Fine Art Flower Photography: Creative Techniques and the Art of Observation

A master photographer shares his wisdom on the special challenges and possibilities flowers offer.

"The images of Tony Sweet have inspired me and helped learn to see beyond the apparent. "

Kamal Chilaka

New A-Z of Creative Photography Paperback – 2013

The New A-Z of Creative Photography" is an indispensable and inspirational guide to creative photography, exploring over 50 photographic techniques.

Using jargon-free text and over 300 inspirational images, the book guides you through exciting techniques, from architectural details to online calendars, panning to polarizing filters, there's bound to be something to get your creative juices flowing.

Many projects are presented in a step-by-step style, while behind-the-scene images and screengrabs have also been included in many cases to ensure every success. Each technique is illustrated with Lee Frost's own celebrated photography, adding inspiration to the highly practical text.

Photoshop for Lightroom Users (Voices That Matter) Paperback – Import, 19 Dec 2013

Anyone who uses Adobe Photoshop Lightroom for image management, editing, and workflow knows it is great software, and it has only gotten better with each new version. But there comes a time in every Lightroom user’s life when they want to do something…and they just can’t do it. While Lightroom covers the vast majority of a photographer’s needs–many say it covers roughly 80% of a professional imaging workflow–it just can’t do everything a shooter needs to put the final touches on a great image.

Scott Kelby, the #1 bestselling author of photography books, wrote Photoshop for Lightroom Users exactly for those Lightroom users who have recognized that they need Photoshop  for the other 20% of their workflow, which will take their images to the next level. There is already a substantial audience for this book, and of course Adobe’s brand-new offering of a Lightroom and Photoshop Creative Cloud bundle for $9.99/month will certainly help grow this Lightroom-and-Photoshop audience very quickly in the coming months.

These users don’t need to know everything about Photoshop. They just need to know the essentials edits, techniques, retouching tutorials, and tweaks that they can’t perform in Lightroom, but which will take their images up a notch. Scott covers everything from compositing to adding text over an image to retouching to creating a book cover to advanced sharpening techniques. With Photoshop for Lightroom Users, readers will learn all they need to know in order to fold Photoshop into their imaging workflow with Lightroom.

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