Erin Manning - Portrait and Candid Photography: Photo Workshop

Portrait and Candid Photography Photo Workshop

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About the Author

Erin Manning is a professional photographer, teacher, and television personality living in Los Angeles, California. Television viewers know Erin best as the host of The Whole Picture , the Telly Award winning digital photography show from HGTV-HD and DIY Network. She helps people understand photography and technology by translating technical mumbo-jumbo into everyday words and facilitating their learning with a clear, friendly teaching style.

Erin first fell in love with photography at age seven when she discovered Edward Steichen's book The Family of Man . That early encounter with images of people from all over the world shaped the direction she was to take with her photography capturing moments with and between people.

Whether Erin is in front of the camera or behind it, photography has always been a part of her life and combines her experience and education in art, technology, and entertainment. She specializes in lifestyle imagery for clients such as AT&T, Bank of America, Disney, as well as various lifestyle magazines and healthcare organizations. Erin spent several years honing her craft by working as a commercial, portrait, and stock photographer, in addition to working for Getty Images and completing a degree in Studio Art/Graphic Design from Loyola Marymount University.

Erin is a member of the Advertising Photographers of America, the National Association of Photoshop Professionals, Women in Photography International, and the Los Angeles Digital Imaging Group, whose purpose is dedicated to advancing the art and science of digital imaging.

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Acknowledgments

This book was written with the caring support and assistance of a few very important people. First, I must thank my mom, who has always inspired my creativity and supported my ideas, and was instrumental in helping me organize my thoughts as I wrote this book. Thank you also to Michael for his vision, talent, and tireless effort on my behalf. A special thank you goes out to Kim Spilker, my acquisitions editor who discovered me, encouraged me, and introduced me to the world of publishing.

I also need to thank Steve Vance, a master prepress artist who coaxed my images to look their best, and my contributing photographers Denise George, Robert Holley, Stephen Poffenberger, and Stacy Wasmuth.

My attractive subject examples each participated in support of this book; thanks to all of you. Some of the main subjects are my mom, my dad, Michael Welch, Stephanie Norwood, the Kullers, the Monroes, the Poliquins, the Tainters, the Youngs, the Friskes, the Peternels, the Shahs, the Georges, the Langsteins, the Schwartzs, the Boldts, Olivia Tracy, Victoria Coleman, Carm Goode, Teresa O'Neill, Terrence McNally, Bryan Kent, Cortnee Kornegay, Tabitha Brown, and Kris Kristoffersen.

My teachers over the years all deserve credit for sharing their knowledge and kindling my curiosity: Bobbie Leslie, Bobbi Lane, Charles O'Rear, Lee Varis, John Stewart, Carm Goode, Lawrence Manning, and Joyce Tenneson.

I'm very thankful for my devoted friends who patiently listened, waited, and stood by me when I disappeared for months on end in order to write this book. And one final thanks to the entire Wiley team: they have been an inspirational breath of fresh air. I am extremely grateful to be associated with people of this caliber.