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Short Course in Photography, A: Film and Darkroom, 10th edition

Published by Pearson (January 23, 2018) © 2019

  • Barbara London Multimedia Learning
  • Jim Stone University of New Mexico
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For courses in the Fundamentals of Photography.

Explore the fundamentals of photography

A Short Course in Photography: Film and Darkroom introduces the fundamentals of black-and-white, color and digital photography. Authors Barbara London and Jim Stone provide detailed coverage of equipment, accessories, the exposure and development of film, and the making and finishing of prints. They also offer advice on shutter speed, point of view and other elements that can make the difference between an ordinary snapshot and an exciting photograph.

The 10th Edition includes new artistic examples by contemporary artists, technological updates and discussion of the latest digital applications.

Hallmark features of this title

  • Project boxes provide activities for students to try, reinforcing the technical and expressive skills they've learned.
  • How Did You Do questions encourage students to think about techniques and their end results.
  • The text provides guidance on how to fine-tune prints by burning in and dodging (darkening or lightening selected areas) and by cropping to concentrate attention on a particular portion of the scene.
  • The text devotes special attention to automatic focus and automatic exposure and how to override these features when it is better to adjust the camera manually.
  • The authors present detailed coverage of types of lenses, film, lighting and software.
  • Step-by-step instructions clarify extended procedures such as negative development and printing.

New and updated features of this title

  • UPDATED: Chapter 8, Digital Photography, includes information on the latest camera technology and software and integrates Adobe Photoshop with workflow applications.
  • UPDATED: An updated Chapter 10, The History of Photography, explains the explosion of color photography in the 1970s.
  • NEW: The 10th Edition includes new photographs by significant contemporary artists, including Sam Comen, Adam Ekberg, Kate Joyce, David Leventi, Martina Lopez, Christoph Oberschneider, Todd Owyoung, Geoffrey Robinson and Ian van Coller.
  • UPDATED: The authors cover technical updates and current product information throughout the text.
  • UPDATED: The text includes the latest information on health and safety precautions in the darkroom.

1. Camera
2. Lens
3. Film
4. Exposure
5. Developing the Negative
6. Printing in a Darkroom
7. Lighting
8. Digital Photography
9. Seeing Like a Camera
10. History of Photography

About our authors

Jim Stone is an Associate Professor of Photography at the University of New Mexico. His photographs have been collected by the Museum of Modern Art and The Smithsonian American Art Museum, among many others. Books of his work include Stranger Than Fiction (Light Work, 1993), Historiostomy (Piltdown Press, 2001) and Why My Pictures are Good (Nazraeli Press, 2005). He has also published 6 higher education titles that are widely used in university courses: A User's Guide to the View Camera, Darkroom Dynamics, Photography, Photography: The Essential Way, A Short Course in Photography and A Short Course in Digital Photography.

Barbara London has authored and co-authored many photography books from their first editions to their current ones, including Photography, Photography: The Essential Way, A Short Course in Photography, A Short Course in Digital Photography, The Photograph Collector's Guide and more.

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