Light and Lens

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 advances - Highly reconstructed Chapter 3: Image Capture - Revamped Chapter 4: Exposure and Filter - Entirely new Chapter 8: Digital Studio - Expanded smartphone photography coverage - Numerous new innovative artists and illustrations - New engaging assignments Ideal for undergraduate students of digital photography and hobbyist photographers.