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Create amazing still life photos of everyday objects, collections, products, and more.
List of contents
Contents
1. Still Life Basics and the iPhone
2. Setup
3. Composition
4. Lighting
5. Processing with Apps
6. Visual Styles for Still Life
7. Stories and Narratives in Your Images
Index
About the author
Beth Alesse is an author, photographer, graphic artist, and editor. In addition to writing, she curates image collections to present in books and media productions. She holds degrees in art and education, and has a broad background in graphic arts, linguistics, and visual and digital media. Her books with Amherst Media include The Moon, The Earth: A Visual Story of Our Amazing Planet, The Sun: NASA Images from Space and Hubble in Space: NASA Images of Planets, Stars, Galaxies, Nebulae, Black Holes, Dark Matter, & More.
Summary
Still life images are an immense part of our daily media creations. Whether we are a professional or just someone with a phone in our pocket, we use the iPhone as the go-to tool to trans form objects to document our things, make remembrances, create product shots for Amazon and Ebay, record our lives, and yes, make our art. Learn to use this very sophisticated and everyday pocket tool, the iPhone, to transform your still lifes. Use apps to bring your images to the elevated status of art and professional imagery. This book will show you how to start to make gorgeous still lifes with your innate camera and phone apps, then press further to basic equipment, lenses, and easy app use, and finally to use inspiring software that is in the realm of the professional photographer and designer. These tools and your imagination can help you create traditional still lives or push them to the brink of new and edgy graphic styles. Practical advice is given on subject choices, file management, image stabilizing, and cloud storage. Over sixty still life images by the author illustrate the use of apps, layers, styles, composition and more.
