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February brings a flurry of new releases from GMC Distribution for the photo-imaging industry, ranging from subjects such as Natural Photography to how to get the most out of your iPhone images. See below for details such as pricing and further information on the titles.

iPhone Artistry, Dan Burkholder

This book is for the iPhone user that wants to get more out of their iPhone images and teaches the reader to utilise the phone as a powerful, fun and serious photographic tool. It discusses techniques for getting better iPhone photos, using the hardware to its fullest and experimenting with a multitude of iPhone apps available through the App Store.

ISBN: 9781454701279  Paperback
£14.99  Lark

Nikon D5100 Multimedia Workshop, Lark Books
From Magic Lantern, the best camera guides in the business, comes the complete at-home course on the new Nikon D5100 camera, along with an authoritative lesson in the basics of digital photography. This fantastic package includes a D5100-specific 80-minute DVD; Taking Great Digital Photos, a 64-page book packed with tips and techniques and Great Photos with Your Digital SLR, a 60-minute DVD that demystifies shooting with a digital SLR camera.

ISBN: 9781454701330  Hardback with DVD
£21.99 Lark

Nikon D5100, Simon Stafford
No one is more passionate about their cameras than Nikon fans, so the new D5100, with its fully articulated, hi-res LCD viewing screen, 16 megapixels, HD video and more, is sure to be a hit. And so will the accompanying Magic Lantern Guide to this upper entry-level consumer model. It covers every function and every feature, with all the information photographers need to get the most from their camera.

ISBN: 9781454703655  Paperback
£14.99  Lark

The Complete Guide to Nature Photography
Professional Techniques for Capturing Digital Images of Nature and Wildlife, Sean Arbabi
An authoritative guide for amateur photographers of all levels interested in capturing better images of nature and wildlife. This gorgeously illustrated book, featuring 200 colour images, offers a complete course in photographing images of nature, a highly popular genre for amateur photographers, including
up-to-the-minute digital processing techniques.

ISBN: 9780817400101  Paperback
£19.99  Watson-Guptill

Flaghead Photographic, the UK & Ireland distributor for RayfLash products, is pleased to announce a price reduction for the Rayflash Rotator. A reduction of £30 brings the new price to £99 plus Vat (£118.80 inclusive of Vat).

Rotator product details:

A 360° rotating flash bracket with fast, continuous positioning around the lens, keeps the flash unit on top of the lens, thus preventing any side shadows.
- Revolutionary design
- Quick & easy mounting without tools
- Fast positioning anywhere around the lens
- Use with Nikon & Canon cameras for full TTL use

No shadow or Monster shadow: your choice.

The RayFlash Rotator is the first rotating flash bracket in the world with full TTL capabilities (Nikon/Fuji & Canon).  It allows the flash unit to be positioned anywhere around the lens to avoid harsh side shadows normally associated with an on-camera flash in the vertical position. For very dramatic light effects, use the flash position to create monster shadows.
Mounting the Rotator is also easy; the package comes with a set of mounting brackets to suit different camera heights.

For further details contact: Hardy Haase, Flaghead Photographic
www.flaghead.co.uk

This month, Paul Harcourt Davies releases his new book entitled ‘Digital Close-Up Photography Q&A’ which aims to give great hints and tips to aspiring photographers from the industry insider. When a camera gets close-up, it reveals details of colour, shape and texture we might never notice in real life. This illustrated step-by-step guide shows what can be achieved with a digital camera, taking us into worlds many photographers never thought possible to record. He provides straightforward answers to frequently asked questions about the process, from equipment, software and composition to HD video and time-lapse video sequences, making sophisticated concepts understandable to the layman and empowering all photographers, whether they’re using a mobile camera, modest point-and-shoot, or sophisticated DSLR. Priced at £14.99.

This beautiful guide to engagement photography will show aspiring and professional wedding photographers how to boost their current income by offering higher-quality engagement sessions (or by adding them for the first time). Written by award-winning photographer Elizabeth Etienne, this modern guide to engagement photography offers portrait and wedding photographers a step-by-step approach to shooting in-demand engagement sessions and maximising an often-untapped revenue stream. Includes 200 inspiring images and written in a fresh style; this guide offers a high-end, magazine-style approach that is coveted by brides and wedding photographers alike.

 9780817400095 PB £21.99 Amphoto

Cameras and what they capture have forever changed our perception of the world and of ourselves. This gorgeous cornerstone volume, created in collaboration with the world-famous George Eastman House, celebrates the camera and the art of the photograph. It spans almost two hundred years of progress, from the first faint image ever caught to the instantaneous pictures snapped by today’s state-of-the-art digital equipment. The informative narrative by Todd Gustavson traces the camera’s development, the lives of its brilliant but often eccentric inventors and the artists behind the lens. Images and highly descriptive captions for more than 350 cameras from the George Eastman House Collection, plus more than 100 historic photos, ads and drawings, complement the text. Also includes a foreword by the Director of George Eastman House and essays by Steve Sasson and Alexis Gerard.

9781402756566 HB with jacket £30.00 Sterling

This Leica guide, written by the company’s top technical expert, now includes the Leica MP. This classic source contains a goldmine of technical information and insider knowledge and covers Leica’s famed lenses plus every film model from the M1 through the MP, along with schematic diagrams and explanations of metering, focusing, flash systems, film advance and more.

 9781454700692 HB with jacket £27.99 Lark

For most photographers the picture is the end product of the creative process. For Catherine Anderson, it’s just the beginning. In a wide array of projects using techniques from Photoshop to needle and thread, she shows beginner and experienced photographers alike how to turn their pictures into handmade objects of art, from books and collages to customised greeting cards.

 9781600597169 PB with flaps £14.99 Lark

By photographers for photographers, this Magic Lantern Guide® will help readers take great photos with their Nikon Coolpix P7000. This guide cuts through the clutter and is written specifically for the P7000, not watered down with general how-to. It is written in an easy to understand language and every single feature and menu option is thoroughly explained. Will help readers to customise the P7000 to their own personal shooting style and never get lost in the menu system again.

 9781454701354 PB £9.99

By photographers for photographers, this Magic Lantern Guide® will help readers take great photos with their Canon PowerShot G12. This guide cuts through the clutter and is written specifically for the G12, not watered down with general how-to. It is written in an easy to understand language and every single feature and menu option is thoroughly explained. Also includes a handy Quick Reference Wallet card which is a cheat sheet on the Canon PowerShot G12’s most commonly used functions and is perfect for taking into the field.

 9781454701361 PB £9.99 Lark

By photographers for photographers, this Magic Lantern Guide® will help readers take great photos with their D3100/D7000. This guide cuts through the clutter and is written specifically for a Nikon D3100/D7000, not watered down with general how-to. It is written in an easy to understand language and every single feature and menu option is thoroughly explained. Also includes a handy Quick Reference Wallet card which is a cheat sheet on the D3100/D7000’s most commonly used functions and is perfect for taking into the field.

9781454701262 and 9781454701316, PB with flaps £14.99 Lark