Jeanine Leech

Magic Light and the Dynamic Landscape (eBook, ePUB)

Take Advantage of Light and Weather to Create Amazing Photographs

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

It has been said many times that photography is painting with light, or that photography is all about light. For Jeanine Leech, the idea of painting with light is a passion. She uses it as a brush for color, texture, and dimension to create dynamic and expressive images. In this book, Leech details her techniques for finding and using the best light to create breathtaking landscape images.
To get that special moment, you are often chasing the light. In landscape photography there are moments of defining light. It can be a single moment that may only last a second when the light is just perfect. These moments don't happen every day but when they do one frame can tell the story with more visual impact than all the others. The ability to improvise, to stop and get the light when these moments occur randomly, is the difference between producing a standard photo and something that truly stand out.
This book provides the basic principles of photography necessary for capturing this magic successfully. Starting with a rundown of the equipment that Leech uses and explaining the core concepts of photography, the book proceeds to detail shooting at different times of day. From the first light at dawn, through midday and onto dusk, Leech provides stunning examples of how each type of light can be used. Each photo in the book is accompanied by the camera settings used to capture it.
True magic light is rare. It happens in a fleeting moment, not to be repeated again, lasting only a few minutes or seconds. Its quality is so unique that it changes the color, appearance and ultimately the mood of the subjects it falls upon. Part three of the book focuses on the different types of landscapes. First weather is covered. A photo shoot in the Smoky Mountains shows how attention to detail and setting can make the shot. The light and the weather change in mere seconds. As Leech points out, knowing the basics of photography and how to work your equipment quickly is essential. Each of the stunning photos in the book is a testament to this.
After that Leach discusses how she chooses different landscapes. Intimate landscapes can be found anywhere. Sometimes making artistic choices like only focusing on a small portion of a setting provides an image with greater impact. Finally, the book covers the use of polarizer's, various filters and multiple digital darkroom techniques.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Amherst Media
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781608957309
• Artikelnr.: 42047743

Autorenporträt

Jeanine Leech is a professional landscape and sports photographer whose work has appeared in magazines around the world. She lives in Pittsburgh, PA.

And below is from the author:

Inside us all lives the person we hope to become. We don't all get there, but we must never stop trying. The hardest part of writing a book has been writing the bio. Talking about Magic Light is one thing, but talking about myself is another...here goes!

As a child, if I wasn't outside playing, I was drawing. My mother, a fine painter and avid photographer, swears that my first grade teacher raved about my natural sense of composition. My father, a computer repairman taught me the benefits of hard work and attention to detail. My two older brothers let me tag along through the woods, climbing rock walls, and wading hip deep in creeks while keeping lunch dry. I see now, my childhood was the beginning of basic training for landscape photography. At age fourteen, I saved my money and bought a Pentax K-1000 camera...photography became my passion.

I graduated high school knowing that inside of me was a photographer wanting to get out. I earned a degree in Visual Communications from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh in 1987. A father in the digital world, a mother in the arts, and soon I'm a graphic designer riding the wave of desktop publishing. Life was good, the camera went digital, I went Nikon, and I never stopped wanting to be a photographer.

But it wasn't until 1995 that I stopped wanting to become a photographer and found the courage to become that photographer. I owe a tremendous debt to the late photographer Nancy Rotenberg and will forever cherish the years I spent by her side. She not only taught me how to see light and all the magic that can be squeezed out of it from behind the camera, but more importantly she showed me how to ignite my artistic vision and fire it into my art. I realized that it is the uniqueness of the artist that matters and we all need to follow our own path.

My images have appeared in national and international magazines, adorn the luxury boxes at the home of the Pittsburgh Penguins Hockey Club, and now I am writing my very own book. I have been honored to win awards in both design and photography. But I will always be grateful for the support of family, friends, co-workers and fellow photographers for letting me be me.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Part One
Introduction
1. Moments of Magic Light
Along the Horizon
A Magic Morning
Capturing the Magic
What makes magic light so special?
2. Getting the shot
The Exposure Triangle
Aperture
Shutter Speed
ISO
Exposure Modes
Metering
Exposure Compensation
Histogram
3. Equipment
Inside My Camera Bag
Part Two
Magic Light
4. Cycle of Light
First Light
Dawn
Sunrise
Magic Hour
Early Morning Light
Midday Sun
Late Afternoon Light
Evening Golden Hour
Sunset
Dusk
5. Direction of Light
Frontlight
Sidelight
Backlight
Reflective Light
6. Quality of Light
Soft Light
Hard Light
7. Color of Light
Cool Light
Warm Light
Complementary Colors
Color Temperature
Part Three
Dynamic Landscape
8. Weather Guide
Chasing the Light
Stormy Weather
Dramatic Skies
Overcast Skies
Fog
Rain
Snow
Wind
9. Water and Reflections
Ideal Light
Waterfalls
Flowing Reflections
Mirror Reflections
Leaf Swirls
Light Painting
Impressionist Light
Artistic Choices
Sense of Place
Perspective
10. Design
Intimate Landscapes
Abstracts
Lines
S-curve and Leading lines
11. Tools
Polarizer
Solid Neutral Density Filters
Split Neutral Density Filters
12. Digital Darkroom
Color and Mood
Blended Exposures
High Dynamic Range
Photomatix
Panoramic