Location Photography: Essential Skills
Location Photography: Essential Skills
Regular price
Checking stock...
Regular price
Checking stock...
Summary
Written for photographers using 35mm SLR and medium format cameras, this book, through a series of practical exercises, covers the techniques and design elements required to communicate creatively with ambient light. The basic essentials, from equipment to framing the image, are described.
The feel-good place to buy books
- Free US shipping over $15
- Buying preloved emits 41% less CO2 than new
- Millions of affordable books
- Give your books a new home - sell them back to us!

Location Photography: Essential Skills by Mark Galer
'Location Photography' provides essential skills for photographers using 35mm SLR and medium format cameras working with both ambient and introduced light. Through a series of practical exercises the photographer is shown the techniques and design elements required to be able to communicate clearly and creatively. The basic essentials are described, from exposure, to framing the image and how to work with light and contrast. Assignments are provided for genres such as landscape, environmental portraiture, the photographic essay and advertising. Illustrated throughout with student and author work, Location Photography is an inspirational guide as well as a structured learning tool for mastering the essential techniques. The Essential Skills Photography Series offers a highly structured learning approach to the fundamental skills of photography. They mix theoretical information with practical advice to maximise the opportunities for creative results. Each subject includes: · clear aims and objectives · short sub-sections illustrated by student and author work · student activities to check learning outcomes · student assignments to put theoretical knowledge into a creative context · glossary of terms Mark Galer lectures in photography at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia - the leading photography course in the southern hemisphere. He has lectured in photography both in the UK and Australia and has worked commercially as a freelance photographer on corporate and editorial.
Mark Galer is the Program Director and Senior lecturer at RMIT University in the School of Media and Communication, Australia. He is also co-writer of their popular online photography courses. He has lectured in photography in the UK and Australia and has worked commercially as a freelance photographer on corporate and editorial assignments. He has written numerous top-selling photography books, including Photography Foundations for Art & Design, the Popular Photoshop Elements; Maximum Performance and Photoshop; Essential Skills series. He is an Official Adobe Ambassador for Photoshop and Photoshop Elements.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780240515489 |
| ISBN 10 | 024051548X |
| Title | Location Photography: Essential Skills |
| Author | Mark Galer |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Year published | 1999-05-13 |
| Number of pages | 170 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |