Fashion Photography Course: Principles, Practice, and Techniques: An Essential Guide - Softcover

Siegel, Eliot

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0764139479 ISBN 13: 9780764139475

Publisher: B E S Pub Co, 2008

Synopsis

Presented and written by a leading fashion photographer, and serving as a practical self-teaching course, this book offers a series of tutorials designed to build a beginning fashion photographer's experience and get him or her started on a rewarding career. It begins by acquainting readers with the work of trend-setting photographers in the fashion industry, and points out how trends are controlled by magazines and editors. It also presents tutorials that deal with cameras and their controls, and offers advice on buying film cameras, digital cameras, and camera equipment and accessories. The following chapters and their tutorials instruct on lighting, setting up a studio, creating professional quality pictures both in studio and on location settings, approaching and working with fashion model agencies, developing a portfolio, selling one's skills to the fashion industry, working effectively with magazines and advertising agencies, and becoming a photographer's assistant as a valuable entrée to the fashion industry. The enlightening text is supplemented with more than 250 color photos.

About this title

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Principles, practice, and techniques:
an indispensable

guide to becoming a professional fashion photographer

This invaluable resource for student photographers offers expert advice on every key aspect of fashion photography, from organizing a shoot to presenting your portfolio to a prospective client.

Offering a structured course that teaches skills to help you get start in the industry, Fashion Photography is illustrated with working examples of professional and student photography.

Practical tutorials build your experience. You ll learn to use the tools of the trade, choose equipment and software, and use lenses and lighting to best effect.

You ll learn how to take exceptional pictures by finding the most dynamic compositions, working on location or in a studio, and evolving a unique, artistic style of your own.

Eliot Siegel has worked as both a fashion and a fine art photographer for 25 years. During his career, he has worked for esteemed international magazines, advertising campaigns, and catalogs, including Macy s New York, Fred Bennett Jewelry, Harpers and Queen, Brides magazine, Bloomingdale s, Selfridges, Condici Women, Cosmopolitan, L Officiel Paris, British Vogue, and Vogue Pelle Milan. Eliot works in digital and film formats, and in studios and locations all over the world, with the top model, hair, makeup, and location agencies. He has lived in New York, Milan, Madrid, Paris, Nice, and London.

Edition details

• Publisher: B E S Pub Co
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0764139479
• ISBN 13: 9780764139475
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144