Portrait Photographer's Handbook

by Bill Hurter

A fully comprehensive guide for portrait photographers, this new handbook features the work of twenty professional photographers that illustrates a wide range of styles and techniques. Illustrated... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1584280433
• ISBN13: 9781584280439
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: Amherst Media
• Length: 125 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.5" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Concise conceptul background.

This book is quite good to understand the philosophy of taking great portraiture. Written in very simple language without any sophisticated jargons, reading and understanding what the author explains was a joyful experience. The negative side to me is that I need a more technical how-to. From selecting brands, understanding specification, to parameters used in achieving the brilliant sample pictures. This way it will be easier for me as a newcomer to try the myself and start to explore further.

Want instant improvement on your photos - read this book

I struggled with getting the pose and light right for a long time. Most of my shots were, well, like I'd do at home with the family. After employeeing some of these basic elements of posing and lighting, my images look like they were inteded to be - professional. The reading is easy, but for a beginning professional photographer, the tips were ground breaking for me.

Just what I need.

I bought this book a couple of months ago with the preconception that it would be just another step-by-step approach to portraiture,I'm so glad I was wrong,this book gives a fantastic insight to the world of portrait photography with masses of information both from the author and contributing photographers including none other than Monte Zucker.I find this book a valuable scource of reference and inspiration and I open it and look through from time to time when I'm short on ideas for an upcoming project and it does n't disappoint.