Holy Moly! You’re not going to believe how much information is packed into this gigantic 328-page ebook from photographer Ashley Karyl, a 25-year veteran of the fashion and beauty industry: How To Photograph Nudes Like a Professional This guy knows it all, and he reveals it all in this book that goes WAY beyond nudes to cover almost everything involved [...]
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Book Review: ON CAMERA FLASH: Techniques for Digital Wedding and Portrait Photography, by Neil van Niekerk
I have a serious impulse-buying problem at my local camera store. The other day I went in for a $5 lens cap and came out with $75 worth of stuff, including the book ON CAMERA FLASH: Techniques for Digital Wedding and Portrait Photography by Neil van Niekerk. I should know better than to even peek [...]
Book Review: The Photographer’s Legal Guide by Carolyn E. Wright
To be honest, reading any kind of book about the legal aspects of photography—from taxes, to corporate structures, to copyright laws, to government regulations—not only makes me want to never shoot another image, it also brings out a seething, anarchic, vigilante side of me. I suddenly feel like hurling bombs at government buildings and torturing [...]
Book Review: The Photographer’s Eye: Composition and Design for Better Digital Photos by Michael Freeman
Michael Freeman has created a gorgeous, well-illustrated book that takes one of the most subtle and abstract elements of photography—composition—and makes it concrete and understandable. This may be the most concisely written photography book I’ve ever seen. Freeman is the anti-Kelby. Every word is carefully chosen, every sentence terse and tight. Freeman writes with the [...]
