Studio Portrait Photography in Black & White: Techniques and Images

By David Derex

Book Overview

Studio portrait photography, unlike natural light or environmental portrait photography, offers photographers unparalleled opportunities to reflect the character and individuality of their subjects.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1584280298
• ISBN13: 9781584280293
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Amherst Media
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.6" x 11.1"

Customer Reviews

Amazing!

This is an amazing book! David Derex is an amazing photographer!

The Photographic "Magic" is Explained in Clear Terms

As a 30-year veteran art director for print and web, I understand how "technical" traditional studio portraiture can become. Renowned photographer, David Derex, has give us "doable" understandable examples of lighting and "moment" capturing. Derex's subjects fill parts of his camera frame in ways which trained designers admire; the forms enhance the communication by their basic shapes. "Expressive" individuals reveal themselves "emotionally" during the exposure. Spontaneity, combined with "expert lighting" and experienced encouragement of the photographer, create images which will outlive us all. This book's wording is pithy, direct and clear in message. I felt present in the studio during the shoot at times. If you are looking for an excellent book on studio portraiture, which shows lighting configurations and tells the "technical tricks" which made the shot "work," then this is the book for you.