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Make-Up Techniques for Photography

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I have over 40 books on make up and this is surely the worst one I have bought.The title is completely misleading and there is very little of substance.Basic make up techniques with reference to various lighting techniques as well as color light relationship is not mentioned.Fundamental things like colour theory which is so essential to make up and photography is not mentioned in the book.This book is just one of the many mediocre titles available on make up.I would not recommend this book to anyone but if you wish to waste [price] feel free to order the title.

This is, at best, a poorly done book. As a professional photographer, I thought it would be helpful for me to know a little more about makeup. This book has the basics, but the example photos don't look particularly impressive and the writing seems carelessly or hastily written.
There don't seem to be a lot of books on makeup for photographers, but I didn't think this book was worth the price.

I recently checked this book out at the library. Thank God I did before I bought it. It should instead be titled, "Makeup application for little girls that think lipstick all over the face is a good look." It would have been more accurate.

If I was the author of this book, I would be ashamed of some of the images. He obviously didn't look closely at the photos that were supposed to be representative of what he was writing about. The eyeliner is jagged and not close to the eye. The foundation is oily and dirty looking. The child's clown makeup looks like she probably put it on herself.

This book is a waste.

As a professional portrait photographer, I thought it would be helpful to have a better understanding of the differences in applying make-up for a normal social setting, and a photography shoot. What a disappointment this book was! In addition to being poorly written and redundant from page to page, it didn't offer any information that any female over the age of 12 doesn't already know. I think we all know that we should wash our faces every day. And the make-up depicted in the photographs was very poorly done--my 14 year-old daughter does a better job of applying eyliner than their so-called expert. Even the photography itself was not impressive. And most of the make-up styles shown were very dated. All in all, it was a complete waste of my money, and of the 30 minutes of my time it took to read it.

This book was empty as far as knowlege and techniques for a makeup artist. I would also assume for a photographer as well.