Rocky Nook imprint: 161 books
Tabletop Photography
Using Compact Flashes and Low-Cost Tricks to Create Professional-Looking Studio Shots
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Imagine capturing stunning, professional-looking product shots without needing a studio filled with expensive equipment and large flash units. This book teaches all the steps for creating your own tabletop photography studio.
Affordable compact flashes offer a number of creative lighting options...
by Darrell Young
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Mastering the Nikon D750 by Darrell Young provides a wealth of experience-based information and insights for owners of the new D750 camera. Darrell is determined to help the user navigate past the confusion that often comes with complex and powerful professional camera equipment.
This book...
by Juergen Gulbins, Uwe Steinmueller
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
The work that follows the capture of a photographic image - the workflow in the digital darkroom - has a significant effect on the quality of the final image. This workflow is often underestimated and neglected, leading to weak images and poorly managed image collections. The Digital Photography Workflow...
Photography as Meditation
Tap Into the Source of Your Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
For many people, photography serves as a form of meditation; a way to separate themselves from their stressful lives. In this book, Torsten Andreas Hoffmann explores an approach to artistic photography based on Japanese Zen-Philosophy. Meditation and photography have much in common: both are based...
The Expert Test Manager
Guide to the ISTQB Expert Level Certification
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
This book covers the ISTQB Expert Level Test Manager syllabus and is a complete, one-stop preparation guide for the reader who is otherwise qualified (based on experience as a test manager) to take the Expert Level Test Manager exam. Included are extensive hands-on exercises and sample exam questions...
Managing the Test People
A Guide to Practical Technical Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2007
Managing the Test People was written for managers, leads, and people who may soon find themselves in a technical leadership position. It focuses on some of the unique problems in the software quality assurance profession, yet the bulk of the book is applicable to any technical management job. It provides...
Software Testing Practice: Test Management
A Study Guide for the Certified Tester Exam ISTQB Advanced Level
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2007
Aimed at experts who are dedicated to software testing, The Software Testing Process: Test Management addresses the major issues related to advanced, state-of-the-art test management. This book covers the syllabus required to pass the Certified Tester Examination - Advanced Level as defined by the...
Testing in Scrum
A Guide for Software Quality Assurance in the Agile World
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
These days, more and more software development projects are being carried out using agile methods like Scrum. Agile software development promises higher software quality, a shorter time to market, and improved focus on customer needs.
However, the transition to working within an agile methodology...
The Software Test Engineer's Handbook, 2nd Edition
A Study Guide for the ISTQB Test Analyst and Technical Test Analyst Advanced Level Certificates 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
Many books cover functional testing techniques, but relatively few also cover technical testing. The Software Test Engineer's Handbook-2nd Edition fills that gap. Authors Graham Bath and Judy McKay are core members of the ISTQB Working Party that created the new Advanced Level Syllabus-Test Analyst...
Imaginarium
The Process Behind the Pictures
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Imaginarium: The Process Behind the Pictures is a compendium of practical advice and information covering the photographic process—from idea cultivation through execution. The guidance in this book is written with an understanding of the nature of artists at their core and explores the science...
Automotive SPICE in Practice
Surviving Implementation and Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
Automotive SPICE is a framework for designing and assessing software development processes. If implemented effectively, it leads to better processes and better product quality. It also helps to improve the cooperation among complex supply chains and between globally distributed development and engineering...
by Glenn Randall
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
The Art, Science, and Craft of Great Landscape Photography teaches photographers how to convert their visual peak experiences-moments of extraordinary natural beauty that evoke a sense of wonder and awe-into stunning images that elicit the same awestruck emotion in their viewers. Randall is an experienced...
Create Your Own Photo Book
Design a Stunning Portfolio, Make a Bookstore-Quality Book
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
These days, photographs live on hard drives and DVDs in the company of several thousand other images, coming to light on a computer screen only for a short moment, if ever.
In that respect our computer is a one-image-at-a-time exhibition of our photographic work. But as photographers, we like...
How Do I Do That in Photoshop?
The Quickest Ways to Do the Things You Want to Do, Right Now!
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Scott Kelby, the world’s #1 best-selling photography technique books author, is here with an entirely new concept in Photoshop books—one that’s designed from the ground up to get you straight to whatever it is you need to do in Photoshop right now, get your answer fast, and get you back to editing...