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Product Description The only Photoshop-based book dedicated to photographing and producing images of nature. Award-winning nature photographers Ellen and Josh Anon reveal their secrets to creating stunning nature images using their field-tested methods and the very latest Photoshop techniques. The book is packed with practical workflows and smart, timesaving ways to use Photoshop’s broad array of tools to optimize images—from improving tonal values to adding effects to creating surreal montages with composites. The book is lavishly illustrated with spectacular examples from the authors as well as from some of the most esteemed nature photographers today.
Explains how to use the latest version of Photoshop and Photoshop Elements to produce stunning nature images
Covers tools and workflows best suited to natural subjects
Features nature-focused photo-editing techniques, such as how to sharpen animal eyes, edit sky and land separately, and repair delicate images like butterfly wings
Provides shooting tips and crucial insights for how to master the digital darkroom
Includes pages of beautiful examples from the authors and other exceptional nature photographers
Learn practical Photoshop skills and gain the confidence to produce your own stunning images of nature with this practical and inspiring guide.
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The Carnal Desires of Helen: The Adventurous Romance Romp of a Dirty Detective is a sexually provocative, controversial work of classic erotic literature. These previously banned (but secretly best selling) erotic novels and sex stories are elegantly written, lustfully wicked, and beautifully illustrated with vintage erotic art photographs and Victorian 'porn' pictures. Arouse and excite your sexual desires and fetish fantasies with these hot sexy tales of seduction, romance and lascivious lust!
From the book:
"Laura is my secretary. Her voice cannot help being confidential, rich, husky, issuing like an improper suggestion from her immaculately made-up lips. You must meet her some time. She'll make you wish you'd never been born. Imagine a woman of five feet six inches. Her slow green eyes are laconic under smoky long-lashed eyelids. Imagine her with flame-red hair, cut short as an urchin's - a fashion amongst sophisticated women. Imagine a wind-blown appearance at her high cheek-bones. Imagine the sleek lines of a mature woman with the clean cut of a racehorse and legs longer and more perplexing than history. You like the smooth set of her hips? The sustained nervousness of her buttocks under her well-tailored skirts? Her breasts rising upwards from a long lean belly tapering to perfection at the waist? Stranger, you are on dangerous ground. Better retreat at once to your semi-detached respectability. She is not for you. Take it from me. I confess I went so far as to sleep with her. .."
ABOUT THE PUBLISHER: EROTIC EVOLUTION E-BOOKS (Publishers of Classic Erotic Literature and Love Stories - Fully Illustrated with Nude Art Photography)
Erotic Evolution publish quality erotic sex stories for Kindle eBooks. After reviewing several hundred famous romance and Victorian erotic novels (previous bestsellers and banned books) we have selected the best erotic sex stories based on the sexual content, character and story development, quality of erotic literature and types of sex scenes (they are clearly connected - sex is better when the stories and characters are 'real'). We publish provocative 'hardcore' sex in literature (previously classified as pornography and banned) simply because this reflects the truth of our sexual evolution - sex is central to our existence and connects back to our primitive wild animal instincts. We can creatively cultivate our sexuality to be moral and beautiful - but also hot, sexy and smutty - to make the most of our primitive passions of love and lust, pleasure and pain! Reading quality erotic books cultivates the sexual side of our mind, enhances our sexual lust, and adds spice and variety to our sex lives, thus we think you will love our collection of sexually provocative erotic fiction and sex stories - in thought and action.
"The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything." (Friedrich Nietzsche) "It is not enough to conquer; one must know how to seduce." (Voltaire) "Desire is the essence of a man." (Spinoza)
The Carnal Desires of Helen: The Adventurous Romance Romp of a Dirty Detective is beautifully illustrated with provocatively sexual erotic art (for guys and girls) and has been carefully hand formatted for Kindle e-books (with linked table of contents). We have also included three excellent essays on the biological and cultural evolution of human sexuality - how we can use this knowledge to enhance our sexual relations (i.e. the art and science of sizzling hot sex!).
DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT (DRM) FREE - Unlimited Simultaneous Device Usage Allowed - You can download, copy and read this book on multiple devices. WARNING! ADULT ONLY SEX STORIES! Contains sexually explicit erotic pictures, language and fetish / fantasy sex stories (e.g. photographs of naked men and women, sex positions, anal and oral sex, masturbation, bondage, spanking, sadomasochism, BDSM, gay and lesbian sex, threesomes, incest, orgy).
