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Hot Shots: How to Refresh Your Photos (Paperback)

by Kevin Meredith (Author)
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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Rotovision (1 Oct 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 2888930277
  • ISBN-13: 978-2888930273
  • Product Dimensions: 18 x 12.8 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 26,840 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Product Description

Hot Shots is a new type of photography book. Forget expensive kit and incomprehensible jargon, Hot Shots is for everyone who points and snaps, and not just enthusiasts and amateurs, but designers, illustrators, and anyone who needs to create imagery for their work and pleasure. If you want to take photographs that look exciting, fun, and professional, this portable, easy-access tome is for you. The aim of this book is to highlight and explain various photographic techniques, qualities, and effects, using extended captions and simple technical information. Issues covered include composition, exposure, low-light, night shots, portraits, perspective, city- and landscapes, speed, movement, abstraction, animals, colour, flash, silhouettes, and black and white, among others. Have you ever wondered how to get a shot of a moving athlete in focus against a blurred background? Or of a landscape without the distraction of focusing on the foreground? Well, here s where you ll find the answer. Examples are arranged by colour, to enhance the visual appeal, pace, and impact of the contents, and to complement the book s flick-through quality.


About the Author

An accomplished and recognised Lomographer, Kevin Meredith was ranked second in the world at the Lomolympics 2000 in Tokyo and was awarded third place at the Lomographic World Congress in Vienna in 2002. He has worked taking photographs for the Commonwealth Games in 2002, The National Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and The Royal College of Art, among other commissions. His work has been published in two Lomo photographic books: Spirit and Don t Think Just Shoot.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant insight into a talented photographer's techniques, 3 Oct 2008
By Meg Pickard (London, UK) - See all my reviews
Kevin Meredith/LomoKev has got an incredible eye for an image. In this book he provides detailed and inspiring instructions on how to use a huge variety of photography techniques, each accompanied by stunning examples from his own portfolio.

Even without the interesting descriptions of how each image was taken, technical data and notes on why it works (something you don't often see provided or explained by the original photographer), this book would still be worth buying, if only for the quality of the images within. The print quality is particularly good, too - really brings out proper vibrant lomoish colours and contrast, which is so important to this artform and the author's particular use of it.

I'd recommend this book for anyone who's got a camera - however small and rubbish - and who wants to take their photography to the next level. This book shows (where others don't) that owning sophisticated technology isn't nearly as important as having a creative, fun, unorthodox (and even rule-breaking) approach to composition, lighting, processing and subject matter.

The thing that really makes this book about photography work where other similar ones don't is that all the approaches, techniques and composition ideas are explained and illustrated so simply and beautifully, you find yourself looking at each page and thinking "Yeah...I could do that!" With the help of this book, and inspired by Kevin Meredith's fabulous examples, you probably can, and will.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Relight Your Fire, 9 Dec 2008
By P. A. Broome "fwumpbungle" (Midlands, UK) - See all my reviews
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This is a truly wonderful little pocket sized book, which is sure to rekindle anybody's passion for photography - whether film or digital be your thing. The author is a true ambassador for the Lomographic way of life - he carries a camera everywhere he goes, and shoots anything and everything - but his flair for this kind of hip-shooting photography is astounding, and the fact that he's willing to pass on his secrets should be lauded. The tips and advice given in the book are sometimes obvious, sometimes profund - but always useful. The photos used to illustrate the points are wonderful. Plus there's a nice concise section at the back of the book going into more detail about cameras, processing, online galleries, etc.

The only downside to Hot Shots that I can see at the moment, is that it's going to increase the cost of second hand 35mm compacts on the auction sites - as everybody rushes off to collect them, and follow the author's lead!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book, 15 Oct 2009
By Rodrigo T. Oliveira (Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL) - See all my reviews
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Even tough I already knew almost all the photos in this book, from the author's Flickr account, the explanations and info behind each photo are great. This is a great way to improve your photographic skills where it's most important: composition, colors, creativity in general.

Also nice to see how one can get great photos from simple cameras :)
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4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book
This is a really good book for those people out there who love to take photos but can't seem to get the shot they want. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Mark D. Bradley

5.0 out of 5 stars This should become a cult classic....
Amazing book...I've always enjoyed taking photos, imagined I had a "good eye" and been interested in the "artistic" side of photography, though I'd never consider myself a... Read more
Published 11 months ago by James A. Cairney

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent book!
This book would be worth the price alone for all of Kevin's absolutely stunning photos, let alone his running commentary on technique and composition and the section at the back... Read more
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