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This Is A Camera Now Go Out And Take Some Pictures
The tools of photography
The tools used by photographers are cameras, light, colour, computers, film stock, aperture, composition, depth of field, exposure, focus, processing and printing.
Each of these tools has an impact on the quality and look of the final photograph. Photographers therefore pick each tool carefully for its ability to influence the images they create. Every one of the photographers in this book controls and combines the tools in a different way; that’s what makes their work both unique and memorable.
Making sense of the numbers
Photography can seem as though it’s been developed for mathematicians rather than as a creative medium. At first sight the numbers involved seem ...
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