Daniel Overturf

Artificial Lighting for Photography provides students with a comprehensive guide to a variety of artificial lighting techniques, complemented by vibrant diagrams, images, and practical examples. Unit I explores basic concepts related to lighting, including the principles of light, the basic equipment used by students to effectively create their own lighting approach, the relationship between light sources and the resulting shadows, the principles of lighting reflective surfaces, and various techniques for lighting glass. Unit II includes more advanced information, including practical application and historical contexts for light measurement, light sources, and lighting equipment. Readers explore an overview of light intensity and color temperature under more complex circumstances that will encourage experimentation with advanced techniques, from product to portrait applications and more. Unit III features profiles of working photographers with emphasis on their innovative lighting styles. Unit IV, the Grip Glossary Handbook, serves as a professional reference guide that describes the proper and familiar names for lighting equipment photographers will use during their careers. An in-depth guide authored by experienced photographic educators, Artificial Lighting for Photography is an ideal resource for courses and programs in photography and any image-creating media that may employ applied lighting.

Trails & Traces partners the deft writing of Gary Marx with vivid photography by Daniel Overturf to illuminate ever evolving patterns of travel and settlement. Taking the reader on a journey down early buffalo traces and Native American trails, this book shows how these paths evolved into wagon roads and paved highways. Marx and Overturf explore historic routes ranging from Route 66 to the Underground Railroad, all the way back to post-Ice Age animal migration trails followed by Paleo-Indian people. The authors also examine how rivers, canals, and railroads spurred the rapid rise of Illinois as a modern state. In this book, Marx and Overturf bring history into the present by including over forty photographic portraits and written profiles of individuals who live along these routes today. Many of the people you will meet on these pages work to preserve and honor the history of these passages. Others profiled here embody the spirit of the old roads and provide a vivid link between past and present. Through this journey, we discover that we’ve all been traveling the same road all along.