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Captured by the Light: The Essential Guide to Creating Extraordinary Wedding Photography [Paperback]

David Ziser
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Feb 3 2010 Voices That Matter
IMAGINE THE ADVANTAGE YOU’D HAVE IF ONE OF THE WORLD’S TOP WEDDING SHOOTERS SHARED HIS SECRETS WITH YOU

World-renowned wedding photographer, and one of the most widely acclaimed instructors in the industry today, David Ziser brings his no-nonsense, straight-to-the-point teaching style to a book that totally rewrites the rules for how wedding photography is taught.

This groundbreaking new book is the first of its kind to focus on the exact areas that wedding photographers have been begging a top pro like David to cover, including how to create professional quality light and beautiful images in every situation, how to compose wedding images that sell, and how to create amazing images in the limited time and at the fast pace of a wedding.

But David doesn’t just stop there. He covers every aspect of what today’s brides and wedding couples want from a wedding photographer, including poses that work every time and can’t-miss lighting setups you can use again and again, and everything is laid out in a brilliant step-by-step method that makes learning these techniques so easy, you’ll be able to pull off these same looks yourself (without spending thousands on expensive equipment). Plus, the book is packed with David’s tricks of the trade that he’s picked up in a career shooting all over the world.

LEARN HOW THE PROS REALLY DO IT
Each year David trains thousands of photographers on how to shoot weddings like a pro. He knows the problems and challenges today’s wedding photographers face, and that’s exactly what he covers in this book. You’ll learn everything on the list here and much more:
  • Professional posing and composition tips
  • Simple on-location lighting setups that are specially designed for the wedding photographer
  • How to get gorgeous images using a minimal amount of time and equipment
  • Creative lighting techniques that anyone can use to create dramatic wedding portraits that will set you apart
  • David’s own camera settings and lens selections (which lenses to use when, and why), and how to get the best results with your existing gear
  • How pros use on- and off-camera f lash, and a host of tricks of the trade that will make you more profitable and have you delivering the type of wedding shots you’ve always dreamed of!
Plus, the book includes the complete cover-to-cover layout from one of David’s wedding album designs to help spark your creative juices and give you ideas to take your own layouts to the next level.

The wedding photography industry has been waiting for a landmark book that would become “the book” that finally changes everything, and that’s exactly what you’ll be getting with the purchase of this book.

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David A. Ziser, an internationally renowned portrait and wedding photographer, has shared his knowledge with tens of thousands of photographers in five languages, and in 14 countries worldwide. His Digital WakeUp Call tour was acclaimed as one of the best-ever seminars on digital photography. David is a regular featured lecturer at the Photoshop World Conference & Expo, Wedding & Portrait Photographers International (WPPI), and Imaging USA/Professional Photographers of America. He also provides training classes on DVD and online through Kelby Training, writes a daily photography blog, and writes for Professional Photographer magazine. David has been honored as a Kodak Mentor, and is one of 98 people worldwide who holds the distinguished honor of Fellow, bestowed by the American Society of Photographers.

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5.0 out of 5 stars amazingly informative May 13 2013
By karen
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Excellent book! Written in a very informative easy to read style. He explains how he does things and why. Absolutely love it!!!
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4.0 out of 5 stars A bit cheesy but decent advice April 12 2010
By Max
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David Ziser is a renowned wedding photographer, though mostly by the fact of his own self-promotion (can't fault him for that in this business). At one point he says "[using my famous 'happier' happier' line]" as if this actually was famous (get over yourself!). His book is certainly a clear romp into a how-to for wedding photography. Some of the images and lines are a bit high on the cheese-factor, including his use of the line "[images like these] will get your brain juices flowing". Surprisingly, not all the images in the book are that good, some even seem way too soft to be used as exemplars of the craft. While the book is aimed at beginners in the field, Ziser predicates much of his technique on the belief that everyone shoots with an assistant who can hold light off-camera. He never once talks about finding, hiring, paying or really training assistants, just writes about it as a given; this is strange considering most beginning wedding photographers are no where near being able to work like this.

Is the book worth it? Kind of. If you have not shot many weddings and want to see how someone else does it, it is decent bathroom reading. If you are a pro already, you will find it pretty basic (including explanation of the rule of thirds, which he almost passes off as his own idea!). Remember that Ziser shows one way of shooting; he is borderline obsessed with backlighting, and some of the backlit images in this book are just too much. Upon showing them to my wife(a non-photog), she dismissed them outright as cheesy.

Anyways, the cost is not a big commitment and if you even pick up a couple of hints that lead to better images, it could be useful.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Very practical Sep 18 2010
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I've been doing wedding photography for many years, and I've yet to learn a few things more. This book is one of the better ones, if not the best. It explains both the technical side of equipment as well as the artistic side of photography. This will save a lot of time for the beginner wedding photographer. It gives the season pro quite a few answers on camera and flash set-ups. What distinguishes a good wedding photographer from an amateur are poses and lighting. This book gives a fast track to doing both much better than what is seen in wedding photography.
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