (Paperback)
Cameras
22nd Jun 2010
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Amazon.com Review
What do you need to take amazing photographs with your new Nikon D3000? This Nikon D3000 Digital Field Guide has all the answers. This full-color guide, perfectly sized to fit in your camera bag, not only explains all essential controls, features, and functions, it also goes well beyond the basics to give you a photography refresher on lighting, composition, exposure, and more. You’ll find step-by-step, easy-to-follow instructions and full-color images of menu screens. Even better, it also offers tips and tricks to help you take your best shots, whether you’re shooting portraits, candid shots, sports or travel photos, or macro photography. Shows you how to get the very most out of your new Nikon D3000 digital camera Discusses in detail all the essential controls, features, and functions of the Nikon D3000 Provides step-by-step instructions and full-color images of each menu screen Explains not only how to adjust white balance, autofocus, exp (more…)
An Illustrated Life: Drawing Inspiration from the Private Sketchbooks of Artists, Illustrators and Designers (Paperback)
Digital Photography
22nd Apr 2010
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Amazon Best of the Month, December 2008: Danny Gregory’s An Illustrated Life is a visual delight of color and texture–a funky and frenetic “book about books people have made,” perfect for chronic doodlers, journalers, and art lovers. Sharing vibrant excerpts from the notebooks of 50 illustrators, artists, and designers, each accompanied by an introduction by the artist, it’s a gorgeous, intimate exploration of the creative process. Gregory’s passion for the “illustrated journal” is infectious–for him, artist’s sketchbooks represent a nonthreatening place to record “risks, mistakes, regrets, thoughts, lessons, and dreams.” Whether you are charmed by the illustrations of Amanda Kavanagh, or intimidated by the musings of Stefan Sagmeister, poring over this eclectic group of fledgling and famous “artists” will inspire you to tackle an illustrated journal of your own. –Daphne
An Illustrated Life offers a sneak peak into the wildly (more…)
Illustration Now! (25th Anniversary Special Edtn) (Hardcover)
Digital Photography
18th Apr 2010
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“Illustration Now! may be aimed at people who commission illustrations, but it is also a treat for anyone who simply likes graphic art. Sink into your favourite armchair and let your mind wander across continents.” – Illustration Magazine, London”
From magazines and newspapers to ads, websites, album covers, and even mobile phone wallpaper, illustration is a crucial element in visual communication today. With unlimited creative possibilities, illustration is as unbound as imagination itself; whether it’s a simple pencil drawing, an ornate airbrushed painting, or a computer-generated image, an illustration speaks the international language of ideas.This guide showcases 96 of today’s best commercial and editorial illustrators from 13 countries; each entry highlights examples of recent work and includes the artist’s contact information, favorite media, awards, clients, and work philosophy. Look no further for what works and who’s who in the wo (more…)
How to be an Illustrator [Bargain Price] (Paperback)
Digital Photography
14th Apr 2010
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At last! Here is true practical help for budding freelance illustrators. This book helps you avoid the pitfalls that can ruin a career, with advice on crucial first impressions, how to create a portfolio and approach clients, how to negotiate contracts, and how to handle, deliver, and bill the first job. It discusses how to set up a studio, maintain a steady flow of work, and manage time and money. In addition, it provides information on successful self-promotion, self-publishing, and the pros and cons of agents. Packed with useful tips gleaned from the author’s own career and his work as an agent handling major artists in the US and UK, the book includes interviews with nine big-name illustrators. The reader benefits from their experience of starting out; what they learned during the metamorphosis from student to professional; what their expectations and experiences have been. In addition, art directors and commissioners describe the ways they like to be approached an (more…)
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