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

Zielgruppe:

• Photographers,
• Students,
• Instructors

Autoren:

Glenn Rand is an artist with international acceptance. His photographs are in the collections of more than two dozen museums and public collection in the United States, Europe and Japan. Included are the Detroit Institute of Art and the Kresge Art Center, He has also exhibit widely with exhibitions throughout the United States. Glenn has published and lectured extensively about photography and digital imaging on topics ranging from commercial aesthetics to the technical fine points of black and white photography. Books written include Black and White Photography and Digital Photographic Capture. Presently Dr. Rand is the Program Director of the Graduate Program at Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California.

Photographer, educator, and author Tim Meyer is passionate about the field of photography. Through his 30 years as a professional photographer and numerous one-man exhibitions, Tim's photography has been internationally recognized for its innovative style and technique. He possesses the Professional Photographers of America's coveted Masters and Craftsman Degrees and a Maser of Arts degree in Fine Art Photograph. Tim currently serves as the Portrait Division Chair at Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara, California, while maintaining a commission-based portrait and wedding business and lecturing internationally. His writings on photography and art have been widely published, and he is a regular contributor to Rangefinder magazine.