The Bargain Nexus - Light: Science and Magic: An Introduction to Photographic Lighting

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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 771 EAN: 9780240808192 ISBN: 0240808193 Label: Focal Press Manufacturer: Focal Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 320 Publication Date: 2007-03-21 Publisher: Focal Press Studio: Focal Press
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Should have bought this sooner Comment: All I can say is this is a must have reference tool for any aspiring or pro photographer. I learned more in one reading of this book than I learned in 3 years of trial and error. This is a book I will read over and keep as a reference guide. I only wished I had bought this 3 years ago. Light: Science and Magic: An Introduction to Photographic Lighting Customer Rating: Summary: Essential Comment: I was just telling a friend about this book and realized that I had never posted a review of it myself. What I told her: I have a bookshelf packed full of books on various aspects of photography and lighting. If I could keep only one, this would be the one I would keep. As David Hobby of Strobist says in his review, this book does not teach you HOW to light, it teaches you HOW TO THINK about light, which is many times more valuable. If you can learn how to think about light, you can teach yourself *how* to light, and do so much more efficiently and easily. This book is an essential part of any photographer's library. Customer Rating: Summary: Light Scince & Magic Comment: Great book. I am still on Chapter 2 of the book, but a great source of information regarding lighting. Essential for people who want to grasp the concept of photographic lighting. Customer Rating: Summary: Absolutely terrific - read it more than once! Comment: This is one of the best photography books I've read, and hands down the best lighting book! If you're new to lighting, you'll want to read this book more than once, because it has so much information! Dedicated chapters on lighting principles, reflection and the "family of angles," surface appearances, shape and contour, lighting metal, lighting glass, types of lights, portrait lighting, lighting white-on-white and black-on-black all work together to make this an essential text book for any photographer. Be sure to pick this book up at the store! Irene Abdou Photography http://www.photoswithsoul.com Customer Rating: Summary: Very good book on lighting, personally recommend it to anyone. Comment: This is an exceptionally good book, written from a simple to understand perspective. I bought it on the back of the mostly positive reviews from others and I'm glad I did. (BTW, for the small numbers of critics, I'm not a "strobist", this was a new word to me I'd never heard until someone here mentioned it - but it's a useful site anyway and I don't know what the criticism's about). But back to the book. It teaches you the basics without any fluff, but with plenty of photographed examples of rights and wrongs, but more importantly why and how they're right and wrong, and how to avoid the latter. I now both understand and enjoyed learning about some of the basics about light, which to be frank, bored me senseless at school. It's not a "how to light something in this situation" book, it's a "how to know what the pitfalls are so you can avoid them, and use better technniques" book. It tells you how to light, and presents really good discussion and examples of problem surfaces, for instance, glass and metals, and informs you in simple language you how to get the best results, without paying a fortune for lighting equipment (unless you want to). I know I've already learnt something useful from it, though Im only 80 pages in, and I've already given some other photographers tips on how to improve their photographs which I've found have worked for mine. In short, recommended, a really good, informative and practical book. Very glad I bought it :D More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: 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