Apple’s popular iPad tablet is an incredibly useful tool for photographers on the go. Instead of hauling a laptop on the road or to a photo shoot, you can tuck the lightweight iPad in your camera bag and take advantage of its large screen, third-party apps, and online access to effectively complete and share your work.
Photographers of all experience levels can now avoid time-consuming postproduction image editing with the multiflash techniques provided in this guide. Packed with information, the manual shows photographers how to select a quality new or used flash and how to mount and use up to five flashes to sculpt and define every aspect of an image. Also included is a discussion on perspective, lens selection, filter use, and white balance selection as well as information on flash-triggering systems and supporting equipment. A wide assortment of images with captions detailing the methods used to create each look completes this clever guide.
This book presents current research in the field of physics, with a particular focus on atomic molecular and optical physics, as well as cryogenics and photonic crystals. Topics discussed include pulse structuring in laser-light dynamics; excitation of atoms and ions by electron impact; Fiber Bragg Gratings and their applications as temperature and humidity sensors; liquid oxygen magnetohydrodynamics; cryogenic treatment and fatigue resistance; cryogenic grinding; fabrication and applications of polymer photonic crystals; physics of photonic crystal couplers and their applications and a photonic band gap for quasicrystal-related structures.
Incorporating several categories of beauty photography—maternity, fitness, boudoir, Maxim style, Goth glamour, and fetish glamour—this guide describes the artistic and technical nuances of each genre while teaching posing and compositional techniques. Explaining how to choose popular lights and modifiers, the guide helps novice and professional photographers create stunning portraits with mood and personality that highlight the most desirable aspects of the subject. A series of case studies from portrait sessions and detailed diagrams for recreating the shots are also included.
Mac Tips, Tricks, Apps & Hacks is here to help you get the absolute most from your Mac. We’ll start by taking you through some of the lesser known features of Apple’s core apps, before moving on to advanced tricks for the more creative among you. For the power users out there, our Hacks section shows what you can do when you lift the lid on OS X Yosemite. Finally, we’ll take you through the essential apps you need to download from the Mac App Store.
The biggest names in adult entertainment lend their erotic experience and knowledge to a comprehensive guide to ‘making love like a star’. Who is better qualified to share their sexual secrets than people who spend every day perfecting their lovemaking technique? Drawing from their extensive experience both on camera and off, the wildly popular and incredibly hot Vivid Girls—along with male star Bobby Vitale and the legendary adult filmmakers Paul Thomas, Justin Sterling, and ChiChi LaRue—provide hundreds of provocative sex tips for at-home amateurs who want to create exciting new sexual scenarios and incorporate the element of fantasy into their sex life.
iPad User Magazine is the complete companion guide for owners of any iPad model, including the new iPad mini. Published every six weeks you’ll be kept up-to-date with the latest things to do on your iPad.
“Sex Made Easy” is a punch, direct, and no-nonsense guide that confronts those problems that often arise– things that women are usually too embarrassed to talk about. Debby Herbenick is not just a scientist, but also a sex expert who has conducted important research at the Kinsey Institute for over a decade. But Dr. Herbenick has anticipated women’s questions–everything from orgasms and erections to vibrators–and provides simple and frank answers. It will give readers the knowledge, skills, and confidence they need for a more fulfilling sex life.
“L’appetito vien mangiando!” or “Appetite comes while you are eating.” Vicky arrives in Tuscany to study the language and culture of Italy, but soon falls in love with charismatic chef Gianfranco and starts to learn the art of Italian cooking in his trattoria.
Design creative characters inspired by real people. Let Mike Mattesi show you how to use life drawing to discover the poses, features and personalities which form the basis of character and then build, develop and ‘PUSH’ your drawings to new heights of dramatic and visual impact for believable characters audiences can relate to.
When living in Dubai, Oman is one of those places. It’s like Paris is to London, or Singapore is when living in Kuala Lumpur: you’re aware that there’s a destination full of wonder sitting on the doorstep, and yet… you never commit to actually going. Months roll by; you’re content in the knowledge that it will ‘always be there’, and ‘one day…’ you will finally explore. Well it’s time to seize the moment, and our comprehensive insight to Oman will ignite your desire to visit the travel-treasure next door. Actually, the luxury-road less-travelled is where we find ourselves (without a map) this month. That includes an adventure unearthing the wonders of Cuba, leaving the crowds behind to experience the hidden side of Prague, and attempting to blend the seemingly impossible mix of history, culture and family-fun in Umbria. We’ve an assortment of places viewed from an entirely different perspective, but don’t call us visionaries. We just love a truly unique tale that will captivate our friends once we get back home.
