Christopher Grey's Lighting Techniques for Beauty and Glamour Photography: A Guide for Digital Photographers

Christopher Grey's Lighting Techniques for Beauty and Glamour Photography: A Guide for Digital Photographers Review

Incorporating several categories of beauty photography—maternity, fitness, boudoir, Maxim style, Goth glamour, and fetish glamour—this guide describes the artistic and technical nuances of each genre while teaching posing and compositional techniques. Explaining how to choose popular lights and modifiers, the guide helps novice and professional photographers create stunning portraits with mood and personality that highlight the most desirable aspects of the subject. A series of case studies from portrait sessions and detailed diagrams for recreating the shots are also included.

David Busch's Sony Alpha SLT-A77 Guide to Digital Photography

David Busch's Sony Alpha SLT-A77 Guide to Digital Photography Review

DAVID BUSCH'S SONY ALPHA SLT-A77 GUIDE TO DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY is your best bet for getting the most out of your Alpha SLT-A77. The A77 is the first pro-level Sony camera to feature their successful "translucent mirror technology," which allows for simultaneous focusing and shooting; it also sports a 24MP sensor, 2.4MP electronic viewfinder, and a host of professional features. Now, with David Busch as your guide, all the unique powers of the Sony Alpha SLT-A77 will be at your command, so you'll always be in full creative control, whether you're shooting on the job, as an advanced hobbyist, or are just out for fun. With clear how-to steps and full-color illustrations, DAVID BUSCH'S SONY ALPHA SLT-A77 GUIDE TO DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY covers all the features of this remarkable camera in depth, from taking your first photos through advanced details of setup, exposure, lenses, lighting, and more, and relates each feature to specific photographic techniques and situations. Start building your knowledge, creativity, and confidence with the Alpha SLT-A77 today.

Fashion Flair for Portrait and Wedding Photography

Fashion Flair for Portrait and Wedding Photography Review

Fashion Flair for Portrait and Wedding Photography teaches photographers how to take the concepts of fashion photography (including preparation, styling, props, lighting, posing and post-processing) and apply these techniques to their portrait and wedding photography. By adding fashion flair to their work, photographers can distinguish themselves from their competition and demand a higher price for their images and creativity. Fashion photographers use preparation, styling, props, lighting, posing and post-processing techniques to achieve the desired visual effects in their high-end shoots. Yet these very same techniques can be applied to the images of portrait and wedding photography to create outstanding work that will differentiate a photographer from the competition. Clients want to feel like they are models, and live in a fantasy and this book will help them feel edgy, striking and high-end through a unique approach to their portraits. This book is not about becoming a fashion photographer - it is about using fashion photography techniques for successful portrait and wedding photography.

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Stoppees' Guide to Photography and Light: What Digital Photographers, Illustrators, and Creative Professionals Must Know

Stoppees' Guide to Photography and Light: What Digital Photographers, Illustrators, and Creative Professionals Must Know Review

Brian & Janet Stoppee have incorporated their decades of daily, hands-on expertise at image-making plus their leading seminars and one-on-one training into the most comprehensive guide to photographic lighting available!

Its impossible to be successful in photography without a mastery of light. Its the basis of all things photographic. The Stoppees welcome the reader into their professional world with a conversational tone that makes you feel as if you are a member of their team in pre-production planning, out on a shoot, or back at their studio, in post-production. Theyve packed the book with full color, vibrant images and lighting diagrams that make the technology easy to quickly understand. This compendium of professional know-how shows you how to both manipulate natures light and create natural-looking illumination with artificial light sources. Whether youre a professional photographer, you use photography in your profession, or you just want your images to look more professional, this book is your resource to creating far superior digital images.

Youll gain a greater understanding of:
Lights Properties
Digital Exposure
Optics
Metering
Color
Pre-Production
Adobe Camera Raw
Scanning
Light Modifying Tools
Support Systems
Daylight Fluorescent
HMI
Wireless Battery Flash
Digital Studio Flash
Digital Tablets
Painter
Professional Printing
...and much more, just like the worlds top image-makers.

The Stoppees darkroom is all digital, so without this guide to photography and light, youll be left in the dark ages!

David Busch's Canon EOS 60D Guide to Digital SLR Photography

David Busch's Canon EOS 60D Guide to Digital SLR Photography Review

David Busch's Canon EOS 60D Guide to Digital SLR Photography Feature

• Shows readers how to master all the features and functions of the EOS 60D, Canon's replacement camera for the 50D model
• Clear instructions that cover the how, why and when and beautiful, full-color images will quickly help readers get familiar and comfortable with their camera
• Written by working photographer and #1 best-selling camera guide author who understands digital photography with digital single lens reflex cameras

The 60D is Canon's new, sophisticated yet affordable advanced dSLR, featuring 18 megapixel resolution, an articulated color LCD, super fast continuous shooting frame rates, and an advanced exposure metering system. As the owner of the Canon EOS 60D you demand the ability to take outstanding pictures with your new camera, and want to learn how quickly. DAVID BUSCH'S CANON EOS 60D GUIDE TO DIGITAL SLR PHOTOGRAPHY shows you how, when, and most importantly why, to use all the cool features, controls, and functions of the 60D to take great photographs of anything. Introductory chapters will help you get comfortable with the basics of your camera before you dive right into exploring creative ways to apply flash synchronization options, choose a lens, and fine-tune exposure. Beautiful, full-color images illustrate where the essential buttons and dials are, so you'll quickly learn how to use your 60D, and use it like a pro!

Posing for Portrait Photography: A Head-to-Toe Guide

Posing for Portrait Photography: A Head-to-Toe Guide Review

Photographers learn how to gauge the needs of their clients before placing them into a stale, preconceived “women’s,” “men’s,” or “children’s” pose that hardly fits the client’s personality or preferences. Provided with a two-pronged approach to fail-safe posing, photographers learn first to determine what the mood of the portrait should be and how to use an appropriate posing genre—traditional, casual, glamour, or journalistic. Photographers are then shown how that genre can be used as a basis to produce a pose that best suits the client, allowing them to create dynamic yet natural-looking pose that the subject—and the intended recipient—will love.

The Photographer's Blogging Book: The Easy Way To Build Your Blog and Start Attracting Traffic To Fill Your Photography Business With Customers

The Photographer's Blogging Book: The Easy Way To Build Your Blog and Start Attracting Traffic To Fill Your Photography Business With Customers Review

Are you using the Internet in the best way possible to find customers for your photography business?

Things have changed over the past few years in the marketing world. While traditional marketing tools can still be used to find clients, increasingly people are turning online to find, connect and hire their photographers. And if you aren’t there – your competition will be.

In The Photographer’s Blogging Book, professional photographer Lori Osterberg reveals the secrets to becoming a successful blogger in your chosen photographic niche. Inside this guide, you’ll discover:

* How to set up your blog the right way
* Tools and resources to give your blog more functionality
* Blog writing tips on how to attract readers
* Selling techniques
* Secrets of successful bloggers
* And more

Whether you are looking for a new way to market your photography business, or are expanding and want a new, fresh way to make money with your photography online, this book will be your reference guide into the world of blogging.