52 Assignments: Portrait Photography is a year’s worth ofinspiring weekly assignments to kick-start your creativity.
This book is a mission brief, a portfolio of photographicworkshops, a personalised journal and an inspirational guide to putting thecreativity back into your craft. It is filled with a year’s worth of weeklycommissions and concepts for conceiving and composing powerful and dynamicportrait photographs.
Full of technical advice and professional tips, the bookincludes space for you to add your own notes, lists and tech specs, allowingyou to create a unique journal in which you can record the journey you havemade with your imagination. Complete the assignments week by week over thecourse of a year, or dip in every time you need to bring a new concept orcreative approach to your portrait photography.
From children’s portraits, business headshots and streetportraits to selfies, abstract shots and fashion portraits, this book is aguide for readers to learn something new or try something innovative with theirexisting skills within the dynamic and characterful world of portraitphotography.
Introduction 6
The Bright Ones 8
Environmental Portrait 10
Capture a Family Moment 12
Get Abstract 14
Reflected Glory 16
Just One Light 18
Give Us a Clue 20
The Selfie 22
Street Life 26
Pet Portrait 28
The Young Ones 30
The High Life 32
Youre the Business 34
Pride and Joy 36
Framed 40
Take Cover 42
Rebel With a Cause 44
City Limits 46
Dont Look Now 48
Off With Their Heads 50
Be Bailey 52
The Humans of . . . 54
Softly Does It 56
The Sportrait 58
Up the Workers 60
A Bigger Picture 62
ShortMediumLong 66
Set Up a Home Studio 70
All Dressed Up 72
Gildenesque 74
Your Friend¬the Model 76
Dark Is the Night 78
Make Friends With Your Meter 80
Back to Basics 84
Do Your Bit 86
Get Passionate 90
Portrait of an Artist 94
Mono Magic 96
Handy Work 98
The Great Outdoors 100
Headline Act 102
Character Study 104
Make It Pay 106
Love is the Drug 108
Angle-Poise 110
Bokeh-Licious 112
House Style 114
Contre-Jour Lighting 116
Use a Prop 118
Zoom In for Impact 120
Hit the Low Notes 124
Index 126
Brian Lloyd Duckett is the Principal and Course Tutor at Streetsnappers, a specialist in street photography workshops and tutorials in London and cities across Europe. A highly successful commercial and editorial photographer, he teaches as a Visiting Lecturer on photography degree courses. He has worked for many leading newspapers and commercial organizations, but his hobby and passion is street photography. He is the author of Mastering Street Photography, 52 Assignments: Street Photography and 52 Assignments: Black & White Photography (Ammonite Press). Brian is based in Merseyside, England.
