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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.
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.
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ACTION. MOOD. ATMOSPHERE.
CAPTURE THEM ALL WITH LIGHT
Your camera needs light to create any image. To create a spectacular one, you need the best light possible, and Chris Bucher shows you how to find it. How to work with the light that's available wherever you are. How to augment it for different effects. How to use light to accent a scene, express a feeling, or flatter a face. Discover how to master the magic of light.
- Explore the elements of light and understand white balance, color temperature, and light quality
Choose and use appropriate accessories
Learn to work with natural light, indoors and out, and to create effects with shadows
Discover how light affects motion, landscape views, and closeup shots
Try your hand at night and low-light photography
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
A one-size-fits-all Lighting book doesn't cut it in an already crowded field,
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This review is from: Lighting Photo Workshop (Paperback)
After reading the impressive Photo Workshop Series "Composition" book by Blue Fier, I expected this book to build upon that base of knowledge and move the reader to the next level. Instead, I learned that lighting is a basic ingredient for good composition, and if you understand good composition, reading about lighting is redundant. This book fails to build upon basic composition techniques, nor is it a proper first read for a beginning photographer to start off with.Lighting has many specialized subfields, and a one-size-fits-all lighting book underwhelms all audiences. Novice photographers would be better served by reading a book on composition. Advanced users will want more details on studio lighting, gray cards, night/low light photography, or using handheld light meters. Neither audience is well served by this book. The night & low light chapter was especially disappointing for me, with very little practical advice. The author could have improved the book by adding before & after teaching pictures in the book (e.g. various good and bad exposures of the same picture, direct versus bounced flash, snow pictures with/without a gray card) showing how applying the techniques improves the photograph. Instead, the author presents his photography exhibit throughout the book. While his photos are very impressive, they lack teaching acumen. A far better book is "Understanding Exposure" by Bryan Peterson. I also suggest the "Composition Photo Workshop" by Blue Fier as the one book in the PWS series that is a must-read. Both books combined have better teaching photographs (before & after). They also both have easy to remember advice on metering in night and low light conditions, and will give readers a much more rounded perspective on how to take a great picture.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Lighting Photo Workshop,
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This review is from: Lighting Photo Workshop (Paperback)
Whether you're an average hobbyist or a professional photographer, knowing how to take advantage of lighting conditions is the key to creating great photographs. This book gives a thorough understanding of everything you'll need to know about lighting, providing practical tips and techniques. The book is filled with numerous photos alongside detailed explanations and lighting scenarios. The photographs in the book are also well varied. Chris Bucher describes in great detail how lighting works, and how to use what light you have (or need to compensate for) in order to achieve the best results possible.Throughout the book's 10 chapters, major topics covered are well organized and written in a way that even a novice can appreciate. At the end of each chapter, Bucher sends you on assignment to gain practical experience from the material just covered. You can also upload your work to a dedicated website where others can comment and vice-versa. I liked the fact that the book's techniques and explanations aren't limited to DSLR cameras only. Several examples of point and shoot work are included. I own both and because of this book have gotten motivated to move out of my point and shoot's auto settings for better lighting control. There's a full range of lighting techniques covered and I'm happy to add this book to my growing collection of photography lighting reads. Every style and range of photographer will benefit from its usefulness.
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4.8 out of 5 stars (22 customer reviews) 56 of 58 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Informative and eye-opening,
By L. Stacey - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Lighting Photo Workshop (Paperback)
Just thumbing through this book and viewing all the creative photographs will make you want to jump off the sofa and get your camera out. Personally, I have had issues with creating drama in my photographs, for example how do you get the sky so blue, when exactly is there too much contrast or just not enough?While most photography books I have read just touch on white balance and the various metering methods, this author places great importance on clearly understanding white balance and how it can really create mood and enhance the exposure you desire. As for metering methods, the author doesn't just give a definition of what each mode is for, he explains why the in-camera meter cannot always be trusted and how different metering modes work better in specific circumstances. He gives clear examples and images to support his explanations. Not to mention the chapter assignments which allow you to create something from what you just learned! There is even a website specific for this book to upload your finished assignments and to see what others have learned from the book. Highly recommended by me! 29 of 29 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Improving Your Technique,
By Brooke Christl - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Lighting Photo Workshop (Paperback)
Chris Bucher's Lighting-Photoworkshop book is a great guide for any photographer looking to learn understanding and controlling lighting in photography. It starts you off with the very basics of lighting and works you in to more advanced techniques. Anyone can take a picture, but understanding where your light is coming from and how to use it separates the good from the bad.This book starts you off with the technical side of lighting so you can fully understand what you are doing. It then explains almost every lighting situation (a bright sunny day, an overcast day or even artificial lighting) you can encounter and how to use certain things to your advantage. It also explains specific examples from anything to nature to people photography. I found myself excited to try the assignments and apply them towards my photography. As a graduate from the Brooks Institute of Photography, this book was a great refresher course in a lot of the lighting techniques I have learned. I would recommend this book to anyone wanting to take their photography to the next level. 56 of 63 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Getting Past Acceptable,
By Conrad J. Obregon - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Lighting Photo Workshop (Paperback)
Nowadays, a person with a modern camera can expect that most of the time, with a minimum of knowledge, he or she can point the camera at a subject and get an acceptable image. To get something more than acceptable it helps to have a little knowledge of how a camera works, and to apply that knowledge.Ansel Adams, one of the great photographers of history advised photographers that controlling the light in a photograph was a key to success and wrote three books to teach folks how to do just that. Anyone interested in getting more than just acceptable pictures would do well to follow Adams' advice and learn about lighting and exposure. "Lighting Photo Workshop" is aimed at filling that need for the beginning photographer. The book starts out by explaining the basic elements of lighting, including exposure; by then discussing the role of photography equipment in lighting; and then by considering outdoor and interior light. It finishes up with discussion of specific situations, including portraits, action, landscape, travel, close-up and low light photography. The workshop portion of the book consists of an assignment at the end of each chapter with instructions to post the digital image to a dedicated web site where other photographers may or may not offer comments on one's photograph. How-to books can vary in the amount of detail and explanation they give to technical subjects. This book is clearly aimed at the most fundamental level, and if all the reader wants is a rudimentary introduction to lighting concepts, this book will do the job. On the other hand, if one wants a thorough explanation, even if it means reading about technical details that will require concentration to comprehend, and techniques that it will take a while to get used to applying, this book may prove too simple. Consider for example the discussion of exposure. There is a precise relationship between shutter speed, aperture and media sensitivity that can be measured by a mathematical formula. How one applies that formula depends on the effect that one wants (e.g., do you want to stop motion, or have everything in sharp focus from near to far). This precise relationship is not explained sufficiently. Or consider photography equipment. In his discussion of studio lights, the author discusses strobes but not continuous lighting. One of the most valuable tools that many digital cameras provide to control exposure is a histogram, which is a graph of the distribution of light values. The book devotes a few short paragraphs to this subject. For the individual who wants a simple introduction to photographic lighting this book will prove adequate. Photographers desiring to use light more creatively would do well to read a more advanced book, like "Exposure and Lighting for Digital Photographers" by Michael Meadhra and Charlotte K. Lowrie. |
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