Brian Lloyd Duckett

52 Assignments: Portrait Photography

52 Assignments: Portrait Photography is a year’s worth of inspiring weekly assignments to kick-start your creativity. This book is a mission brief, a portfolio of photographic workshops, a personalised journal and an inspirational guide to putting the creativity back into your craft. It is filled with a year’s worth of weekly commissions and concepts for conceiving and composing powerful and dynamic portrait photographs. Full of technical advice and professional tips, the book includes space for you to add your own notes, lists and tech specs, allowing you to create a unique journal in which you can record the journey you have made with your imagination. Complete the assignments week by week over the course of a year, or dip in every time you need to bring a new concept or creative approach to your portrait photography. From children’s portraits, business headshots and street portraits to selfies, abstract shots and fashion portraits, this book is a guide for readers to learn something new or try something innovative with their existing skills within the dynamic and characterful world of portrait photography.