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About the Book

      Shoot to Thrill   “If you’re looking for a fresh, offbeat style, you’ll enjoy this book.”  --John Nack     If you’re packin’ heat and a D-SLR, SHOOT TO THRILL is like having a bullet-proof vest. Loaded with tips, dames, laughs, tales of noir, and photos shot from the hip!   HARD TIMES, TOUGH TALK, HARD-BOILED SOLUTIONS   A BOOK TO INSPIRE AMATEURS & PROS ALIKE.   Written in the style of a pulp detective novel, this book goes beyond the mechanics of shooting and teaches us all how to “see” with a fresh vision. Shoot to Thrill teaches creative techniques such as Achieving dramatic film noir lighting Getting the ring flash look (the rage in fashion photography)  Experimenting with High Dynamic Range Imaging (HDRI) Capturing breaking news, and a lot more   Offers valuable “two-fisted tips” on how to score killer shots—from still life to action.

Table of Contents:
introduction: the F Stops Here Prologue: I Cover the Watergate CHAPTER 1 Packin' Heat The D-SLR Assault & Batteries Memory Cards Gear Bags Legs Flash Cheap Thrills: Odds 'N Ends     Author's Note CHAPTER 2 Call for Backup! How Many Backups Are Enough? If the Mob Can Get Organized, So Can You Photoshop, Lightroom, & Bridge, Oh My!     Creating a Custom Preset     The Bridge     A View From the Bridge CHAPTER 3 Private Eyes Sleep Mode Method Acting: Comedy or Tragedy? You're the Lead, Not the Walk-On Find the A.N.G.E.L.     Anomaly     Gesture     Expression CHAPTER 4 Hand-to-Cam Combat Get to Know Your ISO Whose White Balance Is It, Anyway? Metering Patterns     Matrix Metering     Spot Metering     Center-Weighted Metering Play It Again, S.A.M.     Aperture Priority     Shutter Priority (S)     Manual Mode (M) Programmed-Auto (P) Busting the Bracket Racket Exposure Compensation (EV) CHAPTER 5 Twinkle, Twinkle Little Noir Ambient Light Imagining Light and Re-creating It Nighttime Is the Right Time...For Noir Portable Flash Is Your Buddy An Ounce of Bounce = Fills & Thrills     Grids, Snoots, Gobos, & Chizzlers     A Knockout in the Ring     What, Me Pop-Up?     The Big Guns: Studio Strobes Cover Story CHAPTER 6 A Thirst for Burst Speed Traps: The Curse of Burst     Twist 'N Shoot     Screen Idle Hocus-Pocus, Hokum-Focus "You Lookin' for Action?"     Good Burst, Bad Burst     Let's Roll     "Everybody Freeze!" There's More to Burst Than Sports Take a Break from the Action and Look Around CHAPTER 7 From Chump to Champ Did Somebody Call the Crops?     The Case of the Missing Subject     Less Is More...More or Less     Stretchin' the Truth Sharpen Me Deadly "Have You Tried Calling Noise Abatement?" Manipulations, Great and Small     Trick or Treat? Art for Art's Sake (and for Pete's Sake, Too) There Ain't Nothin' Like a Dame     The Blemish Masters CHAPTER 8 The Devil Is In the Details HDRI on the Streets of San Diego Cheap Thrills Contest Bypass the Bleached Blonde with the Luger High Pass: The Knockout Punch     High Pass Thrills and Chills CHAPTER 9 "I've Been Framed!" Hangin' on the Web Hangin' on the Wall A Rogue's Gallery Meets MoMA Print It for Posterity CHAPTER 10 "Play It Again, Cam..." "Lights...Cameras...Limitations!" Hybrid on a Hot Tin Roof     DV Dinners     Dead Pans and Zoom Goons      "We Didn't Need Faces. We Had Dialogue."     A DV Thrill The Happy Ending APPENDIX A Hot Links, Cool Leads Cameras/Computers/Backup/Portable Drives/Printers Memory Cards Tripods/Monopods/Gorillas Lights/Lighting Accessories Camera Bags and Straps Accessories Frames/Inkjet/Papers Hard-Boiled Software Inspiration Online Pubs, Blogs, and Reference APPENDIX B A Hard-Boiled Library Nuts 'N Bolts Art Photography/Critical Works Noir Reference Fiction DV     9780789742407    TOC    8/24/2009  

About the Author :
Derek Pellis a writer, visual artist, and photographer. He’s the author of more than 20 books, including Morbid Curiosities, Doktor Bey’s Bedside Bug Book, Assassination Rhapsody, and The Little Red Book of Adobe LiveMotion. Novelist Robert Coover calls Pell “...a wordplay master and a parodist of great wit and cunning.” Larry McCaff ery declared him “the most wickedly funny writer in America.” The New York Times Book Reviewreferred to him as “a British misanthrope-humorist”—despite the fact he was born in New York City. He describes himself as “self-uneducated,” although he attended The Art Institute of Chicago and The Goodman School of Drama.   Pell worked as a press photographer for United Press International (UPI) for several years. As a freelance photojournalist, his photographs have appeared in many newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Rolling Stone, Lens Culture, L.A. Weekly, The London Times, New York Magazine, Interview, The Village Voice, American Forests, and Zink.   He created the popular “hard-boiled” column The Laptop Detective, which appeared monthly in PC Laptop Magazine, and for 12 years served as editor-in-chief of the online technology review, DingBat. Today, Derek lives in San Diego, California, where he edits Zoom Street(www.zoomstreet.org), an online magazine devoted to digital photography.  


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780132714501
  • Publisher: Pearson Education (US)
  • Publisher Imprint: Addison Wesley
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0132714507
  • Publisher Date: 18 Sep 2009
  • Binding: Digital download
  • Sub Title: A Hard-Boiled Guide to Digital Photography


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