People in Focus: How to Photograph Anyone, Anywhere

by Bryan Peterson

Offers practical advice on photographing people, discusses composition, light, and mood, and shows a variety of portraits

Genres: Photography

144 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1993

About the author

Bryan F. Peterson has been a full-time commercial photographer since 1981, shooting assignments all over the world for many of the Fortune 500 companies, including Kodak, UPS, and American Expiress. He is also a contract stock photographer for Corbis and Getty. He has been a contributing editor at Outdoor Photographer Magazine and is currently a contributing editor at Popular Photography and Imaging Magazine. Within the photographic community, he is most noted as the author/photographer of four best selling “how-to” photography books, Understanding Exposure, Understanding Shutter Speed, Learning to See Creatively and Beyond Portraits, with two new books due out in the spring of 2009, Understanding Close-up Photography and The Field Guide to Photography. He is also the founder and one of the instructors at the world’s number one on-line photography school, www.ppsop.net.

Reviews

[Meghan · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book isn't as good as the author's other book "Understanding Exposure". This book overlaps a lot in Understanding Exposure and the items that are not in Understanding Exposure are very elementary. There is a section on clothing where he states that what a person is wearing may be able to tell you that they are from another country. ?? Thank you for explaining!

There is a redeeming section in the back where he talks about stock photography. What kind of images generate the most income and he has an example of a model release which is needed to use people in stock photography.

[R. J · Rating 3 out of 5]

Usually I find tons of useful tips with Peterson's books. This particular book seems to go over techniques that he as already covered in previous books.