People in Focus: How to Photograph Anyone, Anywhere

by Bryan Peterson

Book Overview

For the shutterbug who wants to shoot better snapshots as well as the professional who wants to take better portraits, Peterson provides expert advice on photographing all kinds of people. Covers... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817453881
• ISBN13: 9780817453886
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Amphoto Books
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.3" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Bryan Peterson Is a good instructor

I really enjoy Bryan Peterson's book. His method is instruction is very easy to understand and well illustrated.

A wonderful useful book

As one who is really into photography...I highly recommend this book. It is an excellent survey of photographing people. I love candid and street photography and this book I found to have some wonderful ideas with regard to technique.

Excellent Photography book

Excellent book. I would recommend this to anyone interested in photography. The product was as described, in excellent condition and I received it quickly.

You won't offend people to ask them a model

How many times you want to take people photo and you're afraid? How many times you want to take people photo and you don't have camera? This book will answer your first question and give you many good reasons to have camera with you all the time. Many Bryan's photo will inspire you to have your camera for the next best shots. The important of people photography is the communication among "camera", , "situation", "photographer", and "model". Bryan shows you the optimal way to integrate all four factors for better communication of your people photography.

A comprehensive course

This may be the only book you'll ever need to read on the subject of photographing people outside of the formal portrait studio. This is a blessing, because very few books, good or bad, are available on this very important subject to amateurs and professional photojournalists. Peterson covers every aspect of taking pictures of people, including selecting subjects to photograph, approaching subjects, effects of different lighting, equipment and even some of the business aspects like model releases and stock photography. And, his images are wonderful. The only negative aspect - and this is present in most of his books - is that Bryan tends to forget that most people who read his book are not as well-travelled or equipped as he is. Many of the photographs were taken in exotic places abroad and he uses an expensive 300 meter lens for many of his shots. He has a reason for the latter, but let him explain. Take it with a grain of salt, and trust that you don't have to have such extreme equipment or go to such exotic places to get the results you want from following his instructions.