- ISBN13: 9780240808192
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Product Description
An amazing (and some would say magical) resource on photographic lighting that has been talked about in the community and recommended for years. This highly respected guide has been thoroughly updated and revised for content and design – it is now produced in full color! It introduces a logical theory of photographic lighting so if you are starting out in photography you will learn how to predict results before setting up lights. This is not primarily a how-to book with only set examples for you to copy. Rather, Light: Science and Magic provides you with a comprehensive theory of the nature and principles of light to allow you to use lighting to express your own creativity.
Numerous photographs and illustrations provide clear examples of the theories, while sidebars highlight special lighting questions. Expanded chapters on available light in portraiture, as well as new information on digital equipment and terminology make this a must have update!
*New four color art package with contemporary lighting examples
*Based on the behaviour of light
*Theory book for serious photographers
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i wasn’t paying attention or the information has leaked out through the trade off for real estate in my fibrous container yearning for relevancy. that is why i need you. to bolster the methods of a successful preparation. but i haven’t bought you yet. and here i pronounce indecision. there are just too many. what if i was limited to walking to the local bookshop? i would scoff at the washed up selection of used guidebooks then feel cheated by tweaked reprints of the industry standards. this industry is too big. hypothetically, i walk home, and along the way i am taunted by the satellite dishes i wish i had already reframed (to both my community plus my unknown community) for being a completely obvious art project that sacrifices the aesthetic for the conceptual yet surprises you with anonymous racism.
what if my search terms could have been better. what if the auto completion / auto correction was hindsight itself–imagine it: letters slowly congealing into subliminal idiom. do i keep it general, interrogative, pessimistic? “how to take a good picture” “photography” “light” “portrait” struggle to completion in the same suspense of watching a kid mess up at a spelling bee, going really meditative about their my mistake, sweat stains the only glory.
once i learned through exercises how to appropriately evoke the mood of (wheel’s been invented) electrical setups. it was another notebook, seventeen pages in, that i was too lazy to recycle when the storage space let out the air in its balloon. i couldn’t read my handwriting anyway.
i really can’t stand the artificial much longer. i am planning a purchase by justification of investment. i will be ready now when the mother of some friend of mine contacts me about a reputation i had for training in this skill and therefore she’ll want to pass my name on to someone who needs headshots of their niece’s aspiring actress daughter. i will agree under the condition that the daughter will probably fail in that competitive industry and it won’t be my fault. i will agree under the condition i take them in natural light.
technical hocus pocus may evaporate in the politeness of a first time conversation. so i should be prepared if someone misunderstands me and wants to be portrayed as an indoorsy hermit. discovering a niche is what to sell nowadays.
so what am i going to do when the pop of a flash resting on top the camera, as lazy as a microwave, exerts itself as if it knows how to light my subject?
(i hope to have learned by now) i would plant the flash elsewhere, a coiled wire ready to trip any intruder between me and it’s pi?ata stronghold. (i hope to have learned by now) i would wrap the palm of a rubber glove around it, the allergic latex fingers brushed back like sturdy hair plugs not to interfere with the consistency of a diffuser. (i hope to have learned by now) you may decide not to pay me in fives tens and twenties because the job was shot on film, handed over in a closed off canister with a prankster smirk that reads: take it to not only walgreens but cvs, duane read and rite-aid when they are closed and shove it through their overnight drop off slot, creative directions on the envelope only–no contact information–scribbled in sharpie marker: turn me into grey scale to satisfy my craving for abstraction. (i hope to have learned by now) to prevent the inevitable of bargaining image quality for lack of knowledge. (i hope to have learned by now) i’ve been less qualified than others yet hired to team teach this stuff before i even have the time or energy to refresh my memory. (i hope to have learned by now) sunglasses and or a cigarette don’t actually make you look cool. (i hope to have learned by now) tell the subject not to stand in front of the sun.
that larger forces in life mess up my light meter is the true search for compensation. while techniques indoctrinate trial and error, you bring me closer to secrets.
Rating: 1 / 5
I love this book coz’ it told me alot, but, in my opinion, it is wordy…so, if he used some pictures instead of words woul dbe better!? I believe pictures could somehow express better. Anywaym this is a MUST for a serious photographer!!
Rating: 4 / 5
I found this book to be for commercial photographers. Over 3/4 of the book describes how to photograph glass, metal, ect. If you are working with people there are better lighting books than this. Nothing ground breaking in this one.
Rating: 2 / 5
I read this book- Although hard to read, the concepts are essential to understanding lighting. If you want to become a better photographer read this book.
Rating: 4 / 5
I just scan the book. I like the way the book teach how to manage the light during photographing. When I have time, I will go through deeper. Satisfied!!
Rating: 4 / 5