Although most of the remarkable pictures in the book were produced with a medium format camera, all of them can be accomplished with 35mm equipment. This book is a toolbox for photographers who want to create an altered reality by making impossible images look real or by making real images look impossible. The techniques range from simple, inexpensive effects any interested photographer can do to complicated effects requiring lots of practice and special equipment. Special-effects photography lets you enter the world of imagination. Here's where you can create things on film that you could never see in the real world.
Special effects are magic.
All it takes is an open mind, a spirit of adventure, and the techniques you'll find in the pages of this book. And each section tantalizes you with lots of variations you can try. More than 400 new markets for photographic works are listed in this fully updated, newly formatted edition of the popular guide. Compiled by the Historic New Orleans Collection, this volume brings together an eerie gallery of French Quarter facades, funerary sculpture, and other details that summon up the Acadian gothic described by six distinguished writers. In travelling the world to photograph his favorite type of image, Magnum photographer Ferdinando Scianna seems to have had little chance to do much sleeping of his own.