Exploring color photography from film to pixels

Robert Hirsch's Exploring Color Photography is the thinking photographer's guide to color imagemaking. Now in its sixth edition, this pioneering text clearly and concisely instructs students and intermediate photographers in the fundamental aesthetic and technical building blocks needed to...

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Otros Autores: Hirsch, Robert, 1949- author (author), Erf, Greg, contributor (contributor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York ; London, England : Focal Press 2015.
Edición:6th ed
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  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Artist Contributors; CHAPTER ONE COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY CONCEPTS; Newton's Light Experiment; Separating Light; Dual Nature of Light: Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle; Young's Theory/RGB; How We See Color; How the Brain Sees Color; Color Blindness; Young's Theory Applied to Color Photography; How Film Produces Color; How Digital Cameras Record Color; Color Reality; Absence of Color Film Standards; Talking About Color; Color Description-Hue, Saturation, and Luminance (HSL); Color Relativity; Color Contrast
  • Color HarmonyColor Observations; Color Memory; Color Deceives; Color Fluctuates; Subtraction of Color; Afterimage; Eye Fatigue: Bleaching; Reversed Afterimage; Positive Afterimage; Cooking with Color; Color Is a Personal Experience; CHAPTER TWO A CONCISE HISTORY OF COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY; The First Color Photographs: Applied Color Processes; Direct Color Process: First Experiments; The Hillotype Controversy; The Additive Theory: First Photographic Image in Color; Maxwell's Additive Projection Process; Direct Interference Method of Gabriel Lippmann; Additive Screen Processes; Joly Color; Autochrome
  • Paget Colour PlateFinlay Colour Processes; Dufaycolor; Polachrome; Additive Equipment; Additive Enlargers; Digital Enlargers; Television; The Subtractive Method; Primary Pigment Colors; The Subtractive Assembly Process: Heliography; The Krōmskōp Triple Camera and Krōmskōp Viewer; Carbro Process; Color Halftones; Dye-Imbibition Process; The Dye Transfer Process; Subtractive Film and Chromogenic Development; Chromogenic Transparency Film; Chromogenic Negative Film; C-41: Chromogenic Negative Development; The Kodachrome Integral Tri-Pack Process; Additional Color Processes
  • Silver Dye-Bleach/Dye-Destruction ProcessInternal Dye Diffusion-Transfer Process; The Polaroid Process: Diffusion-Transfer; Color Gains Acceptance; Amateur Systems Propel the Use of Color; The Rise of Digital Imaging; Early Digital Imaging: The Facsimile; The Birth of Computing; The 1960s: Art in the Research Lab; Computers Get Personal; Digital Imaging Goes Mainstream; Digital Truth; CHAPTER THREE EXPOSING THE LIGHT; An Exposure Starting Place; How a Camera Light Meter Works; Reflective and Incident Light; How a Histogram Works; Using a Gray Card; Camera Metering Methods and Programs
  • Matrix Metering/In-Camera Metering MethodsUtilizing a Camera's Monitor; Electronic Viewfinder (EVF); Brightness/Dynamic Range; Exposing to the Right; High Dynamic Range/HDR; Basic Light Reading Methods; Average Daylight; Brilliant/Hard Sunlight; Diffused/Soft Light; Dim Light; Contrast Control/Tone Compensation; Light Metering Techniques; Metering the Subject; Exposing for Tonal Variations; White Balance; Color Modes/Spaces; Image Enhancement Modes/Picture Controls; Electronic Flash and Basic Fill Flash; Red Eye; Unusual Lighting Conditions; Subject in Bright Light; Subject in Shadow
  • Alternate Solutions: Using a Handheld Meter