Best Nude and Erotic Photography Books
The Naked and the Lens: A Guide to Nude Photography
The Beginner's Guide to Photographing Nudes
Private Collection: A History of Erotic Photography
Nude Photography: The Art and the Craft
The Photographer's Guide to Nudes: A Complete Masterclass
Erotic Home Photography: How to Take Your Own Nude Portraits
Digital Nude Photography
Mastering Digital Nude Photography: The Serious Photographer's Guide to High-Quality Digital Nude Photography
Erotique Digitale: The Art of Erotic Digital Photography
Outdoor Lighting: Nudes
Top 10
1. The Naked and the Lens: A Guide to Nude Photography
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. The techniques are up-to-date, including Photoshop CS4, RAW capture and shooting with…»
2. The Beginner's Guide to Photographing Nudes
Teaching beginners how to enter into the field of professional nude photography, this guide discusses a wide-range of topicsÂófrom concept through the actual shoots to editing and review. Approached systematically, the easy flow of steps provide invaluable insight into determining artistic versus commercial imagery, finding models who suit the workâÄôs goal, techniques for working with models, selecting the appropriate environment and lighting, maintaining…»
3. Private Collection: A History of Erotic Photography
Private Collection is a unique and fascinating publication of over 250 pornographic photographs from Danny MoynihanâÄôs personal collection, including images made by some of the earliest erotic photographers, right up to the 1940s. This publication visually documents attitudes about sex and pornography, and by so doing shows how they were developed alongside a âÄòcorrectâÄô social and cultural behavioural code of restraint, particularly with regard to sexual…»
4. Nude Photography: The Art and the Craft
Follow practical advice from nude photography experts and learn to create picture-perfect results every time with this master class in photographing the human form. Everything's covered, from working successfully with amateur and professional models to getting great results in your own home or outdoors. Find tips on setting up a shoot, lighting effects, and post-production techniques, so you can turn a good picture into a really great one. Get inspired by…»
5. The Photographer's Guide to Nudes: A Complete Masterclass
One of the most specialized areas of professional photography, nudes are a complicated and often underrepresented art. In addition to the technical considerations, newcomers to the form may feel unprepared or nervous about working with models. This beautiful volume offers plenty of inspiration, reassurance, and information on everything from decorating the body to the respective merits (and problems associated with) indoor and outdoor shoots. Find out the…»
6. Erotic Home Photography: How to Take Your Own Nude Portraits
Complete erotic portraiture how-to for couples. This book is for couples who want to share their joy through photography. Digital photography has removed the barriers that inhibited amateurs from creating their own nude photography. The erotic can now be expressed in many ways, all of which portray a person's varied sides. Erotic Home Photography is a complete how-to guide for couples who wish to produce private images they can share between themselves.…»
7. Digital Nude Photography
This book considers the advantages that digital photography and image-editing software have brought to photographing the nude. Filled with stunning images of nudes photographed by a pro, this true art book reveals detailed explanation on how to take and improve photos. Focusing on the subject from image capture to image output, this guide provides step-by-step instructions for reproducing the beauty of the human form. Using full-color in an effective…»
8. Mastering Digital Nude Photography: The Serious Photographer's Guide to High-Quality Digital Nude Photography
Digital photographic technology has created a surge in the popularity of nude photography. Mastering Digital Nude Photography contains ideas and techniques that will develop your creativity and challenge you to expand your boundaries. This book examines photography of the nude for the serious photographer - one who already possesses visual imagination and creativity, but is ready to take the work in a new direction. It explores a range of photographic…»
9. Erotique Digitale: The Art of Erotic Digital Photography
For everyone interested in the new frontier where technology and erotica meet, "Erotique Digitale: The Art of Erotic Digital Photography" is a state-of-the-art look at a selection of the world's most innovative erotic imagery. This brand-new guide is both a compendium of digital image-making techniques-from simple retouching to complex montages that combine digital photographs with spectacular graphics and 3D imagery-and a superb showcase for the work of…»
10. Outdoor Lighting: Nudes
The freely nude body and nature just seem to go together, and this lushly designed guide--aimed at professional, keen amateur, and student photographers--reveals the many facets of lighting nude photography outdoors. High-quality color and black-and-white images, drawn from a range of contemporary international photographers, demonstrate a variety of beautiful effects, all using the sun as the principal light source. See how to make the most of light and…»
Professional Secrets of Nude & Beauty Photography: Techniques and Images in Black & White
Glamour Nude Photography
Black & White Nude Photography
Learn Nude Photography: From the creators of David-Nudes
The Passionate Camera: Photography and Bodies of Desire
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11. Professional Secrets of Nude & Beauty Photography: Techniques and Images in Black & White
Packed with practical tips and real-world examples of the skills needed to shoot outstanding black and white nude and beauty photographs, this is a comprehensive manual for photographers of all levels. Technical analyses of over 60 portraits are provided, enabling photographers to learn, duplicate, and adapt each of the techniques. Special emphasis is placed on evaluating and adjusting for perfect lighting, choosing settings, and selecting props and poses…»
12. Glamour Nude Photography
Guiding aspiring professionals carefully through the technical aspects required for successful nude photography, this book details how to select models, choose locations and poses, strike the right lighting, use proper camera settings and equipment, and much more. It also covers the practical concerns unique to this line of work, such as ethical and legal considerations and effective business practices. Advanced photographers as well as amateurs will find…»
13. Black & White Nude Photography
Exploring the timeless fine art of nude images in black and white, this guide teaches photographers how to find and interview prospective models, choose locations and equipment, approach a photo session, create moods with light, enhance shots with special effects, incorporate fabrics and props, and develop a portfolio. Typical shooting scenarios and model testimonies are also included.»
14. Learn Nude Photography: From the creators of David-Nudes
AMAZON SALE PRICE! $24.88 (reg $29.98) You have seen the hundreds of web-girls and erotica sites out on the internet today...you watch from a distance as one hot new nude photo shoot after another shows up on a gallery. BUT what about behind the scenes? What did it take to make these awesome productions? Now you can find out for yourself with the release of this book written and liberally illustrated by a leader in the online erotica industry - David-Nudes…»
15. The Passionate Camera: Photography and Bodies of Desire
More than any other medium, photography creates and reinforces our ideals of gender and sexuality. From advertising and journalism to fashion and fine art, photographs show how "good bodies" and "bad bodies" look and behave. The Passionate Camera assembles over fifty artists, scholars and critics to examine the relationship between photography and sexuality. The contributors consider many issues including the importance of reinterpreting historical works…»