Photographing Families: Designing Custom Portraits with Character & Style

Photographing Families: Designing Custom Portraits with Character & Style by Elizabeth Homan and Trey Homan
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1608959295 | 128 pages | EPUB | 175 MB

Traditional portrait photographers, for centuries, have relied upon lighting and posing conventions that were largely based on the aesthetic ideals set forth by Master painters and sculptors. The results of their rigid approach to depicting the family resulted in a cookie-cutter look to portraiture. The subjects were beautifully lit, stiffly posed, and, well, proper. The resulting image presented a likeness of each family member but did not speak to the inner lives of the subjects.

Today, portraiture has changed along with the modern family. Families want portraits that make a statement—an image that tells viewers a story about the subjects who have gathered together in front of the camera. These portraits have a looser, “lifestyle” feel and are made, as they have traditionally been, inside of a photographic studio. Today, however, these portraits are also often captured in the family home, at an outdoor location—whether at the beach or in the heart of the city, or some other location that has personal meaning to the family.

In this book, Elizabeth and Trey present 60 of their favorite and most diverse family portraits, showing you the art and technique of creating highly salable portraits. With every captivating image, you’ll learn how the Homans masterfully orchestrated the technical and artistic aspects of the portrait, from the location or backdrop selection, to the overall compositional qualities, to the arrangement of the group in the scene, to the individual poses. You’ll also learn the strategies Elizabeth and Trey used to create natural poses that contribute to the feel of the portrait and will learn how the lighting (studio light, existing light, and natural light) was harnessed to create a polished, professional portrait.

Perhaps one of the big challenges of photographing families is that no family grouping or family dynamic is the same. This book will arm you with the tools you need to work with the smallest to largest groupings, including a wide range of subjects, from newborns to the elderly.

Designing for Mobile Training Video [Repost]

Designing for Mobile Training Video
SKU: 02207 | .MP4, AVC, 1000 kbps, 1280×720 | English, AAC, 64 kbps, 2 Ch | 4.25 hours | 1.14 GB
Instructor: Paul McAleer

Learn how to design mobile apps that users love and that also meet your business goals. In this video course, user experience (UX) expert and designer Paul McAleer takes you step-by-step, explaining techniques that will help you research, plan, design, and test your app. You’ll learn how to approach content strategy, build efficient user interfaces, and present your project effectively to stakeholders.

– Learn information architecture fundamentals and how they are best applied in a mobile context, including sitemaps and taxonomies

– Dive into practical ways to address mobile from a design perspective, including Responsive Web Design

– Build a UI that includes individual widgets, tap targets, gestures, page flows, and page structures, animation, and interactivity

– Understand overall trends that affect mobile content, including text, video, and audio

– Examine hardware and software tools available for usability testing

-Learn structure, presentation style, and recommended best practices for communicating your design to stakeholders

Ben Zion Sandler - Robotics, Second Edition: Designing the Mechanisms for Automated Machinery

Ben Zion Sandler – Robotics, Second Edition: Designing the Mechanisms for Automated Machinery
1999 | ISBN: 0126185204 | English | 445 pages | PDF | 9.1 MB

Robotics, Second Edition is an essential addition to the toolbox of any engineer or hobbyist involved in the design of any type of robot or automated mechanical system. It is the only book available that takes the reader through a step-by step design process in this rapidly advancing specialty area of machine design.

This book provides the professional engineer and student with important and detailed methods and examples of how to design the mechanical parts of robots and automated systems. Most robotics and automation books today emphasis the electrical and control aspects of design without any practical coverage of how to design and build the components, the machine or the system. The author draws on his years of industrial design experience to show the reader the design process by focusing on the real, physical parts of robots and automated systems.

* Answers the questions: How are machines built? How do they work? How does one best approach the design process for a specific machine?

* Thoroughly updated with new coverage of modern concepts and techniques, such as rapid modeling, automated assembly, parallel-driven robots and mechatronic systems

* Calculations for design completed with Mathematica which will help the reader through its ease of use, time-saving methods, solutions to nonlinear equations, and graphical display of design processes

* Use of real-world examples and problems that every reader can understand without difficulty

* Large number of high-quality illustrations

* Self-study and homework problems are integrated into the text along with their solutions so that the engineering professional and the student will each find the text very useful