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Fashion Photography Course: Principles, Practice, and Techniques: An Essential Guide

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There's nothing more dissapointing than a book that talks about lighting, shows great pictures, but leaves you with no clue of how the shots were created.. This is not one of those.. It provides a manual guide to acheiving desired looks and effects. Positioning of lights, flags, reflectors, and everything you need to recreate the picture shown. I like the authors intro and views on fashion and photography, and the soul searching is definetely something I've found myself doing as I invest in gear, invest my time, and push myself with no immediate return.. Highly recommended..

BOOK: Fashion Photography Course: Principles, Practice, and Techniques: An Essential Guide (Paperback)
by Eliot Siegel (Author)

RATING: 5 stars

FIRST IMPRESSIONS: After 30 minutes of browsing through hundreds of photography books in Borders, I was able to find this book Fashion Photography Course. I was pleasantly surprised as i did not know BARRON'S would publish such informative photography books.

Well after 10 minutes of sifting through the book, I was hooked. The structure of the information was very intuitive. Each showcased image details the Objectives of the main teaching points of the tutorial and what is required. The tutorial is clearly defined in the page, following Exercises to practice the newly learned lighting setup with reference to the Feature Boxes and Diagrams. Amazing amazing amazing job developing this book.

PROS:
-Easy reading
-Structured references
-Majority of showcased images are of high quality and execution
-One stop shop book about photography technique and how to penetrate the photography business.

CONS: None!


CONCLUSION: If you need a good quick reference photography book, I highly recommend this book. I often refer to this book before every shoot as a refresher course to lighting my subject and background. Check out my work at [...] and let me know if this book helped me or not. You be the judge.

This is a great book for anyone who wants to know from the basics to the advance of the fashion photography business. Its one of my top books on my photo bookshelf, the reading is not long and drawn out but gets right to the point.It covers everything from location to lighting to presenting your portfoilo and much much more. I can saftely said that its arguably one of the if not the best fashion photography book on amazon.

This is a great book for someone who is willing to learn the difficult curve to Fashion industry. It has lots of information and setups as well as how to create your own team and start your business.

Pay attention that this book has a different cover in UK Amazon http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fashion-Photography-Course-Principles-Successful/dp/0500287694/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_a but the contents are exactly the same.

I've read every book on the subject of fashion photography and this book has the most valuable information in it. It is not and doesn't pretend to be a book on lighting or how your camera works. It does tell you lots about the world of fashion photography though. Easy read and lots of info. The fashion photos in this book are also much better and more realistic of what you'll see in an actual fashion magazine than the books written on the subject (up until todays date of course Nov. 27 2010).

This book have a lot of examples for prepare a lighting set for portraits or shoot a fashion model but it doesn't have to much information of model posing. So if you want a very good book for fashion posing, this its not the book that you looking for. If you want examples of lighting set for posing then this book will help you.

I was recommended this book by fellow photographer Jennifer George. There is very valuable, precise information in here for quick reference and to study. GREAT photos for examples. Takes things a step further in my eduacation of lighting.

I'm a fashion stylist, and teach classes in fashion design. I recommend this to my students who are getting ready to shoot their own portfolio shots. It's well written, and the concepts are well presented in luscious photographs.

I don;t usealy BUY books on photography ( I see webcasts and such )
But this book was short and to the point
Good value for money

Can't say more than I am very much liking the richness informations in the book. I am not a beginner but a self thought photographer and the book just making me feel more confident of what I knew, and also learned a lot from it.