The Portrait: Understanding Portrait Photography

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Description

Glenn Rand, longtime photographic educator, and Tim Meyer, Lead Portrait Instructor at Brooks Institute, have collaborated to create a thorough and balanced textbook at the brand new techniques and practice of portrait photography. They’ve crafted a definitive resource for professionals, students, and avid amateurs wishing to advance their skills on this discipline.

Glenn and Tim begin by discussing lessons from the masters and the history of photographic portraiture. They build on this foundation and cover all the technical and aesthetic components of understanding and producing outstanding portraits. Extensive illustrations remove darkness from the concepts discussed, and the works of outstanding photographers serve as examples of find out how to apply the lessons on this book. This second edition offers even more illustrations and photographic examples and an expanded discussion about posing.

Topics include:

  • Quality of light and the portrait
  • Ambient, continuous, and strobe light sources
  • Understanding light modifiers and enhancers
  • Mastering lighting ratios
  • Importance and number of backgrounds
  • Extensive coverage of lighting setups
  • Understanding light meters and metering in portraiture
  • Lighting patterns at the human face
  • Facial analysis
  • Composition in portraiture
  • Posing for quite a lot of types of portraits
  • Eliciting appropriate expression
  • The fine art portrait
  • Portraiture for the masses
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