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Photo Jojo!
Insanely Great Photo Projects and DIY Ideas
By Amit Gupta and Kelly Jensen
Paperback 2009 Random House, Inc., 192 pages
ISBN 978-0-307-45132-2
$21.99 US

With more than 50 super-easy projects, Photojojo! will show you how to do things like make a wall-sized photo mural using any ordinary printer, create a custom photo laptop bag, bake photo cupcakes, make a photo time capsule, and turn a fork into a modern photo stand, a bottle into a tripod, a book into a photo frame ... well, you get the idea.

Photojojo! is a unique book filled with creative ideas to help you make interesting gifts for friends and family and conversation pieces for your home or office. Who doesn't love being surrounded by photos of family, pets, special events and favorite places?

This book is basically divided into two sections - One called "Do More with Your Photos" and the other called "Have More Fun with a Camera". By following the ideas in Photojojo! you can have your precious memories close by and displayed in one of a kind creative ways. One of my favorite projects in this book is called "Magnetic, Fridge-Based Mr. You Head". Also, the project of making a tripod out of a bottle is absolutely ingenious!

Join premier celebrity wedding photographer Joe Buissink as he opens the book on the world-renowned style, with more than 150 stunning images, creative techniques, and unparalleled advice for capturing a couple's perfect moments.

Wedding Photography From The Heart is filled with breathtakingly beautiful images of weddings and special moments that are sure to thrill the beautiful people represented in the photographs for a lifetime. A wedding is something two people want to be perfect, and they want their photographs to capture the moods and the moments to spark emotions and memories to last a lifetime.

This book is filled with comments explaining the events that led up to the moment the photos were taken, which is extremely helpful for a photographer. The photographer talks about the equipment he uses and why. The photographer is totally open with his thoughts, hints, and ideas, and can prove to be priceless for anyone who takes his advice when it comes to photographing people and special events. This photographer is totally amazing and should truly be celebrated for his eye and for his heart. Capturing such images as the ones that fill these 192 pages represents a lifetime of experience and dedication to the art.

The most comprehensive updated resource on using optical and digital filters to create stunning effects.

Whether you're shooting nature, wedding, portrait, landscape, or any other type of photography, filters are indispensable tools for bringing images closer to the way our eyes actually perceived the scene in real life, as well as for creating unique mood and color effects. In Mastering Filters for Photography, author Chris Weston covers everything you need to know about the range of optical and digital filter options, showing you how to use them to master contrast, intensity, color, tone, and for creative special effects.

Filled with more than 300 images from master photographers, before-and-after shots, and step-by-step instructions, Mastering Filters for Photography is the one book you'll need to make filters an essential part of your photographic arsenal.

Chris Weston is the author of 20 photography books, and is a regular contributor to Practical Photography, Outdoor Photographer, and DSLR User magazines.

This book, Mastering Filters for Photography, is filled with breath-taking examples of how using filters while shooting photography should be. Not only that, but there are tons of useful images of examples of editing software in use. In this book, Chris Weston talks about filter systems, optical filters, creative and special effects, and digital filters, all in great detail. Well written and presented, this book is a must for any photographer's library.

This handy revised and updated reference demystifies shopping for and using a digital camera. Get professional advice on resolution and file formats, memory cards, exposure, downloading pictures, preparing and printing an image, and much more.

There are also expert tips on creating newsletters, posters, cards, and brochures.

Rob Sheppard is the author of several photography books, including The Magic of Digital Nature Photography and New Epson Complete Guide to Digital Printing. He is a founding editor of PCPhoto, a magazine dedicated to digital image creation, and editor-at-large for Outdoor Photographer magazine.

Digital Photography 1,2,3 is packed with images, instruction, ideas, and information about digital cameras and how to use them to get the best results. There are tons of examples of photos with additional images showing corrections, changes, and how the photos would look if shot using different settings. This is an absolutely wonderful book for anyone who is new to or considering digital photography. The book is filled with important information, so it's small size makes it even easier to carry in a camera bag for quick reference.

How many times has that perfect photo of your top dog gone wrong? Here, pet photographer Kim Levin offers you simple tips and advice to help you capture that dream shot of your furry best friend in a book jam-packed with too-cute photos that will have you running for your camera.

Kim Levin has published fifteen books, including the best-seller Why We Love Dogs and Catitude. Her other pet portrait books include Pawfiles, Caternal Instincts, Dogma, and Working Dogs. Her company Bark and Smile Pet Portraits (R) combines her passion for photography and her love for animals. Kim lives in New Jersey with her husband, two children, and dog. You can view her work at www.kimlevin.com.

PhoDOGraphy is filled with amazing photos of dogs in varying environments, with other animals, and with their owners. Just by looking at these photos you will feel like you know the personality of each dog. Some of the topics Kim addresses are: the portrait, capturing the moment, photographing outdoors, photographing indoors, the black dog, the dog in motion, composition, making use of weather and seasons, and dogs, dogs, dogs. This book very thoroughly covers each of these topics and will help photographers to take better pictures of their beloved pets.

Take great shots of your kids today!

It's no secret that children can be less cooperative when it's time for a photo: they don't like to stand still for long periods and easily get distracted. In The BetterPhoto Guide to Photographing Children, veteran photographer (and father of three) Jim Miotke shares his secrets regarding lighting, composition, and other photo basics, but most important, helps you capture fast-moving targets, develop a rapport with your young subjects, and gain the cooperation, attention, and eye contact you need for the very best pictures of kids, whether candid or posed.

Jim Miotke is a professional photographer and an online photo course instructor with BetterPhoto.com, a resource for photographers that he founded and runs. He is the author of the best-selling BetterPhoto Guide to Digital Photography, as well as The BetterPhoto Guide to Nature Photography.

A great book filled with amazing photos of children of all ages! Many of the photographs used in this book were taken by members of the Photographing Children Club at BetterPhoto.com or finalists or winners in the monthly photo contest at BetterPhoto.com. The subjects that are covered in this book are: Light, composition, digital exposure, equipment, cooperation: being the boss, eye contact: getting and keeping attention, and a quick guide to posing. In this book you will find assignments and tips, along with page after page of valuable information that will help you take better, professional quality photos of your children.

A thorough introduction to the exciting new technology of HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE imaging.

High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography is the latest challenge to face serious digital photographers, offering a unique, creative opportunity to extend one's technological repertoire. Vastly superior to any camera sensor, the human eye is capable of simultaneously perceiving a wide range of luminance levels without distortion like lens flare, burnout, and underexposure, technical shortcomings that have become inherent to the language of traditional photography, HDR offers a set of techniques that allows you to capture the full range of tones in a scene that replicates human perception more accurately.

Freeman explains how to shoot specifically for HDR; then discusses in detail the software for combining multiple exposures into a single HDR image; how to apply these techniques to various popular photographic genres; and how to successfully export and print HDR images. Perhaps most important, the book reveals HDR as a technology not of soulless automation, but one that requires the photographer's personal judgement and artistry.

Michael Freeman is an acclaimed international photographer and writer. He has photographed extensively for Smithsonian magazine as well as Time-Life Books, and Conde Nast Travelerand is a regular contributor to Photo Direct News. He is the author of more than two dozen books on photography, including the best-sellingThe Complete Guide to Digital Photography.

This book is filled with beautiful examples and well-displayed screen shots of actual adjustment windows to help you achieve the results you are looking for with your HDR photos. This book is well organized and arranged in a useful way. The topics discussed in great detail are HDP Scenes and Vision, HDR capture and generation, HDR tonemapping, and HDR workflows. This book is a must for any photographer wanting to understand High Dynamic Range photography.