Lloyd-Duckett Brian

52 Assignments: Portrait Photography is a year’s worth of inspiring weekly assignments to kick-start your creativity.

This book is a mission brief, a portfolio of photographic workshops, a personalised journal and an inspirational guide to putting the creativity back into your craft. It is filled with a year’s worth of weekly commissions and concepts for conceiving and composing powerful and dynamic portrait photographs.

Full of technical advice and professional tips, the book includes space for you to add your own notes, lists and tech specs, allowing you to create a unique journal in which you can record the journey you have made with your imagination. Complete the assignments week by week over the course of a year, or dip in every time you need to bring a new concept or creative approach to your portrait photography. From children’s portraits, business headshots and street portraits to selfies, abstract shots and fashion portraits, this book is a guide for readers to learn something new or try something innovative with their existing skills within the dynamic and characterful world of portrait photography.

Mastering Street Photography is a practical guide to capturing the candid moments that reveal life at its most dramatic, absurd or beautiful.

Street photography has a tradition dating back over a century, and today's digital world finds it enjoying a renaissance—yet there is little expert advice available. This is a practical guide to capturing the candid moments that reveal life at its most dramatic, absurd, or beautiful. Brian Lloyd Duckett demonstrates how the successful street photographer needs to be an unseen observer, with the camera a mirror of everyday scenes and unaware subjects.

A guide to equipment and technical skills leads into lessons in finding inspiration, developing projects, and composing different subjects and scenes—laying the foundations for you to impose your personality on your photography and develop your own distinctive style. The book also addresses such key issues as staying safe and within the law when photographing on the street, and the art of building an audience for your images.