The Complete Idiot's Guide to Being a Model, 2nd Edition

Product Description
Make way for this year’s model.
In the most comprehensive, practical book on modeling, celebrity model and media darling Roshumba Williams shares her secrets of supermodel stardom. This revised guide for young hopefuls everywhere includes completely updated information on contests, reality shows, and online opportunities, new illustrations, a comprehensive new resource section, and much more.

--Comprehensive, brand-new resource section and information on contests, reality shows, and internet opportunities
--Dazzling new eight-page color insert of fashion photography and hip new illustrations
--Behind-the-scenes information and advice from a star supermodel

The Lighting Cookbook for Fashion and Beauty Photography: Foolproof Recipes for Taking Perfect Portraits

Product Description
• Step-by-step recipes for great pictures
• Demystifies lucrative fashion and beauty photography

• Beautiful examples with diagrams and instructions—everything the photographer needs in the studio or on location

Posing for Portrait Photography: A Head-to-Toe Guide

Review
"Includes 100 photos that illustrate various portrait styles and posing techniques that will surely enhance the quality of your work." --"Shutterbug"

http://www.amazon.com/Posing-Portrait-Photography-Head-Toe/dp/1584281340/ref=pd_sim_b_5

http://www.jeffsmithphoto.com/

The Best of Wedding Photojournalism: Techniques and Images from the Pros

Review
"Will assist you in exploring this fascinating style of photography and easily apply[ing] it to your own work." -"Shutterbug"

Portrait Photographer's Handbook- Bill Hurter

Get Monte Zucker's Handbook or the 2nd Edition - the 3rd Is a Mess, March 5, 2008
By Maine Character (Westport Island, ME) - See all my reviews

I waited a few months for the 3rd edition to come out, and now wish I hadn't, due to how it tries to put three books - an introduction to digital photography, a portrait handbook, and a book on Photoshop techniques - into 120 pages. Each of those subjects is far too in-depth to cover well in one book and, even as it is, it's poorly done.

Chap. 1 - Equipment and Basic Techniques
A good intro to lenses, depth of field, meters, umbrellas, etc.

Chap 2 - Good Digital Working Techniques
Here's where it starts to go off track, basically giving you a beginner's manual on digital photography, including info on formatting your cards and backing up your images.

John Casablancas Modeling and Career Center 2 Professional Modeling Workbook for Women

Product Description
80 pages. Topics include Advanced General Area, Makeup, Photography, Runway, Television.

In Style: Instant Style (Your Season-By-Season Guide for Work and Weekend)

From Publishers Weekly
InStyle magazine hit newstands in 1994, committed to celebrity lifestyle, and gets most of the credit (or blame) for the current obsession with celebrities: where they live, where they vacation, what they eat, what they buy and especially what they wear. One of InStyle's most popular sections is "The Look" pages of celebrity photos shot at fabulous parties and award events, with captions crediting their designer duds. But along the way, InStyle also became a premier fashion magazine, with the idea of bringing the fabulous to the many. This book by the editors offers a season-by-season guide to dressing well in all situations and being, well, in style. The coverage is entertaining, with much-photographed women like Sarah Jessica Parker, Cameron Diaz, Oprah and Jennifer Aniston providing examples for "know your own shape"

Revealing Mexico - Susanne Steines, John Mack, Teresa del Conde, Carlos Fuentes

(Boek)

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In 2010, Mexico observes two important anniversaries: the bicentennial of its independence from Spain and the centennial of the Mexican Revolution. These two milestones offer the country’s 111 million citizens and 30 million Mexican Americans an unprecedented opportunity to rediscover and celebrate their shared heritage. Revealing Mexico by John Mack and Susanne Steines is an astonishing new photographic portrait of the country.

Clean And Simple Scrapbooking: Ideas for Design, Photography, Journaling & Typography (Boek)

Product Description
You know that clean, "graphic-designer style" you thought you couldn't copy on your layouts without going to design school? Now you can learn to think like a graphic designer. With her signature style, Cathy Zielske shares expert ideas on design, photography, journaling and typography in Clean and Simple Scrapbooking from Simple Scrapbooks.

Foodography: Digital Food Photography & Styling - Helene Dujardin (Boek)

Product Description
Tips and techniques for making food look good—before it tastes good!
Food photography is on the rise, with the millions of food bloggers around the word as well as foodies who document their meals or small business owners who are interested in cutting costs by styling and photographing their own menu items, and this book should serve as your first course in food photography. Discover how the food stylist exercises unique techniques to make the food look attractive in the finished product. You’ll get a taste of the visual know-how that is required to translate the perceptions of taste, aroma, and appeal into a stunning, lavish finished photograph.

Food Styling for Photographers: A Guide to Creating Your Own Appetizing Art - Linda Bellingham, Jean Ann Bybee (Boek)

Product Description
"You eat with your eyes first," and no one turns a photograph of food into a culinary masterpiece like a food stylist. Food Styling for Photographers is the next best thing to having renowned food stylist Linda Bellingham by your side. Linda has worked with clients Baskin Robbins Ice Cream, McDonald's, Tyson Foods, FritoLay, and many, many more. Professional photographer Jean Ann Bybee has worked with Harry & David, Dominos, Sara Lee, Seven-Up Company, and more. Jean Ann provides a seasoned photographer's point of view with helpful tips throughout. If you are hungry for unique photo assignments and want to expand your portfolio, this guide provides the well-kept secrets of food styling techniques that can make your photos good enough to eat. Each chapter covers step-by-step instructions with mouth-watering photographs illustrating techniques for the creation of hero products that photographers at any level can whip up. Bon Appétit!

Check out a new podcast interview with the authors about the upcoming second volume in this series, More Food Styling for Photographers!

http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/nik-radio/id365360524

All Access: The Rock 'N' Roll Photography of Ken Regan by Jim Jerome, Ken Regan, Keith Richards and Mick Jagger (Boek)

Since the 1960s, Ken Regan has captured the passion and energy of rock & roll’s most influential performers. His early work with Bob Dylan an the Rolling Stones made him the photographer of choice for historic music events such as Live Aid and Amnesty International’s Human Rights Now Worldwide benefit concerts, which gave Regan unique access to the personal side of the music industry’s biggest stars.

All Access: Your Backstage Pass to Concert Photography by Alan Hess

Advice, inspiration, and insight for taking remarkable concert photos
Concert photography poses a unique set of challenges to photographers, including night or low-light, inconsistent stage lighting, a moving subject matter, limitations on vantage point, complex exposure situations, and no chance for re-takes. Compounded with those hurdles is a lack of resources on this subject?until now. All Access: Your Backstage Pass to Concert Photography fills this gap and provides you with all the information you need to know, from choosing the right gear and camera settings to negotiating rights to publish or share photos as well as how to best edit your photos in post-production.

New Orleans New Elegance - by Kerri McCaffety and Julia Reed (Boek)

Award-winning photographer Kerri McCaffety looks at the city's most innovative and iconic interiors in a quest to define the essence of the unique New Orleans style. Sumptuous fabrics, elegant architectural details, intricate collections, bold abstract art, and fresh, contemporary lines are all captured in her stunning photographs.