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The Library Journal named it a Best Book for 2011. Best Books 2011: Rethinking Digital Photography

Here are a few teasers from the book RDP:

Mindfulness -

“Sitting in my lawn chair watching the clouds roll by a crow breaks the silence as he calls a friend. Tufts of cottonwood seeds sail overhead landing everywhere. The light is beautiful and I feel the wind on my face. I look down and see a bright green caterpillar pulling and stretching and falling along long blades of grass, a bumble bee flies low to the ground and hovers over a small group of tiny blue flowers. A small toad is headed for the edge of my garden while a tiny colorful bug lands on my arm. I have my camera and they all seem to pose for a moment. I take a few pictures and they all continue along their paths. If you look you will see a vast world of incredible things. I am as much amazed as I am humbled by the smallness of most things and by the immensity of others.” - © John Neel - RDP

HDR

"In photography, capturing details in low light areas of the image scene (the shadows) as well as information details in the bright areas (the highlights) is desirable but usually difficult to achieve. The human eye sees a larger brightness (luminance) range than a digital sensor. At this point in time, neither film nor digital sensors are capable of showing detail in the deep shadows and the brightest highlights at the same time due to their limited dynamic range. High Dynamic Range Imaging is a technique used to capture levels of brightness from selective portions of the scene that can be merged together to achieve an expanded tonal range." - © John Neel - RDP 

Lensless

"Believe it or not, there are a few image-makers like myself who occasionally use a camera without a lens attached to the front to see what they can capture. In fact, the lens mount opening at the front of the camera is actually a very large pinhole in that it can capture the rays of light from different areas of the scene. The resulting image can have a soft gradation between the colors and contrasts of the subject mater." - John Neel - RDP

Auxillary Lenses

"At first, I thought I had thrown my dollar away. The images from this lens when mounted on the front of a short zoom stretch the image in weird ways with only the center in somewhat focus. The images are great for photo painting because of the distortions that are created."  - © John Neel - RDP

DSLR cameras

"While the results produced with point and shoot digital cameras can be very good, the use of a D-SLR camera will prove to be far superior and will be well worth the investment. The biggest reason for the increase in quality is that a D-SLR camera uses a much larger sensor." - © John Neel - RDP

And much much more… in the book!

The Library Journal named it a Best Book for 2011. Best Books 2011: Rethinking Digital Photography

"Rethinking Digital Photography - Making & Using Traditional & Contemporary Photo Tools"

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"There is a retro trend evident in current fashion, in the renewed interest in vinyl records, and in smartphone apps that take crisp, high-resolution digital images that look like they were taken with a Brownie box camera and developed in a darkroom. This book is just the thing for retro camera app devotees who want to go a step or two further. Fine-art photographer Neel presents all manner of camera equipment alteration projects, alternative processes, and playful photographic tricks, often combining digital and analog processes. This is a modern guide that incorporates older tools with great creative effect." - (Library Journal 12/11)

 

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