Digital Portrait Photography: Art, Business & Style (A Lark Photography Book)

Digital Portrait Photography: Art, Business & Style (A Lark Photography Book) Feature

• ISBN13: 9781600593352
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

Digital Portrait Photography: Art, Business & Style (A Lark Photography Book) Overview

Most amateurs dream of taking professional-quality portraits; Steve Sint can show them how. After shooting over a million portraits, he has a wealth of knowledge to share, on everything from the basics of good composition to the fine details of advanced lighting techniques. Sint simply delivers a complete course in digital portrait photography: he discusses set-ups and backdrops; the most flattering ways to pose both individuals and groups; tips on making the sessions fun and comfortable for everyone; and insider info on using electronic flash, both indoors and out.
For those hoping to go pro, an entire chapter offers all the nuts and bolts information needed to turn your passion into a career!

Customer Reviews

This book is one I purchased with Monte Zucker's book. I like them both. I find this one has a lot more information in it, but some aspects of the book are not done well. For value, this book beats Monte's book because it has so much information. For quality of presentation, editing and imagery, Monte's book makes this one turn red.

The cover photo, as someone else said, is rather obviously back focused... he focused on her ear, apparently, and the highlights are blown out. On top of that, it's not a portrait so much as it's a model portfolio pic. What's the difference? A portrait is showing you the person, and giving you some idea pf who they are. The portfolio pic is giving you an idea of how pretty they can be made up, but not showing you WHO they are. The difference is emotion versus looks, and this image is not a portrait by this (my) definition. It doesn't speak well of a book, in my opinion, when the cover image isn't properly focused, exposed or defined.

But it doesn't end there. Oddly enough, I can't find very many images at all in the book that were done by the author except for illustrative purposes... for instance, showing you what a highlight looks like when you're photographing a reflective surface using diffuser A, B or C. Huh? Why are the images from everyone else?

The text of the book is good. Meaty and informative. The book is definitely worth having for that, but several things about the book leave you wondering if it wasn't just rushed out the door without really paying much attention and doing it right.

So I have given this book 4 stars, because the information is good and well worthwhile, but the book as a whole isn't quite up to the level of polish and professionalism I would expect.

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