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True Confessions of Nude Photography: A step-by-step guide to recruiting beautiful models, lighting, photographing nudes, post-processing images, and maybe even getting paid to do it.
By A. K. Nicholas

It's a step-by-step guide to recruiting beautiful models, lighting, photographing nudes, post-processing images, and maybe even getting paid to do it.
Prior experience with nude models is not required to benefit from this how-to guide. This guide can be enjoyed by anyone, but is written for two main audiences: the accomplished photographer wanting insight from a peer, and the serious amateur wanting a guided introduction to the field.
From the Author
I hope this book is unlike any other you'll read. It's not about mainstream techniques or expensive equipment. It's not written by a world renowned photographer. It's written by an unconventional photographer who wants to help you advance your nude photography. It contains everything I wished I knew ten years ago.

The Naked and the Lens: A Guide to Nude Photography
By Louis Benjamin.

The Naked and the Lens is designed as both a technical guide and an artistic inspiration. Filled with beautiful images of the nude form, it also shows you how this can be technically achieved. The book covers key topics: concept, lighting, directing, post-production, and artistic re-interpretation and how to find models. Legal and photo release issues are covered as well.
Regardless of whether you are shooting in a studio or in a field, this book will show you how to create works of art with nude bodies and it will also teach through advice in a unique interview section with leading nude photographers around the world through their words and their images.

*lavishly illustrated by contributors around the globe - to both inspire you and show detailed techniques of how to get the shot
*contains interviews with contributors - which contains key information on how to be successful
*not only does this book show you techniques, but also helps you out with the details such as finding models and model releases to be sure you have a subject to work with.

The Beginner's Guide to Photographing Nudes
By Peter Bilous

This guide discusses a wide-range of topics-from concept through the actual shoots to editing and review. Approached systematically, the easy flow of steps provide invaluable insight into determining artistic versus commercial imagery, finding models who suit the work’s goal, techniques for working with models, selecting the appropriate environment and lighting, maintaining direction and a quick pace during a session, and processing the images and experiences. Also included is information on creating a website, designing a portfolio, and preparing for gallery presentation.

Posing Techniques for Photographing Model Portfolios
By Billy Pegram

With detailed discussions and eye-catching, dynamic images, this guidebook shows professional photographers how to masterfully create beautiful images of a model to achieve any creative objective. Instructions illustrate basic poses as well as a host of subtle variations to provide photographers with an endless array of looks for editorial fashion shots, athletics, glamour or nude photography, and shots designed to show curves, reveal personality, or showcase the hands, hair, or legs. This comprehensive resource also provides expert advice on conducting a successful session, how to work with the model, how to work with a support staff of image stylists, and tips for designing a high-quality portfolio. Additional lessons provide a start-to-finish analysis of four different shooting sessions, each with a different model and a different objective.

Lighting the Nude: Top Photography Professionals Share Their Secrets
Roger Hicks and Frances Schultz

Showcasing over 400 images of the nude in a wide variety of styles, the book reveals the key lighting secrets of the photographers featured. Each quality image is accompanied by detailed lighting diagrams and an explanation of what makes the shot work. This allows the reader to find plenty of inspirational lighting ideas to copy or adapt into their own work. This inspirational book is an essential reference for every studio photographer's bookshelf, providing ideas, inspiration, and innovation.

Rolando Gomez's Posing Techniques for Glamour Photography
By Rolando Gomez

Literally working from head to toe, the images in this essential guide to glamour photography demonstrate how to flatter models’ assets and downplay any perceived flaws when there is no clothing to hide behind. Detailed instructions on recreating classic poses and a thorough discussion of the three main sections of the body-upper body, lower body, and backside-are coupled with ample photographic examples. Abundant illustrations reveal how to get the best possible views of the face, and visually enhance the appearance of the breasts, arms, abdomen, hips, buttocks, thighs, calves, feet, and toes.

Christopher Grey's Studio Lighting Techniques for Photography: Tricks of the Trade for Professional Digital Photographers
By Christopher Grey

Taking the guesswork out of lighting, this invaluable examination provides tools and techniques from an accomplished expert. The most essential principles for photo shoots are presented through lengthy image sequences, considering different finishes for reflective surfaces, types of light sources, light modifiers, and even light placements. From creating fundamental looks to the effect of fine-tuning placement and setting, this detailed guidebook enables photographers to maximize productivity on any shoot. Concluding with the most effective solutions for solving lighting problems, this study is an excellent resource for both active professionals as well as intermediate to advanced students of photography.