Ready to Capture Your Story with Beautiful Photos?Let professional photographers Rachel Devine and Peta Mazey show you how to use that fancy DSLR to photograph the story of your life, from falling in love and having a baby, to the everyday moments that are no less precious. You’ll learn:• Common beginner mistakes and how to avoid them• How to take portraits of your children, friends, pets—even yourself• How to capture light to make your photos...

Thinking Radical Democracy is an introduction to nine key political thinkers who contributed to the emergence of radical democratic thought in post-war French political theory: Hannah Arendt, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Pierre Clastres, Claude Lefort, Cornelius Castoriadis, Guy Debord, Jacques Rancière, Étienne Balibar, and Miguel Abensour.The essays in this collection connect these writers through their shared contribution to the idea that division and difference in politics c...

DSLR Fundamentals: An Introduction To Photography is written specifically for the beginning photographer. The book uses text, images, tables, diagrams, video, and reference material to explain and teach a variety of concepts such as setup, shooting, technique, processing, and sharing.The volume covers setting up your DSLR, how to shoot properly, exploring predefined shooting modes, learning manual settings (aperture, shutter speed, ISO), basic equipment needs, composition and techn...

Ten Steps to Better dSLR Photography is a guide to help digital SLR photographers take control of their camera and the images they create.Capturing great images with your dSLR should not be the occasional result of chance and luck. By taking control of your camera, its functions, and its settings you can begin to work with consistency and intention and take the photos you desire.Readers of the author's popular dSLR camera guides such as Nikon D...

An Introduction To Macro & Close-Up Photography, part of the DSLR Fundamentals series, is an eBook written specifically for those interested in learning more about the basics of macro and close-up photography. The book uses text, video links, diagrams, graphs, and charts to explain and teach a variety of concepts such as:- Understanding the difference between macro and close-up photography- Choosing dedicated macro equipment and learning how to use it- Modifying exist...

A practical, affordable and accessible home photography tutor. This inspiring project-based course book covers everything from basic composition to the latest digital darkroom techniques.Learn at your own pace as this practical, comprehensive course helps you develop your key photographic techniques. Contents include: step-by-step projects on exposure, aperture, lenses, light, filters, colour, black and white and image enhancement; plus professional secrets and stunning shots from ...

Rob Sheppard put this book together to give you solid information about shooting close-ups, yet not require you to spend days reading in order to use it. In this e-book, Sheppard helps you become a better close-up photographer and not simply throw a lot of information at you that is hard to take in and use. Sheppard knows what that is like. He says he spent years trying to learn as much as he could about photography, always afraid of missing the one vital link needed to be a “really good P...

With more than 350,000 copies sold, Understanding Exposure has demystified the complex concepts of exposure for countless photographers. Now updated with current technologies, more than one hundred new images, and an all-new chapter, this new edition will inspire you more than ever to free yourself from “auto” and create the pictures you truly want.In his trademark easy-to-understand style, author Bryan Peterson explains the relationship between aperture and shutter speed,...

Organizing your home can be overwhelming. Especially if you have bought too much stuff and have a hard time getting rid of it. However, help has arrived.If It's Clutter... Quick Tips for Decluttering the Home shows you what to do when you have got too much junk. With its quick and easy advice on how to remove and let go of your unnecessary items, this guide can help you get on the path to having peace of mind as well as a tidy home.

This guide provides step-by-step instructions on how to find and download free eBooks online. You will also learn how to download eBooks using your eReader. Additionally several quick start guides are included for the following eReaders and eReader applications: - Amazon Kindle - Amazon Kindle Reader for PC - Amazon Kindle Reader for Android - Barnes and Noble Nook - Barnes and Noble Nook Color - Kobo - Sony Reader Daily Edition - iBooks Application for Apple iPad and iPhone In this guide ...

Home management expert and bestselling author Emilie Barnes comes to the aid of every clutter keeper with 101 simple ideas to rid rooms of piles, stacks, and disarray. Readers will rediscover space and peace in their home as theystop making excuses for the useless items they keepeliminate junk mail before it junks up a drawertake back control over "stuff"and taste freedomsubtract an item before adding an itemreap the rewards of prioritizing time and spaceBetter than a how-to show, this com...

For anyone interested in learning to meditate but not sure how to begin, comes this book from psychologist and meditation expert Dr. Robert Puff, contributing writer for Psychology Today and a practicing meditator himself for over thirty years. You'll learn the value of meditation for physical and mental health, several different types of non-religious meditation, detailed instructions on how to practice each, and answers to all the questions asked by beginners. Think of it as "base camp" ...