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Use This Journal if You Want to Take Great Photographs by Henry Carroll

$22.99 AUD

Category: PHOTOGRAPHY

Discover a whole new way of seeing the world while honing your photography skills across composition, exposure, lighting, lenses and observation. Use This Journal if You Want to Take Great Photographs is packed with fun photography prompts and inspiring images by master photographers so you can get crea tive with your camera. Create your own highly personal photobook by sticking in your pictures with the adhesive corners provided or simply dip in and out when you're stuck for ideas. Whatever your specific interests - street, studio, still life, landscape or portrait photography - you're free to interpret the prompts in any way you want. So pick a page, grab your camera and let your ideas and imagination rule! ...Show more

Australia The Photographers Eye by Nick Rains

$39.99 AUD

Category: PHOTOGRAPHY

Award-winning photographer Nick Rains travels Australia with his camera, capturing the country's diverse landscapes and many moods. With this second edition including five additional touring regions, Australia: The Photographer's Eye displays Rains's stunning images of over 30 regions around the countr y. For each region there's also touring information and a map that pinpoints the best spots from which to capture your own images. In the photo tips section at the back of the book, Rains shares his knowledge of photography, discussing the techniques and skills he has gained over many years, and clearly explains how to successfully photograph landscapes from small-detail shots through to panoramas. ...Show more

The Beginner's Photography Guide by Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff

$35.00 AUD

Category: PHOTOGRAPHY

If you're new to photography, then the Beginner's Photography Guide is perfect for you. With the ideal starting point for digital camera users, this manual explains key concepts in simple terms before offering step-by-step visual guides to every function. The Beginner's Photography Guide compares and co ntrasts the effect of different approaches, showing you how to take the photos you want and develop your photography ability. You can learn how to overcome every photographer's challenge, from working in dim lighting to setting up the perfect flash. This fully updated edition takes into account new photography trends and the latest equipment on the market. Start snapping with the Beginner's Photography Guide and get the most out of your digital camera. Previous edition ISBN 9781409322795. ...Show more

Read This If You Want to Take Great Photographs by Henry Carroll

$26.99 AUD

Category: PHOTOGRAPHY

Photography is now more popular than ever thanks to the rapid development of digital cameras. Read This If You Want to Take Great Photographs is for this new wave of DSLR dabblers and users of compact system, and bridge cameras. It contains no graphs, no techie diagrams and no camera club jargon. Instea d, it inspires readers through iconic images and playful copy packed with hands-on tips. Split into five sections, the book covers composition, exposure, light, lenses, and seeing. Images taken by master photographers - including Henri Cartier- Bresson, Sebasti o Salgado, Fay Godwin, and Martin Parr - serve to illustrate points and encourage readers to try out new ideas. Today's aspiring photographers want immediacy and see photography as an affordable way of expressing themselves quickly and creatively. This book answers that need, teaching readers how to take photographs using professional techniques. ...Show more

Read This If You Want to Take Great Photographs of People by Henry Carroll

$27.99 AUD

Category: PHOTOGRAPHY

Read This If You Want To Take Great Photographs Of People is an inspiring book of conceptual starting points and invaluable technical tips for anyone, novice or professional, who wants to take top-notch pictures of people. The book distills portrait photography into seven subject areas, including "Compo sition," "The Gaze," and "The Street," and features beautiful, startling, and inspirational photographs in each category. Readers are given practical insights into the ideas and techniques of a wide range of historical and contemporary masters so they can put it all into practice themselves. Scattered throughout the book are "technical tangents" packed with invaluable practical guidance for basic lighting set-ups, equipment, camera modes and more. Also included is definitive advice from a lawyer on your legal rights when taking pictures of people. ...Show more

One Planet 2 by Lonely Planet Publications Staff; Roz Hopkins; Tony Wheeler

$19.99 AUD

Category: PHOTOGRAPHY | Series: General Reference Ser.

