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How did Kodak company get its name? Who invented the Minox spy camera? Were there really fax machines in the mid-19th century? And what would a photographer use ‘Mod Podge’ for? The answers to all these questions and many, many more can be found in this intriguing compendium of photographic fascination compiled by Roger Pring.

Beautifully packaged, full of arresting images and exquisitely typeset by the author himself, Pring’s Photographer’s Miscellany will make an intriguing gift for all photographers. Dipping into the book will reveal the origins of the photographer’s craft, tips and tricks of the greats, a host of revealing quotes and fascinating trivia: and you’ll not only be richly entertained, you’ll certainly learn something you can use next time you shoot.

Cut, cook, draw, dye, dream, snap and spin!

Who better to make art with than today’s best-loved artists?

This absorbing book has been created by a selection of the world’s leading contemporary artists and provides projects and activities designed to challenge and expand your approach to making art. You will never again find yourself short of ideas for things to make and do!

Make recipes by Olafur Eliasson and listen to how they sound; create a spotty, squirmy salamander with Monster Chetwynd; trace meditative drawings and explore the power of repetition with Yayoi Kusama; build a living collage with Linder; or get stuck into some classic puzzle activities turned on their heads by Jeremy Deller.

Each activity draws on the artist’s own practice and is supported by guidance and advice from the artists themselves.

Thomas Pavitte’s amazing Querkles are an exciting twist on the classic colour-by-number images that we loved as children, and have sold hundreds of thousands of copies worldwide. At first, you see nothing but a baffling tangle of circles, but hidden within each puzzle is an amazing picture, waiting to be revealed!

Featuring the beloved characters of Aardman’s Wallace & Gromit movies, this book provides hours of creative colouring fun for fans of all ages. Along with several portraits of our cheese-eating inventors you will discover a collection of curious characters from the films including Feathers the Penguin, the moon robot and Shaun the Sheep.

Choose your own colour scheme or use the suggested palette for your Querkle, discover what’s hidden in each puzzle, and create a striking portrait that you can easily remove and display.

Brandish your crochet hook and create even more of your favourite Star Wars characters!

This starter kit includes everything you need to make BB-8 and a Jawa, plus tutorials for ten more characters. Your collection can soon include Obi-Wan Kenobi, Lando Calrissian, Rey, Finn, and many other favourites from a galaxy far, far away.

The kit includes a crochet hook, all the yarn you need to make the droid BB-8 and an alien Jawa, stuffing, eyes, a crochet hook and a tapestry needle. As well as a book that guides you step-by-step through each of the projects with easy instructions and clear photos so that even crochet novices can learn.

Boudoir has emerged from being a trend to being firmly established in the photographic mainstream. Its roots lie with many modern brides’ desire to give a special, intimate album to their intended, but has snowballed with more and more women commissioning photographers (or photography enthusiast partners) to create personal portrait shots.

Unlike glamour photography, boudoir is driven by the model’s own concept and vision, and this book provides anyone who wants to explore their creative side with a complete guide to every aspect of the craft, from calming your model’s stage fright to post-producing for that magazine look. This is a complete reference guide, with poses to suit all body types, arming photographers of any experience level with all they need to get visually arresting, and very flattering, results every time.

Fashion photography has always called for the maximum creative variety, with a constant pressure for photographers to produce fresh, exciting work with complicated, considered lighting and location design. Whether you’re starting out or have many years of experience, this book is an accessible and varied way to explore the genre and pick up new ideas.

Each of the 50 fashion photographs is accompanied by complete details on how it was achieved with insights from the photographer, alongside a detailed 3D lighting diagram showing where all the equipment and props were placed. Armed with all this detail, it’s easy to see how photos were made, learn how to use equipment, and develop as a photographer.

There is also an introduction to camera and lighting equipment, and a complete glossary of terminology.

How many of us have put our camera away after a holiday to a far-off location? This book will show you how to make the most of your local area to get outstanding photos that make people ask, ‘Is this really our town?’

