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Lights, Camera... Nude!: A Guide to Lighting the Female Nude for Photography
Use Light to Photograph Nude Female Models
This guide shows you how to use light to photograph nude female models and create various moods and effects. From the plainspoken to the artistic, each lighting configuration is diagramed in painstaking detail. Learn the art and skill of using light and controlling shadows from the author of True Confessions of Nude Photography. For those who loved the lighting section in the first book and want even more, this follow-up book concentrates purely on Nicholas' nude lighting style with updated images, text and diagrams.
More than just studio lighting. From indoor to outdoor, studio to location, you'll learn what can be achieved and how to make it work for you. From just one light in a small room, to elaborate creative setups, everything is described.
Shoot Great Nude Photos
Photos you can actually create yourself. If you think that great photos require expensive lights, an enormous studio, and a team of assistants, this book will debunk that misconception. You may be surprised at how many ways you can shoot great nude photos you'll be proud of without breaking the bank. And there's plenty more you can accomplish if you do want to invest a few well placed dollars on some moderately priced equipment. This book doesn't promise that learning is easy or quick - your results will be based on your level of effort, but it is easier and quicker with a guide.
18 Lighting Setups with Diagrams
There are sections on Equipment, Lighting Exercises, Lighting problems, Outdoor lighting, Studio Lighting. The lighting setups include the use of softboxes, umbrellas, snoots, gels, booms, diffusers, parabolic reflectors, water nudes, and a beauty dish. Techniques include isolation, backlighting, accent lighting, and fill light. Lights Camera Nude! includes an 18 lighting setups and over 80 example photos as well as a link to online bonus material exclusively for readers.
18 models, 80+ example photos, 100 pages, approximately 14,000 words of text.
This guide shows you how to use light to photograph nude female models and create various moods and effects. From the plainspoken to the artistic, each lighting configuration is diagramed in painstaking detail. Learn the art and skill of using light and controlling shadows from the author of True Confessions of Nude Photography. For those who loved the lighting section in the first book and want even more, this follow-up book concentrates purely on Nicholas' nude lighting style with updated images, text and diagrams.
More than just studio lighting. From indoor to outdoor, studio to location, you'll learn what can be achieved and how to make it work for you. From just one light in a small room, to elaborate creative setups, everything is described.
Shoot Great Nude Photos
Photos you can actually create yourself. If you think that great photos require expensive lights, an enormous studio, and a team of assistants, this book will debunk that misconception. You may be surprised at how many ways you can shoot great nude photos you'll be proud of without breaking the bank. And there's plenty more you can accomplish if you do want to invest a few well placed dollars on some moderately priced equipment. This book doesn't promise that learning is easy or quick - your results will be based on your level of effort, but it is easier and quicker with a guide.
18 Lighting Setups with Diagrams
There are sections on Equipment, Lighting Exercises, Lighting problems, Outdoor lighting, Studio Lighting. The lighting setups include the use of softboxes, umbrellas, snoots, gels, booms, diffusers, parabolic reflectors, water nudes, and a beauty dish. Techniques include isolation, backlighting, accent lighting, and fill light. Lights Camera Nude! includes an 18 lighting setups and over 80 example photos as well as a link to online bonus material exclusively for readers.
18 models, 80+ example photos, 100 pages, approximately 14,000 words of text.
- GenresPhotography
96 pages, Paperback
First published December 18, 2010
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May 10, 2022
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August 25, 2012“Exquisite Curves” starts with a stunning photo followed by another stunning photo, and so on. Whether the reader is a photographer or uses pen and ink, paints or any other medium for her / her craft, the tips and lessons here are indispensable.
The book has quite a few exercises to help the reader understand the importance of composition. None are formal, but all serve to show important aspects of making a photo a piece of art rather than a snapshot.
Explore the elements of composition, which ones have most impact, how and where to find and use them. What is the importance of curved lines? Learn the “language” of different types of lines.
Discover the Mach Effect and how to use it to your advantage. See how different shapes add different meaning and emphasis to your composition. Understand how to use them so your image is conveying what you want to the viewer.
Another element that can be so obvious as to be overlooked is the importance of color, and its accuracy. A photographer can spend some time during set up to minimize editing or spend countless hours afterward making everything look right. Learn the tools to use at the beginning in order to be more efficient with your time overall.
Light, weight and mass are discussed and demonstrated, any of which can be your best friend or worst enemy as elements of the composition of your photo. The author offers great tips to help overcome the less-than-perfect qualities of a model whether poor skin tone or short legs.
Once you have read “Exquisite Curves”, you will want to experiment with the many parts of composition. You will be able to define various pathways and perspectives and convey different feelings with each pose within the composition.
See examples of what different types of lenses and focal points produce, and learn how to get those same results yourself.
There are loads of tips for digitally enhancing and processing the photos you take. Whether you want a vignette, want it monochrome, want to go abstract…you name it, it’s in here.
Discover the difference between someone who takes pictures, a photographer and a true artist whose medium is photography.
The whole idea is to take the best pictures possible, improve them when necessary but ultimately, be yourself, let your style shine through it all. It is all about being your personal best and doing your personal best work.
The book has quite a few exercises to help the reader understand the importance of composition. None are formal, but all serve to show important aspects of making a photo a piece of art rather than a snapshot.
Explore the elements of composition, which ones have most impact, how and where to find and use them. What is the importance of curved lines? Learn the “language” of different types of lines.
Discover the Mach Effect and how to use it to your advantage. See how different shapes add different meaning and emphasis to your composition. Understand how to use them so your image is conveying what you want to the viewer.
Another element that can be so obvious as to be overlooked is the importance of color, and its accuracy. A photographer can spend some time during set up to minimize editing or spend countless hours afterward making everything look right. Learn the tools to use at the beginning in order to be more efficient with your time overall.
Light, weight and mass are discussed and demonstrated, any of which can be your best friend or worst enemy as elements of the composition of your photo. The author offers great tips to help overcome the less-than-perfect qualities of a model whether poor skin tone or short legs.
Once you have read “Exquisite Curves”, you will want to experiment with the many parts of composition. You will be able to define various pathways and perspectives and convey different feelings with each pose within the composition.
See examples of what different types of lenses and focal points produce, and learn how to get those same results yourself.
There are loads of tips for digitally enhancing and processing the photos you take. Whether you want a vignette, want it monochrome, want to go abstract…you name it, it’s in here.
Discover the difference between someone who takes pictures, a photographer and a true artist whose medium is photography.
The whole idea is to take the best pictures possible, improve them when necessary but ultimately, be yourself, let your style shine through it all. It is all about being your personal best and doing your personal best work.
October 29, 2013
AS A PHOTOGRAPHER AND ARTIST, BOOKS LIKE THIS ARE QUITE HELPFUL, IF PHOTOGRAPH AND DRAWN SO MANY LADIES THAT NOW AFTER RETIRING,,,
I STILL MISS IT. THERE IS NOTHING IN THE WORLD THAT COMPARES TO A NAKED LADY. NO MUSEUM PIECE OR NAKED STATUE OF A DUDE COMES CLOSE.
I STILL MISS IT. THERE IS NOTHING IN THE WORLD THAT COMPARES TO A NAKED LADY. NO MUSEUM PIECE OR NAKED STATUE OF A DUDE COMES CLOSE.
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