The Portrait

Glenn Rand, longtime photographic educator and Program Director for Graduate Programs at Brooks Institute, and Tim Meyer, Portrait Division Chair at Brooks Institute, have collaborated to create a thorough and balanced textbook on the modern techniques and practice of portrait photography. They have avoided the single-style viewpoint common to so many books on portraiture and instead have crafted a definitive resource for professionals, as well as students and avid amateurs, wishing to advance their skills in this discipline. Topics include: - Quality of light and the portrait - Ambient, continuous, and strobe light sources - Understanding light modifiers and enhancers - Mastering lighting ratios - Importance and selection of backgrounds - Extensive coverage of lighting setups - Understanding types of light meters and methods of metering in portraiture - Lighting patterns on the human face - Facial analysis - Composition in portraiture - Eliciting the appropriate expression - The fine art portrait - Portraiture for the masses