Showing posts with label Portrait. Show all posts
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Wednesday, May 2, 2012

500 Poses for Photographing Couples: A Visual Sourcebook for Digital Portrait Photographers

500 Poses for Photographing Couples: A Visual Sourcebook for Digital Portrait Photographers Review


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Designed to address the challenges of posing two subjects together, this visual sourcebook offers creative, evocative poses for a variety of two-subject groupings, including romantic couples, business partners, friends, and siblings. Through the inclusion of contemporary images from some of the world’s most accomplished photographers, shutterbugs will learn how to finesse poses to show the relationship between the subjects in the portrait. Grouped according to how much of the subject is included in the frame—from head-and-shoulder shots to full-length portraits—this manual is organized to teach compositional skills and how to direct the eye to points of focus within an image. An indispensible handbook for beginning, intermediate, or professional photographers, this book provides inspiration along with a plethora of images for igniting a creative spark.


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May 03, 2012 00:16:41
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Sunday, April 29, 2012

Portrait Photography: Secrets of Posing & Lighting (A Lark Photography Book)

Portrait Photography: Secrets of Posing & Lighting (A Lark Photography Book) Review


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With easy-to-follow instructions and detailed photo sequences showing how to arrange lights and lighting accessories, this carefully structured course teaches all the fundamentals of portraiture, as well as a host of other creative techniques. It sets out everything the amateur needs to know to create a wide range of styles, from choosing the right equipment to composing the background to placing and positioning the subject for maximum effect. The basics of color and black and white, digital capture and film, and studio and location shooting all receive detailed attention, and helpful tips on mood-enhancing lighting will help raise novices’ skills to professional levels.


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Apr 29, 2012 15:15:34
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Saturday, February 4, 2012

Portrait and Candid Photography Photo Workshop

Portrait and Candid Photography Photo Workshop Review


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The latest tips and tricks for capturing high-quality photos

Taking great "people pictures" isn't a matter of luck. The secret is in observing your subjects and connecting with them, and then using your camera to its best advantage. This new edition uses full-color photos to demonstrate how to work with lighting, location, angle, composition, physical characteristics, and environment in either portrait or candid situations. Professional photographer and veteran author Erin Manning offers invaluable advice for handling the unique challenges of photographing babies, large and small groups, and action.

Assignments at the end of each chapter encourage you to test your newfound skills, while visiting pwsbooks.com allows you to post your work and benefit from feedback and constructive criticism.

  • Explains how to study your subjects in their natural habitat, while you observe how they react and interact
  • Features invaluable advice from veteran author Erin Manning that shares simple techniques for improving photos of babies and children
  • Zeroes in on how to best capture facial expressions
  • Highlights ways to tell a story with a series of candid photos
  • Helps you add interest to large-group shots

When you apply the techniques featured on the pages of Portrait and Candid Photography Photo Workshop, 2nd Edition, you'll watch your subjects come to life.


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Feb 05, 2012 07:31:04
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Monday, December 19, 2011

500 Poses for Photographing Women: A Visual Sourcebook for Portrait Photographers

500 Poses for Photographing Women: A Visual Sourcebook for Portrait Photographers Review


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Next to lighting, posing is the most challenging aspect of photography—with so many body parts to capture, the possibilities are endless, and it’s all too easy to make a wrong turn. This illustrated reference provides both amateur shutterbugs and seasoned pros with the perfect place to turn when in need of quick posing strategies and fresh ideas. Containing 500 contemporary images by leading photographers, this indispensable manual explains posing fundamentals as well as how to create a flattering, feature-specific photograph—one that focuses on the head, shoulders, arms, torso, or feet—in different levels of close-ups, from head-shots to full-lengths.


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Dec 19, 2011 17:13:35
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011

The Best of Family Portrait Photography: Professional Techniques and Images

The Best of Family Portrait Photography: Professional Techniques and Images Review


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Artwork from 30 of the industry's top photographers is used to highlight both clear-cut shooting strategies and colorful, cutting-edge approaches to family portraiture in this handbook intended for idea gathering and inspiration. Advice on focal length, perspective, and maximizing the potential of digital equipment highlights the technical aspects of family portraiture while group posing strategies demonstrate how best to flatter each subject and convey a sense of family unity. A lengthy discussion of lighting—the backbone of portraiture—and the manipulation of shadows and highlights instructs photographers on how to create mood and interest in a variety of lighting scenarios, both indoors and out. Specifics on adjusting body lines, colors, and shapes, working with young children, and creating a comfortable atmosphere ensure that the photographer captures the unique personality of each family with dynamic and attractive images.


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Dec 15, 2011 09:16:36
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Monday, September 26, 2011

Lighting Techniques for High Key Portrait Photography

Lighting Techniques for High Key Portrait Photography Review


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Photographers will learn from a master the impact and beauty that can be created through the precision creation of high key portraits. In photography, the word key is used to describe the overall tonal range in which the photograph is created—including the background, subject, props, and clothing. If the tones are very light, the image is called “high key.“ Because photographers often neglect to consider the impact of creating images in a controlled key, many portraits fall short of their potential. This book provides helpful guidelines for selecting the best lighting equipment and light modifiers for efficiently creating high key portraits, as well as detailing techniques needed to select the perfect clothes and props for a high key portrait.


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Sep 27, 2011 08:10:35
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Friday, September 9, 2011

Posing for Portrait Photography: A Head-to-Toe Guide

Posing for Portrait Photography: A Head-to-Toe Guide Review


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Photographers learn how to gauge the needs of their clients before placing them into a stale, preconceived “women’s,” “men’s,” or “children’s” pose that hardly fits the client’s personality or preferences. Provided with a two-pronged approach to fail-safe posing, photographers learn first to determine what the mood of the portrait should be and how to use an appropriate posing genre—traditional, casual, glamour, or journalistic. Photographers are then shown how that genre can be used as a basis to produce a pose that best suits the client, allowing them to create dynamic yet natural-looking pose that the subject—and the intended recipient—will love.


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Sep 10, 2011 09:28:35
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Saturday, August 13, 2011

On-Camera Flash Techniques for Digital Wedding and Portrait Photography

On-Camera Flash Techniques for Digital Wedding and Portrait Photography Review


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With this guidebook, photographers learn how to create stunning, professional images while avoiding the common pitfalls of using an on-camera flash. Techniques for using simple accessories—such as bounce cards and diffusers as well as how to improve a lighting scenario by enhancing it rather than overwhelming it—show photographers how to master this challenging aspect of portraiture. For wedding and environmental portrait photographers who must work in ever-changing lighting scenarios, executing these tips to evade flat, lifeless images with harsh shadows, washed-out skin tones, cavernous black backgrounds, and other unappealing visual characteristics results in not only better images, but happier clients and more sales.


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Aug 14, 2011 02:06:34
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Thursday, July 7, 2011

The Portrait Book: A Guide for Photographers

The Portrait Book: A Guide for Photographers Review


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Professional photographers will increase the marketability of their images and achieve success with these tips for creating and marketing beautiful and unique portraits. With interviews from the visual editor of The New Yorker, Elisabeth Biondi; the Vibe magazine director of photography, George Pitts; and Susan White, director of photography for Vanity Fair, this book includes information that will help any photographer put his or her finger on the pulse of the editorial market's needs. Information on cameras; how to use filters for both color and black and white film; lighting and exposure; and strobes, light meters, contrast ratios, lighting ratios, and other techniques for controlling exposure round out this portraiture reference.


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