Light and Lens
Photography in the Digital Age
By Robert Hirsch
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Light & Lens: Photography in the Digital Age by Robert Hirsch is a groundbreaking introductory book that clearly and concisely provides the instruction and building blocks necessary to create thought-provoking digitally based photographs. It is an adventurous idea book that features numerous classroom-tested assignments and exercises from leading photographic educators to encourage you to critically explore and make images from the photographers’ eye, an aesthetic point of view. Light & Lens applies technology in the service of ideas by emphasizing conceptual problem solving.
Acquire a basic foundation for digital photography. Light and Lens covers the fundamental concepts of image-making; how to use today’s digital technology to create compelling images; and how to output and preserve images in the digital world.
Explore the history, theory and methods of digital image-making. Light and Lens translates the enduring aesthetics of art photography into the digital realm. You’ll view, capture and think about images from a new perspective.
Increase your ability to analyze, discuss and write about your own work and the images of others.
Learn with exercises and assignments by leading digital educators. Innovative techniques will train your eye to make the strongest visual statement.
Solve visual problems and overcome image challenges. Whether you use a digital SLR or a point-and-shoot camera, you’ll get new strategies to master composition, design and light.
View the full range of the digital terrain with stunning images and commentary by over 190 international artists.
Product Details
- Publisher: Focal Press (September 14, 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 024080855X
- ISBN-13: 978-0240808550
- Paperback: 416 pages
- Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.3 x 1.2 inches
- 250 illustrations in full color
- Readership: Photography students in beginning or intermediate digital imaging/digital photography courses. Intro to photography for programs that are all digital
- Downloadable images from the text are available to authorized instructors for classroom use free of charge.
Robert Hirsch is a renowned photographer, educator, historian and writer. His book credits include Photographic Possibilities: The Expressive Use of Ideas, Materials and Processes; Exploring Color Photography: From the Darkroom to the Digital Studio; and Seizing the Light: A History of Photography. Hirsch is a former Associate Editor for Digital Camera (UK) and Photovision Magazine, and a contributor to Afterimage, exposure, Buffalo Spree, Fotophile, FYI, History of Photography, Ilford Photo Instructor Newsletter, and The Photo Review, as well as former Director of CEPA Gallery. He has had many one-person shows and curated numerous exhibitions. Hirsch has also conducted many workshops and interviewed eminent photographers of our time. The former executive director of CEPA Gallery, he is now the director of Light Research in Buffalo, New York.
Table of Contents
Light & Lens: Photography in the Digital Age
- Why We Make Pictures: A Concise History of Visual Ideas
- Design: Visual Foundations
- Image Capture: Cameras, Lenses, and Scanners
- Exposure and Filters
- Seeing with Light
- Observation: Eyes Wide Open
- Time, Space, Imagination, and the Camera
- Digital Studio: Where the Virtual Meets the Material World
- Presentation and Preservation
- Seeing with a Camera
- Solutions: Thinking and Writing About Images
- Photographer on Assignment
Addendum I: Safety: Protecting Yourself and Your Digital Imaging Equipment
Addendum II: Careers
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