Headshot Portraits Secrets: New Riders Guide (E-Download)from Headshot Portraits Secrets: New Riders Guide (E-Download)is an instructional guide on how to produce unique and creative portraits, whether they are assignment-based, for personal projects, or just of family and friends. Authored by notable photographer, Peter Hurley, this publication begins with some of Hurley's classic recipes for producing effective shots, including his trademark "white background, flat light, chopped-off heads" look. Over the course of more than a dozen chapters, the book covers technical topics on lighting, composition, and camera setup, as well as how to establish a rapport with your subjects, how to gain expression from your subjects, and how to direct your subjects, with specific focus given to adjusting jaw, smile, eyes, and eyebrow positioning. This guide serves as an all-around foundation for producing effective portraits of a variety of different subject types.

Author: Peter Hurley

• Introduction
• Chapter 1: The headshot recipe that started it all
• Chapter 2: Hitting the technical on the head
• Chapter 3: Lights, camera, action-or not?
• Chapter 4: Establishing a rapport
• Chapter 5: Let's craft what's in your director's toolbox
• Chapter 6: The art of Sherlock Holmesing
• Chapter 7: Breaking the nonverbal two thirds barrier
• Chapter 8: It all starts with the jaw
• Chapter 9: The beauty of the human smile
• Chapter 10: Make em squint
• Chapter 11: It's all about the therapy/direction and the inner dialogue going on between us and our subject
• Chapter 12: Pre-shutter release checklist
• Chapter 13: Don't shoot it if it just ain't right

Related Questions and Answers

Q: 1. what is the longest exposure time of this camera? 30 sec?

A: The longest exposure of the Sony a6000 Mirrorless Camera is 30 seconds but you can use bulb mode if you want to shoot longer exposures.

Q: 2. Can I use any off camera flash triggering device or has to be a sony product? I am thinking of yongnuo flash triggers.

A: I bought the small Sony flash and use it on camera as a trigger for my larger Canon flashes

Q: 3. Is this a full-fram camera?

A: It has an APS-C (23.5mm x 15.6mm) sensor.

Q: 4. Can I connect external microphones?

A: You can use an external microphone that mounts via hot shoe with the Sony A6000.

Q: 5. I have the Sony Nex 6 - can I use my current lenses with the a6000?

A: Yes, I believe you can.

Q: 6. Is this compatible with use with studio strobe lights via wireless remote on the flash shoe?

A: The white and silver version yes. The black you need to do some sanding for the black paint coat on hotshoe to connect with the trigger.

Q: 7. Is this hardcover or paperback?

A: The Amphoto Book: Gregory Heisler: 50 Portraits: Stories and Techniques from a Photographer's Photographer (BH #AMGH50P) is a hardcover book.

Q: 8. Do you have Silver?

A: yes.

Q: 9. I read somewhere that the kit lens that comes with this only produces a 16 MP file. Is that true?

A: Mine produces 25.1 MB files.

Q: 10. Would the clear image zoom on a good prime, I ordered the F1.8 35mm, be equal or better than using a zoom lens? In my case clear zoom would take me out to 70mm, how would that compare to lets say the end of the Sony Vario 16-70mm F4?

A: Optical zoom (i.e. using a zoom lens) will always be more optimal image quality than using clear image zoom or digital zoom. Clear image zoom is created by collecting information from existing pixels, whereas the optical zoom is raw data being captured by the sensor itself.