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Looking to the future, Intelligent Skins sets out the principles for the design of the intelligent building envelope. It highlights an exciting new approach to the area, where the fabric of the building responds to external changes and internal demands.
The prime objective is to control internal environments through a responsive building fabric rather than by energy consuming building services systems. The authors examine the potential for integral intelligence within the fabric of the building and explore the evolution of information technology and smart materials which have allowed a whole new category of design principles to be created.
* Gain a comprehensive knowledge of the evolution of the 'Intelligent Skin'
* Explores a new approach to Intelligent Buildings, focusing on the fabric of the building responding to external changes and internal demands
* Includes over twenty cutting-edge international case studies
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SLIGHTLY DISAPPOINTED.......2006-03-24
I AM USE TO THE INFORMATION CONVEIED IN THE 'DETAIL' BOOKS AND WAS DISAPPOINTED TO FIND THE DETAILS WERE NOT LABELLED AND IF THEY WERE THERE WAS NO KEY PROVIDED UNLESS THEY WERE IMBEDDED IN THE IMAGE OF THE DETAIL ITSELF. THEY SEEMED TO BE CUT & PASTED FROM SOURCES.
ALSO A BIT EXPENSIVE FOR A SOFTCOVER 'IN DETAIL BUILDING SKINS' IS THE SAME PRICE, MORE INDEPTH, THICKER ...AND PART OF THE DETIAL PUBLICATION SERIES.
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Michael Busselle brings his considerable experience to bear in this essential and informative title for everyone who wants to improve their photography techniques.
100 Ways to Take Better Photos reveals the answers to many of those questions the enthusiastic amateur photorapher wants to ask. In a clear, jargon-free style, devoting a page to each of the 100 ways, Michael Busselle provides solutions that will help both beginners and more advanced photographers get the results they want.
Moving from the basics of coping with camera shake, through choosing filters and framing a composition, the author goes on to advise on areas such as shooting in bad weather, photographing interiors, and taking portraits.
More advanced chapters deal with special close-up techniques for photographing wildlife or pets, bringing a fresh eye to your travel souvenirs with advice on shooting architectural detail, and how to convey the best of a landscape view - even in snow or fog.
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Good overview.......2007-09-02
I'm a fairly skilled amature photographer, so I wasn't looking for a strict "how-to" book - which this book is definately NOT. However, it provides great suggestions, ideas, and inspiration. It was a great review of techniques - like using the camera's panarama program for a vertical shot - that I probably knew but haven't thought of in a while. Covering such a wide range of photography situations, from macro shots to panaramas, this book is a great overview of techniques for all kinds of situations. I highly recommend it, especially if you're doing a shoot that is, for you, a bit unusual.
A great summary of ways to improve your photos.......2007-05-05
I agree with a previous reviewer that if you've taken a photography course you've probably learned the 100. I knew most if not all of them and I've never taken a photography course but I've read a lot of books. However, the beauty of this book is it is a great reminder of things to consider when taking photos and it illustrates the points with beautiful photographs! It was a real pleasure to read. Each of the 100 ideas has a text explaining the situation and then how & what he did to get the photo. There is also more text talking about the idea in a more generic manner. It's a great book to have as a reference. I know everyone knows many of these points but it's easy to forget them and having a great reminder is nice.
I highly recommend this book.
I really want to give 3.5 stars.......2007-01-31
This is book is technically ok, but it doesn't tell you anything you haven't learned if you have taken a photography course. So I guess if you have have never take a photography course in your life, it would be great book for you, but otherwise its only going to tell you tips that your instructor has probably already told you.
Photograph the leading the bestly.......2005-10-23
100 ways are practical valid, suit me fine in photograph the teaching fulfillment usage.
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"An Easy Reference Guide to Portrait Photography
*Offers inspirational techniques for digital and film photographers from novices to pros *Includes more than 100 stunning photos by an award-winning photographer *Provides practical tips for making the most of color and black and white
Previous photography titles in this popular 100 Ways series have sold more than 20,000 copies worldwide. Whether earning a living as a professional portraitist or snapping informal social shots just for fun, this latest reference volume offers clearly presented advice on the many aspects of digital and film portraiture: *Composition and posing *Outdoor and studio portraits *Fashion, glamour and beauty shots *Group portraits--family, social, corporate and business"
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A little bit of everything........2007-05-20
I have a simple criteria for selecting photographic 'how to' books. If the images in the book don't appeal to me, I pass on the book. Admittedly, that's sometimes a problem shopping here. Anyway, this book has a variety of portrait images, and I find them quite appealing. They range from travel shots to glamour fashion shots, and include a good collection of images of kids.
There is also a lot of practical information, but the book assumes you know your way around photographic equipment. The equipment section is only two pages! None of that 1/3 of the book telling you what a camera or a studio flash unit is for these authors. Bravo! I hope more photographic books follow their lead.
