The Naked and the Lens is designed as both a technical guide and an artistic inspiration. Filled with beautiful images of the nude form, it also shows you how this can be technically achieved. The book covers key topics: concept, lighting, directing, post-production, and artisic re-interpretation and how to find models. Legal and photo release issues are covered as well.
The techniques are up-to-date, including Photoshop CS4, RAW capture and shooting with a gray card to capture accurate white balance information. The lighting section will also show how to get studio quality light from hot-shoe flashes by adapting them to umbrellas and soft boxes.
Regardless of whether you are shooting in a studio or in a field, this book will show you how to create works of art with nude bodies and it will also teach through advice in a unique interview section with leading nude photographers around the world through their words and their images.
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Finding a worthwhile text on the subject of photographing nudes can be as daunting and, ultimately, disappointing as finding a good cup of coffee in an unfamiliar locale. Focal Press has produced a book that can save photographers of any ability level precious searching time so that he/she can be out shooting instead. The Naked and the Lens is a paradoxically concise yet digestibly complete examination of nude photography that treats the subject matter with rightful professional respect. It strikes an uncommon and welcomed balance between the unwieldy and haughty tomes on this subject and the pamphlet-like publications whose cookbook approaches fail to provide critical context. A resourceful guide for photographers of the naked/nude form, The Naked and the Lens provides historical, technical, and practical information yet manages through careful image selection and unassuming writing style to be effectively engaging such that the reader may find it useful to keep a Post-It note pad at arm's reach!
"Rather than a photographer, I consider myself an artist who uses a camera. The Naked and the Lens is a book I would not only appreciate having in my library, but I would actually purchase it to give to amateur and professional photographer friends of mine for their own collections. It'll be dog-eared in no time!" - Charles Laurier Dufour, Fine Art Nude Photographer, www.du4photo.com
"As an experienced fine art nude photographer, I found the The Naked and the Lens to be a very comprehensive look on the subject. It covers the gamut from the basics of photography as applied to this genre to finding models and how to work with them to achieve the results you want. I use many techniques mentioned to achieve my own artistic vision. As someone who has moved from the film to digital world, I especially appreciate the emphasis on digital techniques in camera and post processing. I even learned some new techniques! I highly recommend the book to both new photographers starting to explore nude photography as well as experienced ones to refresh your knowledge on nude photography as an art form, or learn something new if you are exploring digital camera or post processing." - Eric Scott, Fine Art Nude Photographer, www.ericscottfoto.com
"[A] must for any photography library." - Midwest Book Review
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Für Beruf und Forschung
*Student and amateur photographers who want to begin shooting art nudes, at all levels of photographic experience. <BR id="CRLF">*Photographers who are already shooting nudes, but want to enhance their studio lighting or post-production skills. <BR id="CRLF">*Photographers looking for creative inspiration.
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Höhe: 279 mm
Breite: 203 mm
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ISBN-13
978-0-240-81159-8 (9780240811598)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Lou Benjamin teaches a variety of technique courses at The International School of Photography.
Autor*in
Louis Benjamin is a photographer specializing in fine art and portraits, and writer who teaches at the International Center of Photography in New York.
~ TABLE OF CONTENTS ~
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Preface
PART I - CONCEPT
Chapter 1
Gallery
Chapter 2
Undressing Fine Art
Chapter 3
The Body Itself - A Survey of Modes
Chapter 4
The Nude in Context
PART II - PULLING IMAGES APART
Chapter 5
Light, Shadow, Color, and the Qualities of Lighting
Chapter 6
Composition
Chapter 7
The Camera is Not an Eye
PART III - MAKING IMAGES
Chapter 8
Working With Models
Chapter 9
The shoot
Chapter 10
Digital Technique
PART IV - EXPLORING THE PRACTICE
Chapter 11
Interviews:
Barney Cokeliss
Robert Gregory Griffeth
Nina Pak
Saelon Renkes
Pascal Renoux
Pet Silvia
Tobias Slater-Hunt
Harvey Stein
Mayumi Yoshimaru
CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
