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Hollywood Portraits

Hollywood Portraits

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Authors: Roger Hicks, Christopher Nisperos
Brand: WATSON-GUPTILL
Category: Book

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Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars 16 reviews
Sales Rank: 68252

Media: Paperback
Pages: 144
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.6 x 0.3

MPN: 0817440208
ISBN: 0817440208
Dewey Decimal Number: 778.92
EAN: 9780817440206
ASIN: 0817440208

Publication Date: October 1, 2000
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Product Description
This inspirational book of star photographs provides classic portrait styles and detailed directions on how to set up, light and shoot each photo. Step-by-step instructions reveal the techniques used by top Hollywood photographers for their glittering glamour portraits of the 1920s through the 1950s. Included are sections on equipment, processing, lighting and more.


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5 out of 5 stars Very useful guide   April 21, 2008
Amul Kumar (Chicago, IL)
This is a fascinating book which has been organized very intelligently. The quick-sketch diagrams displaying the lighting used to create each image not only make it easy to try for a similar look, but also teach the reader how to look at lighting clues in an image in order to reverse-engineer the lighting conditions. While a great many other skills are involved in producing the photos in this book (like how to retouch using a graphite pencil), this is an excellent primer for those already familiar with the basics of studio lighting.


5 out of 5 stars Great Start on Hollywood style lighting   December 23, 2007
Edward R. Jamandre (MIAMI, FLORIDA United States)
This is a great start for developing a foundation of this kind of lighting.The diagrams are easy to follow and it explains what are some of the pitfalls of certain kind of lightings.This is one of the reference book that I can say worth of what I paid for.


5 out of 5 stars A sheer delight!   October 29, 2007
K. Slamen (Montreal, Quebec. Canada)
This book is perhaps not the end-all/be-all of Hollywood portraiture, but it is a delight to look at and inspirational for photographers. The steps and insight on how these images were created is both interesting and fun to read. A great book for a great price.


4 out of 5 stars Classic Hollywood Portraiture   August 11, 2007
Richard Sallee (CT USA)
This book, by Roger Hicks, was good in its way. Having recently been required to try to reproduce the style of Hurrell/Bull, I did find it useful. The photographs were well reproduced and the descriptive material, particularly as regards history, was good. I did find it a bit confusing with "camera right" and "subject right" being thrown in willy-nilly. You would think that this would be self explanatory. However, combined with the illustrative drawings which looked at the set from different angles I would often get mixed up as to which light went where.

I am just a little thick, perhaps.



4 out of 5 stars Hollywood Portraits   February 16, 2007
John Nixon (Ulster)
This is an excelent book for the budding portrait photographer, dealing with the various lighting solutions used to produce stuning portraits; I certainly found it to be very informative when undertaking my HND portrait assignment.

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