Mastering Color Digital Photography (A Lark Photography Book)

By Michael Freeman

Book Overview

Digital cameras and powerful image-editing software applications provide today's photographer with all the tools needed to control the world of color. Renowned photographer and author Michael Freeman provides a thorough look at the essential ways of dealing with color that will help traditional photographers enter the world of digital photography with confidence and excitement. Using helpful tips and exercises, he covers everything from capture and calibration to workflow management and output. Photographers will find expert guidance on sensitivity, color temperature, and exposure, and invaluable advice on making the most of color as a design element. Examine subjective and cultural response to individual colors and combinations, the many ways of digitally altering a photo's tones, and how to capture and reproduce color precisely.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1579907067
• ISBN13: 9781579907068
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Lark Books (NC)
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

A Very Useful and Informative Supplement to His Design Book, "The Photographer's Eye"

This book takes his section in "The Photographer's Eye" on color theory and goes a lot deeper and farther. Much more depth into the traditional color contrasts, but also a great deal of informative material on color spaces, color interactions, history, color and media, and possibilities with digital manipulation. This book would serve very nicely as a text for a color or color theory course in an undergraduate art program. And it is so much more reasonably priced than such "textbooks" as Zelanski's book on color, the price of which is just ridiculous. If one already owns "Eye" and wishes further, very competent information on color in images, this is a very fine choice. If one just wants to know more about color in images, it is still a very fine choice.

Top Text

An excellent book. Well written and easy to understand. If you have not previously been instructed in the science of color you will be well served by this text. The photo examples make the book! Very, very, well illustrated. Too the point. After reading this book I can say, "I DO understand digital color." Thats what I paid for.