Book description
Improve your photography with more than 200 lighting tips from a top photographer
Written by Canon Explorer of Light Rick Sammon and leading fashion and studio photographer Vered Koshlano, this guide is packed with professional advice on the essential element of photography: lighting. It provides detailed information and insider secrets that are bound to make you a better photographer.
You'll learn the basics of studio lighting as well as how to achieve special effects. A 90-minute DVD is included, with additional tips on using reflectors, diffusers, accessory flashes, and more.
Explores the basics of studio lighting in various situations
Features more than 200 lighting tips and secrets for planning and taking the most impressive digital images in the studio
Compares available camera equipment, accessories, software, and printing options
Covers post-shoot digital darkroom techniques and workflow tips and tricks
Companion DVD includes advice on making the most of accessories such as diffusers, reflectors, and accessory flashes
Written by two top professional photographers and illustrated with full-color examples
Studio and Location Lighting Secrets provides information from the pros to improve your photograpic skills.
Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.
Table of contents
- Copyright
- About the Authors
- Credits
- Rick's Acknowledgments
- Vered's Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. Studio Starter Kits
- 2. Our Lenses
- 3. Photo Composition and Model Positioning
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4. Creative Lighting Tips
- 4.1. Overcome Meter-Challenging Exposure Situations
- 4.2. See Light in the Eyes
- 4.3. A Word on Eyeglasses
- 4.4. Photographing Shiny Objects
- 4.5. Low Key versus High Key Lighting
- 4.6. Play with Light Placement
- 4.7. Dramatic Hair Light
- 4.8. Work Hard at Creative Lighting
- 4.9. Tips for Baby Shots
- 4.10. Balancing Act
- 4.11. Testing, Testing, Testing
- 4.12. Repositioning the Flash
- 4.13. Add an Effect for a Creative Portrait
- 5. Hooked on a Feeling
- 6. Oh, the Details
- 7. The Beauty of Black and White
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8. Tools of the Trade
- 8.1. Basic Diffuser Setup
- 8.2. Basic Reflector Setup
- 8.3. Basic Flash/ Diffuser Portraits
- 8.4. Flash/ Diffuser with Reflector Keeper
- 8.5. Basic Flash/ Reflector Portraits
- 8.6. Flash/ Reflector Keeper
- 8.7. Creative Lighting Accessory
- 8.8. Mo' Behind-the Scenes Photos
- 8.9. Try a Triflector
- 8.10. Variations on a Theme
- 8.11. Jump Into Creative Outdoor Lighting
- 8.12. Just Takes One
- 8.13. Combine Flash and Ambient Light
- 8.14. Dealing with Contrast
- 8.15. Digital Darkroom Explorations
- 8.16. Karsh-like Images
- 9. Unleash Yourself
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10. With a Little Help from Friends
- 10.1. Keep It Simple
- 10.2. Work with Twilight
- 10.3. Light...and Lack of Light
- 10.4. Dramatic Side Light
- 10.5. Soften an Off-Camera Flash
- 10.6. A Regal Look
- 10.7. Focus Carefully When Shooting With Fast Lenses
- 10.8. Know the Fundamentals
- 10.9. Flag It
- 10.10. Have a Story to Tell
- 10.11. Add Some Imagination
- 10.12. Carefully Light the Background
- 10.13. Use Your Mind's Eye
- 10.14. Consider Rim Light
- 10.15. The Defining Moment
- 10.16. Create an Intimate Moment
- 10.17. Light Illuminates, Shadow Defines
- 10.18. Shape the Light
- 10.19. Shoot and Light'em Separately
- 10.20. Inspired by the'60s
- 10.21. Do-it-Yourself Tilt/Shift
- 10.22. Bring Back the Magic of Portraiture
- 10.23. Blessed Soft Lighting
- 10.24. It's All About the Light
- 10.25. Go to Extremes
- 10.26. Plan the Shoot, Process the Shot—Carefully
- 10.27. Use What You've Got
- 10.28. Bounced Light is Nice
- 10.29. Shoot Beautifully Inside the Studio ... and Out
- 10.30. Traveling at Lightspeed
- 10.31. Use Sunlight as the Key Light
- 10.32. Many Lights + Large Crew = Cool Image
- 10.33. Who Needs Expensive Gear?
- 10.34. If You Don't Have All Day ...
- 10.35. Teaming a Photographer and Stylist
- 11. Student Studio Lighting Experiments
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12. Photoshop Enhancements
- 12.1. Count on Changes
- 12.2. Add a Spotlight or Omni Light
- 12.3. Change the Lens and F-Stop
- 12.4. Create Beautiful Black-and-White Prints
- 12.5. Beyond Black-and-White
- 12.6. Create a High-Fashion Stylized Look
- 12.7. Frame It
- 12.8. Add a Nice Vignette
- 12.9. Create Professional Color Effects
- 12.10. Add Simple Artistic Effects
- 12.11. Enhance Details
- 12.12. Go for a Spin and Blur Reality
- 12.13. Create Movie-Star-Style Lighting
- 12.14. All Together Now
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13. World is my Studio
- 13.1. Love, Respect and Seeing
- 13.2. Envision the End Result
- 13.3. Work with Backgrounds
- 13.4. Create the Disequilibrium Effect
- 13.5. See the Light
- 13.6. Control the Light with a Reflector
- 13.7. Control the Light with a Flash
- 13.8. Look for and Create Diffused Light
- 13.9. Models, Props and Makeup
- 13.10. Make Pictures
- 13.11. Meter Your Exposures
- 13.12. Work with Colors
- 13.13. The Eyes Have It
- 13.14. Paying People
- 13.15. Play with Plug-ins
- 13.16. HDR Plug-in Effects
- 13.17. Working with Mirrors
- 13.18. Shooting Profiles and Silhouettes
- 13.19. Draw More Attention to the Subject
- 13.20. Why Off-Center Composition Works
- 13.21. Don't Underestimate the Importance of an Interesting Subject
- 14. Cool Websites for Flash Info
- A. Rick Sammon's Basic Lighting and Portraiture DVD
- Wiley Publishing, Inc. End-User License Agreement
Product information
- Title: Studio & Location Lighting Secrets for Digital Photographers
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2009
- Publisher(s): Wiley
- ISBN: 9780470521250
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