The book doesn't attempt to give you step by step instructions to creating a specific image. It's more of 'Here's a shot you might try and here's some things to be aware of.'
I consider myself an advanced amateur photographer. I take pictures because I enjoy it. I shoot mostly portrait and fashion type images. That's just so you'll know where I am coming from.
The book will definitely serve you well as inspiration. It's a great browsing and 'Gee, I oughta try that' book. I like it a lot, and I think you will too. It's also reasonably priced. Buy two and give one to a friend who is a photographer, but don't lend your copy to him. You won't get it back!
down to earth.......2007-03-18
this book really gives you ideas to expand. you can look at one of the photos and expand your vision with it. one of the things i liked about this book was that if you were an amature or just a beginner with photography. you can understand the book. it doesn't use a lot of big photographic words that can go right over your head. and the sidenotes about the photo on the page really helps give you an idea of how to creat a photo with that style or theme
Decent Idea Book.......2007-02-12
Photographers are always looking for inspiration. This book fits the bill; quick reads (1 page per example), decent explanations, and lenses used make this a good reference. The printing is great too so sample pictures look very pleasing.
If you are looking for something to teach more of the mechanics of posing, facial analysis, or lighting you probably should look at another book though. I don't think it was the authors' intention to deal with these subjects.
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100 Ways to Improve Your Landscape Photographs is an easy-reference guide to landscape photography; packed with practical advice and stunning photos this book will help and inspire photographers of all levels.
This is a simple and comprehensive trouble-shooting guide to landscape photography. The book is divided into themed sections and features simple explanations of techniques, which will help both beginners and more advanced photographers get the results they want. The thematic sections cover all areas of landscape photography, including coastal, panoramic and seasonal, as well as lighting effects, composition and exposure.
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Excellent Coverage.......2006-04-18
This book is well written, provides excellent images that relate to the text, and has a notes section beneath each image explaining how the image was taken. For instance, the author will mention how he used a graduated neutral density filter, the reason for the strength of the filter & location of the filter on the lens. He will also indicate ISO, shutter speed and aperture and the reason for the selection. If a filter was used he will address the reasons why. I think the notes section is the most important part of the book as you can actually see in the image what he is discussing.
Composition, lighting & technique is also discussed and covered very well.
This book is not verbose, but rather gets down to the point very quickly. It is the kind of book you want to write on and use a coloured highlighter pen to mark important points, technique, composition ideas, etc. Ia ctually keep my copy in my car and refer to it in the field.
I won't repeat what you can read in contents and in the "see inside this book" section above - you can read this yourself.
The book, for the price (currently $11.00) is a "must have" in my view.
If you are serious about landscape photography you will not be disappointed.
Fresh approach.......2005-05-30
This is an excellent piece of work with a fresh approach to a very difficult part of photography, landscapes.
This book has 100 tips what to do to get better results. The use of light, filters, digital, lenses are covered. Also what to look for and what makes a shot interesting. All this accompanied with an image and counterexamples.
This book differs from other books I own. It is not a sum of do this, do that. It also does not cover technicallities. It's more for the ideas and dos and don'ts. For extensive techniques you have to look for another book.
The book is well and clearly written. The photographic work is more than excellent. The images are mostly from the UK, but also work from the US and other parts of Europe are included.
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-Practical advice and easy-to-understand techniques
-Over 100 inspirational photographs to support and expand the text From a photographer experienced in the world of professional landscape and fashion photography comes this accessible and essential guide to the classic art of black and white photography. Author Michael Milton provides a bevy of techniques and a wealth of advice to guide both beginning and experienced photographers, whether they're using film or digital cameras.
All areas of black and white photography are covered, from portraits and landscapes to composition, lighting, and abstract work, and each featured technique is clearly explained in the text and with supporting photos. Over 100 stunning example photos can be found in this simple guide, providing inspiration to any photographer.
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Jacques-Henri Lartigue (1894-1986), celebrated photographer, and one of the greatest practitioners the medium has ever known, discovered the Riviera with his first camera in the company of his wealthy family when he was just eleven years old. For the rest of his life Lartigue was a regular visitor to the Cote d'Azur, taking many of his finest pictures in Nice, Cannes, Cap d'Ail, Antibes, Menton, and Monaco.
This splendid volume is the first book, to bring together a large selection of these photographs which are accompanied by a lively, informative text. Not only did Lartigue document the elegant resort life of the leisure class of which he was a member-in the villas, hotels, beach clubs, and casinos where they lived and played-but he also created an intimate chronicle of the life he shared on he Riviera with his beautiful first wife Bibi, during the 1920s, his companion Renee Perle, in 1930-31, and Florette whom he married in 1942.
