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 artisic re-interpretation and how to find models. Legal and photo release issues are covered as well.

Containing numerous contemporary images by leading photographers, this indispensable manual concerning wedding portraits explains posing fundamentals as well as how to create a flattering, feature-specific photograph—one that focuses on the head, shoulders, arms, legs, or torso—in different levels of close-ups, from head-shots to full-lengths. Since posing is the second most challenging aspect of photography and with the added complications of a wedding—from the bride's personal style to her figure and gown—it can be very easy for a photographer to make a wrong turn. This perceptive reference provides the perfect place to turn when in need of quick posing strategies and fresh ideas.

The book offers a unique “triangle of learning,” featuring McNally’s distillation of important concepts, his images that illustrate techniques, and the inside story of how the shot was taken, including what equipment was used and how readers can set up similar shots.

McNally can be seen discussing images from the book and how he achieved the perfect shot in a video courtesy of Nikon. Readers can also join The Moment It Clicks flickr group to share their great shots and tell the story behind them.

In Volume 2, Scott adds entirely new chapters packed with Plain English tips on using flash, shooting close up photography, travel photography, shooting people, and even how to build a studio from scratch, where he demystifies the process so anyone can start taking pro-quality portraits today! Plus, he's got full chapters on his most requested topics, including loads of tips for landscape photographers, wedding photographers, and there's an entire chapter devoted to sharing some of the pro's secrets for making your photos look more professional, no matter what you're shooting.

Jeff Smith is aprofessional photographer and theowner of twovery successful studios incentralCalifornia.His numerous articles have appeared inRangefinder, Professional Photographer, and Studio Photography and Design magazines. Jeff has beena featured speaker at the Senior Photographers InternationalConvention, aswell as at numerous seminars for pro-
fessional photographers.He haswrittennumerous books, includingOutdoor andLocationPortrait Photography, Posing for Portrait Photography,Professional Digital Portrait Photography, and Jeff Smith’s Senior Portrait Photography Handbook(all fromAmherstMedia®).His common-sense approach tophotography andbusinessmakes the informationhepresents both practical and very easy tounderstand.

Light & Lens: Photography in the Digital Age is a groundbreaking introductory book that clearly and concisely provides the instruction and building blocks necessary to create thought-provoking digitally based photographs. It is an adventurous idea book that features numerous classroom-tested assignments and exercises from leading photographic educators to encourage you to critically explore and make images from the photographers eye, an aesthetic point of view.