Light & Lens: Photography in the Digital Age, published by Focal Press, guides you in creating thought-provoking, digitally based photographs from start to finish. Whether you're a photography student in beginning to intermediate digital imaging courses, or a serious amateur photographer who wants to learn more about digital photography, "Light & Lens" will clearly and concisely provide you the instruction and building blocks necessary to create compelling images.

Author: Robert Hirsch    Classroom-Tested Assignments & Exercises    Inspirational Imagery on Every Page    Beginning or Intermediate Photo Students

Light and Lens covers the fundamental concepts of image-making; how to use today's digital technology to create compelling images; and how to output and preserve images in the digital world.

Light and Lens translates the enduring aesthetics of art photography into the digital realm. You'll view, capture and think about images from a new perspective.

Light and Lens Increases your ability to analyze, discuss and write about your own work and the images of others.

Exercises and assignments by leading digital educator are priceless; they send photographers on a personal journey that will end with a strong visual statement.

Whether you use a digital SLR or a point-and-shoot camera, you'll get new strategies to master composition, design and light.

With a balanced mix of contemporary and historical work that teaches the photographer with real-art visuals, view the full range of the digital terrain with stunning images and commentary by over 190 international artists.

Robert Hirsch is a renowned photographer, educator, historian and writer. His book credits include Photographic Possibilities: The Expressive Use of Ideas, Materials and Processes; Exploring Color Photography: From the Darkroom to the Digital Studio; and Seizing the Light: A History of Photography. He has had many one-person shows and curated numerous exhibitions. Hirsch has also conducted many workshops and interviewed eminent photographers of our time. The former executive director of CEPA Gallery, he is now the director of Light Research in Buffalo, New York, and on the Visual Studies faculty of University of Buffalo/The State University of New York.

Preface
1. Why We Make Pictures: A Concise History of Visual Ideas
2.Design: Visual Foundations
3.Image Capture: Cameras, Lenses, and Scanners
4.Exposure and Filters
5.Seeing with Light
6.Observation: Eyes Wide Open
7.Time, Space, Imagination and the Camera
8.Digital Studio: Where the Virtual Meets the Material World
9.Presentation and Preservation
10.Seeing with a Camera
11.Solutions: Thinking and Writing About Images
12.Photographer on Assignment

Addendum I: Safety
Addendum II: Careers

Related Questions and Answers

Q: 1. Where do you buy replacement hard drives for this model?

A: Any standard SATA III 2.5" or 3.5" hard disk drive (HDD) or solid-state drive (SSD) can be installed in this unit. Please note that if creating/using RAID sets, the drives installed must be of the same specification.

Q: 2. Does it work with windows ?

A: The ThunderBay 4 is not supported on a Windows computer. Please note that it is also not supported in Windows when running on a Mac in BootCamp.

Q: 3. Is it possible to create partitions on these drives? For example, for Mac, set up a partition for a time machine backup.

A: Yes, setting up partitions is possible.

Q: 4. Is the OWC Thunder Bay 4 compatible with MacBook Air mid 2013 model?

A: Yes, this unit has Thunderbolt 2 built in which is backwards compatible with Thunderbolt 1 which the computer has.

Q: 5. Does it come with the drives?

A: Per the description, the listing you are referring to: "This particular ThunderBay 4 model comes with four 6TBTB 3.5" 7200 rpm drives for a total of 24TB storage capacity."

Q: 6. Is it still 48TB when configured in RAID 5 array?

A: When the OWC ThunderBay 4 48TB 4-Bay Thunderbolt 3 RAID 5 Array (4 x 12TB) is set up for RAID 5 12TB of the total storage capacity of the array will be dedicated to parity data storage, so the total storage will appear as 36TB instead of the full 48TB.

Q: 7. What is the difference between this model (JBOD) and the slightly more expensive RAID 5 Edition? I realize the Raid 5 Edition comes pre formatted as a RAID 5. But it looks like you can format the cheaper option as a RAID 5 via disk utility. Is it just the SoftRAID software that comes with the RAID 5 edition? Which leads me to my second question, do you need SoftRAID to rebuild a lost disk and run the RAID 5?

A: The only difference is the RAID software. Apple RAID cannot create a RAID 5 array, it can only create RAID 0 and RAID 1. The latest Mac OS cannot create a RAID array at all, this feature was removed from Disk Utility.

Q: 8. Can I use this with two separate macbook pros? Not at the same time, but unplug from one, and use it on the second one? Or is it locked to just one, where you have the softraid installed?

A: The OWC ThunderBay 4 4TB 4-Bay Thunderbolt 3 RAID 5 Array (4 x 1TB) BH #OWTB3SRT040S can be used with any compatible Mac, it is not locked to the computer that has Softraid installed.

Q: 9. Is it possible to swap disk packs and preserve the data?

A: When configured in RAID 5 the OWC ThunderBay 4 can preserve data in the event of one disk failure at a time.

Q: 10. Do you know the read/write speeds for this in a RAID 5 configuration?

A: Sequential Read/Write (compressible data) Read: 585MB/s Write: 607MB/sSequential Read/Write (incompressible data) Read: 594MB/s Write: 548MB/s