Printing Special Effects (B&W Photo Lab) FROM THE PUBLISHER
Expand your printing expertise and add impact to your images with the unique ideas and unmatched advice in this illuminating guide. It's easier than you think when concise instructions from the experts and superb photographs--including many "before" images and in-process shots--demonstrate the artist's methods and final results. Find out how to use infrared film, grain enhancement, toning (including multiple and split toning), filters and screens, Lith processes, flashing, hand tinting, and more, to create dazzling effects that make your pictures extraordinary. Photographs by renowned contemporary photographers, accompanied by the artists' own revealing tips, shooting techniques, and effect details, will inspire you to develop your own special style.
SYNOPSIS
Expand your printing Expertise and add impact to your images! It's easier than you think with concise instructions from the Experts and superb photographs--including many "before" images and in-process shots demonstrating the artist's methods and final results. Includes images by renowned contemporary photographers, accompanied by the artists' own revealing tips, techniques, and effect details.
FROM THE CRITICS
Library Journal
Both of these useful books concentrate on the art and science of printing photographs. Busselle emphasizes the basics of the process, such as the relationship of speed and grain in film, toners for prints, and filters and screens. He then discusses infrared film and lith developer before moving on to specific alternative processes, notably cyanotype, argyrotype, and gum bichromate. Accompanied by clear, well-executed illustrations, Busselle's book provides a detailed and well-organized introduction for photographers who would like to learn more about alternative processes and enhance their printing skills. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
Booknews
This book offers advice and ideas about how to enhance b&w photographs using a variety of methods, including infrared films; toning prints; altering grain levels; diffusion filters and texture screens; and alternative processes such as cyanotype, gum bichromate, and lith printing. For each process or alteration, several print examples are used, usually with a before and after example to highlight the changes being made. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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