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Product Description
"Digital Family Photography" offers comprehensive and easy-to-follow
advice on how to make the most of "people pictures" of all kinds: from
simple but essential techniques to more advanced and challenging
projects. People and families are easily the most popular subject for
photographers, be it by traditional film or digital photography. This
book embraces both image capture and post-production techniques, with
the emphasis on working digitally. With full-color and a portrait
layout, the photos in the book are truly brought to life. Aimed at
those new to photography, this book is useful for anyone who has been
enticed by the value, quality, and efficiency that digital cameras have
to offer.
About the Author
Michael Wright studied
Fine Art at St. Albans foundation course, 1972-3, and went onto study
Fine Art at Liverpool College of Art and Design, graduating in 1976. He
gained a post-graduate bursary, continuing his studies at the Royal
Academy schools and was awarded silver and bronze medals for sculpture,
graduating with a post-graduate diploma in 1979. Wright took up
part-time post teaching art in a North London junior school, continuing
his art practice and exhibiting. He was invited as a guest lecturer to
teach on the Foundation course at St. Albans and Liverpool College of
Art and Design Fine Art program. Wright was subsequently offered a
permanent teaching post at Hertfordshire College of Art and Design,
University of Hertfordshire, and developed a degree program in Art and
Design. He was Course Leader for the Fine Art degree program ,
and is currently a senior lecturer in the Fine Art program.
Wright acted as a consultant on the Art School series for Dorling
Kindersley, published in association with the Royal Academy of Arts,
1992, and authored two titles in the series, Introduction to Pastels
and Mixed Media. Wright has written several introductions to artists catalogues and more recently undertook an MA by Research entitled
Drawing: conceptual models of landscape space 1999-2002.
Wright continues to teach Fine Art, electronic imagery and photography
on the degree course at the University of Hertfordshire and is
exhibiting work in Britain and Europe. His current practice is
concerned with the creative interface between the material processes of
painting and drawing and the new developments in lens and digital
technologies. He lives in London.
