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360°
Panoramic Photography! |
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360
Degree
Panoramic Books
and Photography
Resources
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360 Degree Imaging: The
Photographers Panoramic Virtual Reality
Manual (Photography on the Web) |
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360 Degree Imaging: The
Photographers Panoramic Virtual Reality
Manual (Photography on the Web) |
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Photographic based
virtual reality is fast becoming one of
the most exciting areas of the digital
imaging world. No helmets, no gloves; no
longer even an interactive panorama tool,
the new techniques create fully immersive
experiences where the viewer can look up
and down as well as sideways whilst
playing with virtual objects.
This book provides a visual introduction
that is both easy to read and understand.
The ideas and techniques draw on those
used by industry professionals and are
presented in a step by step form,
allowing readers to gradually develop VR
skills. Practice images and demonstration
versions of the software used in the book
can be downloaded from the companion
website.
The author reviews and discusses a range
of hardware and software options,
providing VR imaging solutions for budget
conscious amateurs and professionals
alike. Comprehensive technique overviews
are provided for the capture, creation
and display of Standard and cubic
panoramas, object movies and Video VR. If
you are interested in this subject, this
is the book you cannot do without.
Philip Andrews is a photographer,
lecturer, author and website designer
with an international profile. A former
teacher of photography and imaging, he
now writes books and articles from his
base in Australia, and has created/designed
several websites. |
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Stretch: The World of
Panoramic Photography |
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Stretch: The World of
Panoramic Photography |
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Reviewer: Barry
Schmetter
from Gaithersburg, MD United States
Stretch is a great introduction to the
field of panoramic photography. Nick
Meers not only showcases some amazing
examples of panoramic photography, but
describes the wide variety of cameras and
working techniques used to make the
photographs. This is probably the best
treatment of panoramic photography I've
ever read and it makes me want to run out
an purchase a horribly expensive
panoramic camera. |
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Panoramic Photography |
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Panoramic Photography |
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Editorial Reviews
From Book News, Inc.
Illustrated with loads of exemplary
photographs and diagrams, including three
gatefolds, this guide covers the early
historical development of panoramic
photography through its modern
technological applications, emphasizing
recent panoramic camera designs,
photographic styles, and techniques. An
appendix contains specifications for
every panoramic camera currently
available and a section on how to make
panoramic photographs without special
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360º New York |
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360º New York |
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Book
Description
Using a digital camera and digital
imaging technology, photographer Nick
Wood has developed a new way to
photograph landscapes and cityscapes,
placing the viewer in the center of
dramatic 360 panoramas. Exploring New
York and London with this equipment, he
documents his favorite places. The
resulting books are perfect souvenirs of
great cities and intriguing photographic
adventures.
Each book visits famous landmarks as well
as hip and popular spots off the beaten
path in spectacular 360º photographs.
Numerous visual details give a sense of
closer involvement with a scene. The long,
landscape format is suited to the style
of the photographic images, and each
volume has one amazing gatefold. Included
with each book is a Mac- and PC-compatible
CD-ROM with QuickTime movies of all the
sites.
360º New York visits some of the city's
major landmarks as well as favorite spots
of New York insiders. Among the many
scenes captured are the Empire State
Building, Wall Street, Times Square,
Central Park, the Metropolitan Museum of
Art, and the Waldorf Astoria, as well as
the Empire Diner, the Chelsea Hotel, a
firehouse, a neighborhood bar, and even a
salon for New York's most pampered dogs.
The book is a virtual visit to the city
in which the vibrant diversity and sense
of bigness is clearly conveyed,
particularly in a marvelous panoramic
foldout of the skyline at twilight.
