The Master Lighting Guide for Portrait Photographers is a very good book, the only thing keeping it from being a great book is the fact that 90 percent of the portraits are of single subjects. This is fine if your core business is High School Seniors or Composites of some sort, but maybe not so great for family or group photographers. The lighting styles are fun and some are a bit new and different. Many of the Lighting Patterns here are the old stand-bys of Butterfly and Rembrandt and the like, but these are classics that have to be covered…
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Monte Zucker’s Portrait Photography Handbook
Monte Zucker’s Portrait Photography Handbook tells how to take portraits like the recently deceased Master himself. It is filled with examples of his classic style and discusses in some detail the reasons why Monte Zucker did the things that he did. I like it, and not just because I like Monte’s pictures.I’ve been taking portraits for about ten years, my formal training involves the basics of turning the body at a 45 degree angle, tilting the head toward the camera for women, tilting it away for men, put the near hand on the knee and the far hand near the…
Don’t Tell My Child What To Do
Now, while a snarl looks kind of cute and cuddly on people like Elvis and Dick Chaney, when someone looks at you with hate in their eyes for no good reason, it can be a bit disturbing.In my career as a photographer I have taken hundreds of thousands of images. Some good, some bad, most good enough. A favorite subject of portraits is children. I have shot kids as young as two days old straight from the hospital. I have shot moody teens that hate the world. I have shot two year olds that don’t want to be there, they…