“It’s the little things.” This line from the movie Galaxy Quest—said with warm fondness—sums up my reaction to the Glossary page found on the Digital Photography Review website. Lot’s of terms. Good definitions. Way cool graphics.
Just as writers need dictionaries and thesauruses, image makers need good resources for the terms related to the evolving art and science of electronic imaging. This is especially true because new terms arise, old ones change, and some are just so darn confusing that we need to read different definitions from different sources.
While the chances are good you know exactly what a histogram is, maybe you could use a little clarification on the differences among “Pixels,” “Pixel Density,” and
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With her stunningly beautiful and truly inspiring Window Seat: The Art of Digital Photography & Creative Thinking (O’Reilly Media, 2006), Julieanne Kost has created one of the very best books on the topic of the creative process of digital photography. It is safe to say that utterly unique and provocative book Kost, who is Adobe’s Senior Digital Imaging Evangelist, will motivate and help focus your digital image making efforts regardless of your skill level or photographic specialty.
Window Seat is structured around a portfolio of more than 150 images that Kost photographed out of commercial airplane windows while traveling for business over a five-year period. In her book, Kost couples her digitally-made images with a description of her creative process. The premise is simple. But there is power in simplicity when a project is executed with the elegance found in Window Seat.
In producing Window Seat, Kost risked creating a book that could have easily been labeled trite. But taking risks is one of the most important Continue reading “An Utterly Inspiring View for Improving Digital Creativity”
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