Light and Lens: Thinking About Photography in the Digital Age 4th Edition, Kindle Edition

The latest edition of this pioneering book allows students to acquire an essential foundation for digital photography. Fully updated, it clearly and concisely covers the fundamental concepts of imagemaking, how to use digital technology to create compelling images, and how to output and preserve images in the digital world. Exploring history, methods, and theory, this text offers classroom-tested assignments and exercises from leading photographic educators, approaches for analyzing, discussing, and writing about photographs, and tools to critically explore and make images with increased visual literacy.New to this fourth edition:Completely updated and renewed to reflect social trends and technological advancesHighly reconstructed Chapter 3: Image Capture: Cameras, Lenses, and ScannersRevamped Chapter 4: Exposure: Capturing the LightEntirely new Chapter 8: Digital Studio: The Virtual and the Material WorldsExpanded smartphone photography coverageFeaturing nearly 300 international artists and over 360 innovative images and illustrationsNew engaging assignmentsIdeal for undergraduate students of digital photography and hobbyist photographers. Read more