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher*One Planet is a celebration of great travel photography, and of the diversity and similarities within our world. Paired images encourage the appreciation of connections between people and places continents apart. Images each capture a moment in t ime - a moment that can be shared, or at least understood, around the globe.Authors: Written and researched by Lonely Planet, Roz Hopkins, Tony WheelerAbout Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, as well as an award-winning website, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet's mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world and to truly get to the heart of the places where they travel.TripAdvisor Travellers' Choice Awards 2012 and 2013 winner in Favorite Travel Guide category'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves; it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' - Fairfax Media (Australia) & *#1 in the world market share - source: Nielsen Bookscan. Australia, UK and USA. March 2012-January 2013 ...Show more

Idiot's Guides: Digital Photography by Bill Gutman

$35.00 AUD

Category: PHOTOGRAPHY

Light by Christian Fletcher

$59.99 AUD

Category: PHOTOGRAPHY

Lightbrings together images from around Australia that unite light, composition and colour to create a breathtaking ode to landscape and country. It features 160 pages of full-colour photography by Christian Fletcher, taken throughout his prolific career as an award-winning landscape photographer.

Bookshops: Long Established and the Most Fashionable by Markus Sebastian Braun

$49.95 AUD

Category: PHOTOGRAPHY

In the era of e-books and online shops, when the classic book trade has come under increasing pressure, the success of a bookshop is by no means a foregone conclusion. Booksellers confront these new challenges with very different economic strategies and conceptual measures. Spatial concepts, furnishings and design are indispensable ingredients of a successful sales strategy for newer as well as more tradition-steeped bookstores. People like to linger and buy where they feel comfortable. This volume is dedicated to the most beautiful bookstores in the world. The old and the new, classical and innovative, giant stores and paradises in miniature for bibliophiles: What they all have in common is that they create a desire for books and prove that the bookshop as institution will always fulfill a need and without a doubt enjoys a future. ...Show more

Back to Black: Cilla. The Authorised Photographic Memoir by Cilla Black

$43.99 AUD

Category: PHOTOGRAPHY

The stunning images contained within these pages celebrate Cilla Black's remarkable showbusiness career. They also celebrate a woman who grew up in the spotlight of international stardom yet was never blinded to the importance of family and friends. Her warm ability to communicate directly with everyone she encountered has won her a lifetime of devoted fans. Musical and comedic, her fifty-year career has swept her from the glamour of Sixties recording success to unprecedented TV dominance as a female host. The fact she made it all seem so easy is a testament to her consummate professionalism. There is only one Cilla and we are proud to look back at her inspiring contribution over the past five decades. Anyone who had a heart would be moved by the story of Britain's top-selling female recording artist of the Sixties: Cilla Black. By the age of twenty-one she had jumped from obscurity as a clerk-typist in Liverpool to chart success. Warm, glamorous, mischievous: this volume captures the confidence, egalitarianism and vivacity of a performer who personified the heady freedom of her time. It also celebrates her fifty unique years in showbusiness - conquering that formative decade in the charts, on television and with top billing in the West End; going on to become Britain's most loved television presenter with the audience busting shows Surprise Surprise and Blind Date. She's still surprising us today. Hers is a magical blend of grit and grace. The only woman managed by Brian Epstein, the genius behind the Mersey sound and the success of her friends, The Beatles, she was described by him in this way: "She is what she is - an untutored girl from a happy, working-class family in a lowly part of Liverpool. She's not easily intimidated by anything or anyone." He spotted the artistry in those qualities. The photographs in this elegant book celebrate that unique artistry and life. ...Show more

Sports Photography: From Snapshots to Great Shots by BILL FRAKES

$44.99 AUD

Category: PHOTOGRAPHY

Aerial Australia by Nick Rains

$39.99 AUD

Category: PHOTOGRAPHY

There's nothing like the thrill of looking out of an aeroplane window and seeing the world from above. In Aerial Australia, Nick Rains' photographs present Australia in a way that it's rarely seen, revealing a whole new side of its beauty. The book offers sweeping views of Australia's cities; dramatic g limpses of its outback sand dunes and epic waterfalls; a new perspective on Australia's coral reefs and coastal fringes, and a new way of looking at Australia's countryside. These hundreds of stunning photographs turn industrial scenes and winding rivers into abstract art. This beautiful keepsake casts Australia's beauty in a whole new light. ...Show more