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Photography, Lighting
Bill Hurter
Existing Light Techniques for Wedding and Portrait Photography
by Amherst Media, Inc. (Paperback)
Packed with stunning images from more than 40 of the world’s most acclaimed wedding and portrait photographers, this book shows how to put together a lightweight, low-cost, and highly portable lighting kit that allows photographers to make quick work of creating perfect lighting in any location. Responding to a preference in the market for more natural, spontaneous-looking images, the guide explains how to achieve professional-quality lighting in parks, churches, schools, and other locations—all with lightweight, highly portable strobes, reflectors, scrims, and more.
Chris Bucher
Lighting Photo Workshop
by Wiley (Paperback)
A rigorous practical guide to photographic lighting techniques, complete with hands-on assignments Offering digital photographers a complete course in photographic lighting, this book covers everything from using flash systems and studio lights to working outdoors in bright or low-light conditions. Full-color examples show how the right lighting can enhance color, improve contrast, and open the door to new creative possibilities.
Harold Davis
Practical Artistry: Light & Exposure for Digital Photographers (Practical Artistry)
by O'Reilly Media, Inc. (Paperback)
Eddie Ephraums, Joe Cornish, Charlie Waite, David Ward
Working the Light: A Photography Masterclass (Light & Land series)
by Aurum Press (Paperback)
Charlie Waite, Joe Cornish, and David Ward are among Britain’s best known and most respected landscape photographers. In Working the Light, they join forces to present a unique masterclass combining stunning imagery, inspiring commentary, and practical advice. Working the Light is divided into three sections—Wilderness, Inhabited, and Inner-landscapes—and, alongside a portfolio of their latest work, each writes knowledgeably and insightfully about the genre for which they are known. It is an invaluable compendium of collective wisdom and experience for aspiring and experienced photographers. Charlie Waite’s previous books include The Making of Landscape Photographs; Joe Cornish is the author of Light and the Art of Landscape Photography; David Ward’s most recent book is Landscape Within.
John Alton
Painting With Light
by University of California Press (Paperback)
Michael Freeman
The Complete Guide to Light & Lighting in Digital Photography (A Lark Photography Book)
by Lark Books (Paperback)
Michael Freeman, the author of more than 20 books on various aspects of photography, now helps digital photographers see (and understand) the light! Because good lighting is key to a picture’s success, it’s a topic of interest to anyone who picks up a digital camera…and Freeman’s comprehensive manual gives readers an essential toolbox of techniques and creative ideas. Find out how to create and manipulate lighting scenarios for professional-looking photos. Examine the many varieties of natural light, from blazing sunlight to gentle twilight, as well as incandescent and fluorescent lights. Make the most of your camera’s flash and lighting equipment, including diffusers, shades, and reflectors. From shooting techniques to imaging tricks, this provides photographers with a solid groundwork for producing top-quality pictures.
Harry Box
Set Lighting Technician's Handbook, Third Edition: Film Lighting Equipment, Practice, and Electrical Distribution
by Focal Press (Paperback)
Comprehensive. Detailed. Practical. Set Lighting Technician's Handbook, Third Edition is a friendly, hands-on manual covering the day-to-day practices, equipment, and tricks of the trade essential to anyone doing motion picture lighting. This handbook offers a wealth of practical technical information, useful techniques, as well as aesthetic discussions. The Set Lighting Technician's Handbook focuses on what is important when working on-set: trouble-shooting, teamwork, set protocol, and safety. It describes tricks and techniques for operating a vast array of lighting equipment including xenons, camera synchronous strobes, black lights, underwater units, lighting effects units, and many others. Since its first edition, this handy on-set reference continues to be widely adopted as a training and reference manual by union training programs as well as top university film production programs. New in the third edition is an expanded resource section, new illustrations and tables, and ...
Roger Hicks, Frances Schultz
Still Life and Special Effects Photography: A Guide to Professional Lighting Techniques, Second Edition
by Rotovision (Paperback)
Chris George
Mastering Digital Flash Photography: The Complete Reference Guide (A Lark Photography Book)
by Lark Books (Paperback)
Electronic flash not only brings light to a photograph, it can be an important artistic tool—if you’ve acquired the knowledge to use it creatively. To master those skills, digital photographers need only turn to this complete reference. Packed with inspirational photos, it takes the mystery out of flash, covering every type of equipment and explaining such essentials as guide numbers, sync speeds, white balance, and more. Photographers will see how fill flash can decrease contrast and shadows in outdoor portrait photography, understand how to control the light using bounce and multiple flash techniques, and expertly employ high-speed and rear curtain synchronization to create impressive motion-blur images. Everything you need to know is here—including a section on studio flash and computer processing.
The Confused Photographer's Guide to Photographic Exposure and the Simplified Zone System
by Confused Photographer's Guide Books. (Paperback) (Release Date: 2007-01-11)
Contrary to popular belief, when you buy an expensive camera the exposure skills DO NOT COME with it! When you buy an expensive GUITAR, you KNOW that playing skills DO NOT COME with it! When you buy an expensive CAR, you KNOW that driving skills DO NOT COME with it! When you buy an expensive CAMERA, why, then, do you NOT KNOW that exposure skills DO NOT COME with it? This book teaches the beginning Digital/35mm photographer (9th grade level) the simple and practical methods of correctly exposing a subject. This is also the world's first Digital Zone System book that addresses the application of the Zone System of exposure using current manual digital cameras including many of today's D-Slrs. The book covers in detail the applications of a camera's meter, an off-camera spot meter, an off-camera incident meter, and easy-to-remember techniques for exposing sunlit to moonlit subjects without a meter. The book uses Farzad's simplified 5-stop technique using 100 ISO ...