Now completely updated this bestselling portrait photography guide from acclaimed author Mark Cleghorn features easy-to-follow instructions & detailed photo sequences that help photographers from beginners to aspiring professionals create compelling images. With tips on software studio lighting & equipment settings & locations poses & expressions & interacting with models Portrait Photography" covers every skill needed to master this creative medium." ...

Every person is unique & in this book youll find the skills to draw each persons unique facial features like the expression on their face or the years of experience held in their wrinkles. This books also features tips on drawing accessories like spectacles & hats. The How To Draw series takes a highly visual & practical approach to drawing featuring step-by-step instructions for each art project. Duotone lines highlight each step. Each title

Includes:: information on the drawing materials you can use & where to use them most effectively. Pencil pen crayon paints & charcoal & more are all covered in detail. The series covers a comprehensive range of rudimentary techniques
- with sections on materials composition & perspective. The How To Draw series is an excellent way to introduce the concepts of drawing to child & adult alike.


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This fascinating new book explores the world of portraiture from a number of vantage points & asks key questions about its nature. How has portraiture changed over the centuries? How have portraits represented their subjects & how have they been interpreted? Issues of identity modernity & gender are considered within a cultural & historical context. Shearer West uncovers much intriguing detail about a genre that has often been seen as purely representational featuring examples from African tribes to Renaissance princes & from stars such as David & Victoria Beckham to ordinary people. In the process she shows us how to communicate with the past in an exciting new way. ...

Portsmouth at War" tells the story of Pompey during the Second World War. These years saw great changes for the city & its people. Portsmouth also played an important part in the war at a national level. This book uses nearly 200 photographs to illustrate events in Portsmouth from 1939 to 1945 from the first days of war to the Blitz from D-Day to VJ Day also covering the post-war reconstruction of the city. Above all it is about the experiences of the citys people: air raid wardens nurses the Home Guard firemen war workers evacuees the Womans Voluntary Service those made homeless by bombing the armed services & many others. This book features photographs from the collections of Portsmouth Museums & Records Service many of which have never been seen before by the public." ...

The photographs in this fascinating collection enable the reader to explore the differences that passing time has wrought on the urban landscape of Portsmouth & Southsea & place unrecognisable scenes in context in place & time. Archive images including Victorian scenes Edwardian postcards & unique colour photographs from the 1960s & 70s are compared & contrasted with a similar view today. These absorbing images from professional & amateur photographers include many street scenes alongside subjects ranging from a military band at Clarence Barracks in the 1910s commercial shipping at the Camber in the 1930s Billy Smarts circus in the 1950s & Dockyard pickets in the 1970s. Portsmouth Through Time is sure to evoke a wealth of personal memories & interest to anyone who knows & loves the city & would enjoy a trip into its recent past. ...

Professor Saraivas multi-volume History of Portugal is a celebratedscholarly standard work. Yet when he published a one-volume Historia Concisa it proved a run-away best seller in Portugal & the televisionseries that went with it became a chart-topper. His latest book producedespecially for Carcanets Aspects of Portugal series is a history of hiscountry brief acute & illuminating written with scholarly insight andwith non-specialist foreign readers specifically in mind. To this main text Ian Robertson author of the well-known Blue Guide to Portugal has added a historical gazeteer brief biographies chronological tables maps & other elements which make this an essential Companion the sort of book that a reader in need of accurate brief andlucid reference will find useful & every visitor to Portugal will findrewarding. The book is generously illustrated. ...

Offering regional coverage of Spain & Portugal these maps are suitable for route planning. They show the primary & secondary road networks & include useful tourist features such as city maps scenic routes & time & distance information. ...

Most travellers want to have fun & feel relaxed from the moment they arrive at their holiday destination
- that's what Marco Polo
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Marco Polo maps feature completely up-to-date digitally generated mapping. The high quality cartography with distance indicators & scale converters aid route planning. The extensive coverage of the maps enables travellers to cross country boundaries with the same map. A fold-out overview map is ideal for route planning & 7 self-adhesive Marco Polo mark-it stickers can be used to pin-point a destination or route for future reference. Scenic routes & places of interest are highlighted
- ideal for touring holidays. Contains 5 city plans: Coimbra Lisboa A Coruna Braga & Porto. Comprehensive index. The map scale is 1: 300 000.
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Offering regional coverage of Spain & Portugal these maps are suitable for route planning. They show the primary & secondary road networks & include useful tourist features such as city maps scenic routes & time & distance information. ...