Exploring Color Photography: From Film to Pixels
Exploring Color Photography: From Film to Pixels
6th Edition
About the Book
Robert Hirsch’s Exploring Color Photography: From Film to Pixels is the thinking photographer’s guide to color imagemaking. Now in its sixth edition, this pioneering text clearly and concisely instructs students and intermediate photographers in the fundamental aesthetic and technical building blocks needed to create thought-provoking digital and analog color photographs. Taking both a conceptual and pragmatic approach, the book avoids getting bogged down in complex, ever-changing technological matters, allowing it to stay fresh and engaging.
Known as the Bible of Color Photography, its stimulating assignments encourage readers to be adventurous and to take responsibility for learning and working independently. The emphasis on design and postmodern theoretical concepts stresses the thought process behind the creation of intriguing images. Its extensive and inspiring collection of images and accompanying captions allow makers to provide insight into how photographic methodology was utilized to visualize and communicate their objectives.
“Color photography continues to evolve as a flexible and permutable amalgamation of aesthetics, business, culture, psychology, and science. The book keeps striving to provide a stimulating introduction and commentary to the approaches, images, techniques, and history of color photography.”
– Robert Hirsch
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 – Color Photography Concepts
Chapter 2 – A Concise History of Color Photography
Chapter 3 – Exposing the Light
Chapter 4 – Filtering the Light
Chapter 5 – Seeing the Light
Chapter 6 – Visual Language of Color Design
Chapter 7 – Working Color Strategies
Chapter 8 – The Interaction of Color, Movement, Space, and Time
Chapter 9 – Digital Input
Chapter 10 – Analog Input: Color Films
Chapter 11 – Digital Output
Chapter 12 – Analog Output: Color Printing
Chapter 13 – Color Projects
Chapter 14 – Photographic Problem Solving and Writing
Chapter 15 – Presentation and Preservation.
Critic’s Review
‘Thoroughly ‘user friendly’, Exploring Color Photography is an ideal instructional textbook for college and university level photography curriculums and should be considered a critically important acquisition for professional and academic library Photography instructional reference collections and supplemental studies reading lists.’ – Michael J. Carson, The Midwest Book Review
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