Kelly Portrait Mastery in Black & White

Learn the Signature Style of a Legendary Photographer
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-60895-844-3
Verlag: Amherst Media
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 128 Seiten, EPUB

Tim Kelly is a Master Photographer whose portrait work has inspired people in the portrait photography industry since the 1980s. His work has a classic, polished quality that beautifully depicts the personality of each subject, with no gimmicks. His style is reliant on careful camera technique, flawless lighting, and an uncanny ability to coax the most flattering-possible pose from every man, woman, and child who steps in front of his camera.


In this book, Tim Kelly presents 60 of his most impressive and diverse black & white portrait images of men, women, children, and groups. For each of the sixty images, readers will get a deconstructive look at every aspect of building the image, from the ground up. Kelly will discuss the creative concept behind his images and share the gear, exposure, lighting, and posing strategies he learned to create gorgeous black & white portraiture with an exquisite tonal range, beautiful, form-flattering highlights and shadows, and both refined and comfortable poses that invite the viewer to study the image frame.


This book contains all of the information you need to create standout black & white portraiture–from conceptualization, to posing and lighting, to postproduction and printing options.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kelly, Tim

Über Autor(innen)

Celebrating over forty years in professional photography, Tim Kelly, M.Photog.Cr., F-ASP, has participated in the cutting edge of several of photography’s landmark advances. A teacher and mentor to portrait photographers for a generation, he has worked in nearly every specialty of the industry. Before soloing as a portrait only artist, there were thousands of high end weddings, large scale product and advertising photographs, NYC area fashion, corporate and industrial images for the very biggest companies, seniors and undergrads by the tens of thousands. In addition to all this, Tim has always owned a lab, processing, printing and retouching all of his own work in-house with the help of full time staff. Tim still produces his entire signature bearing portraits himself, assuring their collectable value.


Most of professional photography knows Tim’s name and reputation; he has contributed to, or been featured in all the major trade magazine and over two dozen books. Tim has been one of the industry’s most prolific and sought after authors and experienced educators, influencing much of today’s top talent. He recently launched his new mentoring website, wwwphotoportraitGURU.com and maintains www.timkellyportraits.com, where his educational DVDs are sold worldwide.


Tim is an artist who has enjoyed success in several mediums including graphic design, oil painting, drawing and etching in addition to music and photography. He considers himself a “blessed man”, having been able to sustain a great career doing the very thing he loves the most: photographic fine-art portraiture.


Among Tim’s honors are being inducted into Cameracraftsmen of America, the International Society of Portrait Artists, a three-time recipient of the Kodak Gallery Elite Award, dozens of Kodak Gallery Awards, multiple Epcot Awards, and is a two-time recipient of the Becker Award, Florida’s highest imaging honor.