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"Buy Kodak Guide to 35mm Photography: Techniques for Better Pictures" Overview
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New Technology makes 35mm cameras extremely easy to use, with autofocus, autoexposure, dedicated flash, and many other electronic features. Yet photographers still need their creativity to make great pictures, and know-how to select useful tools. The Joy of Photography is your best guide to all these topics. It explains how to get the most from automatic camera functions and when to turn them off. You’ll find complete guidelines on lenses, filters, and other accessories. And this is the only guide to explore the makings of an individual photographic style.Well-known professionals Galen Rowell, Annie Leibowitz, and Joyce Tenneson have provided portfolios of their work and discussed how they developed their distinctive style. Many other famous photographers are represented throughout the book, including Ansel Adams, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Jill Krementz, as well as unique award-winning shots taken by amateurs.The Joy of Photography will inspire you with more than 600 photographs, in color and black and white, illustrating tested advice on the most common photographic challenges:
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Learn the intricacies of High Dynamic Range photography from experts and get feedback on your work
High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography offers a new range of creative possibilities to the photographer who is skilled in the technique. HDR requires specific camera skills as well as the use of specialized software, and the photographers who wrote this book are experts in both. They explain the process of shooting the same subject at different exposures, combining those shots into a single HDR image, fine-tuning brightness and contrast, minimizing noise, layering images, and more, including creative techniques with Photoshop and Lightroom.
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High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography offers creative possibilities through specific camera and software techniques that produce highly detailed and imaginative images
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Covers the latest software and concepts, a comprehensive exploration of HDR basics, various techniques for shooting and merging images, and creative tricks with Photoshop and Lightroom
Lavishly illustrated with new examples and full of suggestions for developing a personal HDR style
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Sample Photos from the Authors (Click on images to enlarge)
The Echo Wheel of Liverpool Liverpool has plenty of fun architecture to play with and always looks stunning at dusk. The Echo Wheel of Liverpool makes for an interesting photo here with Pizza Express on the left. You may look at the scene and wonder why it needed HDR so I'm going to explain.
Neon lighting can often come out over-exposed in photos. Looking at the original image straight out of camera and you can see a couple of issues. The base of the wheel is a little over-exposed while the ground around Pizza Express is under-exposed. The neon on the wheel and the sign are both over-exposed just barely hinting at the blue colour.
To get the material needed for a decent HDR image I used a tripod, auto bracket exposure mode (AEB) and took 9 photographs at various settings. The string of exposures were -4/-3/-2/-1/0/+1/+2/+3/+4. That gave me plenty of material to work with. You can see the original out of camera image below.
I loaded the images into Photomatix and selected my starting point preset. This increases the luminosity a bit to flatten the contrast of the image, bringing clarity to over-exposed and under-exposed areas. I boosted the gamma a little for overall brightness and tweaked the black and white points for contrast, being careful not to blow the highlights. I almost always keep lighting adjustments at maximum for a realistic look (Natural+). You can see the result of tone mapping in Photomatix below.
Going back to the first image you can see that there's more colour in the sunset and the neons. It may be a small thing but HDR helps you nail those small details to tidy up a shot.
Exposure Info: 16mm lens setting f/8, ISO 200, 1 second exposure compensation +/- 0
Arundel Cathedral, West Sussex. I've yet to visit a boring and dull cathedral. They're always amazing and breathtaking to behold. God knows his architecture.
I've been in larger cathedrals that seem to disappear off into the shadows. Arundel isn't that big but has a few hoops to jump through. The issue I had here was the large windows. I didn't want them to lose too much detail and I also wanted to get a bit more detail in the pews and impressive organ at the far end of the cathedral. As a perfectionist I simply refused to lose any detail.
To get the material needed for a decent HDR image I used a tripod, auto bracket exposure mode (AEB) and took 9 photographs at various settings. The string of exposures were -4/-3/-2/-1/0/+1/+2/+3/+4. That gave me plenty of material to work with. You can see the original out of camera image below.
I loaded the images into Photomatix and selected my starting point preset. This increases the luminosity a bit to flatten the contrast of the image, bringing clarity to over-exposed and under-exposed areas. The detail was nicely retained in the windows and brought out more in the pews and organ. I tweaked the black and white points for contrast, being careful not to blow the highlights. I almost always keep lighting adjustments at maximum for a realistic look (Natural+). You can see the result of tone mapping in Photomatix below.
Afterwards I put the image into Lightroom for some tweaking. I added a bit of a vignette to darken the edge, tweaked the white balance and increased the contrast a little. The idea was to make the centre of the image come to life. That's where the eye is drawn, down the aisle to the grand window and organ.
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