Photographic possibilities [Elektronisk resurs] : the expressive use of equipment, ideas, materials, and processes

Böcker. Amsterdam ; Boston : Focal Press/Elsevier. 2009.

Photographic Possibilities, Third Edition provides a reliable source of techniques and ideas for the use of alternative and contemporary photographic processes that photographers have come to depend on. Professional photographers and advanced students seeking to increase their skills will discover modern and classic methods of creating and manipulating images. This practical guide bridges technical methods with aesthetic outcome. It offers readers concise and accessible instructions regarding both historic and contemporary processes and includes the technical in
Cover; Photographic Possibilities: The Expressive Use of Equipment, Ideas, Materials, and Processes; Copyright; Table of Contents; Preface; Contributors to Photographic Possibilities; Chapter 1. Essential Moments in Photographic Printmaking; The Language of Photography; Concepts and Technology Affecting Photographic Printmaking; Extending Photographic Boundaries; Electronic Imaging: New Ways of Seeing; Possessing a Sense of History; Chapter 2. Predarkroom Actions: Imaginative Thinking and Personal Safety; Establishing a Personal Creation Process; Photographic Origins; Thinking Within a System
Purposes of PhotographyEssential Safety Guidelines; Contact Allergies, Chemical Sensitivities and Poison Control; Disposing of Chemistry; Darkroom Ventilation; Water for Photographic Processes; Chapter 3. Image Capture: Special-Use Films, Processing and Digital Negative Making; Film and the Photographer; General Film Processing Procedures; Infrared Black-And-White Film; Extended Red Sensitivity Film; High-Speed Black-And-White Films; Heightening Grain and Contrast; Ultra-Fine Grain Black-And-White Film: Ilford Pan F Plus; High-Contrast Litho Films; Orthochromatic Film
Paper Negatives and Positives: Contemporary CalotypesReversing Black-And-White Film; Instant Positive and Negative Film; Film for Classic Cameras; Processing Black-And-White Film for Permanence; Digital Negative Making: An Overview; Scanners; Chapter 4. Formulas of One's Own; Prepared Formulas or Mixing Your Own; Basic Equipment; Chemicals; Preparing Formulas; Us Customary Weights and Metric Equivalents; Chapter 5. Black-And-White Film Developers; What Happens to Silver-Based Films During Exposure and Processing?; Image Characteristics of Film
Components and Characteristics of Black-And-White DevelopersBasic Developer Types; Postdevelopment Procedures; Film Developer Formulas and Their Applications; Is All This Necessary?; Chapter 6. Analog Fine Printmaking: Equipment, Materials, and Processes; The Analog Fine Printmaking Process; Printing Equipment; Standard Printing Materials; Print Finishing; Special Printing Materials; Processing Prints for Permanence; Chapter 7. Black-And-White Paper Developers; Paper Developer and Developing-Out Paper; Components of Black-And-White Silver Print Developers; Additional Processing Factors
Controlling Contrast During DevelopmentMatching Developer and Paper; Developer Applications and Characteristics; Other Paper Developer Formulas; Chapter 8. Toning for Visual Effects; Processing Controls; Basic Types of Toners; Processing Prints to Be Toned; General Working Procedures for Toners; Brown Toners; Blue Toners; Red Toners; Green Toners; Toning Variations; Chapter 9. Special Cameras and Equipment; What Is a Camera?; The Pinhole Camera; Custom Cameras; Plastic Cameras; Disposable Cameras; Changing the Angle of View; Panoramic Cameras; Sequence Cameras; Obsolete Special-Use Cameras
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