Creative 52: Weekly Projects to Invigorate Your Photography Portfolio Author: Lindsay Adler | Language: English | ISBN:
0321934911 | Format: EPUB
Creative 52: Weekly Projects to Invigorate Your Photography Portfolio Description
A powerful portfolio involves so much more than just a strong grasp of the technical aspects of photography–it’s a complex mix of style, techniques, and intriguing ideas. Many photographers struggle to achieve a high-impactportfolio, feeling that they lack the creative spark to invigorate them andmove their work forward.
Creative 52 is that spark–and your guide to a new and more creative portfolio in just one year! A remedy for that “average” portfolio, this collection of innovative projects will help portrait, wedding, and fashion photographers build a portfolio that draws the attention of editors and clients–leaving the competition behind. While other how-to books often use bland imagery simply to prove a technical point, and many fine art books are filled with beautiful imagery but contain minimal (if any) educational insights to help working photographers, this book blends both: inspiration and knowledge that you can use to create images that attract potential clients.
Divided into three parts–concept, technique, and post-processing–author Lindsay Adler’s 52 challenges each contain a description of the project, potential inspiration and suggestions of other artists to check out, and her own unique solution to the challenge–all to push you beyond your comfort zone to explore new ideas and approaches to your work.
- Includes a year’s worth of weekly projects that motivate you to experiment with new concepts, techniques, and software tools like Adobe Photoshop to achieve more eye-catching images
- Offers the cure for “expected” imagery, showing how to produce memorable photographs that are distinct from the competition, enabling you to reach new clients
- Empowers you with the encouragement and expertise necessary to create spectacular images
- Paperback: 216 pages
- Publisher: Peachpit Press; 1 edition (November 1, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0321934911
- ISBN-13: 978-0321934918
- Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 8.2 x 0.4 inches
- Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
As stated by the other reviewers, the book is packed with numerous ideas and suggestions leading to better photos. However, the discussion is all directed towards the author's special area of photography: fashion. For those who have this specialty, this is an invaluable guide. But how useful is the book for those who take very different kinds of photos? I did a quick (and rather arbitrary analysis) of the projects to see how match of the discussion could be transferred to other types of subject matter. My judgment was that 20 (of the 52) projects could be adapted by those shooting any subject matter. Twelve more might be useful with some further work, and 20 seemed remote from any field outside of fashion. Others may very well make different judgements about where to place each assignment. The conclusion seems to stand, however: the direct usefulness of this volume will depend upon the details of the subject matter at which you are directing your camera. All photographers, however, can appreciate in general terms the kind of analyses being done in the book even if not directly related to their work.
By Mark Schupack
This is an excellent and well written book! Lindsay Adler gives great tips on weekly projects that spark creativity. All of the chapters are easy to understand, and I like the way she added camera info, as well as the methods she used to create the images. I also liked the way she spoke about the inspiration of each photo. I've been following Lindsay's work for a couple of years now, and was happy to see her beauty retouching techniques nicely laid out in it's own chapter. Before, I was frantically taking notes on her live demonstrations, but now I have it all at hand. Thank you Lindsay, this is just what I needed to spark my creativity!
By fotogirl
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