Product Description: Effective commercial portraiture is heavily reliant on clean, crisp lighting looks that emphasize color, contrast, contours, and texture to allow viewers of magazines, newspapers, television, and movies to view a product or model/celebrity in a precise and predetermined way that suits the overall marketing campaign and leaves viewers with a specific, conscripted feeling about the product /person being shown...read more

From the author of "The Women's Room" and "My Summer With George" comes a compelling memoir of her victory over esophageal cancer, and her virtual return from the dead.

Time-tested lighting strategies that will improve the quality of a portrait are detailed in this book and DVD package for beginning photographers. Terminology used by industry pros is explained, the equipment needed to create professional results is outlined, and the unique role that each element of the lighting setup plays in the studio is explored. Photographers learn how color, direction, form, and contrast affect the final portrait through the concise text, photo examples, and lighting diagrams. Enabling photographers to easily achieve traditional lighting styles that have been the basis of good portraiture since the advent of the art, this book and accompanying DVD is the perfect resource for anyone looking to elevate the quality of their images.

Product Description: Full of outstanding images created on real assignments, this book provides a valuable insight into the creative process of one of today’s top portrait photographers. In support of each portrait image is a setup image, an outtake image from the shoot, or both...read more

A guide to taking professional-quality digital portraits covers such topics as lenses, lighting, composition, posing techiques, outdoor portraiture, and image editing.

Product Description: The fundamentals of exposure and the essentials of lighting are explored in this photography reference that uses progressive images from portrait sessions as its basis of explanation. Starting with how light is perceived differently by the camera than the human eye, this resource clarifies the more complicated laws that govern light, breaking the rules down with clear, effective examples...read more

Product Description: "Tricks of the trade for professional digital photographers"--Cover.

The secrets of great portraits are shared with photographers at every level in this resource that includes sections on cameras, illumination, film and digital, lighting set-ups, creativity and conceptualization, connecting with the subject, and having a point of view. Original.

Product Description: Portraiture tends to rely on standardized, established lighting techniques, but most photographers know that subscribing to traditional methods does not always flatter every subject. The techniques collected in this guide will heighten the senses of mystery and drama in a digital photographer's work by enhancing shape and contrast, keeping images fashionable and appealing with less reliance on natural light, and illuminating a subject's eyes without producing catchlights...read more

In this instructional guidebook, photographers learn how to analyze light and take high-quality glamour photographs, with diagrams explaining how shots are set up, enabling photographers to choose the right equipment, set up their shots, and get results. Original.

Product Description: Use the photographic lighting techniques of the pros! Featuring a selection of beautifully presented shots by well-known professionals, this stunning guide explains how to select and use proper lighting when photographing models in glamour images for beauty, fashion, and lifestyle publications...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The analysis of the portraits in this book gives insight into how they were created and explains to studio photographers of all skill levels how to get the same great results. Carefully matching the pose to the subject of a photograph is a central lesson presented in this guide and ensures that the best portrait possible will be created to delight both client and photographer...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Secrets of lighting for photographing people. Learn how to control lighting in any situation, achieve consistent and accurate color, master natural and strobe lighting, mix and modify lighting, and more. Step-by-step exercises and techniques professional photographer Stephen Crain will help you achieve consistently outstanding results in advertising and portrait photography.

Light is the key element of photography, and understanding the principles of light’s color, temperature, intensity, direction, and quality is extremely important in taking quality photos. This book shows how to control these principles to achieve high-quality artistic and commercial photographs of people. The numerous examples and illustrations demonstrate set-ups and results, and the exercises provide practice on the techniques described. With the advice in this book for manipulating studio, strobe, reflected, background, and natural light, consistent results and situation adaptability will come easily to both the novice and professional photographer.

Product Description: From the author of "The Women's Room" and "My Summer With George" comes a compelling memoir of her victory over esophageal cancer, and her virtual return from the dead.

Product Description: Creating vibrant lighting effects and using special effects and dynamic poses are techniques that can mean the difference between simple black an whit photographs and memorable pieces of fine art. The author analyzes over 50 fine-art portraits, explaining what mix of photographic techniques made each a success...read more

Product Description: This revised and updated book concerns professional lighting techniques. It includes 90 new photographs and strategies for helping anyone, with a minimum of equipment, in a studio or out of doors, to take portraits of friends, family and commercial clients...read more