Full of technical advice, it teaches a whole host of transformative techniques to let you discover – and make the most of – the potentially great imagery that surrounds you in any environment. Also learn how to use creative composition to capture a whole range of different shots from one location with a dedicated case-study section. From texture-rich abstracts to cleanly composed streetscapes, Simple Scene Sensational Shot shows you the great photography right outside your door.

Ever since Man Ray imposed the sound holes of a violin onto his model’s back, photographers have been enthusiastic practitioners of surreal art. Now with the advent of high-quality digital photo-manipulation the possibilities for creativity have become infinite. This book reveals the latest techniques in the field of surreal photography and features art from a host of the very best modern surreal photographers.

– Breaks down the shooting and editing process so any photographer can make their own impossible images

– With processing walkthroughs from contributing artists including Natalie Dybisz, Julie de Waroquier and Sarolta Bán

– Step-by-step instructions for creating extraordinary scenes

– Covers many different styles, from impossible landscapes to unsettling portraits

In the last century, photography was always novel. Now, it feels like our world is over-saturated with images. In the 21st century, what can photography do that is new?

This extensively illustrated survey answers that question, presenting fifty photographers from around the world who are defining photography today. Their styles, formats, and interpretations of the medium vary widely, but in each case, the work featured in this book represents photography doing what it has always done best: finding new ways to tell stories, and new stories to tell.

Artists featured include Nan Goldin, Wolfgang Tillmans, Hassan Hajjaj, Andreas Gursky, Juno Calypso, Ryan McGinley, Zanele Muholi, Shirin Neshat, Catherine Opie, Martin Parr, Cindy Sherman, Hiroshi Sugimoto and Juergen Teller.

Do you want to elevate your portraits beyond the tired old selfie?

From Instagram sensation Rosie Hardy, this is the ultimate guide to photographic self-expression. Drawing on both her unique skills and lived experience, Rosie delivers a masterclass in self-portraiture, giving the reader the knowledge base and inspiration to tell their own stories, control their image and go far beyond the standard ‘selfie’.

Learn how to upgrade your photography skills and express yourself in meaningful and captivating ways with this invaluable guide. Ideal for both beginners and professionals, discover essential tips and advice on shooting, editing and personal confidence.

Rosie lays out all the ingredients necessary for creating captivating self portraiture, presenting a recipe book for those hungry for self expression.

Urban sketching has become one of the biggest art trends of the last decade, with artists preferring to capture a scene on location rather than relying on a photograph. Featuring 20 step-by-step exercises, Sketch Club: Urban Drawing is your essential guide to putting your drawing skills into practice on location. You’ll learn how to start, when to stop and how to fix common mistakes.

Packed with all the energy and inspiration of a drawing group, this is the ideal book for anyone looking to take their urban drawing further. Perfect your urban drawing skills and develop your own unique style with professional urban sketcher, Phil Dean.

Chapters include:
– Loosening Up
– Building a Scene
– Adding Contrast
– Taking it Further
– Finishing Touches

‘The latest book from the bestselling photography author will be a must for anyone looking keen to improve their photos.’ – Digital Camera World

Composition is the single most powerful tool in a photographer’s armoury. Unconstrained by any outside influence, it can be a pure expression of individuality, and this is what makes it so important. Freeman details both why and how composition works, from perception to visual imagination, including many practical compositional templates – varying from the Walk-in to the Frame Break to the Fibonacci Point – ready to be applied to a range of camera situations.

– All-new content from the master of photography guides
– Concise and easy-to-follow format clearly explains the vital ingredients of composition
– Real-life examples of composition in practice ably demonstrate the key elements
– Unique visuals and illustrations cut through the jargon and make the subject simple

Whether you shoot with a digital SLR, a Holga or the camera on your phone, today’s cameras let you seize the moment and shoot whenever and wherever you like. This makes them perfect for street photography, the genre of choice of some of the greatest photographers of all time, with names like Henri Cartier-Bresson, Weegee and Robert Frank turning gritty reality into iconic images.
In this book, Tanya Nagar will open your eyes to the photographic potential of your urban world environment, offering the tricks and techniques that put you in the right place, at the right time, and let you create amazing photos.
In addition to everything that’ll give you the right skills and headspace to capture great images on the street, Nagar has brought together a stunning showcase of some of the greatest emerging street photographers of our age to inspire you.

