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Average Customer Rating:

Worth the money

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This book is not a heavy read, but it is extremely well written. If you are purchasing this book as an amateur who wishes to improve on their technique I can see you may be disappointed. If you are thinking of setting up on your own to make money out of portrait photography then you may consider it a good investment. Rather than concentrating on photographic technique, it gives clear guidance on posing, what sells, and the pitfalls to avoid. The author never came over as being condescending as another reviewer commented. The author points out quite clearly that learning and passing college exams is the starting point for creating a saleable commodity, and some of the techniques taught have no place in his studio. If that's how he feels, who are we to criticise - I would prefer to read a book from someone who makes money out of the job rather than an author who has no association with the real world. Recommended, but needs to be read in conjunction with other material to be of significant value.

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I found this book boring and uninspiring, it was very dated as were the pictures. There were no real examples and no illustrations with lighting, which you would think fundamental in portrait photography. I was going to give this book a good review just so I could re-sell it, but I could not do it.

Still in the dark

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This is a book with a message: Posing is difficult and takes a long time to learn. Fair enough, but one would have hoped that reading this book would somewhat shorten that time! However, it is very short on any real advice. Instead it is full of verbose smalltalk praising the author and patronising any apprentices he's had, and, between the lines, you the reader. Maybe there's some real knowledge to be gleaned from this book, but it certainly isn't worth its money.

Recommended for newbies to portraits

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Been photographing for a while, but getting into digital and interested in people photography now. My only criticism of the book is that it's very focused on females. A lot of the basics are the same, but the models are almost exclusively females - primarily young adults (the author's primary client base). I would still have bought it knowing this, but if you're looking for how to photograph young children and want pictures of them in the book, this may not be the book for you.