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.
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"Packed with self-led tutorials, this book is a great guide for any photographer getting started in the fashion industry."
--American Photo, October 2008
--American Photo, October 2008
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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.
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.
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By Scott Chin
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Fashion photography is a big independent department in the photography world and definitely is a work of collaboration. Besides photographer and his assistant, there are fashion designer, wardrobe stylist, model, make up artist, hair stylist, and very often the art director involved to produce a body of work. This book can't tell you every single detail in the fashion photo industry but it is a good introduction to all aspects related. "Fashion Photography Course" isn't aimed to the veteran professionals but to photography students, new photographers who are interested to be parts of this glamorous genre.
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Aug 7 2009
By A. Vega
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There's nothing more dissapointing than a book that talks about lighting, shows great pictures, but leaves you with no clue of how the shots were created.. This is not one of those.. It provides a manual guide to acheiving desired looks and effects. Positioning of lights, flags, reflectors, and everything you need to recreate the picture shown. I like the authors intro and views on fashion and photography, and the soul searching is definetely something I've found myself doing as I invest in gear, invest my time, and push myself with no immediate return.. Highly recommended..
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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EVERY PHOTOGRAPHERS QUICK REFERENCE RESOURCE
Dec 11 2008
By Lawrence Atienza Photography
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Format:Paperback
BOOK: Fashion Photography Course: Principles, Practice, and Techniques: An Essential Guide (Paperback)
by Eliot Siegel (Author)
RATING: 5 stars
FIRST IMPRESSIONS: After 30 minutes of browsing through hundreds of photography books in Borders, I was able to find this book Fashion Photography Course. I was pleasantly surprised as i did not know BARRON'S would publish such informative photography books.
Well after 10 minutes of sifting through the book, I was hooked. The structure of the information was very intuitive. Each showcased image details the Objectives of the main teaching points of the tutorial and what is required. The tutorial is clearly defined in the page, following Exercises to practice the newly learned lighting setup with reference to the Feature Boxes and Diagrams. Amazing amazing amazing job developing this book.
PROS:
-Easy reading
-Structured references
-Majority of showcased images are of high quality and execution
-One stop shop book about photography technique and how to penetrate the photography business.
CONS: None!
CONCLUSION: If you need a good quick reference photography book, I highly recommend this book. I often refer to this book before every shoot as a refresher course to lighting my subject and background. Check out my work at [...] and let me know if this book helped me or not. You be the judge.
by Eliot Siegel (Author)
RATING: 5 stars
FIRST IMPRESSIONS: After 30 minutes of browsing through hundreds of photography books in Borders, I was able to find this book Fashion Photography Course. I was pleasantly surprised as i did not know BARRON'S would publish such informative photography books.
Well after 10 minutes of sifting through the book, I was hooked. The structure of the information was very intuitive. Each showcased image details the Objectives of the main teaching points of the tutorial and what is required. The tutorial is clearly defined in the page, following Exercises to practice the newly learned lighting setup with reference to the Feature Boxes and Diagrams. Amazing amazing amazing job developing this book.
PROS:
-Easy reading
-Structured references
-Majority of showcased images are of high quality and execution
-One stop shop book about photography technique and how to penetrate the photography business.
CONS: None!
CONCLUSION: If you need a good quick reference photography book, I highly recommend this book. I often refer to this book before every shoot as a refresher course to lighting my subject and background. Check out my work at [...] and let me know if this book helped me or not. You be the judge.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
well done
Nov 18 2008
By Neil W. Welch
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Format:Paperback
This is a great book for anyone who wants to know from the basics to the advance of the fashion photography business. Its one of my top books on my photo bookshelf, the reading is not long and drawn out but gets right to the point.It covers everything from location to lighting to presenting your portfoilo and much much more. I can saftely said that its arguably one of the if not the best fashion photography book on amazon.
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