{"id":18025,"date":"2013-11-13T23:29:17","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T03:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/?p=18025"},"modified":"2017-08-18T23:59:07","modified_gmt":"2017-08-19T03:59:07","slug":"book-review-gregory-heisler-50-portraits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/book-review-gregory-heisler-50-portraits\/","title":{"rendered":"book review: Gregory Heisler – 50 Portraits"},"content":{"rendered":"

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book review: Gregory Heisler – 50 Portraits
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Gregory Heisler is an undisputed genius when it comes to photographic lighting. If ever you get the opportunity to attend a seminar by him, do yourself a favor. The story behind each portrait, and the motivation and the struggles to create those images, don’t just make for entertaining anecdotes – and Gregory Heisler is an entertaining speaker – but the stories are insightful. Educational. But not just educational in a do-this-do-that explanation of technique. It’s much more than that.<\/p>\n

In this book he has collected 50 of his his best portraits he has taken during his career, and he discusses the thought-processs behind each image. He offers insight in how he came to take specific images, and how he decided why to set up up certain portraits in certain ways. Gregory Heisler’s humility, and the way he allows glimpses into the frustration and disappointments along the way – the struggles to get to iconic images – all this is told in entertaining and thoughtful way. There is also\u00a0much to learn here.<\/p>\n

This is a book to devour, and then dip into again and again. What truly impressed me about Gregory Heisler, is how innovative he is. He seems to want to steer clear of repeating formulas that work, and come up with portraits based on ideas that are challenging and full of risks.<\/p>\n

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