This new edition of the Video Production Handbook walks students through the full video production process, from inception of idea to final distribution. Concentrating on the techniques and concepts behind the latest equipment, this book demonstrates the fundamental principles needed to create good video content on any kind of budget. Ideal for students, the new edition features a new chapter on directing and updated information on the latest DSLR and cinema cameras, LED lighting and much more. A companion website with additional resources for professors rounds out this full-color, highly visual text to meet all of your video production learning needs.

 
Refresh your toolbox with modern poses your clients will love

Learn first-rate techniques and tips from some of the best makeup artists in the business in the new edition of The Makeup Artist Handbook. Renown makeup pros Gretchen Davis and Mindy Hall bring an impressive set of experience in all areas to the book, including work on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Steve Jobs, The Wolf of Wall Street, Blue Jasmine, Star Trek, Pearl Harbor, HBO’s Looking and many other films and TV shows. This full-color, comprehensive new edition offers brand new photographs and on-the-job examples to demonstrate makeup techniques and fundamentals on topics such as beauty, time periods, black and white photography and up-to-date information on cutting-edge techniques like computer-generated characters, makeup effects, mold-making, air brushing, and plenty of information on how to work effectively on set.

For web developers and other programmers interested in using javascript, this bestselling book provides the most comprehensive javascript reference section on the market. The seventh edition represents a significant update, with new material for ECMAScript 2017 (ES8), and new chapters on language-specific features. javascript: The Definitive Guide is ideal for experienced programmers who want to learn the programming language of the web, and for current javascript programmers who want to master it.

Learn to express yourself through color while painting on location with the in-depth tips and techniques of Working with Color, the fifth volume in the Urban Sketching Handbook series.

In this superb guidebook, a skilled practitioner of figure drawing demonstrates how to achieve mastery of anatomy through careful, knowledgeable articulation of the muscles and bones lying beneath the skin. Joseph Sheppard's concise instructions have been carefully integrated with over 250 halftone illustrations and over 180 line drawings to lead artists one step at a time through the techniques required in rendering human anatomy convincingly.

Nature photographers rejoice!
Focus stacking is the process of taking many exposures of your subject at different focal points, or "slices" of focus, and combining them to achieve great depth of field and detail.
In "Focus stacking in the Wild" you discover the exact techniques used by award-winning nature writers and photographers, Kaisa and Stanley Breeden, use to produce their astounding photographs, as seen in their books, "Wildflower Country", "Rainforest Country" and "Small Wonders". What focus stacking methods do they use and how do they do it? What software do they use and how? All is revealed