The Storytelling Portrait: Photographer's Guide for Stronger Portraits

How to tell a person’s story in a portrait? How to overcome the fear of photographing people without giving up the authenticity of the decisive moment? How to use the power of composition, natural light, and moment to evoke emotion? How to craft a visual style in an era when everything was photographed before?
Suitable for novice to advanced and aimed to create a workshop-like experience, this guide won’t test your ability to explain technical concepts, as we will learn how to harness the tools of composition and light to evoke emotion and create better and stronger storytelling portraits.

IN THIS EBOOK WE WILL: Explore the workflow of portrait making from visualizing an idea, to creating the final image. Learn how composition can help you tell better stories and create stronger portraits. Cover basic to advanced techniques of how to use concepts like light, color, angle, moment, looking space, and background to benefit your portraits. Establish a method of working where you will reach satisfying results, with fewer shutter clicks and fewer headaches in the editing room Learn how to overcome the fear of approaching strangers, without losing the authenticity of the moment. Get behind the scenes with detailed case studies.
IS THIS BOOK RIGHT FOR ME?

It doesn’t matter if you are a professional photographer, an advanced amateur, or just getting started. This book won’t test your ability to explain technical concepts but will help you craft your ability to create a better composition, work with more suitable lighting, choose the best tools for the job, and most importantly, be able to tell a story in a portrait.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Oded Wagenstein is an award-winning photographer and lecturer.
His work has been published, among other platforms, by The Washington Post, National Geographic, BBC, The Guardian, VOGUE and has been displayed internationally, including exhibitions presented in the National Portrait Gallery in London, the United Nations, and the Red Square’s State Historical Museum of Russia.
For more than a decade that he has been leading photography workshops around the globe, from Tokyo to Havana, teaching hundreds of photographers and photography enthusiasts to use their cameras as a tool to explore the world around them and themselves.