Digital Fashion Photography

by Chris Tarantino

Book Overview

Geared towards both professionals and people working to become professionals, this book offers essential instruction on digital fashion photography. With digital photography taking the industry by... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 159200525X
• ISBN13: 9781592005253
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Thomson
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.5" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

A 'must' for any aspiring neo-pro fashion photographer

Chris Tarantino's retouching of fashion photos have appeared in major magazines worldwide, and his co-author Ken Tan has been a fashion and glamour photographer for over 10 years, so the two together present a magical blend of practical experience and varied fashion photography backgrounds lending to an excellent step of step-by-step fashion shot techniques from pre-photo set-up to post-production. Lest you think this just another general guide - there are many techniques unique to the objectives of the fashion industry - so much is covered here which is simply unavailable in less focused photography titles. Digital Fashion Photography is a 'must' for any aspiring neo-pro fashion photographer.

Inspirational

This book is an excellent choice for anyone starting out in fashion photography. Importantly it's up to date digital wise which is sometimes a concern of mine. It features on the business side as well as the photography which is one of the most important things as most photographers are good at one but not always the other. Excellent.

Great step by step guide and fashion photography

[...] On a positive note, this book is full of useful tips that many photographers rarely want or think to share, from how to really replicate natural light in the studio to what goes through their minds when they make selections between images after shooting. I own dozens of photographic books that claim to show you how to set up shots but generally fail to deliver anything except "lighting diagrams" with no mention of what settings on the flashes and on the camera are needed to actually create the image - Digital Fashion Photography does all this and more. There are images from Vogue and cute vignettes of celebrities like Matt LeBlanc from the hit TV series Friends. For those looking for a photoshop tome, this is not the book for you. There are over half a dozen books focused on post-production, such as the hit masking book from Kartin Eismann. Digital Fashion Photography is about shooting the images, getting clients and working with models, all in a fashion context. And by the way, cold calling does work. I have been a professional fashion photographer for over a decade now and cold calling is how I started out - how else would you get to know designers and clients if they don't even know you exist and you are too green for the photo agents to pick you up. Overall a great read backed with great photography.

Beautiful Pictures, Great Ideas

This book starts off with a chapter called 'From Film to Digital.' It used to be that we all used view cameras. Then we put in Polariod film and shot until we got what we thought we wanted. Except that Polariod just didn't have the contrast, the lustre that real film had. Then we would switch to real film. And because we could never be sure we would shoot at the exposure we thought was right then under expose a couple, then over expose a couple in hopes of getting it right. (Anybody want to buy a view camera?) With digital, the LCD readout on the back or through the viewfinder is as perfect as it's going to get. You shoot a lot of pictures, but you vary the placement, the lights, you move things a bit. You can look for yourself or show your client the picture on a display immediately. You can save a few hundred shots on a CD-ROM and keep them forever. And the new DVD's are even better. Of course there's a chapter on selecting a camera. This book concentrates on the professional grade cameras, not the consumer point and shoot models. These SLR camers have more pixels, more features, etc. Next year the current models will all be obsolete, the features of the SLR will be down in the point and shoot and the SLR's will have even more. After these fundamental chapters, the next several chapters of the book are on shooting pictures of girls. How to select the model, how to position her, lighting, what props to use, a complete lesson on shooting for fashion. >Then it's to digital retouching to get the most out of an image. And finally some tips from a pro on how to make money in this business. <br /> <br />Fashion photography is a nice little niche of the photographic market. There are people even in small cities making a living taking fashion pictures for advertising. Why. Look at the ads in the paper, in catalogs, on billboards. <br /> <br />Somebody had to take those pictures.

Great Photography!

From the publishers of "When Pancakes Go Bad" (What sounds like a B-grade Horror movie, is a really cool Photoshop book) comes this lushly produced book on fashion phototherapy that's more coffee table book that how-to guide and that's a good thing. Oh sure, it's full of step-by-step tips on creating fashion photographs including planning, lighting, and postproduction, but it's the images themselves that will inspire you to use these techniques to create your own fashion photographs. While the illustrations may all be from the fashion genre there's no cookie cuter approach. All of the images from have their own unique style, which also makes the book a valuable resource. A unbeatable combination of minimalist text with BIG spectacular fashion imagery make "Digital Fashion Photography" a must have book.