Styling Beyond Instagram: Take Your Prop Styling Skills from the Square to the Street
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Up your styling skills, avoid common pitfalls, and give the world your best top-notch creative storytelling with this comprehensive guide to the business of prop styling. Imagine spending your days telling visual stories; dreaming up ideas for photo shoots; scouring boutiques, flea markets, and antique shops for the perfect props; working with beautiful objects; and collaborating with photographers, art directors, and other creative minds. Prop styling can encompass all of these, and here's the guide to teach you the basics. Professional stylist Robin Zachary explains the many types of prop styling that exist, and how to choose which is best for your goals: tabletop, food, crafts, events, soft goods, interiors, and more. You'll learn the components and steps of a styling job from start to finish, including everything from creating client questionnaires and winning jobs to the best processes for estimating your costs; pricing your services; making your merchandise shopping list; choosing props, surfaces, and backdrops; managing your photo shoot's logistics; and more. Throughout, "real life" spotlights offer tips and suggestions from a range of successful professional and emerging stylists; many of them have transformed themselves from other careers while working with Robin. The included styling resources provide key tools: checklists, schedule plans, helpful forms, and more to help you work like a pro. Understand every aspect of styling, including gathering and arranging objects to tell a story or sell a product, photographing or filming for a media outlet, creating an environment to exhibit a specific theme and cohesive style, and working for varied clients and brands. Learn how to advocate for yourself in negotiating with clients, and how to bring your vision to every kind of audience.
| Dimensions | 20.32 x 1.91 x 25.4 cm |
| Isbn 10 | 0764363182 |
| Isbn 13 | 978-0764363184 |
| Item Weight | 1.05 kg |
| Language | English |
| Print Length | 208 pages |
| Publication Date | 26 Sept. 2022 |
| Publisher | Schiffer Craft |
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couldn't put this book down!
As a new food stylist looking to display propping skills for photo shoots, I turned to "Styling Beyond Instagram" for advice, resources, and inspiration. I honestly couldn't put this book down and read it in one weekend! Which is rare for me. I was hesitant to initially buy it as I thought the information could be found online, but you can't find this level of prop styling expertise on any website. It takes you from initial client call to logistical planning, prepping,/hard core sourcing, packing, transporting, the shoot itself, and finally break down and prop returns. It reads like an engaging behind the scenes / a day in the life of a prop stylist which is the part I loved the most about this book. Highly recommend for the content as well as the pretty photos!
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Informative
Absolutely LOVE this book
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This book is amazing!!
This book is absolutely amazing! If this is something that you are looking into doing for a living or for fun, this book is everything! The author is also an amazing women. I definitely recommend this!
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Inspirational and practical!
A well written and beautifully visual book that explores the world of prop styling. It's easy to read, takes a step by step approach to the industry and is backed up with lots of well curated visual examples. For anyone interested in styling, whether as a career or for your own business purposes it has lots of great content and inspirational thoughts and ideas. Robin Zachary is very generous with sharing her experience and expertise, and her passion for her craft clearly comes through. I loved the book to help me think about how to create content for my own business. A great resource.
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Beautiful and More Helpful Than Anything I've Seen Online
"Wow!" was my initial reaction when I opened the package, saw the cover, and picked up the book. I have quite a bit of photography books (the art ones not the guide or how-to ones) and Robin Zachary's Styling Beyond Instagram is up there with them in terms of quality. I initially purchased it to learn more about styling and I thought it would be casual reading over weekend or so, but it's serious informative material...that's beautifully and elegantly presented. This is a book that you're going to want to look at several times because of the information in the text but also the artistry in the images.
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