Color Photography: A Working Manual (Paperback)

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An illustrated guide to color photography explores, step by step, the whole process of producing color photographs, from ""seeing"" in color and shooting to developing and printing, offering advice on light, film types, and the developing process.

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (January 18, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0316373168
• ISBN-13: 978-0316373166
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #222,882 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Book for Beginners and Intermediate Students, February 20, 2001

By	Remy "Remy" (Cambridge/Gloucester) - See all my reviews

This book is well-written and lavishly illustrated with good-quality color photographs from a number of well-known contemporary photographers. The basic physics of color theory and color perception are well laid out. The text and explanations are easy to follow, even for a novice. Having taught color photography for a number of years, in the US and in France and Italy, I have found that this text to be the most consistently useful for my students.

20 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book!, October 25, 1999

By A Customer

Much like his Basics of B&W photography Horenstein 's Color photography manual is a easy to read, is filled with excellent information and contains tons of photographs that inspire his readers. In short, this book is perfect for anyone beginning in color photography.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Guide For Color Photographers, February 2, 2004

By	Timothy Kearney (Hull, MA United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

Henry Horenstein, author of BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY: A BASIC MANUAL, a book often used as a photography text book, has a similar book on color photography. COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY: A WORKING MANUAL offers the same excellent how-to information provide in the black and white counterpart. The book contains many of Horenstein's excellent photographs and offers information regarding filters and developing color prints. While it contains some information on color transparencies (slides), it is somewhat scant and may in the long run be more helpful for printmakers. At a time when digital photography is all the rage, this book is not obsolete since Horenstein's expertise will help ant photographer, no matter what the medium.