Apart from the stunning black-and-white images for which Lartigue is celebrated-including his ground-breaking panoramic photographs of the coastline-Lartigue's Riviera also reveals an important group of little-known and rarely published color photographs. The world ski-jumping championships in Juan-les-Pins, filming Les Aventures du roi Pausole in Cap d'Antibes, the Ziegfeld Follies girls in Monte Carlo, alternate here with the daily life of Latigue and his friends-stopping for lunch in St. Tropez, exercising on the beach in Cannes, drinking an aperitif at sunset at Cap d'Ail.
Among the most beautiful-and often funny and poignant-photographs ever taken, Lartigue's pictures of the Riviera will come as a revelation to those who will be discovering them for the first time, and as a welcome glimpse of the sunlight and glamour for which he is so admired by his devoted fans.
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Sweet M Lartgue.......2006-04-13
This is a BEAUTIFUL collection of images and notes on this wonderful, joyful Photographer.
I lost my library's copy & will replace it, it is a rare treasure...
Memories of the Cote D'Azur.......2005-12-06
Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894-1986) was a unique photographer and certainly one who was able to capture the idiosyncrasies of the French people and places as well as anyone who ever held a camera. He is a realist and a poet and this collection of photographs selected form the thousands he took focuses specifically on the French Riviera.
Strolling bathers along the boardwalks, vistas of the Mediterranean and the flavor of the Cote D'Azur are the subjects here. Lartigue's quality of images includes some colored-infused works that quote pointillism concepts. The works are of the people and the attitudes, the flavor of the region, the quintessential breezy atmosphere of one of the world's great playgrounds. With this collection in hand we are left with memories of a quieter time, of nostalgia, of the beauty of people at ease. Grady Harp, December 05
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Jacques Henri Lartigue: The Invention of an Artist
Kevin Moore
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As a young boy, Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894-1986) set about passionately recording his life in photographs, first documenting his domestic circle and later capturing the auto races, air shows, and fashionable watering holes of the Belle Époque. His images have so bewitched modern viewers that even scholars have failed to see them clearly.
In Jacques Henri Lartigue: The Invention of an Artist, Kevin Moore puts to rest the long-held myth of Lartigue as a naïve boy genius whose creations were based on instinct alone. Moore begins by exploring the milieu in which Lartigue became a photographer, examining his father's crucial role in teaching him the latest techniques as well as the larger context of the turn-of-the-century craze for amateur photography.
Two events brought Lartigue before the public eye in America and created the Lartigue myth: In the summer of 1963, the first exhibition of Lartigue's work in the United States was held at the Museum of Modern Art, which hailed him as an important modernist photographer, a forerunner of the art-documentary style of the 1960s. That fall, Life magazine published a feature presenting his work as an optimistic and sentimental prologue to World War I. Both treatments portrayed him as a naïve genius and Lartigue happily participated in shaping this new persona.
In Jacques Henri Lartigue: The Invention of an Artist, Moore successfully challenges the Lartigue myth using examples from popular magazines and the cinema. Illustrated with more than fifty of Lartigue's photographs and drawings as well as press imagery from the period, the book offers a radical reassessment of the photographer and his work.
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Absolutely Wonderful!.......1999-11-25
This book is amazing. This is, by far, my favorite collection of photos. Lartigue's concentration on motion is especially featured here. He has inspired my work more than any other still photographer. Buy it here and save the dough for your own photography.
Absolutely brilliant photographer.......1999-11-01
This photographer mastered photography at such a young age, it made his photographs amazingly unique and absolutely beautiful. a priceless book.
Finally!!!.......1998-11-19
Finally, a comprehensive book on our most beloved photographer. Some of the most joyous photos you will ever see by a man who first played with the wonders of what a camera can capture. I love these photos. Buy it before it goes out of print!
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Now that her father is gone, Himeno is all alone. With nowhere else to go, the homeless Pretear will finally accompany her Leafe Knights to Leafeania - but the path is slippery. Enemies abound and the stakes are rising, and Himeno faces more than an angry stepmother in the fourth and final volume of Pretear! (*****Additional Text****) From the creator of Kaleido Star and Princess Tutu Himeno's father, her last bit of family and only link to her past, has run away from home. Left alone to battle the whirlwind of accusations and abuse from her stepmother, the young Pretear is kicked to the curb. Now she will join her new family, the Leafe Knights, as they journey to Leafeania, but the path is slippery and the enemies are in hot pursuit. - One of the best-selling shojo anime series of 2004!
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Great Ending to a Great Series.......2005-07-06
This was one of my first anime series that I read. My friend suggested it to me since I'm into the fantasy type books. This last book ties everything together so beautifully!! The way they climates this book till the very end was just wonderful, just like the art work. The story line and the romance between the Pretear, Himeno, and the Leafe Knight of Wind, Hayate, makes this a well rounded book. I thought that this last volume was the best out of the four volumes!!!
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