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By Glenn Rand,Tim Meyer

ISBN-10: 1937538575

ISBN-13: 9781937538576

Glenn Rand, longtime photographic educator, and Tim Meyer, Lead Portrait teacher at Brooks Institute, have collaborated to create a radical and balanced textbook at the sleek thoughts and perform of portrait images. they've got crafted a definitive source for execs, scholars, and avid amateurs wishing to improve their talents during this discipline.

Glenn and Tim start by way of discussing classes from the masters and the historical past of photographic portraiture. They construct in this beginning and canopy all the technical and aesthetic elements of realizing and generating awesome snap shots. wide illustrations remove darkness from the thoughts mentioned, and the works of remarkable photographers function examples of ways to use the teachings during this ebook. This moment version bargains much more illustrations and photographic examples and an increased dialogue approximately posing.

Topics include:

  • Quality of sunshine and the portrait
  • Ambient, non-stop, and strobe gentle sources
  • Understanding mild modifiers and enhancers
  • Mastering lights ratios
  • Importance and choice of backgrounds
  • Extensive insurance of lights setups
  • Understanding gentle meters and metering in portraiture
  • Lighting styles at the human face
  • Facial analysis
  • Composition in portraiture
  • Posing for numerous kinds of portraits
  • Eliciting applicable expression
  • The effective paintings portrait
  • Portraiture for the masses

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