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9 Tips Your Camera Manual Never Told You About Portrait Photography
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John Edmondson
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James Carren
About this listen
Do You Want to Learn How to Take Stunning Portraits Effortlessly?
Have you always loved the idea of portraiture photography, and yet have never been able to make a portrait you were completely satisfied with? This book will provide the help you have been seeking, and more!
Here Is a Preview of What You'll Learn:
- Different types of portraiture
- Photo history, and why you should be doing your research
- How to develop trust with your model
- What camera settings to use
- How to properly light a scene using natural, available, and studio controlled light
- What tools you can use to create any mood you want
- How to make the most of a pose
- How to take a successful self-portrait
- How to successfully photograph a group
- The basics of retouching
- Some more advanced techniques for those of you with prior experience or an adventurous spirit
- Techniques for use in more abstract or conceptual portraiture
- How to make a good print of your final image
This book will walk you through each of these procedures step by step, and with time, practice, and patience, you'll learn how to make a stunning, successful portrait both you and your model will be very satisfied with.
Additionally, despite being more geared toward the beginning photographer, this book should provide more insight and a fresh lesson for every photographer, no matter their skill level.
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Good but not great
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My first review. This book changed me.
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- biernact
- 11-09-19
Great information but really really short
Even the first minute is probably the most threatening and hostile legal introduction I have ever heard in a book. That just gets the story off on the wrong foot.
I would really love this book if it combined all his books into 1 large book, as it is: such a hassle and listening to an introduction with a legal threat for what should be chapters in 1 normal book. if all these books were actually chapters in a normal book, this would be 5 stars for sure. Great info, terrible packaging.
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- Amazon Customer
- 01-31-18
just nine tips
The narrating of this book is very good however the length and detail are lacking. this book is short and incomplete. the nine ideas are great but there needs to be more detail and examples for the listener to be able to grasp the concepts that are explained.
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- Brandy L Higgins
- 01-23-20
good read
this was a great review of portrait photography. im definitely going to be listening to it again to get the most out of his suggestions!
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- Wesley Lopez
- 02-08-22
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Touched on a lot of subjects kind of wished it was slightly longer though other than that no complaints
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- Jerry
- 12-19-19
Voice skips
It's good book but for some reason it skips parts of the book very often. When I rewind my default 10 seconds, sometí get to listen to what was skipped but then it will do it again in the next few seconds of the read. It's only happened to me with this book. I'm listening on a Samsung galaxy S8.
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- Kathryn J. Jones
- 02-01-23
Excellent!!
Instructions are easy to understand & most helpful. I also enjoyed the writing in composition & plan to read more.
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- Samuel
- 04-11-17
straight to the point!
I use this and other books like it to sit in an evening and take notes on what to do. This book is great for that. Although free of any embellishment and meager on idea expansion, I now feel like I can move in a confident direction in this field. And it only took 1 hour. I will continue to look for these types of books since this one was so helpful!
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