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This unique book is a photographer's guide to the powerful medium of the environmental portrait. It explores in lucid detail the many "moving parts" of this imaging style, including the techniques and creative processes that drive some of this genre's finest contemporary practitioners.
In Environmental Portraiture, author Jim Cornfield puts his readers behind the viewfinder to help them successfully master what he calls "the portrait photographer's most high-powered tool." In a series of detailed tutorial chapters and study models, Cornfield unpacks every practical aspect of the environmental portrait scenario, including research, location scouting, lighting interior and exterior environments, props and wardrobe, lens selection, composition, color, and after-capture.
Along with this wealth of comprehensive nuts-and-bolts information, the book probes the deep structure of environmental portraiture—the blend of a sitter's backstory with the meaningful visual clues in their surroundings. He introduces such concepts as "portraitcraft," "cognitive weight," and "the ideas and emotions quotient," among the many dimensions of an environmental portrait that create eye-opening revelations about the person in front of your lens.
A separate section of the book is devoted to a prestigious roster of contemporary environmental portraitists, specifically recruited for this book to explore in-depth selected samples from their diverse portfolios. They bring with them a score of insights, tips and fascinating anecdotes that demonstrate their individualized approaches to this versatile branch of the photographer's craft.
Written for professionals, amateurs and serious students of photography, this book is both a guide and inspiration to creating powerful, communicative environmental portraiture.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword by Jacqueline Tobin
Preface: Beyond The Mask
Introduction
Part I: Fundamentals
Chapter One: Discovering the Environmental Portrait—A Memoir
Chapter Two: Portraiture and the Invisible Thread
Chapter Three: Deconstructing the Environmental Portrait, Phase One: A Look Backward
Chapter Four: Deconstructing the Environmental Portrait, Phase Two: In The Here And Now
Chapter Five: Executing the Environmental Portrait: The Opening Gambit
Part II: The Environmental Portrait In The Real World
Study Models: Ways to Actualize the Environmental Portrait
"The Four T's": A Template—a Guide for Organizing and Creating Serious Environmental Portraiture
The Tale
The Task
The Tactics
The Tools
Chapter Six: Study Model
The Four T's At Work
Professor Steve Mayo and the Ethos of a Great University
Chapter Seven: Study Model
Kid Thomas on The Vieux Carré
Chapter Eight: Study Model
Tony Costanza in the Lair of The Rat Pack
The Bartender Project
Chapter Nine: Study Model:
Craig Calfee and the Bamboo Bicycle
Chapter Ten: Study Model
Albert Lee, Country Music's Most Famous Unknown Artist
Chapter Eleven: Study Model:
Capt. Curry and the Saga of Aqua 2
Part III: Masters Of The Environmental Portrait - An Annotated Portfolio
Introduction to Part III
Chapter Twelve: Portraitcraft
Michael Grecco
Chapter Thirteen: Community
Phil Borges
Rania Matar
Tom Atwood
Chapter Fourteen: Interactions
Eric Myer
Chapter Fifteen: The Art Of Improvising
Al Satterwhite
Chapter Sixteen: The Fictive Persona
Larry Schiller
Michael Wilson
Chapter Seventeen: Dr. Light
Lou Jones
Chapter Eighteen: The Gold Standard
Joe McNally
Cathy Church and the Total Immersion Environmental Portrait
A Parting Word: On Newman, Self-Confidence, and the Critics in The Room Next Door
Index
