Link Collection
Publications
- equipment:
- Laterna magica book series:
- "Metz Blitzsysteme" (Heiner Henninges)
- "Canon EOS 100" (Thomas Maschke)
- and many others!
- "Mecablitz-Blitztips" (Metz-Werke, Technischer Kundendienst):
excellent publication available from Metz, Germany on the use of their
products; snail-mail: Metz Werke GmbH & Co. KG; Postfach 2035;
90710 Fürth; FRG
- portrait etc.:
- "The Portrait — Professional Techniques and Practices in
Portrait Photography" (several authors); Kodak books; by Eastman Kodak
Company, 1993; publication O-24; CAT No. E102 1443; ISBN 0-87985-513-4:
infos on lighting and much more (also e. g. wedding photography);
examples are too perfect and beautiful!
- "Neue Porträt-Fotografie" (Günter Spitzing); Augustus
Verlag, Augsburg; 1994: bad — lots of unintentionally ugly-looking
example images (due to technique and aesthetics); author mistakenly
transforms his knowledge on BW photography to colour prints (like
taking photographs on an overcast day to have evenly exposed pictures
that can be corrected with different BW paper grades later; results in
dull colour images) and does
not have any idea what fill-in flash really means (lighten shades
instead of overexpose persons — resulting in artificially
looking pictures); hardly infos on lighting techniques; too
few light sources used (one!?)
- "Aktfotografie" (John Hedgecoe), Gondrom Verlag GmbH & Co. KG,
Bindlach; 1991; original version: "Nude Photography" (John Hedgecoe);
Dorling Kindersley Ltd., London; 1984: very good — lots of very good
and variant examples (anything but pornographic), detailed tips on
lighting for each image (!), background information on
intention, philosophy (what do you want to emphasize) and history (how
it has been done before) — and cheap (< 25 DM)
- darkroom work:
- "Vergrößern mit allen Finessen" (Prof. Dr. Otto Croy);
Heering-Verlag in Seebruck am Chiemsee; 1970 (old!):
old-fashioned but excellent book on
darkroom work, chemicals, techniques, tricks (like e. g.
correcting perspective of architecture shots in darkroom)
- "Vergrößern SW — das neue Lehrbuch fürs
Schwarzweiß-Labor" (Günter Spitzing); Augustus Verlag,
Augsburg; 1995: modern layout;
redesigned reprint of an older bestseller
- misc.:
- Kodak books: misc. themes
- Augustus Verlag books: misc. themes
- "Das ABC der Bildgestaltung mit EOS-Kameras" (Canon Europa N. V.),
German Edition ZC6-2804GER0692: some very good image examples; cheap (5 DM)
or possibly for free
- brochures
- data sheets: camera and film manufacturers like Canon, Kodak,
Fuji, Ilford etc. send their data sheets for free; Metz publishes important
material on flash photography ("Metz Blitztips")
- magazines: many magazines around, some of them very expensive;
but providing useful and up-to-date information on equipment, techniques
and artistic aspects of photography
- scripts: some universities offering courses in photo design
etc. sell cheap but scientifically founded material on optics, image
composition etc.
- RTFM! (Read the fucking manuals!)
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