The Essential Lighting Manual for Digital and Film Photographers

Book Description
Light is the primary raw material for photography, and learning to use it creatively is one of the key skills required for better picture taking. The Essential Lighting Manual for Photographers offers a complete guide to mastering the art, empowering the amateur photographer and enabling the professional. The Essential Lighting Manual for Photographers is organized thematically by types of lighting and lighting technique, with practical and inspirational illustrations from popular subjects such as portrait, landscape, natural history, travel, close-up, architecture, interior and animal photography. Technical information covered includes: methods of metering light and achieving correct exposure, and why reflectors are so important; the use of natural daylight, both indoors and out; the use of artificial light; and creative techniques to push photographic results beyond the realms of 'the snapshot'. The book also contains a detailed but clear guide to studio lighting equipment.


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OK: open both eyes. You have just seen pretty much what your camera would see. The key to great photography is to distinguish between seeing light as a bi-optic, sentient being and seeing light as a camera does -- as a one-eyed, inanimate tool. Whether you are into digital technology or film, light is the photographer's primary tool, and without it there would be no photographs. For each shot that you take the light is different, giving every picture a unique atmosphere, and telling its own story. It is for you to use and reveal the infinitely varied character of light to create unique, successful photographs. The Essential Lighting Manual for Digital and Film Photographers shows the beginner how to see light and use it effectively, empowering the amateur to improve his or her skills, and enabling semi-pros to build on their experience for more considered, creative results.


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