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Photography: The Art of Deception: How to Reveal the Truth by Deceiving the Eye

Photography: The Art of Deception: How to Reveal the Truth by Deceiving the Eye

Shanidze, Irakly

Paperback

Photography Instruction

Publisher Price: $37.95

ISBN10: 168203092X
ISBN13: 9781682030929
Publisher: Amherst Media
Published: Nov 15 2016
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.90 Depth: 9.90
Language: English
Photography is a lie. Just think about it: photographers create two-dimensional images that sometimes even lack color and then expect everyone who views the image to believe that this is how the subject and scene appeared in front of the lens, in real life. What is truly amazing is that people fall for the visual trickery readily, almost as if they want to be deceived. It gets better: people still believe that one can photograph only what is really there.

In this book, Irakly Shanidze reveals the smoke and mirrors that the best photographers use to surprise, entertain, and inspire viewers. He explains that the individual features of photographer's perception and technical limitations of his equipment make him do things that may eventually make a picture look very different from how a viewer would see the same scene with a naked eye and can lead to a ruined picture. Conversely, photographers who understand these phenomena can use the aforementioned constraints to deliberately adjust the level of truthfulness in their pictures.

In each beautifully illustrated chapter, Shanidze discloses the photographic tools that enterprising

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