Starting Portrait Photography
Shutrbug
Check out www.zuga.com and you can get some great portraiture tips from
lighting to posing by some of the masters...Monte Zucker has many articles
on portraiture that I've found very helpful. You might also check around
for a book entitled "50 Portrait Lighting Techniques for Pictures That Sell"
by John Hart. It's pretty good.
I have some links to some good portraiture information sites if you're
interested. Just email me at shutrb...@yahoo.com and I'll hook you up.
God bless,
Mike
Worldview Photography
Crank
On Mon, 22 May 2000 21:28:05 -0400, "Shutrbug" <sou...@javanet.com>
wrote:
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Logan McMinn
isn't much and may restrict your portraits to head and shoulders, seated poses.
The first thing you have to do is get that camera off the hot shoe. Buy an
umbrella (36 inch diameter), a long sync cord and whatever other gadgets you
need to connect the camera to the flash, and get a large piece of white
foam-core board to use as a reflector. This will give you a workable setup,
using the flash with the umbrellas and the foam core to fill in the shaded
side. You may want next to invest in a couple more small flashes to use as a
back light and as a background light.
As for books, there are two really good current books: "The Portrait:
Professional Techniques and Practices in Portrait Photography" by several
contributors, published by Kodak Books and "Light, Science and Magic: an
Introduction to Photographic Lighting" 2nd edition by Fil Hunter and Paul
Fuqua, published by Focal Press. Both are very current, well written and
thorough.
Dave wrote:
> I am new to this newsgroup, and I am also new to portait photography.
> Until very recently I have been engrossed with nature pictures, but I am
> looking to broaden my field. I use a RebelG with a Sunpak PZ4000 flash.
>
> My Gear:
> Canon RebelG
> Sunpak PZ4000 Shoe-mount flash
> 35-80mm
> 28-200
> 24mm
> Bogen tripod
>
> I have a large-ish area to work in, but it is my basement with no natural
> lighting. The walls are textured white and I have a few backdrops and some
> lighting stands, but I don't know what to do technique-wise. Any good advice
> or suggestions of good books to read? Thanks for your help!
>
> ***PLEASE EMAIL RESPONSES TO sti...@gis.net***
Gord Jeoffroy
wrote:
>Check out www.zuga.com and you can get some great portraiture tips from
Yeah, there's some good basic into there. Except the site is
http://www.zuga.net. Your URL links to some high-end-looking gift shop
in Québec <grin>.
--Gord
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Shutrbug
I stand corrected. Thanks for catching that. I'm so used to everything
being .com that I defaulted to it when typing. :-)
Cheers
Mike
Worldview Photography