Light — Science & Magic, 6th Edition

CHAPTER 11

Setting Up Your First Studio

Congratulations on having arrived at this, the nal chapter. e very fact

that you have means that you had the fortitude to plow through a great deal

of material on both the nature of light and how it behaves. We sincerely

hope that this information helps you to produce the kind of pictures you

want and, just as importantly, to enjoy doing so.

Now, let’s move on to the “meat” of this chapter. It is dierent from those

that have gone before it. e science of light, and how it behaves, is not its

focus. Rather, this chapter centers on practicalities. Specically, it covers

some of the key considerations involved in setting up a basic, but func-

tional, rst studio.

ere are, of course, many ways of ...