The Portrait
Understanding Portrait Photography
1st Edition
Published on 1. December 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
IX, 187 pages
978-1-933952-46-8 (ISBN)
Description
Glenn Rand, longtime photographic educator and Program Director for Graduate Programs at Brooks Institute, and Tim Meyer, Portrait Division Chair at Brooks Institute, have collaborated to create a thorough and balanced textbook on the modern techniques and practice of portrait photography. They have avoided the single-style viewpoint common to so many books on portraiture and instead have crafted a definitive resource for professionals, as well as students and avid amateurs, wishing to advance their skills in this discipline.
Topics include:
- Quality of light and the portrait
- Ambient, continuous, and strobe light sources
- Understanding light modifiers and enhancers
- Mastering lighting ratios
- Importance and selection of backgrounds
- Extensive coverage of lighting setups
- Understanding types of light meters and methods of metering in portraiture
- Lighting patterns on the human face
- Facial analysis
- Composition in portraiture
- Eliciting the appropriate expression
- The fine art portrait
- Portraiture for the masses
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Santa Barbara
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Photographers,
Students,
Instructors
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 25.4 cm
Width: 20.3 cm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
570 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-933952-46-8 (9781933952468)
Schweitzer Classification
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Persons
Glenn Rand is an artist with internationally acceptance. His photographs are in the collections of more than two dozen museums and public collection in the United States, Europe and Japan. Included are the Detroit Institute of Art and the Kresge Art Center. He has also exhibited widely with exhibitions throughout the United States. Glenn has published and lectured extensively about photography and digital imaging ranging from commercial aesthetics to the technical fine points of Black and White photography. Books written include Black and White Photography and Digital Photographic Capture. Presently Dr. Rand is the program director of the graduate program at Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California. Photographer, educator and writer, Tim Meyer is passionate about the field of photography. With over 30 years as a professional photographer he currently serves as the Portrait Division Chair at Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, CA. while continuing to operate his custom portrait and wedding business. Holder of Professional Photographers of America's coveted Masters and Craftsman degrees Tim has also been awarded a Master of Arts degree in Fine Art Photography. As a member of Fuji Film Internationals Pro-Elite and Talent Teams, Tim lectures internationally and is a contributing editor to Rangefinder Magazine. In addition to numerous one-man exhibitions of his fine art work, Tim's photography has been internationally recognized for its innovative style and technique.