Everbody has their own squad, a group of friends who you can rely on.

There’s the sassy one, the brainiac, the hot mess, the dizzy one, the party animal, the compulsive messager, the surrogate mum. Squad Goals celebrates all the facets of friendship, with burning issues for you to debate such as: ‘Which cockatil would you be?” and “Who is the most likely to live to 100 or spend a night in jail?”.

Illustrated throughout by talented artist Ella Kasperowicz, this book is the perfect gift for birthdays, bachelorette parties and graduation.

Chapters include:

Meet the squad – friend archetypes, the friend most likely to…
In squad we trust – what holds friendships together, group chat…
Squad adventures – bachelorette party, hobbies, vacations, city breaks, party time…
Inspirational squads – Mean Girls, Power Rangers, Harry Potter…

Fifty alluring eye-makeup recipes in a beautifully illustrated book, ideal for giving.

In Love Those Eyes, Sarah Ellis and Elisa Mazzone bring you an array of gorgeous eye-makeup tutorials. These mouth-watering ideas will delight all the more when you apply them to your own eyes. As with any great recipe collection, you are inspired to adjust and re-balance the elements to suit your own eye shape, complexion or mood.

Featuring light looks to warm your day, cool powerful looks to say you mean business, carefree looks for out and about, dramatic looks for turning those heads. And when you need to party? Look no further – you will rock it!

Complete all looks with your favourite mascara or lashes for the perfect finish. They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. It will be.

Whether you need a personal site to showcase your work, or a complex webstore with customised features, you can build it yourself without having to code, design or spend a lot of money.

Alannah Moore made a name for herself by demystifying website creation and enabling non-technical people to get themselves up and online using the powerful tools available today – the ‘Do-It-Yourself’ way. She guides you through every decision, breaking down each step along the way, from planning your pages to getting the most out of social media and search engines. Whether it’s WordPress, Weebly, Squarespace, Wix, Shopify or something different, this book will help you choose something for you. In Alannah’s capable hands, you will find the process of building your site easy, painless and enjoyable.

You’ve done your research. You’ve bought your camera. You’ve learnt how to use it. Now what?

The secret behind a good photograph is not your camera. It’s not even the scene viewed through the viewfinder. It’s the mind of the photographer which turns an average photograph into an exceptional one.

In The Photographer’s Mind, professional photographer and author Michael Freeman unravels the mystery behind the creation of a photograph and reveals how to capture photos that really make you feel something.

The aim of this book is to answer what makes a photograph great, and explore the ways that top photographers achieve this goal time and time again.

The Photographer’s Mind will provide you with invaluable knowledge on:
· Avoiding cliché
· The recurring nature of trends
· Style and composition
· Capturing light
· How to handle the unexpected

A comprehensive look at black & white photography by one of today’s leading experts on digital-editing software and black & white conversion techniques.

John Beardsworth explores the most powerful software for converting your color shots into stunning, high-quality black-and-white photos, with detailed explanations of how each tool works and why to try it out on your own images. His streamlined methods will optimise your workflow and inspire your photography.

In addition to providing an abundance of step-by-step instructions with brilliant imagery, Beardsworth also teaches the aesthetic value of black and white, and how to visualise the creative potential of each shot.

With its fun and approachable tips-based structure, this book will motivate you to experiment with impressive effects and innovative tools, ensuring that you make full use of the B&W software at your disposal.

There are many things you can do with paper but what can paper do for you?

Discover paper’s true potential with this book full of exciting projects that enable you to discover new paper arts, such as pop ups, papercuts and 3-D shapes. Learn how paper can be used to communicate ideas, how it can be photographed and lit to great effect and even how it can be animated. Develop skills in construction, tessellation, model making and scene creating, while also working with scale and moving parts. Paper has never been more fun and more intriguing.

