As far as sexy images of Paris Hilton go, Paris 2008 by Jonathan Yeo is pretty tame. Especially since the artist made the portrait by using pictures taken from porn magazines. I wonder if the pictures used for this collage were pictures of Paris Hilton from porn magazines? Jonathan Yeo got the idea for the collages after the cancellation of a commission by the White House for a portrait of President Bush in 2004. He made the Presidential Portrait, anyway, but in the form of a collage using bits of pornographic magazines. I think he should make a whole series…
Category: portraits
Master Lighting Guide for Portrait Photographers
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…
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…