book: Professional Portrait Lightimg, Charles Able

[CollinB]

Picked this up several years ago and forgot all about it until running across it tonight.
It is a colllectipn of portraot examples from a myriad of photographers.
A great work if you can dig up a copy.
It os from 1947.

 

[tomalophicon]

I'll buy it off you for 50 bucks.

 

[hoffy]

$55?

 

[tomalophicon]

you're bustin' my balls here Hoffy.

 

[Jim Fitzgerald]

Great book. I'm not sellin mine!

 

[CollinB]

I'm tempted -- but not too much.

 

[CollinB]

(All those typos in the original posting are what I get for thumbing on my Android phone.)

 

[CollinB]

If you only want one for examination purposes, you might also find one in a library
http://olc1.ohiolink.edu/search/t?SEARCH=professional+portrait+lightings
In Ohio we have a good inter-library loan system, and 4 of the 5 copies out there are available.

also, Biblio has some fs:
http://www.biblio.com/search.php?author=&title=professional+portrait+lightings&keyisbn=&format=