Classic Outdoor Color Portraits: A Guide for Photographers; It's Your Turn to Make a Portrait

Nancy Hopkins Reily

Sunstone Press, 2000 - Photography - 178 pages

"It's your turn to make a photograph", states the author on the cover of this detailed handbook destined to become a classic instruction manual on portrait photography. And she shows the reader how by going through the basics of this photographic artform step by step in easy-to-follow instructions that will appeal to all levels of experience.

For beginners, a working knowledge of the camera is not even necessary; and for professionals there is more than enough to challenge them to exceed their own present excellence. It has taken the author years of working in the portrait profession to focus and collect her approach to color portraiture and she presents her ideas in a way that will inspire even those who are not photographers. The book is designed far any artist working in any medium. All they have to have is an interest in the human subject.

The book covers such wide-ranging subjects as a perspective on the history of the medium, composition, lighting, posing techniques, the portraitist's "eye", hints at how to enrich one's self as a result of exploring the art of portraiture, and much more. "Classic Outdoor Color Portraits" is a vital text for photography schools and workshops, continuing education classes, artist schools and workshops, colleges, amateurs, and professionals in all regions and settings.

Contents

• V: 19
• VI: 23
• VIII: 25
• IX: 28
• X: 31
• XI: 34
• XII: 35
• XIII: 36
• XIV: 37
• XV: 38
• XVI: 39
• XVIII: 41
• XIX: 42
• XX: 43
• XXI: 46
• XXII: 64
• XXIII: 73
• XXIV: 74
• XXV: 75
• XXVI: 93
• XXVII: 100
• XXVIII: 118
• XXIX: 127
• XXX: 132
• XXXI: 142
• XXXII: 144
• XXXIII: 145
• XXXIV: 169
• XXXVII: 170
• XXXVIII: 172
• XXXIX: 173
• XL: 174
• XLI: 175
• XLII: 176

About the author

Nancy Hopkins Reily was born in Dallas, Texas about mid-way between the Great Depression of 1929 and 1941 when the United States entered World War II. She was named after a McCall's magazine story with the heroine named Nancy, a name her mother liked. With two brothers she didn't play dolls, but played baseball and football in the neighborhood, caught fireflies at night and climbed the low branch tree in their yard. Since childhood, Reily has divided her time between Texas, Colorado and New Mexico. Her college education began at Gulf Park College, Gulfport, Mississippi and ended with a B.B.A. degree from Southern Methodist University. After college she joined the ranks of marriage, homemaker and motherhood. This led to a career of volunteering for many organizations. She is the author of "Georgia O'Keeffe, A Private Friendship, Part I, Walking the Sun Prairie Land"; "Georgia O'Keeffe, A Private Friendship, Part II, Walking the Abiquiu and Ghost Ranch Land"; "Joseph Imhof, Artist of the Pueblos" with Lucille Enix, "My Wisdom That No One Wants," "The Blue Egg: A Memoir," and "Half-Past Winter," all from Sunstone Press, and "I Am At An Age," Best of East Texas Publishers. Reily makes her home in Lufkin, Texas.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Classic Outdoor Color Portraits: A Guide for Photographers; It's Your Turn to Make a Portrait
• Author: Nancy Hopkins Reily
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Sunstone Press, 2000
• ISBN: 0865343020, 9780865343023
• Length: 178 pages
• Subjects: Photography / Subjects & Themes / General; Photography / Techniques / Color; Photography / Techniques / Equipment; Photography / Techniques / General