Projects include: animal masks, ice creams, shadow puppets, tropical island, Ferris wheel, 3-D pig, car, lantern, geometric mobile, paper food, pop-up greetings card, paper theatre, giant pencil, and many more.

Explore the versatile art form of printmaking and develop your skills with 30 eye-catching projects.

Whether you are an experienced printmaker or discovering the medium for the first time, this book shows you the many different ways you can experiment with hand-printing techniques. Focusing on three main areas – relief, screen and transfer – and featuring low-cost methods and easy-to-follow tutorials, all of the projects can be practised easily at home.

From hand-block-printed stationery to a patterned scarf and tote bag, enjoy fresh ideas and fill your wardrobe and home with unique designs.

Projects include:
– Colour blur table mats
– Frottage cushion covers
– Screen-printed spooky Halloween bunting
– Glittery embossed gift tags
– Cyanotype printed journal
– Linocut mini still life art print

Updated, expanded, and covering the latest software, this new edition of the bestselling Digital Landscape Photography brings the amazing techniques pioneered by Ansel Adams and his contemporaries to every digital photographer.

Ansel Adams’ imagery – especially his iconic vision of the American National Parks – is widely published and instantly recognisable. Many photographers will have heard of his renowned Zone System, but that is just the tip of the iceberg; his unparalleled attention to detail, which once required hours in the darkroom with specialist tools, is finally accessible to all.

Michael Frye’s own photography provides many stunning examples of the results that can be achieved, and as one of Adams’ natural successors in the field, he is well placed to analyse the many inspirational shots from the great masters of landscape photography. Combining the cutting edge of today’s digital work with some of the best-known photos ever taken, this book a must-read for any landscape or nature photographer.

Whether on a weekend city break or a month-long trekking vacation, more and more of us are travelling with the hope of taking striking photos that capture the essence of our time away. Often these are more than just photos for our friends and family to enjoy, with an increasing number of talented amateurs uploading their images to photo agencies and earning extra income from selling rights. So whether you’re a keen amateur photographer travelling for business or pleasure, or a budding professional with a specific assignment, The Photographer’s Field Guide has all the information you need to help you successfully capture the many photographic opportunities that await. Divided into five sections, the book will help you to prepare for the trip, provide invaluable practical advice for when you’re travelling and offer – through superb images from one of the world’s most respected travel photographers – guidance on how, what and when to photograph.

Think the little LCD on the back of your camera is useful? You haven’t seen anything yet. This book will show you how to put photography’s new essential piece of kit at the centre of your workflow, enabling you to bridge the gap between the camera and the internet by importing and uploading photos to the cloud, edit images on the road with the latest and most powerful apps, and organise and design your portfolio in a sleek and stylish package that will impress clients and present your work at its best. Novice or pro, the photographic uses of your iPad are endless, and this guide gives you everything you need to take full advantage of this powerful tool’s capabilities.

Fully updated for the latest apps, retina screen, iPad mini, and iOS 6.

Catch up or get left behind – fluency with an iPad is now an industry standard.

A must-read for iPad-owning digital photographers everywhere.

Fully revised to reflect the latest updates in the most popular creativity apps, this is the original, best-selling guide to using creative apps on your Apple device to produce your very own masterpieces.

Artists like David Hockney have taken to creating art on the iPad, but you don’t have to be an artist to achieve great results on your device. This refreshingly accessible book is perfect for skilled artists and creative wannabes alike.

Alongside the step-by-step projects that teach the fundamentals of digital painting, there are also some easy and fun artistic tricks that anyone can try. You’ll master the most popular art apps, and you will learn new painting and drawing skills along the way.

Includes advice on using Procreate, ArtRage, Art Studio for iPad, Adobe Photoshop Sketch, Pen & Ink, Brushes and Tayasui Sketches Pro.