Photographic Lighting: Essential Skills, 3rd Edition

characteristics of light

Mark Galer

essential skills

~     An understanding of how light changes the character and mood of an image.

~     An awareness of subject contrast and its effect upon film or image sensors.

~     Developing the skills to control introduced lighting on location and in the studio.

~     Creating images demonstrating how lighting techniques control communication.

~     Documenting the progress and development of your ideas.

Introduction

Light is the essence of photography. Without light there is no photography. Light is the photographer’s medium. The word photography is derived from the ancient Greek words, ‘photos’ and ‘graph’, meaning ‘light writing’. To understand light the photographer must be fully conversant ...