February 2010
Beginner
312 pages
9h 14m
English
book
Captured By the Light: The Essential Guide to Creating Extraordinary Wedding Photography
by David A. Ziser
Overview
IMAGINE THE ADVANTAGE YOU’D HAVE IF ONE OF THE
WORLD’S TOP WEDDING SHOOTERS SHARED HIS SECRETS WITH
YOU
World-renowned wedding photographer, and one of the most widely
acclaimed instructors in the industry today, David Ziser brings his
no-nonsense, straight-to-the-point teaching style to a book that
totally rewrites the rules for how wedding photography is
taught.
This groundbreaking new book is the first of its kind to focus on
the exact areas that wedding photographers have been begging a top
pro like David to cover, including how to create professional
quality light and beautiful images in every situation, how to
compose wedding images that sell, and how to create amazing images
in the limited time and at the fast pace of a wedding.
But David doesn’t just stop there. He covers every aspect of
what today’s brides and wedding couples want from a wedding
photographer, including poses that work every time and
can’t-miss lighting setups you can use again and again, and
everything is laid out in a brilliant step-by-step method that
makes learning these techniques so easy, you’ll be able to
pull off these same looks yourself (without spending thousands on
expensive equipment). Plus, the book is packed with David’s
tricks of the trade that he’s picked up in a career shooting
all over the world.
LEARN HOW THE PROS REALLY DO IT
Each year David trains thousands of photographers on how to shoot
weddings like a pro. He knows the problems and challenges
today’s wedding photographers face, and that’s exactly
what he covers in this book. You’ll learn everything on the
list here and much more:
Professional posing and composition tips
Simple on-location lighting setups that are specially designed for the wedding photographer
How to get gorgeous images using a minimal amount of time and equipment
Creative lighting techniques that anyone can use to create dramatic wedding portraits that will set you apart
David’s own camera settings and lens selections (which lenses to use when, and why), and how to get the best results with your existing gear
How pros use on- and off-camera f lash, and a host of tricks of the trade that will make you more profitable and have you delivering the type of wedding shots you’ve always dreamed of!
Plus, the book includes the complete cover-to-cover layout from
one of David’s wedding album designs to help spark your
creative juices and give you ideas to take your own layouts to the
next level.
The wedding photography industry has been waiting for a landmark
book that would become “the book” that finally changes
everything, and that’s exactly what you’ll be getting
with the purchase of this book.
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