Keep Looking
|
|
I found this book boring and uninspiring, it was very dated as were the pictures. There were no real examples and no illustrations with lighting, which you would think fundamental in portrait photography. I was going to give this book a good review just so I could re-sell it, but I could not do it.
|
|
Still in the dark
|
|
This is a book with a message: Posing is difficult and takes a long time to learn. Fair enough, but one would have hoped that reading this book would somewhat shorten that time! However, it is very short on any real advice. Instead it is full of verbose smalltalk praising the author and patronising any apprentices he's had, and, between the lines, you the reader. Maybe there's some real knowledge to be gleaned from this book, but it certainly isn't worth its money.
|
|
Recommended for newbies to portraits
|
|
Been photographing for a while, but getting into digital and interested in people photography now. My only criticism of the book is that it's very focused on females. A lot of the basics are the same, but the models are almost exclusively females - primarily young adults (the author's primary client base). I would still have bought it knowing this, but if you're looking for how to photograph young children and want pictures of them in the book, this may not be the book for you.
|
|
|
United States | 
United Kingdom | 
Canada