Learning portrait photography

[eo...@my-deja.com]

Hi,

I have been shooting exterior stuff for years, but am thinking of
moving indoors to a studio environment. Not professionally, and not too
expensively mind you, just an experiment.

What I'd like to know is...Are there any web sites devoted to portrait
photography? Something stressing sitting techniques, camera position,
lighting techniques etc.

Any help would be appreciated.

TIA,

GK

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[Phil Tobias]

>>What I'd like to know is...Are there any web sites devoted to portrait
photography? Something stressing sitting techniques, camera position,
lighting techniques etc.

If Kodak still publishes their Portrait book, I'd start there.
The versions of these I've seen had many good examples to learn from.

Good luck. ...pt*

(*Over 22 years of taking portraits professionally)

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[Husband and Wife]

Someone famous whose name I don't recall wrote:
>What I'd like to know is...Are there any web sites devoted to portrait
>photography? Something stressing sitting techniques, camera position,
>lighting techniques etc.

I don't know of web sites, but there are some fabulous books on the subject.
My favorites deal with lighting, and show a photo, and how it was lit.
Best to check at bookstores for those you like best and are most suited to you, as they're
expensive.

Also, "coffee table" books like those of Yousuf Karsh portraits can not only teach you a lot, but
fill your head with ideas. (Not to mention envy.)

Dave

[steve...@my-deja.com]

Yes. try Zuga.net.
steven

[Chuck Hoffman]

Try Scott Smith's website: http://www.lightingmagic.com/

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[Patrick Bartek]

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On Thu, 01 Feb 2001 17:03:22 GMT, posting in
rec.photo.misc wrote:

> I have been shooting exterior stuff for years, but am thinking of
> moving indoors to a studio environment. Not professionally, and not too
> expensively mind you, just an experiment.
>
> What I'd like to know is...Are there any web sites devoted to portrait
> photography? Something stressing sitting techniques, camera position,
> lighting techniques etc.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.

If you want to learn portrait photography, the web is not the place to
start; the library is. Look for books on "natural light" portraiture.
With Natural Light, you use only the sun and skylight along with
reflectors, scrims and gobos to modify that light to get the lighting
you want. Later, when you have experience, you can start using
artificial lighting for your portraits.

Also, once you have a "feel" for lighting, study the portraits of
master portrait photographers to see how they lit their subjects.

--
Patrick Bartek
NoLife Polymath Group
bar...@pdai.com

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[Mountain Man]

To begin with, portrait photography is a science that is well understood and
extremely well documented. I'd suggest checking your local library for
information, there are literally hundreds of good books defining the basic
lighting techniques. After you memorize the basic science you can begin
learning the "art". This is where you will learn to express your own
artistic sensibilities, but the basics are "cut and dried" and are an
excellent starting point.

[sam.w1]

Find a Pro Photographer that you admire and be his slave and Gofer for a
couple of days a week.
You will, learn more this way than any other way that is cost free.

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[ERLING L.]

Clip out clothes advertisements for poses once you get the flashes right
poses is the next step and in the paper there are tons of them. Earl

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