Shooting Actors: Performance Photography with a Digital Camera

This book teaches you how to photograph live performances using a high-performance consumer or professional digital camera. There are over 200 theater and dance example photographs, with anecdotes, illustrations, review questions and answers, checklists, and a glossary. Shooting Actors is based on the author's 15 years of successful theater performance photography and his wife's 20 years of theater production experience. Chapters include: An introduction Tools of the trade Capturing the performance Shooting off-stage for promotion and portfolios How to make your shooting easier Sorting, editing, distributing, and archiving your photo images

Jeff Thomas has worked in community theater designing and building sets and props, while working as an electronics engineer, a metal sculptor, and a theater photographer. Since 1995 he has photographed over 225 theater performances. ＂Shooting Actors＂ is his third published book. The others, on cable television system measurements, were published by Prentice-Hall during his 38-year engineering career with Hewlett-Packard Company and Agilent Technologies, Inc. Jeff’s metal sculptures are in private collections in the U.S. and Europe.