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Digital Photography Expert: Close-Up Photography: The Definitive Guide for Serious Digital Photographers
An acclaimed professional photographer, with a display of more than 400 beautiful color images, shows how to get close-up and personal with a digital camera. Michael Freeman teaches amateurs how to meet the challenges of this very special type of photography, with plenty of information on the ins and outs of magnification, parallax control, and depth of field. See how to apply selective focus to enhance the subject and make it stand out from the background. Such issues as using found and commonplace objects and capturing the beauty of shadows, all receive detailed attention. With technical tips and software retouching projects too, this guide is simply an indispensable resource for the avid digital photographer who wants to take great close-up shots.
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160 pages, Paperback
First published March 15, 2004
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Michael Freeman
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Michael Freeman is a professional photographer and author. He wrote more than 100 book titles. He was born in England in 1945, took a Masters in geography at Brasenose College, Oxford University, and then worked in advertising in London for six years. He made the break from there in 1971 to travel up the Amazon with two secondhand cameras, and when Time-Life used many of the pictures extensively in the Amazon volume of their World's Wild Places series, including the cover, they encouraged him to begin a full-time photographic career.
Since then, working for editorial clients that include all the world's major magazines, and notably the Smithsonian Magazine (with which he has had a 30-year association, shooting more than 40 stories), Freeman's reputation has resulted in more than 100 books published. Of these, he is author as well as photographer, and they include more than 40 books on the practice of photography - for this photographic educational work he was awarded the Prix Louis Philippe Clerc by the French Ministry of Culture. He is also responsible for the distance-learning courses on photography at the UK's Open College of the Arts.
Michael Freeman is a professional photographer and author. He wrote more than 100 book titles. He was born in England in 1945, took a Masters in geography at Brasenose College, Oxford University, and then worked in advertising in London for six years. He made the break from there in 1971 to travel up the Amazon with two secondhand cameras, and when Time-Life used many of the pictures extensively in the Amazon volume of their World's Wild Places series, including the cover, they encouraged him to begin a full-time photographic career.
Since then, working for editorial clients that include all the world's major magazines, and notably the Smithsonian Magazine (with which he has had a 30-year association, shooting more than 40 stories), Freeman's reputation has resulted in more than 100 books published. Of these, he is author as well as photographer, and they include more than 40 books on the practice of photography - for this photographic educational work he was awarded the Prix Louis Philippe Clerc by the French Ministry of Culture. He is also responsible for the distance-learning courses on photography at the UK's Open College of the Arts.
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January 4, 2025
As an amateur picture taker willing to photograph my toys set, this book sets the tone right from me since the beginning: macro is specific, these are the factors you need to know, these are the basics, those are study case, here take look at finished output, etc.
It gives enough fundamentals for reader, setting examples, then encourage creative endeavor. As someone who does not willing to spend too many time and budget on photography, this approach is highly practical.
It gives enough fundamentals for reader, setting examples, then encourage creative endeavor. As someone who does not willing to spend too many time and budget on photography, this approach is highly practical.
March 12, 2012
Close-Up Photography by Michael Freeman
This book is more of a survey than a definitive guide. There are discussions on specific subjects, composition, depth of field, exposure, and lighting. All of these are axiomatic once you look at your photographs. But there is not much practical information on equipment selection and functionality and setup for a specific type of shot. Oddly many photographs that are included are not even close-ups and although many of the close-up photographs are impressive others are definitely not.
This book is more of a survey than a definitive guide. There are discussions on specific subjects, composition, depth of field, exposure, and lighting. All of these are axiomatic once you look at your photographs. But there is not much practical information on equipment selection and functionality and setup for a specific type of shot. Oddly many photographs that are included are not even close-ups and although many of the close-up photographs are impressive others are definitely not.
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