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Author: Louis Benjamin
ISBN : 0240811593
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The Naked and the Lens is designed as both a technical guide and an artistic inspiration. Filled with beautiful images of the nude form, it also shows you how this can be technically achieved. The book covers key topics: concept, lighting, directing, post-production, and artisic re-interpretation and how to find models. Legal and photo release issues are covered as well.
The techniques are up-to-date, including Photoshop CS4, RAW capture and shooting with a gray card to capture accurate white balance information. The lighting section will also show how to get studio quality light from hot-shoe flashes by adapting them to umbrellas and soft boxes.
Regardless of whether you are shooting in a studio or in a field, this book will show you how to create works of art with nude bodies and it will also teach through advice in a unique interview section with leading nude photographers around the world through their words and their images.
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- Paperback: 248 pages
- Publisher: Focal Press; 1 edition (September 16, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0240811593
- ISBN-13: 978-0240811598
- Product Dimensions: 0.6 x 8.3 x 10.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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Just finished reading through "The Naked and the Lens: A Guide to Nude Photography" and have to say it is an excellent book.
Unlike my wife Tracie (a great people photographer based in Dallas), I'm not really interested in shooting people. That said, this book provides some excellent advice and guidelines for shooting not only nudes but people in general.
Don't let the title fool you...this book is much more than just about shooting naked people. It provides a great deal of information on how to prepare for shoots (equipment, etc), what to do during shoots (how to work with people) and post processing skills for making those photographs pop.
Of course, the book has a lot of nudes in it. They are all done perfectly tastefully and artfully so don't worry about seening anything that might offend you.
If you photograph people, buy this book. It does much more than just talk about shooting nude people...it teaches the skills needed by any photographer.
By Eric D. Brown
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Reviewing the book presented a quandary for me. I thought the text was excellent, inspired, in fact. I thought the photographs left much to be desired; uninspired and lacking in emotion or thought. The author is trying so hard in his photographs to be different, that he's forgotten that the human form is beautiful in its own right. The beauty and glamor are missing in most of the photographs. That's a bit of a disappointment in a textbook portrayed as a guide to nude photography; just so-so photographs. But as I said, the text is really exceptional. Louis Benjamin, the author, writes about nude photography so much better than he executes.
The text covers the gamut, from concept, to composition and lighting, working with models (legal issues to putting them at ease) and the considerations of digital photography. Benjamin includes a discussion of composition based on a comment that Szarkowski (former MoMA director) made decades ago. Benjamin is brilliant in his extrapolation of Szarkowski's statements -- and this book is filled with such gems. As a caution, though, approximately 20% of the book is dedicated to the technical aspects of digital photography, so this section will be of little value to film users.
If I just thumbed through this book at a bookstore, I'd probably just pass it by since I found the photographs to be so lacking. However, since I've had the opportunity to actually read it, I can actually recommend it -- with the reservations mentioned above.
By givpilot
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