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Corporate & Location Photography (Kodak Pro Workshop Series)

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This is just a wonderful book for anybody building a business as a freelance photographer. Gary tells you the inside stuff that many pros even keep from their assistants. The book loaded with real world examples of how problems get solved and how to steer your job planning to keep from getting in trouble later. If you're going to shoot outside your studio, then this book should put your mind at ease with strategies. He walks you through real problems with examples of how to avoid or get out of jams.

Gladstone teaches how to think your way through a job. The chapter on assistants is a much read if you're thinking of starting that way.

The visuals are great! Makes you want to run out and start shooting. I just love this book. Thanks Gary.

Walt Moon

Mr. Gladstone's book "Corporate & Location Photography" is an excellent tutorial on the ins and outs of corporate and location photography. From selecting and packing equipment, travelling, setting up on location, and dealing with executives, Mr. Gladstone covers all of the bases. His techniques for dealing with what could be mundane and even boring locations will help any photographer improve their work. Written in a very easy to read first person style, Gladstone teaches his suscessfull approach to dealing with exectives and managers alike. Doing the right thing to get the photo made in spite of mechanical problems or people difficulities. Packed with world-class photos and descriptions of the setups, this book is a practical guide to shooting on the road. Included are before and after shots of bad locations made exciting by Gary's approach to photography.

This work will inspire the reader to try new things on their very next shoot.

This book should find it's way as a present from anybody that has a photographer on their gift list.

It gives you hard won experience from a photographer at the top of his field. From what (and how) to pack for a travelling assignment, to making sure you get paid on time.

But not only that, Gary Galadstone gives you the benefit of his creative mind too. How to creatively shoot your way out of tricky situations. Turning potentially hopeless locations into great photographs.

I got the impression that Gary was trying to include as much as possible in this book. He could have left loads out and it would still have been a good book.

Just buy it, you wont be sorry. I'm sure I'm not the only person to have wished he had read it at the beginning of his career.

I found this book so generous with tips, codes of practise and his experience I felt I had to personally thank the author, and THAT doesn't often happen!

This book is full of helpful advice, the majority of the content not about how to take Photos, but how to organise your own business practically. There are a lot of excellent photos in this book, of course, accompanied by the small stories filled with the experiences of a real photographer. But what is even more important are examples of contracts, tips to plan your shooting and advice to get through it. I can highly recommend this book to everyone who is interested in becoming a corporate photographer and wants to know how to manage.

I am the author of The Location Photographer's Handbook and have been a photographer for thirty years.

This is THE book to have for guidance on corporate and location photography. Gladstone is synonymous with the subject and has written a work that is not only thorough and authoritative, but remarkably candid.

For the price of two rolls of film and processing, photographers can be armed with a secret weapon - the no-holds-barred, common sense strategies of one of the masters of the profession.

A very informative book especially for people wanting to get into corporate and location work. Starts from the basics on marketing, billing, assistants, and equipment. Excellent photos. Helpful on tips on lighting, working with people, with a sprinkle of humor thrown in throughout the book. A+++

This book tells it like it really is for professional photography done on location. It contains tons of very useful information that is not watered down by the publisher. Even an "old dog" like me learned new "tricks" from reading it.And...the "Mystery Lights" rock! Finally a photobook that has more than a pretty cover.

Worth the price of admission for "mystery lights," and "wrong film." You'll have to read it to know what I refer to!

Gary's book is chock full of useful information, with an inside view from a corporate photographer's perspective.

Definately a must-have!

Many times as I looked at your images I asked myself "how'd he do that?". You were one of the very few photographers I couldn't always figure out exactly how the photo was produced. In your book you not only explained in detail how you did it, but what you charged for it. You imparted more information in 160 pages than I gleened in all my college photography courses and all the books I've studies since that time.

This is one really good book on the subject of freelancing and location work. Maybe the best I've seen. The language Mr. Gladstone provides for getting advances has already paid off for me when I used it this week with a client. The chapter on shooting CEO's and executives is totally awesome in telling what the subject is thinking and how you should conduct the shoot. He even gives a great strategy for making it through the airline travel part of the job. What a lesson!