Location Portraiture: The Story Behind the Art

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Summary: Fantastic Photographic Artistry
Review: Location Portraiture: The Story Behind the Art
Bill McIntosh is a living legend. One of the top photographic artist in the world today. He has elevated photography into the equivalent of the MASTER PAINTERS centuries ago. His images take photography to the highest level. He is truly an artist whether he used a word processor, a scalpel, a tennis court, a paintbrush, a courtroom-whatever vehicle he used he would be at the top. Anyone aspiring to become a portrait artist will benefit greatly by purchasing this book. If you ever get an opportunity to attend one of his workshops or to view one of his exhibits I would highly recommend it. He has contributed to our profession more than anyone alive today. This is truly PHOTOGRAPHIC ART. And he is truly a master!

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Summary: Very low value book, poor information, bad photos
Review: This book is one of lowest value books I have ever purchased. It is expensive, yet contains very little information. The photos are old-fashioned, very clearly and quite badly posed. They lack, in most cases, any sense of relationship or emotion between the subjects and the environment or the camera and the viewer. Some of the subjects seem as though they have been stuffed, including the glass-eye look.

On the technical side, the book lists the equipment used, but there are no lighting diagrams.

One last note, if there was a picture of the cover page, I would have never bought this book. It shows general Colin Powell, in uniform, in a command room of some sorts. No problem so far, except he looks as if someone punched him in the face, his gaze is empty and disconnected, so much so that you wonder what he is doing in that room and whether he just went there to get his picture taken.

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Summary: everything you need to know about location portraits.Superb!
Review: This book takes you step by step in how a master photographer plans conceptual portraits. He discribes how he communicates with his subjects, poses and lights them and gets the expression from all types of people, men, women, children, couples and groups. Both outdoors, in the home or in their working enviorment. This is the most complete book on this style of portraiture I have ever read.

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Summary: great for inspiration
Review: what i liked about this book was the timelessness of the portraits. some portraits were made a couple years ago, some were made 30 years ... the point being that a well made portrait is timeless art. i think after a year you could revisit this book and be recharged.