Glenn Rand, longtime photographic educator and Program Director for Graduate Programs at Brooks Institute, and Tim Meyer, Portrait Division Chair at Brooks Institute, have collaborated to create a thorough and balanced textbook on the modern techniques and practice of portrait photography. They have avoided the single-style viewpoint common to so many books on portraiture and have crafted a definitive resource for professionals, as well as students and avid amateurs, wishing to advance their skills in this discipline.
Topics include:
Quality of light and the portrait
Ambient, continuous, and strobe light sources
Understanding light modifiers and enhancers
Mastering lighting ratios
Importance and selection of backgrounds
Extensive coverage of lighting setups
Understanding light meters and metering in portraiture
Lighting patterns on the human face
Facial analysis
Composition in portraiture
Eliciting the appropriate expression
The fine art portrait
Portraiture for the masses