This book is advertised to be "a practical and theoretical introduction to portrait photography". It fits in very well with the theme of this course. But as the title suggest, the book talks more about how to look at a subject and how to be inspired and get different ideas for how to portray a person. It's not a technical book in the sense of how to set up lighting, how to pose etc. There are some general technical info at the end of the book about camera controls, exposure and flash, but this is not specific to portrait and it's seems like it was added because an editor wanted it to be more technical. I think the main message of the book is that it's possible to express so much of your own thoughts and feelings in portrait photography and that imagination is your only limit.
Each chapter finishes with an assignment, which would be very useful to do. If I wasn't following a course I would probaby try to do some of these assignments, but since I'm following "People and places" I will concentrate on its projects and assignments.
I bought the book at the beginning of PaP, and it has taken me some time to read as I felt it was important to reflect on chapters. I would benefit in the future too, to go back and look at the chapters and the text I underlined, to be reminded of the various ideas. By reading this book I have come up with ideas I would like to try in portrait photography.
Each chapter finishes with an assignment, which would be very useful to do. If I wasn't following a course I would probaby try to do some of these assignments, but since I'm following "People and places" I will concentrate on its projects and assignments.
I bought the book at the beginning of PaP, and it has taken me some time to read as I felt it was important to reflect on chapters. I would benefit in the future too, to go back and look at the chapters and the text I underlined, to be reminded of the various ideas. By reading this book I have come up with ideas I would like to try in portrait photography.