The Portrait Photography Course: Principles, practice, and techniques: The essential guide for photographers - Softcover

The ability to create an effective portrait is probably the single most important skill any aspiring photographer must master. Few professional photographers, whatever their area of specialization, can hope to have a successful career without ever being called upon to create a likeness of another person. The Portrait Photography Course is designed to build a student photographer's experience and get him or her started on a rewarding career. Detailed tutorials cover every aspect of studio and location work, from composition and psychology to complex lighting schemes, equipment options, and digital retouching. Portfolios of exemplary images showcase individual photographers' work and demonstrate techniques explored in the tutorials, while interviews with top portrait photographers shed insight into their methodologies and philosophies. Presented and written by a leading portrait photographer, this book is an indispensable guide to taking professional pictures.?

Mark Jenkinson, has been a professional photographer and instructor for over 25 years, has had his work appear in virtually every major magazine in the world, including Fortune, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Der Stern, andPlayboy, to name a few. Mark also works on personal fine-art projects and teaches photography at New York University's prestigious Tisch School of the Arts.