Portrait and lighting references needed

[Mike Wheeler]

I would like someone to refer me to a good text that covers
portrait photography (completely) and lighting techniques.

I am not a professional, but have the right lighting
equipment to consider myself a serious hobbyest (SP??)

Seems every book I find to purchase, it's out of print.

Thanks,

Mike.

[Rich Drinkard]

Kodak has a new book out, called "Portrait Photography"

RIch

[John B. Bunch]

Mike,
The classic work is Bombak's (I think that is the name)
Portrait Lighting. Should be around used or in libraries.
John Bunch
jb...@virginia.edu

[Willis Boyce]

Rich Drinkard (drin...@wizard.msfc.nasa.gov) wrote:

: Kodak has a new book out, called "Portrait Photography"

If you mean "The Portrait," I have it. The pictures featured in the book
are simply incredible (check out page 45), but the information contained
therein is not terribly useful. It seems to exist mainly to plug Kodak
products. From page 77: "A great advance for modern wedding photography,
particularly wedding photojournalism, is the development of KODAK
VERICOLOR 400 Professional Film (VPH)."

I better book that I recently bought is called "Lighting Secrets for the
Professional Photographer." It is by three guys who work in advertising
and product photography, and they present a couple dozen different
assignments on which they have worked and explain how the lighting setup
evolved in order to best show the product. Two particularly interesting
situations involved lighting cars; one used about a dozen different
lights.

Will

[William Bell]

In article <3heb2k$r...@panix3.panix.com> wbo...@panix.com (Willis Boyce) writes:
>From: wbo...@panix.com (Willis Boyce)
>Subject: Re: Portrait and lighting references needed
>Date: 9 Feb 1995 19:13:08 -0500

I saw the book and thought most of the photos were pretty bad. Far too much
diffusion, some dog-ugly people, and far too obvious technique. I have the
earlier two editions of this book, and the work was much better. Also the
ads contained in the text are too obvious. The few good pictures stood ut
like sore thumb.

[William Bell]

In article <3hbadk$2...@ddi2.digital.net> Mike Wheeler <mwheeler%co...@kssib.ksc.nasa.gov> writes:
>From: Mike Wheeler <mwheeler%co...@kssib.ksc.nasa.gov>
>Subject: Portrait and lighting references needed
>Date: 8 Feb 1995 20:43:32 GMT

The long out of print books by William Mortensen are classics and are still
valid today. He also wrote a column for several camera magazines in the
1930s and 1940s that are worth looking for in the Library.