Archive for November, 2010

Still Life and Special Effects Photography: A Guide to Professional Lighting Techniques, Second Edition

Still Life and Special Effects Photography: A Guide to Professional Lighting Techniques, Second Edition Customer Review: wow … it’s a great book for semi pro
Well. .I ordered this book and when I open it I realize that I found the book I was searching for a long time!

The sets designs are very very helpuful to know the practise of lights and the shots help me a lot in my creative though!

The Intelligent Investor CD: The Classic Text on Value Investing

The Intelligent Investor CD: The Classic Text on Value Investing

The classic bestseller by Benjamin Graham, perhaps the greatest investment advisor of the Twentieth Century, The Intelligent Investor has taught and inspired hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. Since its original publication in 1949, Benjamin Graham’s book has remained the most respected guide to investing, due to his timeless philosophy of “value investing,” which helps protect investors against areas of (possible) substantial error and teaches them to develop long-term strategies which they will be comfortable with down the road.

Grace After Midnight: A Memoir

Grace After Midnight: A Memoir While Felicia is a brilliant actor in a truly chilling role, what’s most remarkable about “Snoop” is what she has overcome in her life. Snoop was born a three-pound cross-eyed crack baby in East Baltimore. Those streets are among the toughest in the world, but Snoop was tougher. The runt of the ghetto showed an early aptitude for drug slinging and violence and thrived as a baby gangsta until she landed in Jessup state penitentiary after killing a woman in self-defense. There she rebelled violently against the system, and it was only through the cosmic intervention of her mentor, Uncle Loney, that she turned her life around. A couple of years ago, Snoop was discovered in a nightclub by one of The Wire’s cast members and quickly recruited to be one of television’s most frightening and intriguing villians.

While the story of coming up from the hood has been told by Antwone Fisher and Chris Gardner, among others, Snoop’s tale goes far deeper into The Life than any previous books. And like Mary Karr’s story, Snoop’s is a woman’s story from a fresh point of view. She defied traditional conventions of gender and sexual preference on the hardest streets in America and she continues to do so in front of millions of viewers on TV.
Customer Review: Excellent
I am very pleased and satisfied with my book, it came in a timely manner
Customer Review: She did the best job she could with the hand she was dealt.
A painfully honest but depressing look at what it is like to grow up under the worst conditions. The slum didn’t grind her up but, until the wire, she caused grief for society. Help, to her, came from unexpected places and a wonderful set of foster parents. It is a story that we, who grew up in kindness and a clean environment filled with good role models, should read.

Garage Glamour: Digital Nude and Beauty Photography Made Simple

Garage Glamour: Digital Nude and Beauty Photography Made Simple

Nude and beauty photographers can find the invaluable high-impact techniques in this exhaustively illustrated manual that covers everything from compositional tips for clothing, accessories, and poses to more technical challenges such as lighting, lens selection, and exposure, demonstrating how to produce stunning, world-class images using minimal equipment without accruing a burdening investment. Beginning with the Four S’s of glamour photography (sexiness, sultriness, sensuality, and seductiveness), amateurs and professionals alike are shown new ways to achieve beautiful shots, with additional tips on working with models that include methods for accentuating assets while minimizing flaws and initiating comfortable working relationships. Photographers are also shown how to turn their hobby into a successful career, or enhance the productivity and income of an existing business by honing marketing and advertising skills and mastering the art of generating business by referral. Based on the author’s popular website (www.garageglamour.com), this guide offers helpful instruction to creating glamorous, sexy images like those seen in Playboy, Maxim, and other men’s magazines.

Customer Review: Disappointing
Not a fan of the writing style nor layout of this book. The photos are very non remarkable for the most part. The photographer describes his style in the book, it’s not mine and perhaps I’m biased? But I don’t think skin should be THAT yellow. There’s a time and a place for flash gels but imo most of the photos in this book are way overboard, very jaundiced looking.