Shooting Portraits on Location: Professional Techniques for Photographing People in Their Surroundings

by Lisl Dennis

A complete guide to taking professional photographic portraits without a professional studio. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817458751
• ISBN13: 9780817458751
• Release Date: May 1985
• Publisher: Amphoto
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A hidden gem

Lisl Dennis wrote this in 1985. On-location portraiture gives you a wonderful sense of the person in their surroundings. For example, a person with their collection of hats, or a little girl with her collection of dolls. There is even a portrait of Carly Simon with a great story about how Lisl got the shot for Town & Country magazine. It has some great examples of how to bring out the person in their element. For those situations where additional lighting is used, it has actual lighting diagrams, and most of the lighting setups use umbrellas (inexpensive) rather than fancy photo-strobe units. A few of the images are too busy for my tastes, but that reflects the person in their element. Topics Include: Location portraiture Styling elements Personality of color telling environments still-live creative composition impromtu basics thinking fast ... kids family and many more... A great gem for the price.