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Author: Vincent Versace
ISBN : B004K1F7IK
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Download electronic versions of selected books Welcome to Oz 2.0: A Cinematic Approach to Digital Still Photography with Photoshop (2nd Edition) (Voices That Matter) [Kindle Edition] Free Download from mediafire, rapishare, and mirror link Creating memorable photographs is a process that starts before you edit an image in Photoshop, before you capture the image, even before you pick up the camera. You must first approach the subject with the proper sense of perception, with the ability to visualize the finished print before you commit a scene to pixels, but still be flexible and spontaneous. Master fine art photographer Vincent Versace has spent his career learning and teaching the art of perception and how to translate it into stunning images. In
Welcome to Oz 2.0 — a completely rewritten update of the book’s first edition — he delves into what it means to approach digital photography cinematically, to use your perception, your camera, and Photoshop to capture the movement of life in a still image.
- Adapt your workflow to the image so you always know how best to use your tools
- Turn a seemingly impossible photograph scenario into a successful image
- Practice “image harvesting” to combine the best parts of many captures to create an optimum final result
- Discover the importance of bokeh — not only how to use it in order to control how the eye travels and sees an image, but also how to realistically create it in post-processing
Foreword by Bert Monroy
Afterwords by Jay Maisel and David duChemin
Includes free software downloads from onOne and Nik worth $250, as well as customized presets for the Wacom Cintiq and Intuos tablets!Direct download links available for Welcome to Oz 2.0: A Cinematic Approach to Digital Still Photography with Photoshop (2nd Edition) (Voices That Matter) [Kindle Edition] Free Download
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- Publisher: New Riders; 2 edition (December 7, 2010)
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- Language: English
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Sometimes it is easier to define a thing by what it is not than what it is. Vincent Versace's book, Welcome to Oz 2, is not merely a "How-To" book or a "100 Photo Tips and Tricks" book. It does not tell you what lens or filter to use in a given situation. It is not a book you browse through. This is an adult book with a mature approach to photography from a different perspective than photographic help books. Whereas most books will teach you the craft of photography, this book will teach you the art of photography. Whereas other books teach you the "how" of photography, this book will also teach you the "why" of photography: why we are asked to do things in a certain way, why these ways are superior and how they will lead to a better appreciation of the print.
It was Vincent's prints that I stood in front of several years ago at a photographic seminar he was conducting in Oakland, California. I was stunned when I saw those images, and I didn't know exactly why they had the power to transfix me. I had been in photography as an amateur for a long time, and I could recognize contrast and saturation and other attributes, but it wasn't until I read his first Welcome to Oz book that I came to understand why I was so impressed and how he did it. Anyone looking for a quick fix or a pat formula for photographic success will not find it in this book. This book asks you to work and think and stretch your imagination. It leads you along the way through clear, concise explanations and numerous helpful illustrations. You don't read this book. You work through this book.
Yes, as one reviewer at this site mentioned, there is an emphasis on the use of Photoshop, but don't be fooled that this is a book about how to use Photoshop.
Early in "Welcome to OZ 2.0", Vincent Versace says that if editing an image will bring it 2% closer to your original vision, then you have to edit. That's a good rule to keep in mind as you read the techniques for using Photoshop that this book provides. (Note that there are substantial differences and updates in this edition so that fans of the earlier volume will probably find something helpful to them by exploring the updated work.)
The author believes that the artistic photographer leads the viewer through a photograph, and does this by a combination of global and selective adjustments to the original image in tone, lighting and color, among other things. The book consists of four tutorials that each take a single image and follow it step by step through the series of Photoshop activities that Versace uses to process a photograph. The reader is expected to follow along in Photoshop with the images, which can be downloaded from a special website, that also provides other useful materials (including a couple of free and demo Photoshop plug-ins that will be used in the tutorials). The author is not so much interested in making a duplicate of reality (if that's even possible in photography) as in creating an artistic print. The four images include a portrait, a glamour shot, a leaf shot and a flower shot and one has to admit that the final results are quite lovely.
Having been taken to task in the past for saying that a Photoshop book was for advanced users, I will say that this book went beyond any Photoshop techniques that I currently use. For example, like many photographers, I currently adjust my white balance by looking at an image and adjusting the temperature and tint sliders to my satisfaction using Lightroom or Adobe Camera Raw.
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