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Title: People in Focus: How to Photograph Anyone, Anywhere by Bryan Peterson ISBN: 0817453881 Publisher: Amphoto Pub. Date: December, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33
Rating: 5
Summary: You won't offend people to ask them a model
Comment: How many times you want to take people photo and you're afraid? How many times you want to take people photo and you don't have camera? This book will answer your first question and give you many good reasons to have camera with you all the time. Many Bryan's photo will inspire you to have your camera for the next best shots. The important of people photography is the communication among "camera", , "situation", "photographer", and "model". Bryan shows you the optimal way to integrate all four factors for better communication of your people photography.
Rating: 3
Summary: very helpful mainstream portrait photography guidebook
Comment: The book is loosely organised in chapters each covering one aspect of people-photography. Chapter introductions are rather mellow. It's really a large collection of example photos. Each one is elaborately discussed, including "the story behind" and technical info. Some of the photos are very good indeed. Most are mainstream pictures, however: technically perfect, but not quite inspiring. (Though I wish I could consistently obtain that level of quality myself.) Good book if you have time to read from A to Z and have a patient nature. Very valuable information can be gathered, but it's scattered throughout the book. I made a one-page summary myself.
Rating: 5
Summary: A comprehensive course
Comment: This may be the only book you'll ever need to read on the subject of photographing people outside of the formal portrait studio. This is a blessing, because very few books, good or bad, are available on this very important subject to amateurs and professional photojournalists. Peterson covers every aspect of taking pictures of people, including selecting subjects to photograph, approaching subjects, effects of different lighting, equipment and even some of the business aspects like model releases and stock photography. And, his images are wonderful. The only negative aspect - and this is present in most of his books - is that Bryan tends to forget that most people who read his book are not as well-travelled or equipped as he is. Many of the photographs were taken in exotic places abroad and he uses an expensive 300 meter lens for many of his shots. He has a reason for the latter, but let him explain. Take it with a grain of salt, and trust that you don't have to have such extreme equipment or go to such exotic places to get the results you want from following his instructions.
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Title: Understanding Exposure by Bryan Peterson ISBN: 0817437126 Publisher: Amphoto Pub. Date: November, 1990 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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Title: Learning to See Creatively by Bryan F. Peterson ISBN: 0817441778 Publisher: Amphoto Pub. Date: January, 1903 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers by Scott Kelby ISBN: 0735712360 Publisher: New Riders Pub. Date: 05 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: John Shaw's Landscape Photography by John Shaw ISBN: 081743710X Publisher: Amphoto Pub. Date: April, 1994 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The A-Z of Creative Photography: Over 70 Techniques Explained in Full by Lee Frost ISBN: 0817433139 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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