Photography in Focus

by Mark Jacobs

Book Overview

Photography in Focus is a comprehensive photography textbook dealing with basic camera functions, lighting, film development, and printmaking for black and white and color photography. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0026QZVZA
• ISBN13: 9780844254845
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: National Textbook Company
• Length: 311 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.

Customer Reviews

from back cover of book

"Designed for beginners and as a practical reference for the more experienced, Photography in Focus is the leading 'nuts-and-bolts' guide to basic photography." Contents: 1. Photograms 2. The pinhole camera 3. Camera Controls 4. exposure and exposure meters 5. film development 6. printmaking 7. visual aspects of photography 8. film and filters 9. light 10. lenses 11. the camera 12. special processes and tchniques 13. a history of photography B & W illustrations on every page

Best basic how-to about photgraphy out there.

From pinhole cameras to modern autofocus, this is the best learning textbook available that I've seen. Easy to read and written in simple layman's terms, it can improve the pictures you take and simplify the science of light.