Portrait Photography: Secrets of Posing & Lighting

by Mark Cleghorn

With easy-to-follow instructions and detailed photo sequences showing how to arrange lights and lighting accessories, this carefully structured course teaches all the fundamentals of portraiture, as well as a host of other creative techniques. It sets out everything the amateur needs to know to create a wide range of styles, from choosing the right equipment to composing the background to placing and positioning the subject for maximum effect. The basics of color and black and white, digital capture and film, and studio and location shooting all receive detailed attention, and helpful tips on mood-enhancing lighting will help raise novices’ skills to professional levels.

Genres: Photography, Nonfiction, Reference

128 pages, Paperback

First published April 28, 2004

Reviews

[Reem Saud]

Any portrature must read it

[Scott Vout]

I am building a basement studio and starting to do portrait work and I found this book to be a very good start in learning about light placement.

more learning to do but this was very helpful

[Alexandr Subbotin]

Базовая и нужная вещь.