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The Adobe Photoshop CS Book
for Digital Photographers |
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The Adobe Photoshop CS Book
for Digital Photographers
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Book Description
Scott Kelby is one of those rare authors
who not only knows his topic--Photoshop
CS--backward and forward but also knows
how to distill it into the need-to-know
essentials that the rest of the world is
interested in. In these pages, Scott cuts
through the bull to show you how to make
the transition from traditional to
digital photography using the best image
manipulation software available today:
Photoshop CS. You'll find full-color,
graphically rich project-based examples
of every key step in the digital
photography process-from experimenting
with camera settings to capturing and
manipulating images, and editing,
outputting, and organizing them. What you
won't find is a bunch of theory or a
challenge to come up with your own
settings. Instead, Scott tells you flat
out which setting to use, when to use
them, and why. Along the way you'll learn
about color correction and digital body-sculpting,
how and why the pros edit in 16-bit, and
more. |
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Rick Sammon's
Complete Guide to Digital Photography:
107 Lessons on Taking, Making, Editing,
Storing, Printing, and Sharing Better
Digital Images |
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Rick Sammon's Complete Guide
to Digital Photography: 107 Lessons on
Taking, Making, Editing, Storing,
Printing, and Sharing Better Digital
Images |
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A Great
Book for Anyone New to Digital
Photography,
Reviewer: A reader from Richmond, VA USA
For anyone that is new to digital
photography, this book is a must read.
Rick takes often complicated concepts and
explains them in terms that everyone can
understand--from beginners to more
experienced photographers--and
immediately apply to their own work. If
you were taking ordinary photos before
reading this book, you'll be taking
better ones after you finish. Rick's
coverage of digital darkroom techniques
and how they relate to conventional film
photography is well done. He offers
practical examples of how you can use
digital imaging software such as Adobe
Photoshop to improve any photograph--examples
that you can immediately apply to your
own work without the worry of having to
learn everything about Photoshop first.
Whether you shoot film and enhance your
work digitally or shoot pure digital, you
will not regret puchasing this excellent
reference. A must have for anyone serious
about digital photography. |
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Digital
Photographer's Handbook |
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Digital Photographer's
Handbook |
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One of the digicam/image
editing books I've seen!
Reviewer: Michael K. Smith (see more
about me) from Baton Rouge, LA USA
As a relatively novice photographer (haven't
owned one since my old Brownie Hawkeye)
with some knowledge of computers and a
new digital camera, I've been working my
way through as many books on digicams and
image-editing software as I can find.
Some are pretty general, some are more
specialized, but most seem to repeat the
same mostly superficial information and
advice on both photography and digital
editing. This book is the great exception!
Ang is a very talented photographer and
this lushly printed... volume is crammed
with his work, but he's also a very good
teacher.
The first part of the book, under the
heading of "Total Photography,"
is a mini-course in types of cameras and
lenses, lighting, optical physics, and
the essential practical differences in
using film-based and digital cameras. (There's
also a survey of information on specific
models of cameras, printers, and scanners,
which will soon be outdated and which
might have been omitted.) The second
section, "Photography for the
Digital Age," leads you through such
topics as composition, zoom, optical
distortion, color balance, and how to
avoid or at least fix the most common
mistakes; I learned a great deal from his
clear explanations and visual examples.
"A Compendium of Ideas" is
almost a separate book, being an
excursion through all the major
categories of subjects that interest
people with cameras, from buildings and
travel to microphotography and high-speed
sports; you'll want to return to this
section now and then for leisurely
browsing. "Radical Conversions"
and "All about Image Manipulation"
are worth the price of the book all by
themselves, with very clear and often
very detailed discussions of issues which
I'm sure are old hat to experienced
shutterbugs but which are new and often
perplexing to me, including proper
cropping, burning-in and dodging,
sharpening, blurring, cross-processing,
color vs. black-and-white, and lots of
others. Ang is quite good at balancing
received photographic wisdom with new
digital ideas. He also gets deeply into
such computer-specific subjects as levels,
cloning, and the differences and
similarities between channels, layers,
and masks. (He seems not to have much use
for such glitzy effects-filter tricks as
stained glass and embossing filters, with
which I have to agree.) "The Output
Adventure" is very good on getting
the color on your monitor to agree with
the color your printer produces, and
there's a final section on portfolios,
copyrights, and the business of
photography. I can't recommend this one
highly enough.
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