Part-Time Glamour Photography: Full-Time Income [Paperback]

Joe Farace (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1999

100 pages in color & 10 b/w illustrations! The ultimate manual to turning glamour photographs into a lucrative salary! Shutterbugs will channel creative talents into a commercially viable and financially rewarding career. Featuring a start-to-finish, proven success ladder and valuable advice from expert glamour photographers, this guide reveals how to find beautiful and talented nude models, take tasteful and sexy photographs using minimum equipment, directly market centerfold photographs worldwide, and cash in on huge profits. With newly honed technical and marketing skills, tap into the tremendous demand existing for high-quality, centerfold photographs. Trim size: 8 1/2 x 11.

Product Details

• Paperback: 136 pages
• Publisher: Silver Pixel Pr (September 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1883403499
• ISBN-13: 978-1883403492
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,018,047 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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24 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best I have read on the subject, December 15, 1999

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Don Stachowiak - See all my reviews

This review is from: Part-Time Glamour Photography: Full-Time Income (Paperback)

This excellent book, Part Time Glamour Photography: Full Time Income, by Joe Farace, is chock full of practical information. The subject is an area of photography I have worked in for a number of years, and having read any number of fine books on the subject, I can say that this book is by far the most practical and useful, providing answers to many vexing questions that have plagued me for years. The book is written in a clear, complete and engaging manner, and fills a need in the literature of this subject.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Read if You Know Nothing About Photog/Computers/Business, February 28, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Part-Time Glamour Photography: Full-Time Income (Paperback)

Reading through this book was very disappointing to me as a beginning photographer. The book does not deliver what is promised on the back cover or introduction. The author glosses over each topic but never actually gives any information that isn't already common knowledge. The computer information is very vague and outdated, the home business chapter spends time on balancing family/photo/part-time wants and not setting up in your home office specific to photography, the model posing and lighting section gives about five pointers that if you haven't already learned them -- you are really only just thinking of being a photographer, finding models has never been a problem so that part and the two "legal" contracts were useless to me. Keep searching there are bound to be more informative books on the subject. The book lacks focus in relation to the title. I feel like I got hooked by the title and didn't learn what I bought the book for.

17 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not at all useful, September 24, 2001

By 

Christopher A. Smith (Houston, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Part-Time Glamour Photography: Full-Time Income (Paperback)

The corny cover photo of a swimsuit model in mirrored sunglasses holding a seashell should have warned me to steer clear of this one.

If you're looking for a book to help you take better portraits then you'll find no useful information here. The book is full of large glossy photos, few of which have any artistic merit, and *none* of which contain any technical information whatsoever (no aperture settings, shutter speeds, film types, camera/lens information, lighting configurations, filter selection....nothing.)

Even the business advice is so watered down as to be almost useless. The author's advice on computer equipment and peripherals is already outdated, and the section on running a home office lacks any real information content. Readers with even the most basic business savvy will find themselves rolling their eyes at this chapter. There is nothing here that you didn't already know via common sense.

Both photographers who aspire to improve their work and those who aspire to improve their income will be disappointed. There is no material of value in this book.