Pro Secrets to Dramatic Digital Photos (A Lark Photography Book) [Paperback]
Description:
Jim Zuckerman, a photographer known for his vivid, surreal images, reveals a lifetime's worth of tricks and techniques for taking photos with that huge WOW factor. His pro secrets range from the technical to the abstract, from making an impact with complementary colors to getting picture-postcard photos of scenic sites. He'll reveal which editing tools bring out a photograph's hidden assets, how to pan the camera to control the appearance of movement, and much more. Filled with compelling, colorful photographs, this eye-catching volume will inform and inspire both beginners and more experienced photographers.
Shooting & Selling Your Photos: The Complete Guide to Making Money with Your Photography [Paperback]
Shooting & Selling Your Photos combines beautiful show-and-tell photography, straightforward, authoritative instruction, updated technological information and complete coverage on breaking into today's photography market.
The book is divided into three parts: "Shooting," "Building Your Image" and "Selling." By covering all three areas, Jim Zuckerman offers everything readers need to get serious about their photography.
Zuckerman shows readers how to:
Pick powerful subjects
Decide between film and digital formats
Create dynamic portfolios in print and online
Use the Internet for marketing, self-promotion and photos sales
Understand the inner-workings of stock photo agencies
Get noticed with creative, professional submissions
Jim Zuckerman is a contributing editor for Peterson's Photographic Magazine and has been published in markets worldwide, including Omni, Conde Nast Traveler, and Outdoor and Travel Photographer. Jim's images have also appeared in calendars, posters, greeting cards, and corporate publications.
Digital Photographer's New Guide to Photoshop Plug-Ins (A Lark Photography Book) [Paperback]
All too often photographers engage with Photoshop and come away over-awed, frustrated and disappointed. The blame, if there is any, can be laid at the feet of the application's complexity.
One way of dealing with the software is to work initially with the multitude of plug-ins available and deal with specific tasks to gain confidence.
Zuckerman and Stulberg's book, 'Digital Photographer's New Guide to Photoshop Plug-Ins', suggests you revisit your earlier images and revitalise them with the aid of specific plug-ins.
The book opens with a novel one in Instant Mirror, which allows you to duplicate sections of your image and reposition them into appealing and wonderful ways.
Another is Flood: this creates water surfaces and reflections that embellish an image and relocates it to a fantasy location. This chapter, like most of the others covers many pages and explains the plug-in's potential to a thorough degree.
The authors also move in to the controversial territory of High Dynamic Range photography and eschew Photoshop's HDR feature in favour of the Photomatrix Pro plug-in. Sure convinced me in 12 pages!
Just as convincing and subtle is the book's treatment of plug-ins like Liquify and Silver Efex Pro … showing that delicate changes to an image can often be far more convincing and rewarding than wild and woolly transformations.
In style, the book is excellent, moving through every step slowly, carefully and thoroughly. This approach has a price: you get to look at only a handful of helpers. Despite this the book is encouraging and inspiring.
Authors: J Zuckerman & S Stulberg.
Publisher: Lark.
Distributor: Capricorn Link. 160 pages.
ISBN 978 1 60059 212 6.
BE A PHOTOSHOP GURU: UNLOCKING THE HIDDEN GENIUS BEHIND PHOTOSHOP'S TOOLS - JUST RELEASED
Learn how to use Photoshop's tools creatively and be a Photoshop Guru. Whether you have been using Photoshop for years or just learning for the first time, you will quickly discover new applications to create stunning images. "Be a Photoshop Guru" introduces the most important tools in Photoshop and then gives you very creative ways of applying them for amazing results. This program doesn't just simply show what the tools do, it shows you how to use them in your photography!
Many techniques include:
-Replacing the sky
-Making reflections
-Create studio lighting with the Gradient tool
-Explore many techniques with Layer Masks
-Making believable composite images
-The art of precision selections
-Simulating a polarizer filter
-and more…
(The photo on the cover of the DVD was taken in Korea. The red maple tree was not behind the model. Using techniques described in the DVD, I explain how I did this. Notice the reflection, too. I had to create a whole new reflection to make this look believable.)
Photoshop isn't difficult to master, but there is a lot to remember. That's why an instructional DVD is so invaluable. You can play and replay the techniques until they become part of you. Jim explains each tool and each creative application clearly, and he shows what the hidden potential behind these tools are. You will be very stimulated and inspired by this DVD and it will have lasting impact on your photography.
This is a DVD-ROM for computer playback. Each lesson is a stunning High Definition quicktime file!
Running Time: 168 minutes
Format: DVD-ROM for computer playback
Number of discs: 1
Release date: March 2009
Retail price: $39.99. If you would like to purchase this from Jim directly, he offers a 10% discount and he will autograph the DVD (this will require removing the shrink wrap material). The discounted price is $35.99. You can send a personal or business check, including $3 for shipping (total $38.99), to:
Jim Zuckerman
P.O. Box 7
Arrington, TN 37014
Or, if you would prefer to purchase it from Amazon.com
DAZZLING PHOTOSHOP -- JUST RELEASED
In this DVD, I share some of my favorite techniques for creating amazing images. I explain in step by step fashion the techniques I use as well as the thinking process I go through to come up with some of these ideas. This DVD will jump start your creative juices and give you a lot of ideas for working with your own images. For example, the knights on the cover were photographed at a local Renaissance Faire, and together with a foggy forest background and aword Jim found on the Internet, he explains how he meticulously outlines the knights and makes a flawless composite. The knights were photographed in bright sunlight, so Jim also had to eliminate the brilliant reflections from the armor. You will be intrigued as Jim explains these remarkable techniques in clear and easy to understand steps.
This is a DVD-ROM for computer playback. Each lesson is a stunning High Definition quicktime file!
Running Time: 173 minutes
Format: DVD-ROM for computer playback
Number of discs: 1
Release date: April 2009
Jim Zuckerman is a master at inspiring photographers to constantly think outside the box, and he will expand your creative horizons beyond what you thought possible. Jim has been doing special effect photography since 1969, and when Photoshop came along he fell in love with it because he realized there are virtually no limits to its creative potential. Jim is thrilled to share with you the techniques he uses to create some of his favorite pictures.
Retail price: $39.99. If you would like to purchase this from Jim directly, he offers a 10% discount and he will autograph the DVD (this will require removing the shrink wrap material). The discounted price is $35.99. You can send a personal or business check, including $3 for shipping (total $38.99), to:
Jim Zuckerman
P.O. Box 7
Arrington, TN 37014
Or, if you would prefer to purchase it from Amazon.com
BOOKS - DVDS
Pro Secrets to Dramatic Digital Photos
Shooting & Selling Your Photos: The Complete Guide to Making Money with Your Photography
Digital Photographer's New Guide to Photoshop Plug-Ins
Be a Photoshop Guru: Unlocking the hidden genius behind Photoshop's tools
Dazzling Photoshop