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 instead 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 types of light meters and methods of 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
