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People in Focus: How to Photograph Anyone, Anywhere |  | Author: Bryan Peterson
Publisher: Amphoto Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 668520
Media: Paperback
Pages: 144
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.1 x 0.5
ISBN: 0817453881
Dewey Decimal Number: 778.92
EAN: 9780817453886
ASIN: 0817453881
Publication Date: December 1993
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Product Description
For the shutterbug who wants to shoot better snapshots as well as the professional who wants to take better portraits, Peterson provides expert advice on photographing all kinds of people. Covers technical concerns, creating moods, photographing country and urban life, and more. 160 full-color photos.
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 Bryan Peterson Is a good instructor July 10, 2010
sm (ohio)
I really enjoy Bryan Peterson's book. His method is instruction is very easy to understand and well illustrated.
A wonderful useful book June 23, 2010
J. M. Biles (slidell LA USA)
As one who is really into photography...I highly recommend this book. It is an excellent survey of photographing people. I love candid and street photography and this book I found to have some wonderful ideas with regard to technique.
Excellent Photography book August 14, 2009
R. Davis (El Dorado, KS)
Excellent book. I would recommend this to anyone interested in photography. The product was as described, in excellent condition and I received it quickly.
 Go with "Understanding Exposure" instead June 6, 2005
A reader (California)
26 out of 30 found this review helpful
I've read all three of Bryan Peterson's books -- "Understanding Exposure," "Learning to See Creatively," and "People in Focus" -- and "Understanding Exposure" I recommend highly (5 stars). The other two drained me of my passion as I read them, which is the opposite of what Peterson intended, I'm sure. Here's why: Bryan Peterson's images look like what they are -- commercial images sold to stock houses, used to advertise products or services or businesses in one way or another. Little girls in fields of flowers. Sunsets over the beach. Two businesspeople shaking hands. Peterson does what he does well, and I gave this book 2 stars because I'm sure there are readers who are looking to take their interest in photography down this very road. For anyone who wants to develop his or her "voice," who wants to communicate with his or her images, I think this book will disappoint. I was a student in a writing program for a period of time, and one of the best tips I learned and passed on to other students was this: Before you sign up for a class with a particular professor, read at least one of his novels or several of his short stories. If you like the way he writes, sign up for the class. If you can't stand his writing, find someone else. I think the same applies here. I recognize that Peterson knows how to use a camera -- and his effective instruction of exposure in his other book proves that -- but his images make no impression on me, don't cause me to think or feel or question anything. I recommend finding the books in a bookstore or trying to look through them online before you buy -- his Web site, http://www.bryanfpeterson.com, shows some examples. If you want to take pictures like these, this book will meet your needs. Otherwise, pass it by.
You won't offend people to ask them a model April 18, 2001
Sarawoot Chittratanawat
7 out of 16 found this review helpful
How many times you want to take people photo and you're afraid? How many times you want to take people photo and you don't have camera? This book will answer your first question and give you many good reasons to have camera with you all the time. Many Bryan's photo will inspire you to have your camera for the next best shots. The important of people photography is the communication among "camera", , "situation", "photographer", and "model". Bryan shows you the optimal way to integrate all four factors for better communication of your people photography.
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