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Who else wants to take mind-blowing pictures? If you want to stand out from the crowd and capture all those magic moments for posterity, you have come to the right place. Most guides to digital SLR photography will overwhelm you with jargon, but you and I both know that’s not what photography is all about. When I first started out, I couldn’t find any course or guide that actually helped me become a better photographer. That's why I’ve written this guide - so you don’t have to go through what I did.

Black and white photography is considered by some to be more difficult than color photography, simply because color ceases to be an element in the finished product. However, it is still an element to be considered while shooting, because color affects what greys, whites, and blacks you get as a result. Black and white can make your photos much simpler, pared down to the basics. This can make photographs appear more serious or scary, or even take away considerations of decade or century.

Exposure Mastery takes a basic understanding of Digital SLR cameras and transforms it into professional-level skill. Covering the integral physics of the tool of a photographer’s trade, the guide transforms pure knowledge into artistic know-how. Written by a professional photographer, Exposure Mastery introduces the amateur photographer to the most fundamental ingredient in a professional photograph: light. From here, it branches out to cover all the important aspects of photography and the tricks of the trade every photographer should know.

When photographer Adraint Bereal graduated from the University of Texas, he self-published an impressive volume of portraits, personal statements, and interviews that explored UT's campus culture and offered an intimate look at the lives of Black students matriculating within a majority white space. Bereal's work was inspired by his first photo exhibition at the George Washington Carver Museum in Austin, entitled 1.7, that unearthed the experiences of the 925 Black men that made up just 1.7% of UT's total 52,000 student body.

Afrocentric Style has descriptive The top memes, movements, and milestone moments dominating today’s social media have focused on Beyoncé, Black Panther, Black Lives Matter, Lil Nas, Kanye, Serena and Meghan Markle. Driven by Black millennials, these trending topics demonstrate the influence and power of Black artistry and celebrity in American popular culture and around the globe. As Shirley Neal argues, this is more than just a fleeting style. It is a profound display of how pop culture is being used as a conduit for the revival of Black identity, culture, and history.

La fotografía en blanco y negro es considerada un poco más complicada que la fotografía a color por algunas personas, simplemente porque el color deja de ser un elemento en el producto final. Sin embargo, el color sigue siendo un elemento a considerar mientras se está fotografiando, debido a que el color afecta los grises, blancos y negros que obtienes en el resultado. El blanco y negro puede hacer que tus fotos se vean mucho más simples y reducidas a lo básico.

What greater act of friendship is there than making someone dear look and feel their most beautiful and powerful? That was the priceless gift acclaimed designer B Michael gave to one of Hollywood’s greatest actresses, Cicely Tyson over the course of their close, decades-long relationship. In this glorious memoir, B Michael recalls the bond they shared and what it was like to dress the Queen of Hollywood for all the extraordinary events of her life.