Portrait Photographer's Handbook

by Bill Hurter

Detailing equipment needed for professional portraiture and offering advanced darkroom techniques, this handbook contains everything needed to create top-dollar portraits. Tips are provided for selecting a camera, setting calibrations for every kind of portrait, and controlling the direction and intensity of light with modifiers. This updated edition illustrates each tip with 130 portraits from 20 of the industry's finest portrait photographers. This guide also offers advice for digital portrait photographers on exposure procedures, lens choice, and lighting ratios.

Genres: Photography

128 pages, Paperback

Published September 28, 2004

Reviews

[Sharada Prasad · Rating 3 out of 5]

It is definitely a good resource for portrait photography! I am a fan of candid photography, non-flash portraits. Unfortunately this book has very few pages covering such things.