The colour photography field guide : the essential guide to colour for striking digital images

Understand the role colour plays in your images, learn to appreciate its dynamic effects and find out how to capture and reproduce it as precisely as possible in your own images. The Colour Photography Field Guide provides a unique look at analysing and combining three important ways of dealing with colour. The first is the subjective and cultural response to individual colour: the perception. The second is how colours are found and appear in photography: the science. The third is the means by which they can be viewed and altered digitally: the expression. - A clear and technically precise look at how colour affects your digital images - Portable and lightweight, for on-the-spot information and inspiration - With a host of case studies examining difficult colour situations such as capturing flesh tones and unreal colours This is the essential guide to hue for striking digital images. Digital cameras and powerful image-processing software applications provide todays photographer with all the tools needed to explore the world of colour. Renowned photographer and author Michael Freeman provides a thorough look at the essential ways of dealing with colour that will help photographers create striking colour digital photographs. Using helpful tips and exercises, he covers everything from capture and calibration to workflow management and output. Photographers will also find expert guidance on sensitivity, colour temperature and exposure, and invaluable advice on making the most of colour as a design element. You can examine how colours are perceived the subjective and cultural response to individual colours and combinations, the many ways of digitally altering a photos tones, plus how to capture and reproduce colour precisely. Above all, this is a guide to enjoying colour, and capturing and reproducing it as precisely as possible